James Combs
08-28-2011, 10:57 PM
I wanted to try my hand at bottle stoppers and pen blank casting.
I found a 10 pack of silicone stopper tips for a small price, $5 something I think, anyway I figured if they didn't work out I wouldn't be out that much but I think it turned out pretty good. The wood is Unknowood from a foreign pallet. The finish is CA wet sanded with MM to about 4000.
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The pen casting was a little tougher. I tried it three times and finally got something useful on the forth.
"A" is the first one and I might use it yet but I got in a hurry and cast it before the paint on the tube was completely dry and it melted and mixed with the resin, never thought about that. You can see the feathers in places but also the brass tube when you can see through the dark clouds of paint in the resin.
"B" is similar but I let the paint dry thoroughly but it developed bubbles. My try to use it later and see if I can fill the bubbles with CA.
"C" with those two failures I decided to try white, man what a mess that one was, just looks dirty.
"D" I think I finally got something going with this one. White tube, brown feathers and yellow coloring in the resin. As a first it wood have been great, as a fourth maybe its a "I'm getting there".
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At any rate take a look and tell me what you think. The blank is on a Black & Chrome Wall Street II. Wet sanded with MM to 12000 (I think that's the grey one, my memory sucks anymore).
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C&C welcomed.
Edit: BTW for those interested I used water borne poly to "glue" the feathers down to the tube before casting. As a novice at this I thought it worked real well.
I found a 10 pack of silicone stopper tips for a small price, $5 something I think, anyway I figured if they didn't work out I wouldn't be out that much but I think it turned out pretty good. The wood is Unknowood from a foreign pallet. The finish is CA wet sanded with MM to about 4000.
206266206267
The pen casting was a little tougher. I tried it three times and finally got something useful on the forth.
"A" is the first one and I might use it yet but I got in a hurry and cast it before the paint on the tube was completely dry and it melted and mixed with the resin, never thought about that. You can see the feathers in places but also the brass tube when you can see through the dark clouds of paint in the resin.
"B" is similar but I let the paint dry thoroughly but it developed bubbles. My try to use it later and see if I can fill the bubbles with CA.
"C" with those two failures I decided to try white, man what a mess that one was, just looks dirty.
"D" I think I finally got something going with this one. White tube, brown feathers and yellow coloring in the resin. As a first it wood have been great, as a fourth maybe its a "I'm getting there".
206270
At any rate take a look and tell me what you think. The blank is on a Black & Chrome Wall Street II. Wet sanded with MM to 12000 (I think that's the grey one, my memory sucks anymore).
206269206268
C&C welcomed.
Edit: BTW for those interested I used water borne poly to "glue" the feathers down to the tube before casting. As a novice at this I thought it worked real well.