woodpens
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Who has experience making pens from rifle cases? I have been contacted by someone who wants some pens made from them. I'll be happy to hook you up with him.
Originally posted by woodpens
<br />Who has experience making pens from rifle cases? I have been contacted by someone who wants some pens made from them. I'll be happy to hook you up with him.
Originally posted by jkirkb94
<br />Don, would you go in some detail on how you make your pens using brass, please? [] I hope to make some myself once I get a reloading bench made and start reloading again. Kirk[8D]
[/quote]Originally posted by its_virgil
<br />Rifleman,
Look in my penturners.org folder or my yahoo folder at
http://www.tinyurl.com/38hor to see some pens made with used rifle brass. Maybe you need to have a "rifleman" pen. Thney take a little work, but the results are worth it, at least for me.
do a good turn daily!
Don
quote]Originally posted by Rifleman
<br />Ditto that request to see how pens are made from rifle brass. What do y'all mean by making pens from rifle cases?[?]
I think of a rifle case as something you put a rifle into.
[/quote]Originally posted by Rifleman
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Sometimes I'm just a little too literal in my understanding of things. Do you mean by "rifle cases" brass shells (casings) for ammunition? I think of a rifle case as something you put a rifle into.
Originally posted by its_virgil
<br />Rifleman,
Look in my penturners.org folder or my yahoo folder at
http://www.tinyurl.com/38hor to see some pens made with used rifle brass. Maybe you need to have a "rifleman" pen. Thney take a little work, but the results are worth it, at least for me.
do a good turn daily!
Don
quote]Originally posted by Rifleman
<br />Ditto that request to see how pens are made from rifle brass. What do y'all mean by making pens from rifle cases?[?]
Originally posted by its_virgil
<br />I didn't start the thread, but I assumed by rifle case pens the poster was referring to pens made from brass cartridges used in rifles which encase the powder and lead and hence the tern rifle case in which case the meaning was brass cartridge, but the other case would be what you thought a case is which encases the rifle itself which is an entirely different case alltogether. I guess this question is case sensitive. I hope my feeble attempt at humor isn't taken the wrong way. sometimes I just can't stop myself.
Do a good trurn daily!
Don
Man that all sounds like DOUBLE TALK ro me !![][][)]
I used the terminology that my customer used. I, too, think the brass shell would make a more practical pen than one made with something that could hold the rifle. []Originally posted by Rifleman
<br />Sometimes I'm just a little too literal in my understanding of things. Do you mean by "rifle cases" brass shells (casings) for ammunition? I think of a rifle case as something you put a rifle into.
Originally posted by Tom McMillan
<br />Wow, Tim---I sure hope Don's using "spent" casings without a live charge
Originally posted by timdaleiden
<br />Don,
This may sound like a stupid question, but when you use a bullet that has not been discharged, as you apparently have, how do you cut it apart without it going "<b>kabloooooeeey</b>" in your face?
I would like to make one of those, but I can just picture myself in the shop, using the bandsaw to part the brass, and ending up like Wiley Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon. You know, my hair and face all blackened, with a disappointed look on my face. [B)]
Originally posted by its_virgil
<br />Tim,
I use empty brass (has already gone kablooooooeeeeey), drill out the primer, cut the brass in half (safely), drill the lead, press the lead bullet into place and continue.
Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
<br />Tim: just don't tell us about tryin to cut a bowling ball on a table saw.
Originally posted by timdaleiden
<br />Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
<br />Tim: just don't tell us about tryin to cut a bowling ball on a table saw.
Not me. Dale tried it once, and only once. [] Don took two to a shop to have them cut up with a big band saw, if I rememeber correctly.