Monty
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About a month ago I had posted looking for a slim style twist pencil. All the twist styles were to thick for the customer. Here is what he went with. Platinum slim line pen & pencil in african blackwood.
Slim set
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wudnhed
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Nice set Mannie, and good looking pen and pencil!
Ligget
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Lovely work, I like that style too.
Is there instructions on how to make this "one piece" style?[
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Is there instructions on how to make this "one piece" style?[
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Monty
Group Buy Coordinator
Got the idea from C. Scott here -
http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21470&SearchTerms=nib,twist
http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21470&SearchTerms=nib,twist
Randy_
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Mannie: So which company did you buy those kits from? Is the pencil a standard kit mechanism or did you use a Pentel brand mechanism?? Some of the kit pencil mechanisms have a rep for being unreliable. Hope you have good luck with yours.
its_virgil
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Yes, in the next issue of More Woodturning. I do a feature in the magazine each month and the next issuse is a matching pen and pencil set and the pencil is a one piece barrel. I have been writing articles on modifying slimlines since the Dec '06 issue. Here is a link to the last issue: http://www.fholder.com/Woodturning/sample.pdf
Basically, the pencil uses a long one piece tube equal in length to the two tubes plus the CB/coupler. Or, the two tubes can be pressed onto the CB/coupler and the CB ground down to the same OD as the tubes whick makes a longer one piece tube. Once the blank is turned, assembly is the same as usual (almost but pretty straight forward).
Do a good turn daily!
don
Basically, the pencil uses a long one piece tube equal in length to the two tubes plus the CB/coupler. Or, the two tubes can be pressed onto the CB/coupler and the CB ground down to the same OD as the tubes whick makes a longer one piece tube. Once the blank is turned, assembly is the same as usual (almost but pretty straight forward).
Do a good turn daily!
don
Originally posted by ligget
<br />Lovely work, I like that style too.
Is there instructions on how to make this "one piece" style?[
Ozzy
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Nice looking pen/pencil set.
The way I make the one piece pencil is cut a 7mm tube 4" long and that eliminates the center band on the pencil. This is how I make all of my pencils, unless customer orders it with a center band.
Originally posted by ligget
<br />Lovely work, I like that style too.
Is there instructions on how to make this "one piece" style?[
The way I make the one piece pencil is cut a 7mm tube 4" long and that eliminates the center band on the pencil. This is how I make all of my pencils, unless customer orders it with a center band.
NavyDiver
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Great looking set!
Ligget
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Originally posted by ligget
<br />Lovely work, I like that style too.
Is there instructions on how to make this "one piece" style?[
Thanks Mannie, Don and Ozzy for your help![
]huntersilver
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Nice looking set the blackwood and the platinum look
very elegant!
very elegant!
Pikebite
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Mark - if you need long 7mm tubes there is a supplier in Northampton who do them http://www.penkits.co.uk/index.html
Give them a call and they will sort you out.
Give them a call and they will sort you out.
Monty
Group Buy Coordinator
The pencil is a platinum from CSUSA. We'll have to see how well it holds up.
Ligget
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Richard ~ thanks for the link, ordered some tubes yesterday.[]
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