Leftover Homebrew

[mick]

I was cleaning up some scraps where I had cut up a block of PR in pen blanks when a idea hit me. So I took a sliver of resin and shaped it on my sander. After a little finish sanding and polishing this is what I came up with. All it cost was a raid on my wife's jewelry findings for the bail and some cording or whatever you call it. She wore it when she went to work today. :biggrin: Actual size is about 2 1/2"
I woulda thrown that sliver away as it wasn't even big enough for center bands!

 

[ngeb528]

Beautiful. Great job. I'm sure you're wife got some compliments on it too.

 

[rdunn12]

Nice work Mick.That looks cool!Any extras,you know,to give to new friends.

 

[mick]

Nice work Mick.That looks cool!Any extras,you know,to give to new friends.

I sure won't be throwing any away...I'll set some aside.
Right now I'm trying to come up with a way to polish small thin squares for a project I'm working on.:wink:

 

[jackrichington]

great use of "scrap" thanks for sharing your good work

 

[ldb2000]

Fantastic idea . It looks like an expensive gemstone .
To polish your small squares , how about some carpet tape and a blank of the right size . Just stick your pieces to the end of the blank and polish then peel it off and do the other side .

 

[nava1uni]

You could also use a dapper stick. People who do lapidary work use them to hold stones while they polish them on a buffer. It is a piece of dowel with some special kind of sticky stuff that really holds the stones to the end while they are buffed. You could probably get some at a lapidary shop. Check the yellow pages.