ribbon blanks

[chartle]

Not that I would ever make one, how are ribbon blanks like this made.

Exotic Blanks :: Pen Blanks :: Berea Acrylic Acetate (AA) :: Bermuda Blue AA-302

Is the ribbon like a sheet of softened plastic?

 

[Dale Lynch]

http://www.penmakersguild.com/articles/ribbonprocess.pdf hope this gives you the answers you seek.Haven't tried it myself.

 

[wyone]

I am sure they do it much more efficiently in production.. but this is how one guy does it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKurStoGPc

 

[chartle]

I couldnt get the second the video to load but that process Just doesnt seem to be right.

The "ribbon" is way too 3D and the completly segregates the two colors of resin.

Like one color is poured the ribbon added the second color poured and then its all massaged without mixing tne colors.

 

[ed4copies]

The blank you use as an example is commercially made. As I understand it, they use tons of pressure and high heat to "set" the sheet. So, it could be pumped into the sheet.

In the industry, they refer to those lines as "paper". Don't know if that is really what it is, but the sheets come out very random. I stopped buying several patterns because they were expensive and about 30 % of the sheet had minimal pattern. (No discount to me for those)

Now, we buy them in cut blanks---we can be more "choosy".
Good luck--let me know if you succeed and want to sell them!!!
Ed