Some more AZ Sihouette 3-D acrylic b/s

[Ken Fitzgerald]

These things are fun to turn. My only complaint is on the Marine Corps b/s the emblem wasn't centered properly. I checked my hole and it's centered properly on the stopper and it's perpendicular to the mating surface of the stopper. Still.........you can get 10 foot curls with these rascals when using a skew.......

#1 Marine Corps emblem b/s
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#2 Captured 3-D rose .....


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[Mike A. Smith]

Very nice Ken. I've got a friend in the Army and I've been looking at these. That rose is spectacular!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

My current manager was recalled in December. He and his wife are both West Point graduates. Though I haven't heard from him in a month or so he was last seen going ashore in Kuwait in full uniform and a back pack on his back that carried the company's logo. I turned 2 pens for him at the suggestion of Creeker who'd just returned...2 slimlines out of corian that matched the new camo uniforms and fit the two pen pockets on the upper sleeve the camo APCs. I think he'll be getting an Army b/s one for Christmas.

I just turned a Navy one for my youngest son who has been in the Navy for 8 years and is currently going to dental school on a Navy scholarship. He took it back to Texas when he returned from visiting me 3 weeks ago. They turn nicely if you've never turned one.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Ken those are beauties. I really like the rose.

[Tom Sherman]

Very nice stoppers Ken I am a bit partial to the Marine Corps one though Semper Fi.

[John Terefenko]

Ken

Again very nicely done. I was in on the group buy for those medallions so I at some time will try casting my own blanks. I do not know if I asked you this question before but will ask again anyway. I see you use Ruth Niles bottle stoppers and I am going to also. I like the look of the shorter stopper so that the top part is more the focas and not the stopper. What do you use for your mandrels??? Have you made your own or do you use a premade one??? Thanks and keep up the good work.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

John....I use a premade mandrel I bought from CSUSA. The guide sleeve /washer on this mandrel is a little too large. I know CSUSA has 2 different mandrels. Each has a different sized guide for a particular bottle stopper mechanism. I think I'll figure which one I have and order the other one in hopes the guide sleeve will more closely fit the Niles b/s. Right now I just under cut a little bit.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

John...I'd like to come up with some of those Marine Corps medallions. I have a couple of elk hunting friends that are retired Marine officers, Vietnam vets, purple hearts. One in particular is a wine drinker. I'd love to make a wood stopper with a cast Marine Corp Medallion in the end for him!

[Chris Barton]

Wow, those look great Ken! Keep up the good work!

[John Terefenko]

Ken

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