A few in Fordite

[duncsuss]

Although I retired a couple of months ago, it's taken until this week to finally get the health insurance sorted out. Anyway - at last I got to spend some quality time at the lathe and made these four pens and two pencils. I cast the Fordite chunks in Thermoset Solutions polyurethane resin, with three mixes (red, white and blue). Pens are LeRoi v2 Long Barrel (SPW from Exotic Blanks), I think the pencils are PennState.

 

[barry richardson]

Oh man,those are sweet Duncan!

 

[trc65]

Fantastic group!

 

[Nature Man]

Beauties, ALL!

 

[T. Ben]

Great looking pens, love the fordite!!

 

[rdabpenman]

Great looking group of nicely finished writing instruments.
Les

 

[DLJeffs]

Eye catching, unique pens and pencils. Won't find those anywhere else and no two are exactly alike. Very cool.

 

[TimR]

Congrats on retiring! Wonderful job on the pens. Wall Street is excellent choice to show off the Fordite!

 

[Tclem]

I wouldn’t ever use that stuff to make a pen.

 

[duncsuss]

I wouldn’t ever use that stuff to make a pen.

Hairsticks?

 

[rdabpenman]

Are those label cast?
I noticed what looks like a seam on the third pen.

 

[duncsuss]

Are those label cast?
I noticed what looks like a seam on the third pen.

It's chunks cast in resin, not labels. What you see is the result of two pieces that I had to saw to get them to fit in the casting mold, arranged cut face to cut face before I poured in the resin.

 

[Sataro]

Great looking pen & pencils!

 

[duncsuss]

Great looking pen & pencils!

Thanks!