rwyoung
Member
I just started turning pens (or anything for that matter) about two weeks ago. Spent a lot of time browsing old posts here and decided to get some kits from Wood-n-Whimses. Glad I did. Picked out some gold and copper finish slimlines and comfort pens to learn with.
Decided tonight to try a comfort pen (first one) and I wanted to try the copper finish. The wood is Carribean Rosewood. Sanded to 600, burnished with its own shavings, cleaned with mineral spirts (good for finding sanding marks) and then 6 coats of BLO/CA (medium) and finally another burnish and a wax top coat. Polished up pretty well. Used WOY's BLO/CA method. (Side note on his method, I've been torture testing a walnut tube done this way by carrying it around in my pocket with my change. Been a week so far and it still looks good, only minimal scratches visible under about 30x magnification. 1/2 the tube is wrapped in several layers of blue tape so after another week I'll unwrap and can do a good side-by-side).
Made the "photograph" by laying the pen on my flatbed scanner. I don't have a good digital camera (I prefer film, 8x10 sheet film to be specific) but the scanner did a pretty good job except for the end of the nib was a bit too far from the glass to be in focus.
Good fun!
Decided tonight to try a comfort pen (first one) and I wanted to try the copper finish. The wood is Carribean Rosewood. Sanded to 600, burnished with its own shavings, cleaned with mineral spirts (good for finding sanding marks) and then 6 coats of BLO/CA (medium) and finally another burnish and a wax top coat. Polished up pretty well. Used WOY's BLO/CA method. (Side note on his method, I've been torture testing a walnut tube done this way by carrying it around in my pocket with my change. Been a week so far and it still looks good, only minimal scratches visible under about 30x magnification. 1/2 the tube is wrapped in several layers of blue tape so after another week I'll unwrap and can do a good side-by-side).
Made the "photograph" by laying the pen on my flatbed scanner. I don't have a good digital camera (I prefer film, 8x10 sheet film to be specific) but the scanner did a pretty good job except for the end of the nib was a bit too far from the glass to be in focus.
Good fun!
