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Hi Guys, I like stepless joints on my bullet case pens, so I am a bit limited. I have found these in the US and thought I would try, but these are also great for going kitless without the tap and die problems...

Good afternoon all I'm having a bit of trouble with my threading Acrylic pen blanks. Size 14mm cap and barrel thread So I drill with a 12mm drill first to the full depth required to accept the Nib and external thread of Barrel then I drill with a 13mm drill to the depth required for...

Locally grown Mulbery on this one with Conway Stuart acrylic section. I will probably make a wooden section to finish this one off. Just need to save up for the triple start tap and die for the cap now.

Two blokes are standing looking at the flowers for sale in a flower shop trying to choose the perfect gift for their wives. One said to the other – it’s a shame we have to spend so much money when they are just going to die. The other one said – yes the flowers will as well.

All the wrong sizes for actual pen making... but I had some "scraps" laying and I just found the 10 euro tap and die set I bought years ago... Tried it just to see if I could do it on a wood lathe with freehand tapping and threading. Time to save up some real money for the correct sizes and...

Hi All i like the idea of making a kitless pen do i need a special tap and die set. Tony

At the craft fair yesterday a old man came up to me and started asking questions. One question he asked was were did I get the different woods from and I said from from all over the place. He suddenly said, when I die would you take a bit of the wood from my coffin and make a pen, I didn't know...

So Ive had my first go at cutting threads as I work up to making my first kitless pen.- Im hoping to invest in some triple start taps and dies but the size I want (14mm) requires a 1.5" die holder and as far as I can ascertain there is no such holder on the market which is on a 1MT only 2MT or...

Found this under the bench, Sycamore i think 11 inches die 2 inches high finished with carauba wax

Found a slab of wood with cracks too big to burn so cut through the cracks of idigbo and glued sapele in the cracks 14 inches in die 3 inches high

8 inches high 5 inches die and 7 1/2 inches high and 5 inches die Both in Idigbo sanded to 400 grit Friction polish and waxed And both sold

Hi guys, i just started to make my first kitless pen, i made the section ( on my second attempt after a mistake ) and all looks good. So i drilled the body on the lathe then proceeded to thread it using the matching Tap 10 x 0.75 tap and die. the problem i have is that the section seems to small...