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My first homemade

Robert

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acrylic blank pen

Appreciate it's not perfect, shape is slightly wrong (bottom too fat) and there are some small air bubbles, and I've had a couple of failures along the way, but still, I'm quite pleased considering it's my (well, James & my) first successful one.

Good fun making it, will definitely be doing some more.

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As long as your enjoying yourself Rob then it has to be a winner mate looks good to me for first effort
 

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As woody says, have fun learning rob, this blank looks very much like one of the first ones i did when starting with pr... Pen doesn't look to bad regarding the shape .. :thumbs:
 

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It doesn't matter if it's not perfect Rob, they will get better with practice. The point is you and your son enjoyed yourselves making the blanks and the finished pen :thumbs:
 

Robert

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this blank looks very much like one of the first ones i did when starting with pr...

So do you guys have any tips to improve things?

I think I need some better pigments to start, if anyone has a recommended source? And the colours didn't mix as well as I would like, although not too bad.
 

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Nice one Rob, you've created plenty of opportunities for yourself there :thumbs:
 

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The essence of true success is the learning curves we all need at this stage it its neat to get this result, congratulations.

Peter.:thumbs:
 
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