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JerseyBill

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Jersey, Channel Isles
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Bill
Hi.
I am new to this forum and do not have a vast amount of experience in penturning. I started out about 3 years ago after being given a starter kit by my son and have made a fair number of slimline and credit card pens. My preference is to make bespoke pens and to experiment. My major successes to date have been pens made from stainless steel bolts (after seeing SkipRat's on the IAP forum), died / anodised aluminium replica engineer's taps which are actually pens, a pen made from a golf club shaft (also from an IAP posting) and credit card sized pens made from genuine spark plugs (which I have been asked to produce in a larger quantity by a friend to give as gifts to his engineering contacts). I am fortunate enough to have a small engineering lathe and a mill/drill in my garage and an understanding wife indoors! Hope to contribute and to learn!
Thanks!
Bill
 

Morse

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Cheshire. UK
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Dave
Welcome Bill. You seem to be well ahead,we could also learn from you.
Ask away, there's plenty of knowledge on here.

Dave
 

Bill Mooney

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Hi Bill & welcome to the forum, we’d like to see some of your pens as they sound fascinating. We can learn from you, as well as you learning from us methinks. Hope you enjoy being on here as ther is a wealth of talent on here who are willing to help.:thumbs:
 

Penpal

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Canberra AUSTRALIA
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Peter
WElcome Bill as a recipient of a half inch spanner made into a pen fashioned from a plate of 3/8 stainless. The nearest I came to a Spark Plug pen was using Corian for the top and black ebony hex cut with a streamline sentre band for the thread. I look forward to you sharing your images with us,those in the past and in the future. Welcome from over here mate. Skippy aka Steven visited my wife and I for a couple of days earlier this yr ,his wife is a teacher so they used two weeks of her leave time to come over.WE had exchanged pens etc his swap being this pen prior to his vist.

Kind regards Peter.
 

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fortress

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Astley
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John
Hello Bill and welcome to the house of fun, you sound like a man who knows His way around a workshop, please let’s have a look at your special pens. :thumbs::thumbs:
 

JerseyBill

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Jersey, Channel Isles
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Bill
Many thanks for your reply and your welcome Peter. That spanner-pen is superb! Have seen much of his work on the IAP forums and this is typical high quality finish and "lateral thinking".


Kind Regards,

Bill
 

JerseyBill

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Location
Jersey, Channel Isles
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Bill
Thanks for the welcome John. I will post images as soon as I have enough posts to my name to allow me to do it! I did little last year and the start of this due to care responsibilities but am dusting off the tools slowly.
 

Dalboy

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Kent
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Derek
Hello Bill and welcome. Look forward to seeing your pens when you get chance to post some of them. I am not known for many pens but do turn the odd one now and again which reminds me I have an order for one.
 

Phil Dart

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Hi Bill - welcome to the fold. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. It sounds like the things you are making are interesting and different.
 
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