First feather

**dai sensei** · 25th June 2010, 08:16 PM

John (Gawdelpus) brought around some coloured feathers he scored at the local $2 shop the other day and I have been playing with casting them. Unfortunately, whatever they are dyed with, it reacts to thin CA

. So I had a few failures and the feathers also don't want to lie flat on the tube.

So I ended up gluing the spines only down to a tube with silicon plugs at either end, 4 feathers on a EB tube. I then wrapped it all in some baking paper to roll the feathers around the blank and put it in a piece of wood drilled out with a hole a few mm's larger than the tube. I then removed the wax paper carefully leaving the tube and feathers in the hole and cast it with clear resin. After setting I gave it a thump with a dowel and the found during the cold weather it was still a bit tacky, but perfect for recasting.

The recast looked Ok so turned it tonight. I has green, orange, purple and red feathers (I used the good feather up on the rejects

). Interesting, but I like the feather blanks from the US a lot more, and considering the work required they are probably cheaper

.

As usual, had fun trying

Cheers

**munruben** · 25th June 2010, 08:40 PM

Well done Neil, nice work.. I read a tute on doing a feather pen and it sounded like a lot of fiddly work involved but they do look lovely. I didn't do one myself but have seen a few on the internet and some of them are awesome colours.

**artme** · 25th June 2010, 08:40 PM

Congrats on trying Neil!!! Can't really see any detail in the photos.

Maybe a trip to Currumbin to collect some Rainbow lorry feathers will be worth the effort.

**gawdelpus** · 25th June 2010, 10:17 PM

Ahhh ! the challenges never stop lol. I feel that this is a case of better in the hand ,hard to get a good photo of some things , I hope the snakeskin I have drying on top of my modem at the moment is as successful as your feathers ,its going on a long click for a customer

cheers ~ John

**Fireman sam** · 25th June 2010, 11:55 PM

Neil you are getting clever

Thanks Andrew

**JTTHECLOCKMAN** · 26th June 2010, 04:11 AM

Neil,, I am going to watch this particular idea of yours because I too want to try this. I have seen other blanks and they are well done because the person has the technique really perfected. I am hoping you will continue to share your method with us with some quality photos. thanks for showing and keep up the goood work.

**GPW** · 26th June 2010, 10:01 AM

Looking good Neil

**Les in Red Deer** · 26th June 2010, 02:02 PM

Aren't first just nothing but fun?
I'm currently working on my first feather blank as well.
Your first attempt looks fine, but with practice perfection will be achieved.

Les

**Simomatra** · 27th June 2010, 01:04 PM

Good start Neil I am sure the ones that follow will b right up there. You are on a big learning curve and another addiction

**Touchwood** · 27th June 2010, 11:24 PM

Unfortunately I can't see any detail in your pics but I received a beautiful feather pen (pheasant) from New London in the swap so I will just imagine. I do however have hens that have black and white horizontal stripes on each feather (plymothrocks) and hens that have a white feather with a black spot on the end of each feather (silver spangle hamburgs) and other pretty girls .... maybe you should 'hunt' down a poultry person in the area (or give me a shout and I'll save feathers if you let me know the size needed) for feathers that look great but don't change colour when they come in contact with resin.

JD

**Rum Pig** · 29th June 2010, 09:26 AM

The detail is a little hard to see but it looks OK from what I can see. Maybe not the best choice of feathers but it will not take you long to perfect them

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