scrimshaw pen

[laurie sullivan]

hey everyone, first happy new year.......

this is a new england art form that i am trying to utitlize on antler pens, just to dress the plain white look. tell me what you think.

laurie

53980

[Christopher Hunter]

Totally Awesome!!!!
Great trick...
--Chris

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Lauri, this looks very sharp. The detail is great.:)

[Brett Baldwin]

That's a great idea. I like it alot.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Great looking pen and the scrimshaw makes it very unique! Nice job!

[Joash Boyton]

different...

[Nancy Laird]

hey everyone, first happy new year.......

this is a new england art form that i am trying to utitlize on antler pens, just to dress the plain white look. tell me what you think.

laurie

53980

Laurie,

Did you actually engrave that in the old scrimshaw fashion or is it lasered? Looks great whichever way you did it?

Nancy

[laurie sullivan]

nancy, hello......i did this the way the whalers did over 200 years ago. i want to experience the art and will continue. i always want to be an artist but really can't draw or paint. this is an art form i can use with my turnings, yet another art form.

thanks, laurie

[Jack Ferrell]

Lauire, that looks fantastic! Oh and thanks for the idea.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Well done Laurie! That's using your head........two arts in one!

[John Hart]

Well done Laurie. I'm totally impressed with the fact that you are using traditional methodology. Sometimes, it's not so much the end product that's important....but the journey that got you there.:)

[Tom Sherman]

Very nicely done Laurie, adds a different flavor to an already beautiful pen.

[Jim Becker]

Excellent!

[Joe Melton]

That is very nice, Laurie. Can you tell us how long it took to do the engraving? Did you trace an outline first, of simply do it while looking at a picture?
Lastly, why did you scrimshaw the lower barrel instead of the upper barrel? The engraved pens I have seen universally had the engraving on the upper barrel. I do like yours, though.
Joe