I have turned stick pens for years.  They make a great give away and this year I decided to give all 45 of my cousins on my late father's side of the family at our annual reunion in a couple weeks.  I decided to make a few extra so I did 60.  I got the Bic pens at Wally World.  They were a dozen in a package for $1.17 of roughly 10 cents each.  I would hope my labor is worth the other two cents. 

 

 

 

I put a personal touch to mine by making brass inserts where the Bic ink cartridge is inserted using a Unimat Hobby lathe.  The pens are made from some left over Brazilian Cherry flooring and the bases were made from Poplar scavenged from pallets where I had worked.  I set the bases out in the sun to darken them up a bit. 

 

 

Here is the Cap'n Eddie 12 Cent Pen video in case some have not seen it.

 

 

 

Nicely done Dan, what a great gift. That's one of my favorite Captain Eddie videos.

 

Steve

I gots one of them....

sweet pen...

Sweet project! I really like the burned lines- adds a touch of class!

Great job on the pens . Must have kept you busy for a day or two.

4 hours ago, Stick486 said:

I gots one of them....

sweet pen...

I'm fortunate to be a recipient of one too. Even more spectacular in real life.

There's gonna be 45 cousins blown away to receive one of these!

That would be a nice gift to get. I like the bases for them also.

 

Great Job!!

Nice job Dan. I must look up that video.

4 hours ago, Joeb41 said:

Nice job Dan. I must look up that video.

 

The video is the last item in my original post.  Click on the arrow by the fingertips.

 

Really nice job, they will be appreciated for a long time to come.

 

Gotta love the Captain!

Awesome Job!

Very nice Dan. I will have to check out the video. I would like to try that with acrylic.

3 hours ago, RustyFN said:

Very nice Dan. I will have to check out the video. I would like to try that with acrylic.

 

Here are a couple done in Corian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Here are a couple done in Corian.

 

 

sweet...