A variety of styles

[JohnU]

Its been a busy last couple of months keeping up with blanks and donations. Here are a few pens I managed to finish for some local fund raisers.

The first is a personal cast I made with antler pieces and black and bronze tinted alumilite on a Jr Gent, finished with CA. Finally, a way to use up all of those little antler pieces and broken blanks from drilling. (lol) It was donated along with the wood pens I posted last month to an outdoorsman group for their scholarship fund.

Second is another self cast with clear alumilite and colored pencil pieces. I'm thinking the next one will look better with black reversed painted hole and tube.

The last is a group picture of the rest. They were donated to a local kids swim league fund raiser. They like a variety and it allows me to make pen styles I dont usually make.

All comments welcome. Thanks!

 

[mark james]

Wonderful group John! I started to pick my favorites, and stopped at 6.

 

[Band Saw Box]

Fantastic group of pens. Really well done. I hope the fund raising goes well.

 

[magpens]

Beautiful work, John .... and such a variety. I think the colored pencils should be one of your standard offerings !!! What is the "spotted" blank second from left in the group shot ?

 

[BRobbins629]

Your generosity is only exceeded by your talent. Well done.

 

[Cwalker935]

Well done!

 

[Edgar]

Beautiful pens - thanks for sharing.

I'm trying to upgrade the quality of my fund raiser donations - these give me some ideas & inspiration. Thanks.

 

[triw51]

I really like the polaris with the colored pencil blank. That is really cool

 

[csr67]

Very nice pens! I love the colored pencil idea! Excellent job!

 

[OZturner]

Great Pens, John.
Wonderful Gesture for local Fund Raising.
Great Talent & Enormous Generosity.
Thank You for Sharing.
Brian.

 

[JohnU]

Thank You All! I tried to do something different for them with kits and material. I should have listed them.. sorry, so here goes...

In the group shot,
1) the pencil pieces in clear alumilite
2) large pinecone
3) ringneck pheasant feathers
4) circuit board
5) assorted natural feathers
6) BOW
7) spalted maple I tried to dye and stabilize red but it came out pink
8) alumilite cast from Jonathan Brooks
9) Alumilite cast from Jeff Powell "Masterscroller " at exoticblanks
10) camo acrylic from exoticblanks
11) stars and stripe acrylic from exoticblanks
12) self cast acorn caps in alumilite
13) cholla cactus and acrylic from exoticblanks

 

[JohnU]

Beautiful work, John .... and such a variety. I think the colored pencils should be one of your standard offerings !!!

This style was much easier than the layered and stacked pencil blanks I made last time. They take way too much time cutting and stacking. I tried these hoping they would show off enough random pencil. I think the Polaris helped make that successful with the amount of resin left on the blank.

I'll be making some up for the MPG as door prizes and if others like them, they may find a few at exoticblanks, if Ed and Dawn want them.
Thanks again!

 

[Karl_99]

Very nice group of pens John!!

 

[JimB]

Very nice group. You have a great selection of styles and materials.

 

[Brooks803]

All are great John! I hope they do well for you with the fundraiser.

I thought that one blank looked familiar...:biggrin: