Abalone

[PhillN]

Love working with abalone. Started making my own blanks

 

[PBorowick]

Those are beautiful pens! If you don't mind me asking, where do you get the abalone from? Looks like a sheet product.

 

[Jim15]

Great looking pens.

 

[PhillN]

Those are beautiful pens! If you don't mind me asking, where do you get the abalone from? Looks like a sheet product.

It is. I get them from mudhole.com

 

[Kenny Durrant]

That's where I purchased the material I was trying. Looks like you had a lot better luck than I did. That just makes the pens that much more impressive know the difficulty involved.

 

[PhillN]

That's where I purchased the material I was trying. Looks like you had a lot better luck than I did. That just makes the pens that much more impressive know the difficulty involved.

The best trick I found was to warm the abalone sheet once you have it cut to size. I have a small oven I use for casting so just used that on the lowest temp possible for a few minutes