gketell
Local Chapter Leader
It is Manzanita Root thrice Worthless wood blank I made mounted on a 22K Jr Statesmen.
Worthless wood (ww) is when you take scraps of wood and cast them into resin to make a good blank. In this case the Manzanita root pieces and the pretty red PR.
Twice ww is when blue PR from a different cast flows over into your blank adding unwanted colors.
Thrice ww is when the cast goes bad and the resin doesn't harden in the wood bark so you have to dig it all out using a dental pick and fill the resulting gouges with ebony dust and CA. Over and over again to get all the bubbles out.
But like all things, if it doesn't kill you it just makes you stronger and smarter. The pen turned out gorgeous (IMHO) and the recipient loves it. What more can you ask?
Worthless wood (ww) is when you take scraps of wood and cast them into resin to make a good blank. In this case the Manzanita root pieces and the pretty red PR.
Twice ww is when blue PR from a different cast flows over into your blank adding unwanted colors.
Thrice ww is when the cast goes bad and the resin doesn't harden in the wood bark so you have to dig it all out using a dental pick and fill the resulting gouges with ebony dust and CA. Over and over again to get all the bubbles out.
But like all things, if it doesn't kill you it just makes you stronger and smarter. The pen turned out gorgeous (IMHO) and the recipient loves it. What more can you ask?
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