MesquiteMan
Retired Head Moderator
I had another one of my crazy ideas for a pen blank! My father in law is a big fisherman and takes my wife and I each year to the Texas coast to go bay fishing. Now, I am used to using a spinning reel and am quite good with one but he insists that on his boat, you will only use baitcasting reels. Well, anyone who has used one for the first time will know all about the term "birds nest or backlash"! For those that don't, it is the most god aweful tangle you can get in fishing line! For a while, until I got the hang of it, I had the nickname of "backlash bast-rd"! I made this pen for him...
Introducing...the backlash pen!
To make the blank I took some fishing line and made the biggest mess I could. I then packed it into my mold and poured in Alumilite resin. Once cured, I drilled and painted the inside of the blank with white paint to help show off the fishing line. It could use some more line but this was the best I could get at the time! Not the prettiest pen out there but is certainly something different!
Thanks for looking.
Introducing...the backlash pen!
To make the blank I took some fishing line and made the biggest mess I could. I then packed it into my mold and poured in Alumilite resin. Once cured, I drilled and painted the inside of the blank with white paint to help show off the fishing line. It could use some more line but this was the best I could get at the time! Not the prettiest pen out there but is certainly something different!
Thanks for looking.