Skulls & Roses

[CreativeCanes]

My first skull pen.
Have some perfecting to do as I made some errors, but overall I am happy with how it turned out.
My skull with red & black rose canes with some white daisy's, sanded and polished the clay (no finish added).
Hope everyone has a great labor day weekend.

 

[magpens]

Beautiful work, Melanie !!!

What grit range did you use for sanding ? . What polish ?

 

[Jim15]

Looks great.

 

[toddlf]

Great pen. Already looks perfect to me.

 

[CreativeCanes]

Beautiful work, Melanie !!!

What grit range did you use for sanding ? . What polish ?

Thank you Mal.
I used Micro Mesh from 1500 to 12000 and polished on a clean muslin buffer (no product). Gives a really great shine.

Looks great.

Thank you Jim.

Great pen. Already looks perfect to me.

Thank you so much.

 

[magpens]

Thanks, Melanie. . Was the muslin actually a buffing wheel ? . if so what speed ? .

I want to try this but sure don't want to risk ruining the polymer clay blanks.

 

[CreativeCanes]

Thanks, Melanie. . Was the muslin actually a buffing wheel ? . if so what speed ? .

I want to try this but sure don't want to risk ruining the polymer clay blanks.

Yes, I use a little mini bench grinder with variable speed that I changed one side to a 3 inch buffing wheel. I start around 9000 rpm with super light touches and then once I have a nice shine I'll slow it down to about 2 to 3000 and give it a good press into the pad and that gives me the really high shine finish.
Hope this helps.

 

[PFMan]

Beautiful skulls and beautiful pen, Melanie!

Jordi

 

[CreativeCanes]

Beautiful skulls and beautiful pen, Melanie!

Jordi

Thank you so much Jordi