Hi pen people
Bit of a tricky one today as the lamination, (I didn’t make it, it’s shop bought), kept coming apart. It wasn’t splitting or cracking, just some of the glue kept failing in between the layers and it was breaking off. Luckily I was able to work with it and fix the issue. Also it forced me to do something I’d been wanting to do for a while and that was to change the length of the caps I make. This one is shorter by around 4mm which doesn’t sound a lot but I think it looks better.
Working on fixing the blank got me thinking about the art of gluing. I consider it to be a real, important skill that takes time and practice to learn.
I mean is there anything more satisfying than gluing something together and achieving a completely invisible join, (without having got any adhesive on your fingers, tools, the dog or any other part of the workpiece that you didn’t mean to
).
Anyway here is the pen. It sold very fast and I could have sold many more. It has my usual adornments so I won’t repeat other than to say it is half-lined both cap and barrel as I don’t trust this stuff to thread properly. (It probably would but I don’t know how long it would last). Oh and bet you can’t see the join…
Cheers
Ash
Bit of a tricky one today as the lamination, (I didn’t make it, it’s shop bought), kept coming apart. It wasn’t splitting or cracking, just some of the glue kept failing in between the layers and it was breaking off. Luckily I was able to work with it and fix the issue. Also it forced me to do something I’d been wanting to do for a while and that was to change the length of the caps I make. This one is shorter by around 4mm which doesn’t sound a lot but I think it looks better.
Working on fixing the blank got me thinking about the art of gluing. I consider it to be a real, important skill that takes time and practice to learn.
I mean is there anything more satisfying than gluing something together and achieving a completely invisible join, (without having got any adhesive on your fingers, tools, the dog or any other part of the workpiece that you didn’t mean to
).Anyway here is the pen. It sold very fast and I could have sold many more. It has my usual adornments so I won’t repeat other than to say it is half-lined both cap and barrel as I don’t trust this stuff to thread properly. (It probably would but I don’t know how long it would last). Oh and bet you can’t see the join…
Cheers
Ash
