Slimline Fun

[papaturner]

Those look great ,Ben. I`m gonna have to try and get fancy with the slimline.

[cruizer00]

I tried your twist nib design, I like it , think I'll do some more. thanks for the info. sorry for the lousy pic.

[davinci27]

Mike looks good. I'm getting ready to make another 4 or 5 everybody I show the pen to really likes it. I've got a buddy who loves pens. he buys 4 or 5 everytime we get together. I sent him a pic and he told me to just box it up and ship it to him.

[rick_lindsey]

Very nice looking pens! I've been planning to play around with slimlines, but you've given me more ideas :). Looking at your first picture I was wondering how you got the split to disappear... wasn't until I read further that I realized you had moved the split all the way to the nib!

Out of curiosity, how do you handle the low/high splits? Does the brass stick out of one barrel and into the other or somesuch?

thanks!

-Rick

[CaptG]

Nice job, Ben. That is one sweet lookin batch of pens.

[davinci27]

Rick,

Yep the brass just sticks out of one end. Here's a pic. When I'm actually turning the pens, I put the pieces together on the mandrel. and when I am just about to size, I stop and twist the top and bottom 180 degrees. I don't separate the 2 pieces until they are ready to finish. This gives me nice even joints.

I've had several folks ask about these pens, so I was thinking of doing a couple of tutorials on how I did them.

One last thing, I've been talking to Cav about possibly starting a slimline challenge. The idea would be to find new ways to use the slimline kit. As soon as we have the specifics ironed out, I'll be posting a thread looking for folks interested in joining.

Thanks
Ben