Pink Rollerball Kit?

[bzahn]

I have a customer who asked if she can get a rollerball pen that is pink. She loves the breast cancer pen with its pink sparklies, but doesn't want the ribbon since (she has no connection to breast cancer). That kit is also not a rollerball kit. If the princess pen were a rollerball kit that would work well. But it's not either.

My search has not turned up a pink rollerball kit. Is there such a thing?

Thanks.
Brian

 

[Monty]

Why not use a pink pen blank? Exotic Blanks has several to choose from.
If none of those are to your liking, make a blank using pink glitter.

 

[bzahn]

Thanks. I have a pink blank to use. The customer liked the pink sparklies on the clip of the Breast Cancer pen and would like that on a rollerball pen. Would the clip from the Breast Cancer pen fit on a vertex supreme or tycoon rollerball pens? I wouldn't mind making the switch if it would.
Also, can the BC ribbon be removed from the clip without ruining it?

 

[egnald]

You might try to see if you can make a Franken pen. For example.

Lower: - Classic Chrome Rollerball kit. Cap is a 10mm tube that is 1-5/8 long.
Upper: - Use the brass tube from the Classic Rollerball Kit
Upper - Center: - Use the hardware from the Classic Chrome Kit (so that it will screw onto the lower)
Upper - Cap: - Use the cap and clip from a Princess Chrome with Pink Stones kit.

You might be able to even figure out a way to drill out the Princess center band and press out the plastic threaded part of the Classic center band to add the band of pink stones as well.

It's the only rollerball option that I could come up with. Good Luck - Dave

 

[bzahn]

"Franken pen". I love it.
Thanks, Dave, for the idea you gave as a solution to my customer's request. I think I'll give it a try.

 

[bzahn]

Dave, just to be sure, you are talking about the Classic Gel Rollerball kit, right? The Classic Elite 2 doesn't appear to come in chrome.

 

[egnald]

Dave, just to be sure, you are talking about the Classic Gel Rollerball kit, right? The Classic Elite 2 doesn't appear to come in chrome.

I was looking at some old PSI kits that I have in my stash and everything I have is gold, but I think that the Woodturning Store sells a Classic Rollerball kit in chrome. And as you pointed out, the Classic Gel is a 10mm kit available in chrome, but I don't have any of those kits so I really can't check it out in a lot of detail. - Dave