My second casting on a closed end Churchill.

[Gunsmith Fiamma]

Hello my friends,
I tried again to cast my own blanks in polyester resin.
I wanted to obtain a crushed effect, and in part I achieved it, but I expected the crushed bits to be more small, nevertheless I like how the cast turned out.
The bits are too large, because I messed with the curing time and it was already too cured to be easily crushed in smaller bits.
Since I used aluminium flakes instead of mica powder, part of the powder floated on the top of the cast.
I managed to obtain four 2x2x15 cm blanks, so I still got 3 of them.
I will do another casting, and it will be the last for quite a while, since I'm out of resin and I'm searching for PU clear resin instead of polyester (I'm starting to get sick of the smell of this stuff, really sick)
This is the result:

Cheers
-Francesco

 

[Buckeye]

It does look like a superb cast, I have to wear a vapour mask when I use PR, awful smell and quite dangerous.

Peter

 

[paulm]

That is a beautiful blank you've made there Francesco but I'm not a fan of that kit and have had several fail whereby the threaded part breaks off in the cap end.

 

[Gunsmith Fiamma]

That is a beautiful blank you've made there Francesco but I'm not a fan of that kit and have had several fail whereby the threaded part breaks off in the cap end.

Now, I'm officially scared.
Gonna do some crash test tomorrow, because i really love this kit.
It's one of the few kits that use, #6 nibs, and its quite large, so It's more comfortable for people with larger hands like me.
Cheers
-Francesco

 

[Penpal]

Francesco real special effect you acheived like the pen and your efforts in the learning curve mate.

Peter.

 

[brody2123]

A VERY nice result Francesco. Great depth of blank, problems aside.

 

[Doug]

Very nice blank but I agree with Paul re the kit

 

[bassethound]

Looks very nice indeed!

 

[nigel perrin]

I like it , well done

 

[Dalboy]

Great job on the blank and the turning. I like the look of the kit but now that I know about the problems with it will not buy any.

 

[Les ELm]

Interesting looking PR Blank.

Les

 

[Baldy]

Looks lovely Francesco if this is early stages of your casting I look forward to seeing what you can do in the future..

 

[Jim]

You certainly have got a nice effect with the casting Francesco .. A very well shaped pen indeed ..

 

[chas_41_uk]

Very nice results Francesco. I like that

 

[wm460]

That is a spot on blank and pen Francesco.