Last Shots of 2007

[THarvey]

These are my last pens for 2007. Three of these are for a local Civialian Marksmanship Club, the forth is goin in my personal collection.

All of these are uncut 30-06 cartridges. I used 10" 7mm tube stock to avoid trimming the cartridge.

I thought Mike (Landfilllumber) would be proud of me. All of the wood is "Tree-cycled." [8D] From top to bottom:

English Walnut - recycled from broken antique bed post (I have more & may offer some blanks for trade)
Wenge - Received from Mike (not sure what he recycled it from)
Black Walnut - recycled from a broken gun stock []
Mesquite - salvaged from the smoke house fire wood [)]

Comments & critiques welcome.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Sylvanite]

Tim,

Nice work. I particularly like the first one. It has a nice flowing line from the nib, and we rarely see a cartridge pen with a centerband. It is very creative and I hope to see more of your work here.

Regards,
Eric

 

[grub32]

That is really clever Tim...What size brass shell is that?

Grub32

 

[R2]

Sorry to be a wet blanket> I appreciate the quality of the workmanship but I don't like the pens.

 

[Ligget]

I prefer to see the cartridge as the bottom barrel, but nice work all round![]

 

[Ozzy]

Nice pens. Normally I prefer the cartridge as the bottom barrel too, but I'm kinda liking the two with the cartridge as the top barrel.

 

[THarvey]

My sincere apologies to Victor. I got the name wrong in the original post and it was too late to edit it.

Tim