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Thread: Regurgitated Palm seeds !!
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20th April 2013, 08:33 PM #1
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Regurgitated Palm seeds !!
A little background on this , Neil (dai sensei) heard some noises in the palm trees one night and on investigation found some bats (or flying foxes) feeding off them, In the morning he discovered all these nicely cleaned seeds on the ground ,so being curious as always ,decided to collect, roast in oven, then cast some up as pen blanks ,he shared some of the roasted seeds with me so I cast up a blank to test the viability
Here's the result ,cast in green ,looks like peanut brittle hehe. Was bit challenging but all came out good, I used a Phoenix kit as it has plenty of meat for such things like this . Cheers ~ John
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20th April 2013, 09:50 PM #2
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Re: Regurgitated Palm seeds !!
Mate that is another spectacular pen job well done
Ian
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21st April 2013, 01:49 AM #3
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Looks good John,
I was only talking to Neil about these new blanks today.
might have to get some to give them a try,
a bright red or orange would probably look pretty cool
cheers Ben
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21st April 2013, 09:03 AM #4
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21st April 2013, 09:34 AM #5
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Very nice indeed, I like it
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21st April 2013, 01:16 PM #6
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Nice work John, just dont lose it in the garden or you might start growing palm pens lol.
Regards Rumnut.
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21st April 2013, 10:25 PM #7
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Very nice John they look great.
Cheers Ian
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22nd April 2013, 05:00 PM #8
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Like it heaps!!!
What type of palm??
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22nd April 2013, 07:04 PM #9
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Not sure, multi ~150mm dia stem from base 10-15' high, small yellow fruit growing in bunches.
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22nd April 2013, 09:37 PM #10
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Multiple stems - probably a Golden Cane palm. The pens look great. I'm glad you didn't try to make them palatable like the coffee beans the wild cats eat and then pass and are gathered, roasted and ground to drink
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22nd April 2013, 09:45 PM #11
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Wot the plantagenet gentleman said!!
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22nd April 2013, 10:37 PM #12
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Just looked up Golden Cane Palms, yes that's them.
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22nd April 2013, 11:38 PM #13
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Don't want to spoil your plan Ben but palm seeds are usually brown on the outside and mostly white on the inside. Originally Posted by Beedeejay
All the pretty colours are the flesh on the outside which is what the birds like to eat and which would not stand up in resin.
Cheers, Ian"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.. it can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better"
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23rd April 2013, 09:40 AM #14
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I suspect he is talking about the color of the resin matrix the seeds are cast in Originally Posted by Nanigai
cheers ~ John
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23rd April 2013, 02:00 PM #15
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Originally Posted by gawdelpus
I suspect he is talking about the color of the resin matrix the seeds are cast in cheers ~ John
Ian"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.. it can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better"
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