KMCloonan
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I recently read the instructions from Phil Morris titled "Segmenting Small Pieces" - I really liked it, so I gave it a try, with some slight modifications.
The green diamonds are just pieces of green acrylic from a serving plate - about 1/8" thick. The white dividers are some cardstock I found years ago that I had no idea what to do with, but could not bring myself to throw it away. I still have about 1000 cards left. I noticed that I needed to improve the placement of the white inserts so there were no gaps in the middle.
After this pen, I decided to make another one, using red acrylic. But when I built the blank, I could not bring myself to sand away more than half the material, so I used my bandsaw to slice off the "fins" on either side of the red inserts, and I then made a second blank from the two slices.
I am not terribly happy with how this pen turned out - the white dividers seemed to not cut crisply, but folded over on some of the seams.
Here was the second pen from the same blank
Again, not a perfect pen, but interesting to make, and I know some areas I can improve for the next time.
The green diamonds are just pieces of green acrylic from a serving plate - about 1/8" thick. The white dividers are some cardstock I found years ago that I had no idea what to do with, but could not bring myself to throw it away. I still have about 1000 cards left. I noticed that I needed to improve the placement of the white inserts so there were no gaps in the middle.
After this pen, I decided to make another one, using red acrylic. But when I built the blank, I could not bring myself to sand away more than half the material, so I used my bandsaw to slice off the "fins" on either side of the red inserts, and I then made a second blank from the two slices.
I am not terribly happy with how this pen turned out - the white dividers seemed to not cut crisply, but folded over on some of the seams.
Here was the second pen from the same blank
Again, not a perfect pen, but interesting to make, and I know some areas I can improve for the next time.