This is one of my own carbon fiber home cast blanks. This will be a birthday present for one of my friends. I painted the tube in orange since that is her favorite color. This was finished with MM to 12000 and PlastX. Thanks for looking.
Orange Carbon Fiber Cigar
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el_d
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Nice Ramon. That would do great for Halloween........:ghost:
You painted the tube orange?
You painted the tube orange?
simomatra
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Like the pen and the added touch of the orange
yes, orange. I still need to work on my pictures a little bit. Maybe the orange would stand out better.
bitshird
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That's a good looking pen, I like the orange under the carbon fiber. Nice casting also.
PaulDoug
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Nice work on both casting ans turning. Made a great looking pen.
sbell111
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That's a real nice job.
How did you keep the carbon fiber from unraveling when you put it on the tube?
How did you keep the carbon fiber from unraveling when you put it on the tube?
kludge77
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Slick!!
That would be very popular here In SF Giants land.
That would be very popular here In SF Giants land.
el_d
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It came out orange I was referring to the fact that you paint the tubes? I wasn't aware that the ube had to be painted. Is the CF like a mesh screen?
Very nice stick.
It took a lot of patience and I just did it very carefully.
yes, I painted the tubes before I added the CF. It is like a mesh screen.
sbell111
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CF comes in tubes that are woven. As you slip them over larger pen tubes, the weave accomodates the larger tube by opening up some, showing the brass tube below. Painting the brass tubes is a very cool way to take advantage of the open weave of the CF.
In my lousy experience, it is a struggle to get the CF tubes onto larger brass tubes because it wants to unravel as it stretches bigger. (Stretches is the wrong word, since the CF itself doesn't stretch, the weave merely adjusts to the larger tube by 'opening'.) Ramon did an impressive job of getting the CF properly on the tube. The cool paint treatment is icing on the cake.