Siberian Husky Pen

[Michael Doyle]

The pen is white Corian, engraved on an Epilog Helix, and color filled with black ink from Laserbits

[David Somers]

Cool Michael! Very nice. Corian worked beautifully for that and the photo engraving turned out really well.

Just a thought, but would this be eligible for SawMillCreek's currently running photo engraving competition?

Dave

[Scott Shepherd]

I hope not David because if it does, I don't stand a chance! That's beautiful and EXTREMELY well done! Great job Michael!

[Mark Sipes]

and just in time for the Iditarod next week "The Last Great Race"

Nice work!

[Keith Outten]

Michael,

Thats a beautiful pen.

Now, tell me why you used ink instead of paint. I'm sure the answer must be obvious but for the life of me I don't understand. Is ink more durable?
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[Michael Doyle]

Kieth Its the stuff laserbits sells Ink ? Paint?? They just call it color fill

[Dan Hintz]

Nicely done, Michael... come to think of it, I haven't been to the IAP website in a couple of months, at least. Time to head back over there soon...

[Chuck Stone]

Nicely done.
I'm making 30 of those right now.
(not huskies, but the pen blanks)
Sent out 30 more yesterday.
I'm sick of drilling Corian..

[Chris J Anderson]

Thats a really nice job...

excuse my ignorance, but what is 'corian' ?

Is it a type of stone or manmade plastic ?

cheers,
Chris

[Mike Null]

An all round doggone good job! I would enter that in the contest.

Thanks for posting your work.

[Keith Outten]

Chris,

Dupont Corian is an acrylic solid surface material mostly used for kitchen counter tops. If you search our forums you will find hundreds of pictures of pens, signs, lithophanes and a host of other items made from Corian or various other manufacturers solid surface material.
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[Keith Upton]

That does look really good, great job!

Would anyone mind sharing a source for those pen blanks? I did not buy my laser to do this kind of stuff, but I find my self wanting to just "play" with them anyway and see if any of the products stick with my current customer group. lol

[Scott Shepherd]

Would anyone mind sharing a source for those pen blanks? I did not buy my laser to do this kind of stuff, but I find my self wanting to just "play" with them anyway and see if any of the products stick with my current customer group. lol

It's not a store bought item. They are hand made out of counter top materials.

[David Somers]

Keith,

There must be someone out there selling wholesale corian pen blanks with pen mechanisms that you could use. I am not aware of them though, never having needed any. A finished corian pen, ready to engrave, will run you $25 to $40 each depending on the design. Usually a woodturner will buy wood or corian or acrylic of some sort that has been cut to a wide enough cross section (3/4 to 5/8" square cross section) for a pen and they will turn that themselves. Or they will use a band saw or table saw and cut their own blanks to turn. If you know a woodturner in the area doing pens (many do just for fun, if not as a serious enterprise) you could probably get them to do however many you wanted at a better price.

Anyone out there know of a wholesaler for these?

Or you could become a better all around person and improve your karma by taking up wood turning yourself! <grin> Just sayin'!!!!

[Mike Null]

Keith

One of the perks as a contributor is that you can run ads in the classified section. A member is likely to see it and contact you.