btboone
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Here's some pics of a new Flame pen I did in a blue acrylic. This one is a roller ball.
Wish I could get there! That is sweet. Nice work Bruce.Originally posted by Skye
<br />That's going to make some doorprize for bbsville. []
Originally posted by JudeA
<br />What kit is that???????? I am guessing ya do off center turning to get that shape am I right????
GREAT job veyr very cool. Like it
Originally posted by btboone
<br />[]No kit Jude. I had to make all that stuff from scratch. That would indeed be a wompy lathe if it were turned! It takes machining a solid acrylic bar on a rotary axis computer controlled milling machine. I designed it in 2D and hand wrote all the 3D code for it. It took a while to figure it all out. The metal parts you see are all titanium, which is a really tough metal to work with. They also started from solid bar stock. The more difficult parts were to make the clip and have it mount solidly to the body, and to make the body and clip flow as one unit. It took a lot of handwork to get that all to work out.
I suppose I could sell it as a kit; a big hunk of solid acrylic and a couple bars of titanium. [)]