I've been casting pinecone pen blanks lately and really enjoy the results. The pen looks great!

My goodness!!!! What a beautiful pen you've made! Excellent work sir.

I can see why this is a favorite pen blank. This is definitely a blank I will be trying. Great video and great toons!

First time seeing someone make a fountain pen. Great project!

A very beautiful pen!!!! I will be ordering a few blanks from you soon.

That is the most amazing pen I've ever seen. Now I want to turn pens.

Wow! I didnt know making your own pen was possible!!! And yours turned out amazing!! I cant wait to start my own project of fountain pen making!!

Great looking pen Casey ! Thank you for sharing your passion with us :-)

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Gamble Thank you Richard and I’m glad I can!

Oh my, that pen turned out lovely, the color is amazing, thanks casey, take care. From south africa

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Val Borchardt Thank you Val!!

Wow Casey, that's a beautiful blank and pen. Thanks

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

David Clauson Thanks David I appreciate it man!

Very unique and charming pen. Keep inspiring us. Thanks.

Love these videos 💪 and if u don’t mind me asking what’s in the bottle/in it ur using to drip the liquid on to then polish it and then in that like spray bottle at the end can’t figure out what i have to do for the final polishing steps. Then also what rag/pads are u using when polishing. Ty for the great video

Gorgeous!

Looks great!💥 I would like to see a blank, and pen with pine cone,& gum balls. Or maybe a pen with the top pine cone,& the bottom gum balls

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Barry Fields That would look pretty cool Barry! I might have to try that

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Great project and video editing. Congrats Casey. The pine cones are not as hard as wood so, do you recomend to stabilize pine cones to make hybrids in order to avoid that issues with? Thank you.

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Salvi Mithrin Thanks Salvi. I would recommend stabilizing them, although I had no issues with them not being hard. The issue I had was with hot glue, not the pinecone.

Looks great brother!

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Evan Finger Thanks my man! I’ve got a lot of cool stuff comin your way shortly!

Beautiful

The blank that you could not use, together with any other off cuts, can be put in a bag, hammer them into bits. when you have a colourful mixture cast in more Alumilite in different shape & make bottle stopper, or a gear stick handle, a bottle opener or key chain or??????

Nice turn, Casey. Are you stabilizing the Pine cones? Were they dry before you cast them if not ?. Cheers, Lee

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Waterman Hey Lee and no I didn’t stabilize these specific ones, but they were very dry before casting.

Amazing!

Who is playing that music? Love it!

Just one request.. write something with the pen at the end 😊

ow my god, where did you get the resin block, this inspires me to make my own fountain pen

@CaseyMartin707

5 жыл бұрын

I made it myself! I have a video on it as well

great looking pen Casey and well done with the video. Just one small thing but it makes a difference to the finish. You need to cross polish the pen before you put it together... if you watch Zac Higgins he buffs the barrels length ways to get rid of the 'very' fine polishing lines that go around the barrels.... I'm a jeweller and that's one of the first things we learn about finishing and polishing... just food for thought but great work though :)

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Gordon Hey peter I agree and I actually usually do buff my pens length wise, I’ve done so in a few of my videos. I actually did after the pen was put together after editing the video and seeing the micro lines on there. Of course I should’ve done so before but it served the same purpose and I got rid of almost all of them.

@petergordon2857

6 жыл бұрын

All good Casey ... thumbs up :)

@vite1968

6 жыл бұрын

exactly .. when I do these things (mostly with metal) on a lathe, I sand it down to 2000 grid and then the buffing. also, i buff against wheel so I can get rid of that directional reflections.

Love the video! You have beautiful hands, I’m sure your wife loves them with all your fingers. Please take off your wedding band as you work.

Really nice blank and pen, Casey. One word of caution. You need to put the tool rest very near the blank and hold the handle of the tool better. A catch would have your tool flipping up and out of your hands. They call this mechanical advantage - like a teeter-totter. The closer the rest, the more leverage is in your favor. Cheers.

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Steve, I usually have my tool rest really close. I’m not sure if it looked far away in this video or not but it’s close. I’ve also had plenty of catches and never had something like you’re describing happen. A lathe is turning the material downward, so a catch would only push the tool down onto the tool rest harder. I’m not sure how it would ever be possible for it to flip the tool upwards towards me.

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

I see how you could be saying that after it pushes it down the tool then comes back up like you described a teeter totter. However I’ve never had this happened and I think my tool rest is always close enough. It might look farther away in the video than it really is

Cool Project, Love IT :) Thumbs UP on VID :) 16

Hey Casey, nice vid. I just did a block of pen blanks from pine cones from my yard. I used the blue and white like I've seen before here and they are gorgeous. It's a great color combo. Mine were stabilized and I still had issues with bubbles in the blank. I'm wondering if it was more a matter of the resin just not getting everywhere. I plan to try others. Wish I could post a pic here as this is such a gorgeous color combo. Could you talk about how you filled the hole a little more? It would help me in the future. I was one of your pen blank winners earlier this year. I still haven't turned it as I want to improve my skills for that beautiful blank. Thanks and keep up the good work.

@CaseyMartin707

6 жыл бұрын

Howard Camardelle Hey Howard! What PSI are you putting yours too? Make sure you’re going as high as possible, as I didn’t have problems with my resin making air pockets with the pine cones, but maybe I got lucky. All I did was put some CA glue on it and put it shavings and dust from the turning. Once the glue had been fully hardened with accelerator I just turned it off. I actually kind of wish I only used CA glue so that it was clear, but oh well.

@hcamardelle

6 жыл бұрын

Casey Martin went to 50. I’ll admit I’m leery of going higher even though the pot says 90. I’m not done trying for sure. Thanks for the tip.

nice what a wonderful pen please make it for me

nice but WAY too thick

@CaseyMartin707

5 жыл бұрын

Not for me!

Wow too fat but what a magnificent blank. Slim it up and you get a double wow!!!

@CaseyMartin707

5 жыл бұрын

Can’t make it much slimmer with that kit. The components don’t allow it