Polymer Pens how the Mustard Sparkle Gatsby pen was made

[trapper]

Hi guys,

Here is the How I make Polymer Pen blanks Turorial....... well part one hope its of help. I'll add further tutorials on this subject need to start thinking again now

 

[Alan Moore]

thanks for that

 

[Jed Baxter]

That is a very good and clear tutorial Trapper, i have seen this material in pens where they have flowers or similar, do you know how this is done?

Jed

 

[trapper]

Hi Jed,

Yes such as the ones by KN Polymers I don't know how they do it. But I do it by a process called caning ....... google it fimo tutorials also on Utube. For me it's work in progress as I am nowhere near good enough at it yet. It's a very time intensive job for individual blanks and that is why they tend to be expensive K & N seem to have away of replicating patterns and that i'm sure is a well guarded, deservedly so, secret.

I find that the way I do it at the moment is quicker cleaner and generally cheaper than making polyester or acrylic resin blanks.

Im also working on inlays using fima which i think I might get right later this week

 

[ataylor]

Thanks for the tutorial mate, i didn't realise so much work was needed to make blanks with this material. It is very infomative and easy to follow.

 

[Jim]

Great tutorial Steve, and well detailed ... Thanks for adding ..

 

[wm460]

Thanks for posting the tutorial.

 

[Jimjam66]

Thanks for the tutorial, Steve, I'll defo give it a try. Couple things: PLEASE use a plain font in future instalments, for the sake of old (blind) gits like me! I had to zoom in then scroll left to right to read each line ...

Second: have you tried sealing the blanks with CA rather than acrylic lacquer? Just wondered if it might work ...

 

[trapper]

Hi Jimjam,
thanks and point taken ....... when i typed it it was in times roman when i converted it to pdf it became pristina ....... must have pressed the wrong button somewhere thankfully not the self destruct one!!

 

[ataylor]

I downloaded the tutorial the other day trapper, very well put together and informative, but like jimjam says, it was very hard to read, dont despair the younger members will have no problems reading it.