Voting Poll for the Casting contest for SE 2020

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Which pen is the best pen to win the castin contest?

  • Pen 1

    Votes: 29 30.2%
  • Pen 2

    Votes: 28 29.2%
  • Pen 3

    Votes: 8 8.3%
  • Pen 4

    Votes: 31 32.3%

  • Total voters
    96
  • Poll closed .

mredburn

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Pick your top choice for the winning pen of the casting contest.
Pen 1
Bright black hardware with a custom blank. This is a pour from leftover resin from two other pours we were doing for other projects. Sometimes I think these look better than the blanks where the colors are carefully selected.



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Pen 2
The kit is a Anvil EDC Click Pen.
It's watch parts over a base of black carbon fiber.

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Pen 3
Label casting featuring my 10 year old granddaughter's art work.

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Pen 4

I've been thinking about a lightsaber pen for years and finally made it happen!
The handle/cap was cast from a mold but with a brass tube embedded to make space for the pen. An o-ring was attached to the top of the brass tube to hold the cap in place on the pen.
The pen itself is a modified, modified slimline. Because the glow effect was vital for this design, the blank needed to be translucent and therefore the hole needed to have a uniform look. To achieve this I did a tube-in casting of an 8mm tube, then glued the upper 7mm tube inside that. This allows the refill to be extended by twisting the nib. Lastly, I turned a custom cap from the same blank used in the body of

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