Leather Pen

[Fathers Son]

This is my first posting of any of my work. I am every green at tooling, but this was a fun little project. I hope everyone enjoys seeing this as I have not seen anything similiar on the site yet.

Please enjoy.

Fathers Son

[Crystal]

I have to agree- don't think I have seen anything like that on here either! Very cool!

Thanks for sharing that with us!

Crystal

[dscott]

that is a cool pen

i make pens also but have never tryed one in leather nice job

David

[MADMAX22]

Very cool indeed. Now I gotta ask how did you do that.

[Fathers Son]

MadMax22-

Thank you for asking it means alot to have someone with your experience and ability to ask.

When I read the new Tandy Book Coloring with Eco-Flo it and a small piece about mixing chopped leather and shavings with Leather weld to make a round knife handle. So I figured if it would work for a knife why not a pen. What I did was stain some scraps. Then I beveled the tops and bottoms, then grooved them to get more material. After I had a nice handful I cut it up with a scissors to keep the pieces short. Then mixed it with the leather weld and put on the Brass sleeve used to make a pen. Let it dry and turned them. My first attempt I had issues with it coming off the brass. To fix this I used CA glue (Super Glue) to re-attach. I found that the short strains are better than chucks, they pop out and leave a hole. The red plastic and the Tambootie wood are because it still chucks out.

Crystal & dscott-

Thanks for the kind words.

Fathers Son

[MADMAX22]

Thats interesting, thanks for sharing.

[DUDDY]

Very very nice.

[KatieG]

Looks really pretty!!

[leatheroo]

love your pen, leather mache is great fun, i covered my scalpel handle like that.