Kitless Contest - Finals runners up

[darrin1200]

Here we are the runners up from the Kitless contest finals.
It was a great run and a fabulous competition. I am very proud of the turn out we had this year.

Here are they are. Position 4-6.
(for 7-13 click here)
(for the winners click here)

4th Place
Brad Cooper........................username @Ironwood

5th Place
Fred Bruche........................username @Fred Bruche

6th Place
Fred Garbrecht ...............user @FGarbrecht

 

[magpens]

Well done guys !!! . I am proud to "know" each one of you !!

It was a great contest and I was pleased to have a little part in it !!

Thanks to Darrin, again, for keeping us all on our toes and for his excellent overseeing of this contest !!!

 

[BigShed]

Well done to all of you and especially to Brad (Ironwood) for flying the Ozzie flag. Well done.

Brad, that is one of the neatest bullet pens I have seen in a long time!

 

[Ironwood]

Well done to all of you and especially to Brad (Ironwood) for flying the Ozzie flag. Well done.

Brad, that is one of the neatest bullet pens I have seen in a long time!

Thanks Fred.
It's good to have these competitions, to push ourselves into new directions and improving on old ones.
When I sat down one afternoon to design a pen for this competition, I had no idea I would end up with this design.
I had a couple of other things in mind, which were quickly dismissed when I worked out the limitations. This one almost didn't make it as well. Fitting a Rollerball refill in between the two 458 cases wasn't easy, Adding the clip and machining the adapters ate up precious millimeters.
I had intentions of adding this pen to the lineup that I sell, but amount of work that is required would probably rule out a decent return on what I could sell it for. A few of my regular customers have said they want one, so I will probably do a limited run of them , then call it quits on this one. Maybe.