Over the past year I have bought over a dozen stylus and disassembled them looking for the cheap holy grail...nothing yet. Everything but the $20 units from best buy turned out not to work on an iPad. The craft USA also is a gamble depending on how you make the stylus if you are not touching metal.
Craig, I made my tube in two parts to match the length of a segmented blank I made a few years ago and never turned, I though I'd screwed up because some epoxy is insulating the finial with the clip, from the longer bottom tube, BUT the stylus still works on my Android, and I don't have to press hard or contact any metal, not even the chrome press on ring, I just bought the 3.50 set up from CSUSA, the silicone seems to be pretty firm, and not to ap5 to deform. I can text at a much faster rate, and the accuracy compared to my chubby arthritic digits is great. Now I have some 10 in. 7mm tubes and I'll make some with full contact with the clip.
The one My Son In Law made was done on a Creekline pen, and I can't tell any difference in the touch of the silicone pad, and there is plenty of skin to metal, just from the centerband,
but I don't like writing with a ball point, so I gots to figure a way to do a conversion like maybe on a Triton Roller ball.
But I think I'll order a dozen or so from Cindy's source, since I still have 4 weeks until our last show of the year. The price is great, if they seem like a decent reasonably high shore silicon having a decent durometer to prevent squashing, I like saving money, just not too sure how to secure the silicon pad to the rest of the stylus, I can machine a part like the one Dick used or like the one CSUSA provides, BUT my machine time is kind of scarce with doing the woodchucks.
I wish I could enjoy this as a hobby again!!