Originally posted by txbatons
<br />Nice job on the blank. This is a good-looking pen. I wasn't a big fan of the mirror when I saw your previous posts in the photography section, but here it allows one to see around the blank. So, how did you do the ribbon?
I like the mirror, too. I only have to take half the pictures I normally do to see the whole pen. [
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With the ribbon, I keep a clean sheet of aluminum foil handy on a cookie sheet when I'm casting cones, beans, worthless wood, whatever. Seems like I always have a little resin left over, so I pour it out on the aluminum foil and spread it as thin and even as I can, then do my thing with the pressure/vac pot. By the time I'm done monkeying with the blanks, the resin I poured onto the foil is setting up to the point of being like warm taffy, so I just roll/fold it up into ribbons or whatever with the foil still stuck to it.
I end up with a 'ribboned' up section of resin/foil, which I cut into 1" strips on the band saw after it gets hard, and then the next time I cast, I just mix a little extra of whatever color I'm working with and drop the ribbons in a mold or two and cast them with the blanks I'm working with. Capiche? [
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Originally posted by Marc Phillips
<br />Nice pen....
Is that a mirror it is sitting on or a Photoshop job?
Yup, it's a real mirror!
It ends up casting a double reflection, one off the surface of the mirror glass, and one off the actual silvered mirror backing[8D]
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