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Acrylic pens.... Easy Xmas gifts?
Divided he ad:
Evening folks,
As promised I've got a few pic's of the "incident"
I was making the second of the Jumbo pencil kits I purchased and got a little excited and put a cut at a higher feed than should have... It simply was too much for the lathe to take.
Started off with this...
And rapidly turned into this....
This simply would not do!
I had seen some "deluxe" versions of these with chromed domed tops. I had no chromed domes so Stainless steel would have to do...
I cleaned up the breakage.
Made a cap like this one.
Saved :)
This is now my finishing method for the cheaper pencil kits. I have made a deluxe version Chrome dome with a clip) and a "mini" gold plated version of these too, it's 10mm shorter in length and has a 3mm lead instead or a 5.8mm lead.
My pencils so far...
Oh and showing off a few more pens While I'm at it... :)
A teachers pen - red one end black the other.
And some stubby pens...
If anyone else makes pens could you post a few pics?
Ralph.
AussieJimG:
Flash as a rat with a gold tooth!
Jim
Brass_Machine:
I am seriously considering doing this in about 4 weeks. Would make great gifts for co-workers.
Pete49:
OK here are a few from my collection. The only 2 acrylic are the bright yellow and the bright blue pens. The blue is made from cut offs and a piece of stone which are also the other grey pens. The stone (from West Aust) I can't remember the name of it but its softish :scratch:. All the rest are timber, mostly Australian wood with a piece ebony (black pen) cocobolo and amboyna thrown in.
The roller ball and fountain pen set is Tasmanian blackheart sassafras. The reddish orange is a desert timber from the NT called conkaberry. Anyhoo enough dribbling I'll let the pics say it for me.
Pete
Divided he ad:
That's some very nice looking pens there Pete :thumbup:
Stone sounds interesting! I'd have thought you'd need carbide or diamond tipped tooling for stone.
Looks like it polishes up really well though :)
Do you turn these on a wood lathe?
You have some of the more expensive kits there and interesting colours of wood....... Not that I could tell you which is what colour! But I can see they are different and have nice patterns in them.
Are the kits expensive over there? Some cost a fortune here!
Thanks for posting the pic's.
Ralph.
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