.....and two more for teacher LOML

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Hi again,
These two were easy peasy to make. I'm not too keen on the normal double ended teacher's pen, so I made this pair for my wife who is a high school teacher. She has most of the others as well.[}:)]
The aluminium was sourced in true skiprat tradition too. In a former life it was an military antenae ( spelling?) I got it out of a skip with permission while doing some work at an Airforce base the other day. I got about 10 metres of the stuff, so expect to see some more.
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Originally posted by Woodlvr
<br />Thise are totally awesome. Did you have to turn the aluminum down very much? Great Job as usual.[:D]

Mike
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Mike I have only turned one metal pen in the traditional manner with chisels. The experience was too scary for me, so now I do all of them with a file. Lathe on slowest speed. I find that I have tons more control and get better results that way. I do keep a wire brush at hand and keep the file clean or the build up will wreck the pen. On these, I was very lucky, I only had to taper the end near the nib. My brass ones take for ever!![8D]
 
Am I mistaken or do you take the refills out and stand the pen on a pin for the pictures? I like how it looks like its floating. Awesome pens by the way I just picked up some 3/4 square aluminum. 3 sticks about 10ft long each. It was a freebie as I found them in my brothers garage and told him he did not need them. Thanks for the tip about using a file I had not thought of that. Did I mention that the pens are awesome?
 
Originally posted by LEAP
<br />Am I mistaken or do you take the refills out and stand the pen on a pin for the pictures? I like how it looks like its floating.
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Well spotted Phil, that's exactly what I do. Not high tech I know[:I]

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Originally posted by skiprat

Mike I have only turned one metal pen in the traditional manner with chisels. The experience was too scary for me, so now I do all of them with a file. Lathe on slowest speed. I find that I have tons more control and get better results that way. I do keep a wire brush at hand and keep the file clean or the build up will wreck the pen. On these, I was very lucky, I only had to taper the end near the nib. My brass ones take for ever!![8D]
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If you put chalk on the file it won't pin as much and when it does get clogged the aluminum will come off easier.
 
Those a awesome looking. Congrats.
Shoud you have some excess aluminus that you don't know what to do with let me know. I'll recycle it for you.[:D]
 
I really like these, Skip! Nice looking set and I may just have to follow suit. LOML is also a HS teacher, but she prefers Gels, so I'll need to use a Parker style... off to the drawing board.[;)]
 
If you put chalk on the file it won't pin as much and when it does get clogged the aluminum will come off easier.
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George,Thanks for that good tip, I'm certainly going to give it a go[:)]
 
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