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Hi all,
Had a bit of a play.... these are once fired cases with new bullets fitted....
So I started by removing the lead from the bullets, a pair of smooth pliers and a blow torch. Next drill the 2mm hole in the bullet (from behind it self centers). I resized the cases with a reloading press...
Here are three pens I recently made. A Regal for Marla, a Cat pen and a shortened Luxor. I shortened the barrel about 7mm to eliminate the refill spacer. They are too easy to loose.
Pete
I am interested in what people have found to be their best way to square blanks.
I am aware that there are many ways to skin a cat but only a few really successful ways.
I work with a 7mm barrel trimmer in the pillar drill which needs to be sharpened frequently and only good for 7mm and take...
Kit- Epsilon Gold plated
Blank - Acetate
Finish - Through MM's and final polish
Bit of a challenge this one was as it was only .5mm bigger than the finished pen size.. It already had a 7mm hole drilled in it as well to add insult to injury. :whistling:
Hi all well I like a good challenge....I was contacted by Ray7756 as to my bullet pens....could a pen be made from
.22 250 cases??..... Challenge accepted!! He sent me a couple of cases to try and the results are below....
Normally with the .308 cases it's very straight forward as they will...
I am picking up my new (to me) lathe on wed16th so yesterday I thought I had better order some kits so I can get started straight away, so I went online to penkitz and bitz duly ordered 10 kits with bushes and 7mm drill bit this was yesterday Afternoon, so you can understand my amazement when...
Hi all...i don't very often buy 'Woodturning' mag but if any one is interested issue 314 has some different bits by Kurt Hertzog entitled 'Growing beyond the basic pen kit'.
Turning finials and nibs for 7mm slims and turning center bands....every once in a while you see something and a spark is...
True 7mm click pen thanks to PROKRAFT for coming up with this pen. I recommend it. I much prefer it than the twist pen although a little more expensive.
Glen:face:
Hi All,
Recently forum member Lons (Bob) gave me a link to some thread that he uses for fly fishing.
I got some and wrapped it around a 7mm tube. Here are the results.
Cheers Bob for the link. I will definitely try out some of the brighter colours.
Thread & Resin. - YouTube
Hi after having a bit of a tidy up in the shed I found some spent cartridges in my shed .243 and .270 Winchester magnum. Looking at the .243 I thought it looks the same lenth of the brass tubes from a slimline and remembering a utube video from Woody decides to drill out the primer first with...