Playing around with bits of silver.

alan morrison · Mar 16, 2020

African Blackwood ends and Cocobolo body.

fortress · Mar 16, 2020

Well done Alan, that looks really good. :thumbs:

Themackay · Mar 16, 2020

Aye like it looks good

Tony · Mar 16, 2020

Lovely pen Alan :thumbs:

Penpal · Mar 16, 2020

Like the end result very much.

Peter.

angelo49 · Mar 16, 2020

Well turned and finished Alan :thumbs:

Nice segments!

Les ELm · Mar 17, 2020

Nicely

turned and finished.

Les

Mark James · Mar 18, 2020

One of my favorite designs. Simple, easy, clean and well represented. Several iterations possible, but easily accomplished. Very, very nice Alan. Kudos! :thumbs:

wm460 · Mar 18, 2020

Great looking pen Alan. :thumbs:

Pierre · Mar 18, 2020

OK, thats nice; I tried that a few years ago with some silver tape that I bought from Cookson gold ( Cooksongold - Jewellery Making Supplies | UK Supplier ) but it didn't come out so well, so is that tape on the end if so how did you get it to stick, if not what did you use, or is it solid silver all the way through? ( expensive!!).

flexi · Mar 18, 2020

That's really nice, I do like a nice bit of cocobolo and that's a nice piece. Well done :drool:

alan morrison · Mar 18, 2020

Pierre said:
OK, thats nice; I tried that a few years ago with some silver tape that I bought from Cookson gold ( Cooksongold - Jewellery Making Supplies | UK Supplier ) but it didn't come out so well, so is that tape on the end if so how did you get it to stick, if not what did you use, or is it solid silver all the way through? ( expensive!!).

Pierre, my neighbour does a bit of silversmithing and got me a foot (300mm ) of 2mm square wire from Cooksons. I believe it cost £10.00. I made it into some 'washers ' to fit 7mm and 9mm tubes. they were shaped around the end of a drill, and glued onto the tube with CA glue.
I believe that I was able to get 8 or 10 rings from the length of wire.
Alan

Pierre · Mar 19, 2020

alan morrison said:
Pierre, my neighbour does a bit of silversmithing and got me a foot (300mm ) of 2mm square wire from Cooksons. I believe it cost £10.00. I made it into some 'washers ' to fit 7mm and 9mm tubes. they were shaped around the end of a drill, and glued onto the tube with CA glue.
I believe that I was able to get 8 or 10 rings from the length of wire.
Alan

Thanks for that I might have another go, Ive still got some left.