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Thin Blue Line pens

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This one is a gun metal Virage, with a coal black Rhino blank. It's for my friend's fiance, who is a police officer.
 

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I've never segmented acrylic before, and I have to say I didn't have much expectation for success. The blanks looked pretty dicey after they were drilled and trimmed. I used a piece of aluminum angle, waxed paper, and clamps to hold everything together. The blue is 0.10" pick guard material that I got off Ebay. The glue is medium CA. I cut the blanks at 45 degrees on my miter saw.
 

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But as I turned them, I began to be cautiously optimistic.
 

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Then when they were turned and polished, I was near ecstatic!
 

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I've wanted to make Thin Blue Line pens for a while now, and went into this as just an experiment. But I'm very, very pleased with how they turned out.
 

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Not only top pens nicely pictured along the way but among the best pics of pens one could wish for great on both counts Jim.

Peter.
 
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Scots Bill said:
Yes Jim, you have every right to be over the moon with your excellent results. One question, what is pick guard material?
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From Wiki:

A pickguard (also known as scratchplate) is a piece of plastic or other (often laminated) material that is placed on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument. The main purpose of the pickguard is to protect the guitar's finish from being scratched by the guitar pick.
Pickguard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickguard
 
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