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Seeing Dots before my eyes

jttheclockman

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This is one of those pens that just about made it off the lathe before it was sold. I was finishing this one up when a friend was over and he said he wanted it so that one is history but i thought you might want to see some other things that can be done on a wood lathe. I got to take some photos before he wandered off with it.



This is a Baron kit with black acrylic and aluminum dots. The cap is all aluminum. Turned and polished. Thanks for looking and again any comments or questions always welcomed. I can do this photo showing for awhile so when everyone gets tired of me just let me know. Aluminum and black is a great combination. It screams highend, in my opinion. One of my to do projects on the table is to do this pen but stagger the dots in every other row. Thinking also about varying the size of the dots. Right now they are 1/8" Lots of possibilities. Just having some fun.








 
Jim

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Looks super John, the dots looks the biz for sure .. Was the Aluminium placed into pre drilled holes rod like or some other way .. :nooidea:
 
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Wonderful pen John :thumbs::thumbs:

Could I ask what tool/s you used when turning this?

As for posting up pens, that`s the idea of this place so please keep them coming.
 
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I had never seen a pen with dots and I decided to try one, I used brass and wood and all was looking good until I got to almost the finished size and I started losing the brass dots. I should have tried acrylic first, but that is only with hindsight.

Peter
 
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John your pens way beyond what I could ever achieve.....please keep 'em coming
 
jttheclockman

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bellringer said:
How do you do the dot pen looks amazing
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The dots are added to the pen using an indexing wheel and a router. I use the router on a jig I made.


Jim said:
Looks super John, the dots looks the biz for sure .. Was the Aluminium placed into pre drilled holes rod like or some other way .. :nooidea:
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The aluminum is a piece of rod cut to lengths needed. The holes for the rod was done using a router setup on my wood lathe.

Doug said:
Wonderful pen John :thumbs::thumbs:

Could I ask what tool/s you used when turning this?

As for posting up pens, that`s the idea of this place so please keep them coming.
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The tools used to turn most of my pens that have metal in them is a carbide cutter and my ordinary skew.

Buckeye said:
I had never seen a pen with dots and I decided to try one, I used brass and wood and all was looking good until I got to almost the finished size and I started losing the brass dots. I should have tried acrylic first, but that is only with hindsight.

Peter
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The loss of the brass dots was probably because you did not drill them deep enough. I also like to glue the metal in using an epoxy.

Thanks all for looking.
 
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jttheclockman said:
The loss of the brass dots was probably because you did not drill them deep enough. I also like to glue the metal in using an epoxy.

Thanks all for looking.
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No the reason was there was not much thickness to the blank on the tube, when I used a different kit with more meat on the blank it was fine.

Peter
 
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