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The time-tested push-button ballpoint pen is probably in more pockets than any other style pen. Now you can turn your own beautiful wooden ballpoint pen to replace those ugly plastic ones. Easily turned with straight sides, or can be profiled to create custom looks. Durable plated...
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The time-tested push-button ballpoint pen is probably in more pockets than any other style pen. Now you can turn your own beautiful wooden ballpoint pen to replace those ugly plastic ones. Easily turned with straight sides, or can be profiled to create custom looks. Durable plated finish.
Features:
- Durable plated finish
- Slim design
- Easy assembly
- Time-tested push-button ballpoint mechanism
- Style: Click Ballpoint
- Finish: Gold
- (1) Click Ballpoint Pen Kit - Gold
- In order to construct a completed Click Ballpoint Pen, you will also need Click Style Bushings (#127767), Letter "O" Pen Maker's Bit (#149140) and 3/4" x3/4" x 5" pen turning blank, all sold separately.
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Reviews
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Try another
After making pens for several years, I know how to do it, but the click mechanism of this works on about 50% of these work.
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Garbage Pen Kit
The kit has a great look to it, but the click mechanism is the worst I've ever dealt with. I've made 3 of these and they are all the same. It will not repeat clicks at all. I can not get it to go up and down back to back times. I'd like my money back but that wont happen. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!
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Pen body is great but click mechanism is garbage
Bought and turned this pen kit, all plastic click mechanism. Needs to be better, I think most of us would pay more for a more durable click mechanism. But after assembly the top collar around the click button keeps coming loose and I have to push it back. And the button came flying off probably 10 minutes after everything was assembled
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IT'S THE SPRING!!
The small end of the spring goes onto the ink refill first. If it is backwards the mechanism doesn't work well. I click my pen at least 100 times a day, and have used up 5 ink refills. The refill is not great, I replaced it with gel refills. Also, don't rotate the cap, it is threaded on. If you rotate it, the cap will fly off.
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Price
Simple enough to make. Bushings cost more than the kit. Quality of the click mechanism feels a little lame. Generic ink refill not all that good, I bought real Cross refills in medium and broad. Hit or miss with this click pen.
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A diificult to learn, but good kit
I have made four of these pens. There is a learning curve to their assembly. First, you have to be careful to not get any glue inside of the tubes, or they simply will not work. I use a parafin wax plug by pressing the tube into the wax prior to glueing the tubes to the blanks. next be careful when pressing the pieces together. Drill a hole in a piece of wood large enough for the clicker to go through. If you don't do this, you will damage the clicker. To assemble the female threads in the head, I screw it onto the lower barrel and then press the pieces together, otherwise there is a gap. I can now make them perfect each time, but you need to follow these hints.
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Poor quality
I finished the pen and gave it a click test, about a dozen times repeatedly when the the top simply flew off the end! Would be willing to pay a bit more for quality built in USA.
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Great pen kit!
I have made countless click pens and pencils, and have yet to have a single one with issues. I have seen other turners have issues with these pens, and in my experience, it is always (ALWAYS!) the spring installed backwards on the ink refill. If you install the spring the wrong way (it is tapered), it will bind up and won't click properly. All you have to do is reverse the spring! And sorry guys, this is nobody's fault but your own and has nothing to do with the quality of the kit. I do add a drop of Teflon dry film lube to the click mechanism (Dupont brand, but more to aid in reliability down the line than anything else. I also click each pen 20-30 times before I sell it just to break-in the click mech and smooth things out a bit more, and also to assure it works well. After at least 50 kits made and sold, and none coming back with issues, I think it's safe to say this is a good kit. And 95% of the time there is an issue, it's due to whoever assembled it, and not the kit itself.
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Works for me
The pen (and Pencil) kits were just what i expected. I had no problems and those that have used them like them.
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Makes a great looking pen
I've made several of these now from Acrylic, Blackwood, Olive wood, etc, and they always make a great looking pen. For under ten bucks and a bit of your personality in the mix you have something that looks like it's worth at least three times the price (great unique gift idea here). I've never had a problem with the click mechanism but found out from a different (cheaper) click kit from another company that the length of the upper barrel seems to be somewhat critical for proper functioning. Maybe that could be what is causing the problem for some (BTW, I usually use a bit of very heavy silicon oil to lube my mechanism before installing it that it makes it very smooth and high quality feeling that way). The spring is really pretty heavy and it will never be a really light feeling push without maybe trying a different lighter spring from some other pen. Uses the regular Parker type refills, and if you want to impress someone those gel type Parker compatible refills write much, much smoother and impressively than a standard one (about 2 bucks apiece, nice if you're selling it or making a gift of it.) Those Fisher space pen refills, unique in their own right, come with an adapter that lets you use them in these pens if you want to make an absolutely reliable and never fails to write pen for someone that needs one. I love click pens, wish they had this kit in something other than gold, maybe chrome or Rhodium or something, it would be worth the extra price to me.
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First experience not good
Bought the kit in 2010 and finally got around to building it. Barrel lengths are just long enough. You have little extra for trim. Maybe 0.100 inches is all you can trim the blanks down. Click mechanism not functional and was damaged in trying to remove it from the barrel. Until this product is improved beginner and intermediate pen makers should stay away from this product. Would prefer both barrels to be 0.100 inch longer for those of us who get a little to grind happy. That may be where I had some issues. One barrel was 1.9 inches long. The instructions say about 2 inches. Better to be on the long side by 0.05 inches or so.
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Terrible click mechanism
I bought three of these kits and none of them worked at all. The parts go together pretty easily but the click mechanism is not smooth and would always get stuck. It's stiff and pretty much useless. It's a cheap kit and a waste of money. If you want a good click pen, I've had a lot better luck with the Wall Street IIs.
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Don't buy it!
I've made several of these pen kits and have had problems with the click mechanism (Like they don't work). I took one of them in to the San Antonio store & they couldn't figure out why it quit working.[...]
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Nice fit, but...
I make pens and either sell or give them as gifts and I teach pen turning. I would like to see a chrome or brushed satin version of the click pen.
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Nice pen kit
I made this for my sister-in-law who wanted a larger pen than the slimline but she also wanted a click pen. It was just what I was looking for.
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Great gift
Easy to produce and use.
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Mandrel setup
Just bought the pen set and mandrel bushings. Instructions on bushing setup is online. Mandrel setup 77B33 has one illustration. Unfortunately the individual bushings do not look like the illustration. Instructions could be better if the bushings illustrated were the same cross section as in the package. Wish they were similar to instruction 77B04. Oh well, I'm sure I'll figure it out. Otherwise I'm looking forward to making my first click pen.
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I like this pen kit!
The click mechanism seemed a bit stiffer then competitor's models, but it may ease up with use. Need to know if refill is a Parker or what? The directions are easy to follow and one may want a drop of CA on the threaded mechanism to hold it if you have to clean CA out of the tube. I dry fit the screw mechanism first, then decided where to fit the pocket clip so the lines (Cocobola) would line up when screwed together. Smaller size is great feature over others, and in click version for those who don't like twist.
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