Freestyle pen contest poll

[Displaced Canadian]

Entry #1
Tell us about your entry: Hand cast resin dragon. Detailed and colored with acrylic paints, Finished in 2 coats of Matte Varnish. Fitted with fine line roller ball. 1.85 Ozs Fits in hand comfortably and writes excellent.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#2

Tell us about your entry: This is a cap actuated roller ball takes parker refill on a home cast blank.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen #3

Tell us about your entry: Its a Pen I made using parts from a Spark Plug to resemble a real Spark Plug

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#4

Tell us about your entry: Glass dipping pen made with several colors of soft glass melted and shaped with propane/oxygen torch. Glass nib has ribs to hold ink.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#5

Tell us about your entry: Artur and his Ex Themed this one on the the story of King Arthur and Excaliber. I used Mexican redheart for the handle where I hand filed the spiraled flutes and the grooves for the wire inlay. I used a guitar string for my wire inlay which is pinned in the ends of the blank. I used a grey alumalite blanks to turn the butt and front section. I used the same material to shape the guard and blade from. What sword should not have somewhere to be situated? So I started with a block of foam and shaped out me an anvil coated it with modge podge and painted it black.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#6

Tell us about your entry: I had a customer that wanted a gavel turned for his father (his father is an auctioneer), I ended up turning the top of this pen for a scaled down pattern. He ended up buying the pen too!!

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#7

Tell us about your entry: "Steampunk" inspired desk fountain pen with stand. Pen is made from brass, copper, springs, and glass test tubes. Stand is made to look like the filling station and features a pressure gauge and 2 test tubes filled with metallic blue PR.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#8

Tell us about your entry: The "Belaying Pen" On the old wooden tall ships, "belaying pins" were stuck in rails and used as temporary tie-off points. This is my version rendered as a pen. It's made from teak with brass threads and embellished with a 3-ply, 3-turn, 5-bight turk's head knot (the knot traditionally used on the kingspoke of a ship's wheel).

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#9

Tell us about your entry: This realistic cigar is made from stabilized claro walnut and natural buckeye burl simulating the ash. The hardware components are from the Roman Harvest Kit. The concealed centerband is recessed inside the cap.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#10

Tell us about your entry: Galileo's Telescope Pen Based on the shape of his telescope. The lenses are made from clear PR and turned, one concave (eyepiece) and one convex. I was a bit optimistic hoping it would actually function as a telescope but if I can get some proper lenses it may! That was the reason for the sliding fit of the body......the section could be removed and the sliding action would allow for some form of focus. The section is made from brass to counterbalance the back end of the pen. The Celtic rings are a sandwich of pop can and a very dark wood veneer. The center part is Sheoak.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Pen#11

Tell us about your entry: This is an injector from a Bosch P7100 injection pump off of a Cummins turbo diesel engine. The injector nozzle was machined from 6061 aluminum, the pocket clip is made from Grade 2 Titanium. Fastening the clip to the body is a Stainless steel socket head cap screw into the fuel return line hole. Click mechanism is a Schmidt SKM88.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

These are your entries. Vote early, vote often.

 

[firewhatfire]

I love the ideas that show themselves in this contest.

Creative stuff.

 

[brownsfn2]

Darn it. Why only one choice? There are two I really want to vote for. They are all so darn good. Well done!!!

 

[Displaced Canadian]

For some reason telling people to go nuts really brings out the crazy, mad, awesome but in a good way pen makers. :biggrin:

 

[mredburn]

Crap I needed at least 3 votes. Great contest Chris. Those are some fantastic entries.

 

[bobleibo]

.....and the amazing talent here continues to surface. Hard to decide on just one.

 

[Monty]

These are your entries. Vote early, vote often.

How can we vote ofter if we're only allowed one vote. There are 5 I want to vote for.

 

[Carl Fisher]

There are 3 I definitley want to vote for, not to say there are any bad ones in the group.

 

[longbeard]

Some awesome looking pens. Great job by everyone.
Definitely hard to choose just one.


Harry

 

[hard hat]

Wow. What a fantastic group of entries. This is what happens when creativity is unleashed

 

[Edgar]

These are all absolutely amazing!
It's a shame to only be able to select just one - they are all unique and display superb creativity and workmanship in their own way.
Congratulations to all who entered this contest - you all deserve a prize.

 

[skiprat]

Wow, I'm no longer sorry I didn't enter. Would've been a bit humiliating.!!
There are a couple of very special ones and some who's style you can also spot a mile away, but every one deserves to be in this superb 'Out of the Box' contest.
Well done to all the entrants. :wink::good::good::good:

 

[hard hat]

Vote for mine! It's the one that is unique, just like the rest.

 

[GDGeorge]

I agree. These are very nice entries and really show off the creativity of their makers to good advantage!

Now to decide on my vote.

 

[Dale Lynch]

There's just too much to take in.Wow!

 

[Twissy]

Wow, I'm no longer sorry I didn't enter. Would've been a bit humiliating.!!
There are a couple of very special ones and some who's style you can also spot a mile away, but every one deserves to be in this superb 'Out of the Box' contest.
Well done to all the entrants. :wink::good::good::good:

I'll name that pen in 5 :biggrin:

 

[tgsean]

Wow all the entries are just incredible. What talent! Well done everyone

 

[Displaced Canadian]

102 people have voted. As far as thinking out of the box goes, the closest these people got to it was putting the box on the floor to keep it clean while they worked.

 

[markgum]

just amazing the talent in this group. Great job everyone.

 

[Edward Cypher]

I agree I need at least 3 votes if not more. They are all amazing!!! WOW talk about creative people, they live here on the IAP. Thanks for all the ideas not that I will ever be that creative but one can dream.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Going off of how many people vote in these polls, about 50 more people need to vote. :biggrin:

 

[skiprat]

There must be something wrong with system.....try as I might, it refuses to let me vote more than once!!!!
If you can fix it, then I'll do all the voting you want.

You're welcome.....

 

[mredburn]

You just need to register your dead relatives Steve, then you can vote as often as you like. Chicago has a history of the greatest turnout among the dead.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

There is still a few of you left that haven't voted. Don't make me call your mothers. There is still a tight race.

 

[firewhatfire]

I would like to thank my constituency for my distant 2nd place finish. :biggrin:


Congrats to all the enteants.

 

[skiprat]

Wow !!!! Very well done Simon !!!:biggrin:
All the pens were great but as the votes have shown, your stunning piece is in a class of it's own. A very worthy winner!!:good::good::good::good::good:

 

[plano_harry]

I didn't think I had a chance in this category, so I am thrilled to get third!

Harry

 

[Dale Lynch]

Congratulations fellas,the're terrific! What do you say guys,1st one to steal all three,wins?

 

[Si90]

WOW, thank you all so much for voting for my efforts.

Congratulations to the other prize winners and well done to all who entered on producing some fantastic pens.

Thanks to Chris for organising the competittion and to those who provided the great prizes.