Dan26
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A while ago, Jeff Powell wrote an article on incorporating scroll work in pens. I tried this once before but my casting was lousy. I decided to try again. I'm still not totally happy with it, but thought I'd share some of the things I learned from this try.
Smaller leaves look much better than the larger ones. The larger leaves show more edges and makes the leaves look odd, a little elongated. Next time, smaller leaves.
I only had four air bubbles to deal with which is not as bad as I thought. But, I didn't spend enough time getting the voids cleaned and ended up with some sawdust in the holes. Next time I'm going to try rigging up some sort of vibrator. Maybe that will get those bubbles to rise out. I think I'll use more tinting next time also. I like the depth, but wanted it a little darker.
I also got some sawdust from the padauk into the osage orange and it shows up. I'll make sure the leaves are cleaned out also.
I thought the leaves would be a pain to cut out, but Jeff did a great job explaining his process and it was surprisingly easy.
The pen has 18 leaves of maple, osage orange, padauk, and walnut.
Comments/suggestions welcome.
Smaller leaves look much better than the larger ones. The larger leaves show more edges and makes the leaves look odd, a little elongated. Next time, smaller leaves.
I only had four air bubbles to deal with which is not as bad as I thought. But, I didn't spend enough time getting the voids cleaned and ended up with some sawdust in the holes. Next time I'm going to try rigging up some sort of vibrator. Maybe that will get those bubbles to rise out. I think I'll use more tinting next time also. I like the depth, but wanted it a little darker.
I also got some sawdust from the padauk into the osage orange and it shows up. I'll make sure the leaves are cleaned out also.
I thought the leaves would be a pain to cut out, but Jeff did a great job explaining his process and it was surprisingly easy.
The pen has 18 leaves of maple, osage orange, padauk, and walnut.
Comments/suggestions welcome.