Thank you for the comments everyone
Beautiful pen. I'm just getting started into pens with bands etc. What thickness brass did you use? What type of adhesive did you use?
Bill I used 36 gauge brass. It is 0.005" thick. The laminates were glued together with Gorilla Glue and I used 5 minute epoxy to glue them into the blank.
Finally.......... a keeper! :biggrin:
As usual, great job. So, did you do a ca finish over the whole thing to protect the wood or what?
Thanks George. When I started skydiving photography a friend gave me some great advice. He told me to make a lot of jumps, take a load of pictures and only show people the good ones :wink:
Good catch on the finish. It took a couple attempts to figure out what to do. After my final pass with the skew I soaked the veneer with thin CA, allowing it to wick into the wood, trying to keep it off the PR as much as possible. Then I just finished it like a regular PR blank. Given that I wet sanded and finished with a polish of McGuires Plastix and the white veneer did not stain I figured that it must have been sealed by the CA.