vtgaryw
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I've been selling so many bolt action pens this Craft Fair season, I ended up buying a few kits off of eBay. It turns out they were (at least in my opinion) total knock-offs. The kits I bought (and the only ones I've seen on there) were chrome.
The kits were $ 9.50 each. I didn't understand how come they were so much cheaper than anyone else was selling them for, until I started assembling one and it dawned on me that these were *not* the same as PSI sells. The fit and finish is definitely inferior. If you look at the machining in the barrel of the sliding bolt, you can see rough machine marks, and you can feel the roughness when you slide the bolt.
Now, if you had never seen one before, you might not notice, but compared to a good one, they were definitely much poorer.
Oh, and one of the kits the tenon that gets pressed into the brass tube was undersized, and did not hold.
So, unless someone got hold of PSI "seconds", these were definitely knock-offs.
Gary
The kits were $ 9.50 each. I didn't understand how come they were so much cheaper than anyone else was selling them for, until I started assembling one and it dawned on me that these were *not* the same as PSI sells. The fit and finish is definitely inferior. If you look at the machining in the barrel of the sliding bolt, you can see rough machine marks, and you can feel the roughness when you slide the bolt.
Now, if you had never seen one before, you might not notice, but compared to a good one, they were definitely much poorer.
Oh, and one of the kits the tenon that gets pressed into the brass tube was undersized, and did not hold.
So, unless someone got hold of PSI "seconds", these were definitely knock-offs.
Gary
