Thread: Sharp tools a must!!

That is one seriously beautiful pen Jude, well done!

Sorry to hear about the buggered up Harley sigil.

Oh mate it enough to make you cry after all that work..Is it salvageable your harley or did she kiss the dust. Mate the cocobolo wood is just gorgeous. Love to get my hands on that stuff one day. Wow it nice wood. It seems to take a nice finish on
bye Toni

Toni no the logo is tost I'm gonna turn down to the tube and try it again tomorow/ But this time I am gonna make an oval around the logo to make it easyer to carve out/ thanks

awe mate I am so sorry but yep you got it dead right I can imagine you will need a real sharp tools and I found on hard work the skew and very light strokes are the key. I can't wait to see your harley symbol. Praying you pull this one off for you
Toni

Beautiful pen and timber, whats the finish on the actual pen.
Shame about the logo, better luck on the next one

Hey thats cool Jude . .

One question .. what is shrinkiedink ???? ..

Love that cocobolo .. mmm. . did a pen out of that the other day, takes a finish soooooooo nice.

skewpid
Shrinky dinks comes in sheet form like paper. What ya do is trace a picture and color it then put in the oven /about 1 or 2 miniutes and it shrinks. When it shrinks it goes from the thickness of card stock to about 1/8 of an inch. It is a type of plastic but thats all I know besides it's cool stuff.

Has anyone seen them shrinkiedinks here in Australia? I think Jude leading us up the garden path. if you can pull it off it will be fabulous
bye
Toni

Years ago, they were included in breakfast cereal packets for a while. Already precoloured though... with things like bluebirds, etc. on 'em. As kids, we just threw 'em in the oven and watched 'em shrink before gluing 'em to the outside of our school folders. .

Never seen a supplier of the uncoloured sheets though...

Sorry to hear the work was wasted, Jude, but I reckon that you'll soon work out how to best manage 'em and when you do you'll be turning out some truly unique pens.

Perhaps shear-scraping may be better than using a skew? Bevel rubbing from the skew would make more heat and it might've been uneven heating that blew out the shrinky. Just a thought...

G'Day Jude

Love that pen, Shrinky thingie probably available in Aussie at http://www.stampit.com.au/view/127/

Bernie

Ahhh... yes, I remember them. I had a superman one once , came from a cornflake packet or somthing.

Still .. wouldnt mind giving it a crack as an inlay.

Thanks guys

Love your pen, but could someone tell where to go!! to get instructions on how to do an inlay?? I have been fascinated by some of the wok I' ve seen and am itchint to have a go, Amos

Gidday Amos these links will help you with inlays
http://www.yoyospin.com/inlay/

and this one
http://content.penturners.org/articl...withinlays.pdf

like i know I don't have a laser engraver but it gives some good advice to get you started
Toni

Woodenink. Alot of people have been calling segmentmenting inlay. Their is a difference. Inlay is whear ya carve out a peice and put it in the void thus called an inlay. Segmenting is whear ya cut the blank before turning and glue in peices of wood/corian/bone ect... Try googling inlay. But basicly to inlay ya trace the thing ya want to put in the blank(after ya turn it down to almost proper size) and carve out whear it's gonna sit glue it in and finish turning it down. Hopes this helps, here are some links http://penmakersguild.com/articles.htm http://www.woodturningonline.com/Tur..._projects.html