Fishy Falcon.

[Dale Lynch]

Hi fellas,made this one by accident.Was going for a skinny 8 point star,realized I was going to run out of room on one side.I had to reverse directions and remove half a pass with the white.Turns out a fish appeared for the design.I used black,red/wht/blu twist,white,red thread colors.




I strayed off the beaten path and used clear cast7000 instead of the tried and true.The resin is real soft,squeeze it between my fingers soft.I inatially thought it to be a loss.So I tried cutting most of it off.Grinder sharp skew wasen't sharp enough,had to hone it to cut.Build it up a little with CA and I was able to pull a personal pen out of it.





Sucesses and setbacks,the trials of trying new things.

 

[magpens]

Looks like a success to me ! . Nice going !!!!!

Is there a tutorial in the library on how to do the thread wrapping ?

 

[Charlie_W]

A very nice looking surprise to this one!

Even though it wasn't what you were going for, it came out fantastic!

 

[Dale Lynch]

Thanks fellas,glad you like it.

Mal,there's a coachwhipped tutorial http://content.penturners.org/library/pen_blanks/coachwhipped.pdf in the library.Same basic concept.

I've been trying to learn from this pdf http://rodbuilding101.com/docs/CrossWrap B D Ehler.pdf

 

[mark james]

Thank you Dale!!!

I am glad you (and several others) are working on thread-wrapping... If I get any more distracted from my 42+ various projects I will simply explode and be done.

Your basic pattern looks good (yes, some tweaking will be done), but you are well along the way. I also like the pattern.

I hope you continue to explore this. (Many of my personal pens are my near-misses. I actually appreciate seeing what I need to tweak-they keep me thinking).

Have FUN!