My Last Foray into Drill Worms...(hopefully)

Some of you may remember I cast some pretty cool pen blanks a couple months ago that were made with lightly dyed alumilite resin and some drill worms. I was quite disappointed with that experiment, because when I turned the blanks down to the diameter needed for whatever kit I was using, I also turned away most of the drill worms in the blank. I thought that would be the end of that line of experimenting.

Then David Bondi (@d_bondi) suggested that a bespoke pen might look interesting with a drill worm blank since you don't turn off as much of the blank for a Bespoke pen.

Well, I cast a couple more drill worm blanks and made a bespoke pen. See Pics below.

NOTE: I left the outer diameter of the pen cap and barrel the same as the blank (i.e. I did not turn it down. I only drilled out the cap with a 12.2mm drill, and the barrel with a 9mm drill. I did turn down the section, and it still looks kind of cool. You can see from the pics that the cap lost a lot of the character of the blank, but the barrel stayed looking decent. There are some blisters on the blank (residual air bubbles).

I believe I have exhausted my options for this experiment, and will find other cool pen things to work on

This first picture has the original blank on top, and the semi-completed bespoke pen on the bottom.

Definitely a worthwhile experiment, I like it Kevin!!

Very cool!

Turned out great.

Progress is a slow but rewarding trail. Very attractive!

That's really cool. Very unique.

Mike

Excellent result!

Thanks everyone!

Nice results. I've always like the looks of the finished blanks like these. Eugene Soto at Algamutt blanks made many this way he called coral reef. It's a great way to get the most out of your resin but as you found out most of the character gets turned off. The bespoke pens definitely showed them off better. Nice job! The blue and green work very well together.

That's really cool!

I agree. This is really cool!