This is picture heavy, because a picture is really worth a thousand words...
So I will break it up into a few seperate postings to keep from over loading the server...
You will be seeing the project as it progresses, no editing here, what is in the photo is what is being assembled.
I wanted to see if I could do a celtic knot in the gold and green of your sports teams colors...it is an attractive color combination, and I choose acrylic as the medium because I could get the colors close.
Photo 1
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...green001-1.jpg
Using my "deli slicer" jig to cut a 5/64th thick insert strip from an gold acrylic blank.
Photo 2
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...dngreen002.jpg
The black sheet stryene used to outline the insert...you will make a laminate sandwich with the strip and the sheet stryene.
Photo 3
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...dngreen003.jpg
Using medium CA and a laminate roller, glue the strips to a sheet of stryene.
I do 2 strips in case one fails or I like it enough to want to do another pen later.
I use the roller to insure the CA is spread evenly and it applies enough pressure to ensure a good, flat bond with no air bubbles.
Hit the strips with the CA accelerator, then using a hobby or Xacto knife, cut them out of the stryene...flip them over and glue them down again so you have a solid acrylic strip with black stryene on either side, repeat the accelerator and cut them out of the stryene, clean up the edges well and you end up with...
Photo 4
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...dngreen004.jpg
The finished laminate strip, or insert.