How to make a rifle cartridge pen from scratch.

[lh5268]

I have a friend who wants me to make a pen from a spent 300 casing I would like to use cartridge as top half of pen maintaining caliber markings but do not know how to attach brass tube to cartridge. I plan on making lower half out of deer antler. Has anyone seen any videos or info on this subject.

 

[Daniel]

Look through the library. there are several articles on making pens from various cartridges. I am not sure anyone has the 300 covered specifically but you will get a real good idea of how it is done in general.
Here is a link to at least one that looks like it is meant to be cartridge pen in general.
http://content.penturners.org/articles/2006/cartridgepens.pdf

 

[KenV]

Les Elm has produced a couple of good tutorials also --

Some use CA glue to attach the tube and some use a low temperature solder to get a solid connection of tubes to casing.

300 is a pretty general term to shooters with a big variation in casing length for different cases - but most use a 0.308 bullet which is simulated by a slimline nib in most cases.

 

[skeenum]

There are several YouTube videos showing the process of making cartridge pens. William Young has an excellent video posted there on soldering brass tubes and SamPane has a video posted that shows the process of making a cartridge pen from start to finish.

Go to YouTube and do a search on "cartridge pens" and you should get several hits,

Hope this helps.

 

[its_virgil]

Take a look at the articles here: http://www.RedRiverPens.com/articles

Do a good turn daily!
Don

I have a friend who wants me to make a pen from a spent 300 casing I would like to use cartridge as top half of pen maintaining caliber markings but do not know how to attach brass tube to cartridge. I plan on making lower half out of deer antler. Has anyone seen any videos or info on this subject.