RSidetrack
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she didn't specify what kind.
So here is the story. My wife, who is a nurse, was at work with her pen I had made her one night and a fellow nurse loved it, asked if I could make one - but "pink."
So, naturally I said sure thing, I mixed up some acrylic, some red here, some white there - some pearlex here and there - and came up with this fella:
...ONLY...
She wanted hot pink. So back to trying to cast a good blank. I failed miserably many times. I ended up with some purples, some more red than pinks, etc. I went through several mixing attempts and gave up. I figured I knew of a different way, though I had never done it before, so why not struggle with something completely new!
Out came the Hot Pink Polymer Clay! Threw it through the pasta machine several times, thinned it out, rolled it onto a sierra tube, baked. Put it on the lathe, smoothed out, sanded. Perfect, looked good. Then I went and cast it in acrylic. Why? Why not make it solid PC or just use CA to make a finish? I wanted the pearlex in there - the sparkles :wink:
So casted it, turned it, sanded it, and voila - hot pink sierra.
So here is the story. My wife, who is a nurse, was at work with her pen I had made her one night and a fellow nurse loved it, asked if I could make one - but "pink."
So, naturally I said sure thing, I mixed up some acrylic, some red here, some white there - some pearlex here and there - and came up with this fella:
...ONLY...
She wanted hot pink. So back to trying to cast a good blank. I failed miserably many times. I ended up with some purples, some more red than pinks, etc. I went through several mixing attempts and gave up. I figured I knew of a different way, though I had never done it before, so why not struggle with something completely new!
Out came the Hot Pink Polymer Clay! Threw it through the pasta machine several times, thinned it out, rolled it onto a sierra tube, baked. Put it on the lathe, smoothed out, sanded. Perfect, looked good. Then I went and cast it in acrylic. Why? Why not make it solid PC or just use CA to make a finish? I wanted the pearlex in there - the sparkles :wink:
So casted it, turned it, sanded it, and voila - hot pink sierra.