I made another pen from a once-fired .50 caliber BMG (Browning Machine Gun) shell casing, this time with Mpingo (African Blackwood). It is the pen in the right in the above photo. Making these pens is kind of fun. There’s only one barrel to be turned and there are only a couple of tricky spots. [...]
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13 Jul
Peruvian Walnut & Osage Orange .50 Caliber BMG Pens
These pens are made from once-fired .50 caliber BMG (Browning Machine Gun) shell casings. The turning of the pens is relatively straight forward but the assembly was less so and took some figuring out. The Peruvian Walnut (dark brown, left in top photo) has some nice grain to it and I’ve always liked turning this [...]
