workinforwood
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WHA WHA WHAT!?!?!
Yes..you heard me...Edible Pen Contest! You can't have a birthday without food and family! Maybe it's too cold for you to work in your shop, or maybe you just need a break to have some real creative fun with the family..the Edible pen contest allows you to make a pen in your house and with your wife, kids, grand kids, as many family members can be involved as you like!
What is an edible pen? It's not a bone, it's not raw hamburger, it's a pen that you can eat immediately after it is built and photographed exactly as it sits. I don't know people that eat bones. Cooked hamburger would be fine, raw would not be. Candy, fruit, vegetables, chocolate, baked stuff...whatever you can think of that you can eat right now, is your edible pen. A CA finish will not be required..you can't eat CA so don't even bother using it. Find an edible way to assemble your food.
Does my pen need to write? Of course not. This is fun and family time. Your pen does not have to work. If it does work, it can't work using ink, because that is in-edible. No pen kits are to be used..you shouldn't eat metal. Your pen must however look like a pen...in some kinda way at least we have to be able to tell you are mimicking a pen but using edible materials. So..your pen must have a nib of some kind. Doesn't matter if the nib is a carved peanut.
This contest will be judged by three people, my wife, my daughter and myself. Since I can't compete and run the contest at the same time, this will be a family moment for us. We will judge each pen individually. No pens are compared to any other pens. We are using a point system to judge each individual pen. The opinions are sure to be wildly different..I don't believe any one of you can make all three of us feel the same way about an edible pen.
Points are this:
50 points for difficulty level. Yes, this is subjective, but that's just the way it is.
50 points for presentation. Yes, this will be subjective too...have too much fun and it might turn off one of the judges, but might turn on another one..who knows!
5 bonus points! If you pen has a clip, function not necessary, you automatically get 5 points.
5 bonus points! If you use a lathe for any part of your pen, like say chuck a peanut to make a nib cone..you get a bonus 5 points.
This is a total of 110 points possible, per judge, making the total possible 330. Top 4 people will receive a box with MM's and perhaps some other edible snacks...courtesy of my wife.
Enter your pens in this thread. You can enter two pens max...but enter each pen individually. Be sure and describe your pen. We can't read minds. If you spun a peanut, we need to know.
Deadline for contest is Sat Feb 20 at midnight.
arty: party on!
Yes..you heard me...Edible Pen Contest! You can't have a birthday without food and family! Maybe it's too cold for you to work in your shop, or maybe you just need a break to have some real creative fun with the family..the Edible pen contest allows you to make a pen in your house and with your wife, kids, grand kids, as many family members can be involved as you like!
What is an edible pen? It's not a bone, it's not raw hamburger, it's a pen that you can eat immediately after it is built and photographed exactly as it sits. I don't know people that eat bones. Cooked hamburger would be fine, raw would not be. Candy, fruit, vegetables, chocolate, baked stuff...whatever you can think of that you can eat right now, is your edible pen. A CA finish will not be required..you can't eat CA so don't even bother using it. Find an edible way to assemble your food.
Does my pen need to write? Of course not. This is fun and family time. Your pen does not have to work. If it does work, it can't work using ink, because that is in-edible. No pen kits are to be used..you shouldn't eat metal. Your pen must however look like a pen...in some kinda way at least we have to be able to tell you are mimicking a pen but using edible materials. So..your pen must have a nib of some kind. Doesn't matter if the nib is a carved peanut.
This contest will be judged by three people, my wife, my daughter and myself. Since I can't compete and run the contest at the same time, this will be a family moment for us. We will judge each pen individually. No pens are compared to any other pens. We are using a point system to judge each individual pen. The opinions are sure to be wildly different..I don't believe any one of you can make all three of us feel the same way about an edible pen.
Points are this:
50 points for difficulty level. Yes, this is subjective, but that's just the way it is.
50 points for presentation. Yes, this will be subjective too...have too much fun and it might turn off one of the judges, but might turn on another one..who knows!
5 bonus points! If you pen has a clip, function not necessary, you automatically get 5 points.
5 bonus points! If you use a lathe for any part of your pen, like say chuck a peanut to make a nib cone..you get a bonus 5 points.
This is a total of 110 points possible, per judge, making the total possible 330. Top 4 people will receive a box with MM's and perhaps some other edible snacks...courtesy of my wife.
Enter your pens in this thread. You can enter two pens max...but enter each pen individually. Be sure and describe your pen. We can't read minds. If you spun a peanut, we need to know.
Deadline for contest is Sat Feb 20 at midnight.
arty: party on!
