2020 BASH Slimline Contest ~ Round 2 and final round

[Fred Bruche]

This is the final round of voting. Vote for your top 3 choices.
Good luck everyone!

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 1
Hardware: Gunmetal slimline
Material: Olivewood
Brief description: GluBoost finish

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 2
Hardware: Designer slimline
Material: Four-color opal resin blank from MuttBlanks
Brief description: Black back-painting helps the opal effect of the blank "pop"

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 3
Hardware: Slimline
Material: Oak burl
Brief description: Stabilized in orange dyed cactus juice

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 4
Hardware: Fancy slimline in silver
Material: Desert ironwood

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 5
Hardware: Gunmetal twist pen
Material: Spalted maple from my firewood pile
Brief description: Turned cross grain with a CA finish.

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 6
Hardware: Slimline
Material: Curly maple
Brief description: Double dyed by hand to have the blue flame appearance

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 7
Hardware: Streamline kit
Material: Cocobolo wood
Brief description: Buffed with Tripoli and White Diamond and finished with Renaissance Wax.

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 8
Hardware: Slimline
Material: cellulose acetate (cebloplast)
Brief description: Love the color green-blue of this material. I bought it from EB years ago wish I had bought more. This is the first pen I have made from it.

 

[Fred Bruche]

Entry 9
Hardware: Streamline titanium premium plating
Material: Amboyna burl
Brief description: Finish Thin CA 20 coats rubbed back to smooth high luster. Highly polished with Micro-gloss polish (1 micron).

 

[Fred Bruche]

And last but not least

Entry 10
Hardware: Standard Slimline kit with copper accents
Material: Burlwood
Brief description: Finished with CA.

 

[Fred Bruche]

Ladies and gents, the time to click and vote is NOW!!

 

[John Eldeen]

Narrowing it down to 10 did not make the choice any easier

 

[Fred Bruche]

Narrowing it down to 10 did not make the choice any easier

Feels like an appropriate occasion to say "I told you so"!

 

[Fred Bruche]

We are up to a good start but just a first reminder, this poll will close on Feb 23, 2020, at 9:21 PM

 

[darrin1200]

I have to agree with @John Eldeen .
Cutting it down to the top 10 just made it harder.

 

[Fred Bruche]

I just realized I goofed up for the resizing of the second picture for entry #2. The sort side was resized to 800 pixels, making the pen look not as crisp as it was in the original picture. Seems I can't modify the post anymore so here's the updated version.

 

[Fred Bruche]

We have 90 voters already!!
Keep the votes coming, awesome prizes are destined for your winners

Reminder
First place -Silver pen kit from Silver Pen Kits $100
Second place -Penblanks from Ohio Penworks -$55 and Blanks from JohnU $35
Third place - Prize package from Exotic Blanks -$50

 

[Fred Bruche]

12:52 pm, a voting battle is raging, pretty much all the entries have a chance of ending on the top 3!!

 

[Fred Bruche]

In no particular order, vote numbers: 23, 28, 23, 31, 27...
Yep, it's that close! One more day of voting, but do it now!!

 

[Fred Bruche]

Winners get their special thread here King of the Slimhill

Thank you to all the entrants and voters for an awesome contest!