bluntchisel
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Hi, Guys,
Last week there was an interesting thread regarding staining/colouring pen blanks. This elicited a number of posts, including one from Silver (Eamonn), who had found some Burnt Sienna in his Dad's shed, and wondered what he'd been using it for. Having tried BS on blanks in the past I dug out an old piccy of a Euro made from elm, where I'd used this oil paint to bring out the grain of an otherwise nondescript piece of wood, and posted it.
Today, I decided to use another stick of this bland-looking elm and treat it with the BS prior to polishing. After sanding to 600 and removing any dust, I squeezed a tiny amount of BS onto a pad, and rubbed it onto both blanks. Unlike some artists oils this colour spreads real evenly and thins out to a consistent hue throughout the length of the blanks. After about thirty minutes I began applying friction polish. Some of the colour will come off onto the pad but ignore this - once the polish has heat-sealed the blank this loss will diminish. I applied four coats of friction polish without altering the density of the original application. This is today's result on a Jnr. Gents.
I'm not sure if this will do the trick with all plain woods but, if you've got a tube of artists oils knocking around then give it a try. The caution here is - paints used by artists have other properties apart from colour (thickness, opacity, etc.) which could result in the wrong effect being achieved.
Regards to all,
Bob.
Last week there was an interesting thread regarding staining/colouring pen blanks. This elicited a number of posts, including one from Silver (Eamonn), who had found some Burnt Sienna in his Dad's shed, and wondered what he'd been using it for. Having tried BS on blanks in the past I dug out an old piccy of a Euro made from elm, where I'd used this oil paint to bring out the grain of an otherwise nondescript piece of wood, and posted it.
Today, I decided to use another stick of this bland-looking elm and treat it with the BS prior to polishing. After sanding to 600 and removing any dust, I squeezed a tiny amount of BS onto a pad, and rubbed it onto both blanks. Unlike some artists oils this colour spreads real evenly and thins out to a consistent hue throughout the length of the blanks. After about thirty minutes I began applying friction polish. Some of the colour will come off onto the pad but ignore this - once the polish has heat-sealed the blank this loss will diminish. I applied four coats of friction polish without altering the density of the original application. This is today's result on a Jnr. Gents.
I'm not sure if this will do the trick with all plain woods but, if you've got a tube of artists oils knocking around then give it a try. The caution here is - paints used by artists have other properties apart from colour (thickness, opacity, etc.) which could result in the wrong effect being achieved.
Regards to all,
Bob.
