Musical Notes on Sierra

[Pioneerpens]

Musical notes cast in clear resin. Charlies resin saver molds make casting and removal sooooo much nicer! Thanks Charlie! I'm getting better with the casting and using things inside and making some funky colors. Hope you like. All comments appreciated! Thanks

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Now that's 'sweet music', Jennifer. Great looking pen.Excellent results and I fully agree with you that Charlie has the best design molds (period!!!!!)

 

[Pioneerpens]

Thanks Peter! It was also turned using my fabulous Rotundo!! tyvm I used the skew to round over the ends but that was it.

 

[Chief Hill]

Very nice job.

 

[Steve78]

Fantastic job. Did you paint the notes on the tube prior to casting? Also, thanks for the comment on 'Charlies resin saver molds'. My wife has talked about a few family orientated ideas she had for casting and as I have not tried my hand with casting - information like this is appreciated.

 

[Pioneerpens]

Thanks Steve. I glued a piece of cloth with musical notes on it to the tube. Tubes were painted black so no brass would show thru. Makes the possibilities endless really. good luck and post pics when you do

 

[Toni]

Jennifer Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bubbatww]

Jennifer, that looks great. My daughter(bank geek) would love a pen like that. Awesome job.

 

[workinforwood]

Great looking pen Jenifer.

 

[Mrs Rojo22]

Very nice!

Robin

 

[NewLondon88]

Those are printed on cloth? Cool!!
(and thanks for the kind words!)

Did you have to paint the resin onto the cloth before pouring? I can
see lots of places for air to hide so I was wondering..

 

[Pioneerpens]

This is how i've been doing them so far, still experimenting,
1 draw a line on tube to make sure seam starts straight.
2 thick ca on that line and only glue the seam, smoothing it with a lil plastic bag, making sure that any material that has glue is on tube.
3 I roll it tight and attach the end seam, more thick ca, then thin ca all over the tube while smoothing with the plastic bag and hopefully eliminating any trapped air.

Charlie~some of my first ones had some air trapped from not wrapping the tubes tight enough...Looks uh interesting lol

 

[Lenny]

Jennifer, very cool!
Did you make this for anyone in particular? Would make a great gift for someone's music teacher!

 

[Pioneerpens]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments!
Lenny~ I made it for my daughters friends birthday~ I will be making more and hopefully be able to interest some music lovers of all kinds in them

 

[thewishman]

Great idea and execution! Nice creativity.

 

[bitshird]

Nice Pen Jennifer when I start casting again I'm going to get a few of Charlies Resin Saver Molds, your pen is beautiful.

 

[Pioneerpens]

Thanks Chris and Ken~~ The resin savers are great and make it much easier to cast with things on the tube!..

 

[louie68]

Jennifer very nice looking pen , do you have a link for charlies resin saver molds?

 

[JohnU]

Jennifer very nice looking pen , do you have a link for charlies resin saver molds?

Just PM Newlondon88 here at IAP. He's Charlie, the resin saving man. They work great and you will save tons of resin and the blanks turn down very quickly since you dont have to turn down so much.

 

[Pioneerpens]

louie, NewLondon88 is Charlie, here's an old link that will show you the molds he has...you love the ease of casting with these...

http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57377