The kids are with Gramma and my wife is at work. I’ve got a few orders but I’m waiting on materials to ship in so tonight I thought I’d play.
A secret santa in Europe sent me a few sticks of celluloid and I thought I’d try to turn this zebra stuff he put together into a button filler. My very FIRST button filler. Yeah – I should have practiced on some acrylic first, but what are you gonna do.
Wow what a pain my very first button filler became. If I had done one thing differently, no wait, two things, the whole pen would have turned out a lot better. I just need to buy a few pressure bars now – I squished the one I had fooling around with this. 😛
You know, I think I may be able to salvage this thing. I’ll have to do a bit of turning off and changing around and flipping and stuff – but I think I may be able to salvage this zebra celluloid after all. Hmmm… Good thing I left the back of the barrel so fat. What I’m thinking is to take the button end and and drill it out, thread it to accept the section, and make a threaded insert/plug thing for the other end and turn off those jacked up threads. Normally when turning on some threads, I push the die against the pen a little as I turn it – not with this stuff – big mistake. It’s so soft that the threads just mooshed right off. I went again and you can see that those threads turned out fine.