Thread: Casting & Stabilising Demo

Thanks Greg just goes to show what people with good intent can achieve to benefit others ,it's all about sharing and forwarding the whole community in our passions cheers ~ John

As expected they have all turned out very nice so now for my couple of questions with regards to the banksia pods,The cedar pod, The Dead Finish Bark, sheoak seed pod, and also the Cholla cactus. what I am generally getting at is can you by all these bits an pieces some where or do you have to find them all in the scrub etc ?
Alot of these items are new to me so I have no idea where to find them

Cheer Ian

Ian
You have to move to the Gold Coast to find some of those pods Next time I got fishing to Stradbroke Island I will get you a bag or two.

The Cholla cactus comes from arizona ,its the dried skeleton of the plant. Basically you can cast any dried bits of stuff that can give an interesting effect,its mostly find what you can and try it ,pine cones banksia seed pods ,small gum nuts etc , just keep your eyes open and think I wonder what that would look like cast and turned As in all things experimenting is the way to find out what works and doesn't ,scraps of nice wood bits ,burl ends etc put in a mold with a colored resin and pressurised as demoed here will produce great pen blanks ,its all about giving it a go ,just another level of individualising your work in your own way ,all good fun though hehe, cheers ~ John

Cheers thanks for that john I will do that as it was I had no idea even where they came from lol The cactus I had an idea where they came from but had no idea on the others

Cheers Ian

Ok, here is my video of the pen blank slab I cast and turned today Casting a Pen Blank Slab - YouTube

Not a high res video, just done on my little camera I use for underwater stuff, but you get the idea Unfortunately most of the video is just waiting for the dam PR to go off

Originally Posted by gawdelpus

Adding to the results from sundays session at Neils, a pine cone in lime green glitter flouro..

Now that's cool

Lookin' good there Neil ,pretty comprehensive in real time ,ya done well mate cheers ~ John

Excellent, thanks for that, a teaser for what is to come from the demo day. Great stuff

Another of Saturdays casting results ,this is one of Neils cast Cedar pods in a gold Phoenix , cheers ~ John

Excellent work Neil they came up great

Ok you guys have got a lot to answer for, dam it I've started another addiction

Got some red Xmas super fine glitter today from O/S, hoping it was like Pearlex powder (that doesn't come in red), but it wasn't. Much better than normal glitter, but glitter never the less, so does not form a homogenous medium. Couldn't resist playing with resin again.

Anyway, I've had my fill for casting for now, below are the final products from the past few days:

• Yesterday's flouro swirls in black blanks, plus 2 new ones, one green swirls in black and the other black swirls in green
• Blue and pinky coloured pearlex in black
• The new red glitter swirls in black
• Desert Ironwood cast with black and red glitter
• the final assembled pens

I add the blanks to the "to it" pile

Cheers

Good to see some pink at last.

That Desert Ironwood shows up as orange & black like a camp fire, that is seriously nice.

I will admit that I had trouble understanding the big interest in pen turning, until I saw your work. The nuts and the black chrome Streamline are grabbing. Very nice work Neil.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

That Desert Ironwood shows up as orange & black like a camp fire, that is seriously nice.

Yep, a browny orange and black, now with red and black resin in between Perhaps the next one should be with flouro orange and black