Friday, May 29, 2009

Comissioned Pen and PEncil set

This pen and pencil set was comissioned for a graduation gift by my mail carrier. 

I custom mixed the pink pearlescent resin and now it needs to go get the name laser engraved on the side

A quick update

This is just a quick update to show some of the newest things I've been working on.

Here are some pics of some perfume pens that I made for a comission.

This one is one I made just for stock

I'll make another post a little later just for the new pens that I made.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

results when the previous cast has been turned into a pen

Here are the results of the previous cast that I made and posted on 5/5

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

5/5 update

More casting today.
I cast more coffee bean blanks and "played" with some metalflakes and pigments and came up with these

The Aquas blanks

Update catch up

I'm going to try and update daily what I get done in the shop, so here is the update for 4/4

Casting, lots of casting.
I cast a lot of blanks yesterday, coffee beans, and swirls.
Here are some pics.

Patriot Blanks


Dreamsicle Blanks


Mint Swirl Blanks

Friday, April 17, 2009

Still need to get caught up

I'm still lagging very far behind and of course the list of things I have to do never gets any shorte.
Now that the kitchen is basically finished, I need to do the following
  • Remake my website - it's out of date and I need to just beat it into something usuable.
  • make stock - I am fairly low on stock so I nee to get that made up
  • make molds - I want to have a stock of mold to take with me to the casting demo next saturday
  • start casting blanks. I have a bunch of wood for Fusion blanks and I need to really stock up on coffee bean blanks and make some of the pasta blanks and split pea blanks.
  • Try dyeing wood. I have some really nice spalted birch that would look good dyed various colors that I really want to try.
More also need to get done but that's enough of an update for now

Thursday, April 2, 2009

I need to get caught up

I am doing a casting demo at the Midwest Penturner's Gathering on April 25th.
I still need to submit a bio and make a crapload of molds to sell there.
I also need to finish a pen for a guy in Canada and ship that out.

I also needs to update my website with new pens and prices. I'm lowering prices on a bunch of the pens like the Computer pen will now be priced at $65 instead of $100
and I have quite a few finised and ready to ship right now.