first plastic pen

**Sawdust Maker** · 11th February 2009, 10:13 PM

I finally thought I should turn one of those odd, non wood, plastic blanks
Molten Metal from NewLondon88 (thanks)
hmm, interesting to turn
micromeshed and brasso on a copper sierra kit
thanks for lookin'

Attachment 96274 Attachment 96275

PS the pen rest was a surprise christmas pressie from my 11 yo son (he'll be as good as tea lady soon!)

**dj_pnevans** · 11th February 2009, 10:18 PM

Thats a cool looking pen.
David

**poulso** · 11th February 2009, 10:21 PM

Nice pen nick

I like the colour.

**I_wanna_Shed** · 12th February 2009, 09:48 AM

Nice one! Is that a bright copper Sierra? Took me a while to warm to the Bright Copper Siera I had laying around in my shed, but now that I've used it and seen your pic I think it can be made into a very nice piece of kit.

Good job

Nathan.

**BoomerangInfo** · 12th February 2009, 03:51 PM

Plastic?? PLASTIC

*falls over in a dead faint*

Rus......

**munruben** · 12th February 2009, 05:38 PM

Great effort.

**Allan at Wallan** · 12th February 2009, 07:05 PM

Hi Nick,

You will have to change your name now from
"Sawdust maker" to "Plastic particle producer"

Allan

**BernieP** · 12th February 2009, 07:57 PM

G'Day Nick

Very nice pen, thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Bernie

**artme** · 13th February 2009, 12:04 AM

Sweet!!

**NewLondon88** · 13th February 2009, 12:15 AM

That's a good match!

Is the other side a different color or did it come out all as one?

**Simomatra** · 13th February 2009, 04:03 AM

Nice work Nick, lovely pen. Nice match of pen to blank.

NL I take it that is one of your home brews, excellent work

**schaf** · 13th February 2009, 06:15 AM

Very smart. The pen and the blank.

Terry

**NewLondon88** · 13th February 2009, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Simomatra

NL I take it that is one of your home brews, excellent work

ooo .. no, not mine.. We swapped some blanks and I included this one, but I
didn't make it. (I might, though!)

**Sawdust Maker** · 13th February 2009, 08:23 AM

NL88
That's both sides - the colour goes all the way
thanks for the blank - I thought it was one of yours
If you look real closely in real life you can see bit of the tube, which is a pity

Thanks for all the comments everybody

As I said turned a lot different to wood, I ended up using the skew in scraping mode and got a long ribbon of plastic which wanted to wrap around everything

I think I can see why people like making their own - must be a real buzz in creating something from scratch and experimenting.

**NewLondon88** · 13th February 2009, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

NL88
That's both sides - the colour goes all the way.

Hmm.. now I'm wondering what I sent you. Usually the molten metal is that color on
one half of the blank, but the other half is a blue/gray of a similar pattern.

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