TK woodman
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The copper flake I hope!!!!
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OK i'll have another go!
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TK woodman
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It's worked well done Jim
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It is unusual. Nice one !!!
chas_41_uk
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Well worth the wait and definitely different
wm460
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Great looking pen Steve.
TK woodman
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It sure is different Steve, good shape to it my friend .. Can you tell us something about the blank, is it actually copper or acrylic or something completely different ..
I turned two blanks in the normal way to the minimum dimension I dared from some parquet flooring. Primed the blanks with PVA and let them dry. Then, with diluted PVA applied the copper flake (the copper flake is the waste material discarded when gilding). I picked each small piece of flake up and placed it on the blank until the whole blank was covered. Because the flake is doubled over or crumpled, the surface is very uneven so I smoothed it off with a brush as much as I could and then applied thin CA over the blank to seal it. I then applied multiple coats of CA to build up the blank, levelled off with a skew chisel and polished in the normal way. I love the pen - but it was a lot of hard work!
