Almost Planned First Casting

[dgelnett]

I have been read and learning from this site for the past couple of months and getting inspired to try different things when making a pen. What really looks like fun is make my own castings with PR. The first picture is my first try when I almost had a plan. I read in the library about making my own color ribbons to place into a PR mold (that was my plan). I tried making several different colored ribbons but had a few problems catching it before it was too hard or getting a well blended color throughout the ribbon. I did not want to waste anything so I threw it all in the mold, the good, the bad and the ugly (this was not the plan). I used a black PR to hide as much of the ugly ribbons as possible.
Ends up I like it but the problem is trying to duplicate it.



The second pen is a by product of the first pen. Noticed when starting to drill out the middle of the blank a curly flower looking snake came out for the first half inch. Collected those scraps and placed them in this pen with a white tube to show all the colors.

Maybe next I should learn to take a good picture.

Thanks for your comments.

 

[minus459]

Nice work, I like both.

Peter

 

[ctubbs]

Dave, don't you just love it when a disaster turns to beauty? Congratulations on the rescue on the black pen and then catching the shavings to make that beautiful second pen. Now if you could only make a second one.
Charles