I have had several blanks for over a year now. In fact they are among the first ones that I bought. They are made of some kind of resin and they are called “Animal Prints” for obvious reasons. I was waiting for the CA finish on the Bocote pen to cure so I decided to make a Longwood pen with one of these blanks. The blanks themselves are oddly shaped. They are rectangles as opposed to squares. I had tried to slice one down the middle to make two blanks but when I drilled the small blanks, they broke. For this one, I decided that I would turn the rectangle. It took forever to take this down to round, and it really smelled bad, not like the acrylic. I also found it chipped quite easily, although as it was getting closer to round, I turned the speed up and the chipping minimized. This really did need to be spinning at 3000 rpm in order not to melt the resin. As I finished it, I wasn’t very happy with how this material worked, but then I used the wet micromesh to polish the pen and was impressed by the shimmer in the resin. Not sure I will buy any again, but I am glad that I made this one. This is called “Snow Leopard”.
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