New pine cone bullet

[Drstrangefart]

I have a few people at work fighting for the privilidge of buying my pine cone bullets, so I made this one and a twin. Hopefully they sell quickly.

 

[phil]

Nice. you know im a sucker for your cone bullet pens! ive gotta get some pine cones!

 

[Drstrangefart]

Yes, sir! Longneedle pine cones are a bit tough to find. I lucked into happening to have just such a tree in my front yard and it dropped all of it's cones at once. Waited months for it. Also found about 30 of them in North Mobile, Alabama. I think around there is where they were cultivated for a long time for the timber.

 

[shadrach1944]

Nice looker! Is this made from the core of the cone? How big are the cones?

 

[Drstrangefart]

The cones are pretty huge. It is the core. Drilled it, inserted the tube, pen milled and lathed like normal. This breed had all the tabs removed by squirrels, so it was literally as simple as cutting the blank to the right length, and making sure the drill bit wasn't gonna bust out of the side.