dipping

Uri Tuchman, craftsman, artist, engineer, engraver. For anyone making dipping pens Uri builds the must have. A pen dipping machine. The machine dips the pen, which is held in a hand carved crabs claw, in the inkwell then gives it two shakes to get rid of the excess. YouTube He builds amazing...

This is what works for me for finishing wood pwn blanks using my Dipping Method. Les

Sierra Cancer Awareness, my decal, 5 coats Les Dipping Method

Samsara kit with my pink blank and decal 5 coats Les's Dipping Method

Canadian Maple Leaf series Sierra dressed up in a Kenneth Wines blank. Finished with 6 coats of MINWAX WBOM Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method to get that warm, natural feel and look of wood. Les

Antique Pewter pen frame with a Yellow Perch on Curly Maple. Used Testors Waterslide decal paper. Finished with 6 coats of MINWAX Clear Gloss WBOM Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Placed fish for either right handed or left handed writers. Les

Some more decal blanks for the Antique Brass and Antique Pewter Flt Fishing pen frames. Used Birdseye and Curly Maple. Finished with 6 coats of MINWAX WBOM Clear Gloss Polyurethane using my dipping method. Applied images so works for either a right handed or left handed writer. Les

Fly Fishing pen frame with a Brown Trout on Curly Maple. Used Testors Waterslide decal paper. Finished with 6 coats of MINWAX Clear Gloss WBOM Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Placed fish for either right handed or left handed writers. Les

Rollerball Rhodium/Black Titanium dressed up in Thuya Burl. Finished with 6 coats of MINWAX WBOM Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Les

Chrome/22K Gold dressed up in Maple Burl finished with MINWAX WBOM Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Les

On a Antique Brass Professor. Finished with 8 coats of MINWAX WBOM Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Les

Canadiana with Titanium Gold accents with a Medium Nib. Dressed up in a piece of Golden Amboyna finished with 8 coats of MINWAX WBOM Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Les

30/06 Twist Action with a piece of Figure Walnut cut from an old gun stock. Finished with 10 coats of Thin CA using my Dipping method. Les

On a piece of Curly Maple finished with 6 coats of MINWAX Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method. Dressed in an Antique Brass Lever Action frame. Les

I cut the casing head and casing neck off a 30/06 casing, drilled out a lead free FMJ 30 caliber bullet to accept a Cross refill. Applied an Elk to a piece of curly maple using Testors Clear Waterslide Decal and finished with 10 coats of Thin CA using my Dipping Method that I'm still working on...

Thought I would share this with you guys. I have heard and seen Les Elm method of dipping and I was interested in the fact of getting away from CA as a finish,. See the link here of the method. http://content.penturners.org/library/techniques/minwaxfinish.pdf Just for your info this is not...