egnald
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Greetings from Nebraska.
This afternoon I made a Magnetic kit in Gunmetal from The Crooked Mill. It is essentially a Zen type design but has a "wavy" clip. The blank is a leftover piece of an Alumilite blank called "Painted Desert" that I got from Turnt Pen Company, the enterprise of Tim Crowe, High School English Teacher. I really like the name of his company, "turnt" is an obsolete past tense form of "turn". The most recent usage though has become synonymous with excited or wound up. I really like his blanks too!
It was finished by dry sanding to about 3000 grit followed by the six "grits" of Stadium Pen Blanks Magic Juice polishing compounds. I bought mine from Michelle at Drop Anchor Creations. I think they give me a glossier finish than wet sanding with MicroMesh, but with a lot less mess and hassle - no water involved! The only issue I have with them is the same as what I have with all of the polishes I have used, if there are any pinholes, pores, or other anomalies in the surface the polish will settle in them and leave behind dreaded white dots. So far I only reserve polishing to plastic blanks and fall back to MicroMesh and Buffing for wood pens.
Dave
PS Reflection off of one of the facets on the top of the cap really made some bad looking white spots on a couple of the pictures. I didn't notice it when I took them or I would have adjusted the angle a little.
This afternoon I made a Magnetic kit in Gunmetal from The Crooked Mill. It is essentially a Zen type design but has a "wavy" clip. The blank is a leftover piece of an Alumilite blank called "Painted Desert" that I got from Turnt Pen Company, the enterprise of Tim Crowe, High School English Teacher. I really like the name of his company, "turnt" is an obsolete past tense form of "turn". The most recent usage though has become synonymous with excited or wound up. I really like his blanks too!
It was finished by dry sanding to about 3000 grit followed by the six "grits" of Stadium Pen Blanks Magic Juice polishing compounds. I bought mine from Michelle at Drop Anchor Creations. I think they give me a glossier finish than wet sanding with MicroMesh, but with a lot less mess and hassle - no water involved! The only issue I have with them is the same as what I have with all of the polishes I have used, if there are any pinholes, pores, or other anomalies in the surface the polish will settle in them and leave behind dreaded white dots. So far I only reserve polishing to plastic blanks and fall back to MicroMesh and Buffing for wood pens.
Dave
PS Reflection off of one of the facets on the top of the cap really made some bad looking white spots on a couple of the pictures. I didn't notice it when I took them or I would have adjusted the angle a little.
