Bitza Pen

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Waiting to see that piccy' Mark....

Here's the long awaited Bitza pen,

Eamonn kindly supplied the plastic thingy.
The cases came from Peter mate.
The pen was salvage from a snake wood blank that did what snake wood does.
After a lot of swearing and cursing, a lot of changes of plan as things went wrong here it tis.

 

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The cap is made from a .444 Marlin case, the barrel is a unfired .45/70 Government case.
This pen is for a mate who wanted fountain pen made from unfired cases.

 

[johnny5]

Nice and Original Fountain pen Mark. Your friend will be very pleased with the end result

 

[Les ELm]

Nicely done.
For safety reasons I ALWAYS remove the live primer from unfired cases and replace with
antler.

Les

 

[bassethound]

Mark that's a very nice job you have done there mate..

 

[fortress]

Very nice indeed Mark, looks grand.

 

[flexi]

BANG on that.....lovely really nice...
If you wanted to make the primmer safe and not show you can fill with oil for a while and then drain....its not 100% but its a lot safer than live

 

[angelo49]

That's a real nice one Mark
Looks Great!!

 

[Bill Mooney]

Spot on Mark.

 

[Vic Perrin]

Unique Mate

 

[Penpal]

I can see why your eyes lit up when you received these from the Range Marshall in Canberra Rifle Range during your visit.

Great pen Mark.

Peter.

 

[edlea]

Nice job Mark...that live primer looks a bit scary though

 

[Freck Fraser]

Sounds like you had a hard fight on your hands to complete this project Mark, but you got there in the end and made a very tidy job of it if I may so, the 2 cartridge casings come together very tidily.

 

[wm460]

I can see why your eyes lit up when you received these from the Range Marshall in Canberra Rifle Range during your visit.

Great pen Mark.

Peter.

Actually these came from your gunsmith mate.