workinforwood
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I built this for fun, for the casing pen contest in the activities section that is going on till the end of the month.
It's a rollerball pen. The end of the pen unscrews to change the refill. The nib is a 9mm luger casing and bullet tip. The majority of the pen is bronze rod. The cap is bronze with copper tubes drilled on my drill press with a collet indexer. The cap is actually screwed together with brass screws and the copper is just tubing sleeved over the screws. The the tops of the screws were drilled away leaving the barrel holes. The cap was a frustrating build for a while, the entire pen was about a 9 hr build.
This pen wasn't even actually what I was originally going for, it just kinda ended up morphing into this. I had originally wanted to have 6 bullets around the inside of the cap, but they are all just too big, even a 22 shell in a cap is a big job as I'd have to shoot the bullets and then make all new copper bullets to put in them and they'd all have to be identical, and then I was going to mount a torpedo arrow head off the back of the pen and draw a pic of Steve's Rat head and use the pen as a dart to throw at him, but as the pen morphed into this, that was not going to make sense, so I'll just have to save the arrow head for another time. :biggrin:
It's a rollerball pen. The end of the pen unscrews to change the refill. The nib is a 9mm luger casing and bullet tip. The majority of the pen is bronze rod. The cap is bronze with copper tubes drilled on my drill press with a collet indexer. The cap is actually screwed together with brass screws and the copper is just tubing sleeved over the screws. The the tops of the screws were drilled away leaving the barrel holes. The cap was a frustrating build for a while, the entire pen was about a 9 hr build.
This pen wasn't even actually what I was originally going for, it just kinda ended up morphing into this. I had originally wanted to have 6 bullets around the inside of the cap, but they are all just too big, even a 22 shell in a cap is a big job as I'd have to shoot the bullets and then make all new copper bullets to put in them and they'd all have to be identical, and then I was going to mount a torpedo arrow head off the back of the pen and draw a pic of Steve's Rat head and use the pen as a dart to throw at him, but as the pen morphed into this, that was not going to make sense, so I'll just have to save the arrow head for another time. :biggrin:
