Another Thin Blue Line pen

[qquake]

I made my son, who is a corrections officer, a thin blue line pen a couple of months ago. The kit I used was a black chrome Sierra. The finish is coming off already. I'm quite disappointed, I thought the Sierras were higher quality than that. So I made him another, this time a chrome Gatsby from PSI. I'm hoping the chrome holds up better.

 

[qquake]

I came up with a better method of gluing up the blank. I used a drill press vise to keep the segments in alignment, then a mini bar clamp to hold the ends together. Waxed paper kept it from sticking to anything. I used two-part 5 minute epoxy. Worked pretty good.

 

[OZturner]

Nice Pen Jim,
Great Blank.
Excellent ingenuity using the sandwiched clamp and vice to apply force in both directions.
Congratulations,
Brian.

 

[Whitehat1994]

what is that blue material you are cutting?

 

[qquake]

what is that blue material you are cutting?

It's guitar pick guard material that I got from Ebay.