Siberian Husky Pen

[Keith Upton]

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'!!!!

Thanks. One of my buddies at work keeps talking about buying his CNC machine... and I keep pushing him to do so! lol

As for turning them my self, I'm sure that would make be a better person... but not in the eyes of the wife as I spend more and more "personal" time on these things.

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.

Yep, but I thought these might be a massed produced blank type of item I could just go order. I can see a need to have maybe a half dozen of them for me to give out as awards or gifts on my community sites.

[David Somers]

Keith,

If you can't convince your wife to take up turning as a way to remain in harmony with the universe (it really is a versatile hobby with lots of benefits <grin>) you might contact either Woodcraft or Rockler there in St Louis. Both are stores that supply stuff to turners and could probably connect you with someone local who could bang out however many Corian Pens you wanted.

Dave

[Keith Upton]

Thanks Dave. So far I've managed to appease the Wife-Goddess by making here some wood veneer embellishments for here scrapbooking in the scrap spaces of my wood sheets. Not sure how far I can push here though. lol

[Mike Null]

Dave

It might be easier if he contacted those stores in Colorado, but I would run an ad on SMC.

[David Somers]

Snort....Not sure what i was looking at, but thought he was in St Louis! Sorry Keith! Both stores are in CO as well though. And also as Mike said, a herd of folks here who would like step up to help. I would but until I can clear some company from my house I am not getting much turning done.

Dave

[Dan Hintz]

Keith,

Check out the IAP forums... plenty of them (us?) could supply you with Corian blanks. Full pens, if you're willing to pay for 'em.

[Amos De Pasquale]

I love the work on the pen, could you please tell me or guide me to a picture of a Husky, and how you got it down to that size without losing definition? ps--I am also a Pen Turner and am really impressed with it. Amos

[Keith Outten]

I have a couple thousand 1/2" thick sets that are cut and drilled for 7mm kits in my shop ready to turn. Been using them to make Freedom Pens.
I also have a limited supply of 3/4" thick Glacier White Corian that I am getting ready to start engraving.

[Keith Outten]

Engraved pens.......check out Chuck Stone's pens in post #10 in this thread.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...mount+rushmore

[Don Corbeil]

yes - the mt rushmore pen engraving... I just happened to be looking at that thread just the other day. What an innovative technique to get his greyscale.

[Don Corbeil]

Very Nice. I like it for two reasons - one is that it is beautiful work. The other is that my first dog was a husky - love that breed!

[Joel Matteson]

I'm a pen turner and engraver ... and I'm very impressed! Do you have special optics on your helix to get such definition? I feel like it's greater detail than I'd get with my 2.0 lense.

[Michael Doyle]

Joel - No special lens, just a lot of photo preparation (and perspiration)with at least 3 programs.

[Keith Upton]

Engraved pens.......check out Chuck Stone's pens in post #10 in this thread.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...mount+rushmore

Thanks for the link, some rally nice work in there. But now you have me looking down the rabbit hole that is 3D engraving. So yeah, thanks a lot! lol

[Keith Outten]

Don't blame me, I'm in the same boat you are. When I saw Chuck Stone's pictures I just had to order a rotary attachment for my laser engraver......cost me over $1800 bucks. There are others here like Chuck Sone and Michael Doyle who have uploaded pictures of their work that are definitely inspirational.

I have four pen blanks in my shop turned and ready to engrave, these will be the first projects for my rotary and all I need now is to prep some pictures but thats the hard part isn't it

Mike Null uploaded a lithophane he laser engraved that was pretty slick and it was the first one he has made.

I often load up my Laser Engravers Forum CD and just cruise the pictures to make sure I don't miss anything, thats how I found Chuck Stone's pictures as I missed the thread when it was active.
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