Items and souvenirs created with your own hands are of much greater value than their counterparts bought in a regular store. By purchasing a thing created by hand from start to finish as a gift or souvenir, you thereby become the owner of an exclusive product that no one else will have. It seems to many that there is no more mundane and standard item than a simple ballpoint pen - but even a pen can be turned into an original and creative DIY gift of great value.
Instructions
Step 1
To make your own wooden handle, start by developing a 3D plan and a selection of materials and drawings. The hardness and durability of the material is fundamental for the pen body, so choose hard woods that wear little and polish well (ebony, beech, maple, and others). You will also need a narrow aluminum tube and a brass rod.
Step 2
Draw up drawings of the front and back caps, wood handle body, and aluminum inner tube. All parts must match each other in size. To make the rigid metal bar that is the base of the handle, take an aluminum tube with an outer diameter of 6 mm and an inner diameter of 4 mm.
Step 3
Using a file or coarse sandpaper, roughen the surface of the tube so that it adheres better to the wood later. Then wrap the cotton thread around the tube.
Step 4
Take three pieces of wood - ebony, beech, and maple. Place the plates together and dilute the epoxy. Glue the wood plates together with epoxy resin and clamp with clamps until completely dry. After that, cut the wood into blanks - make a black ebony blank separately, separately - beech, and separately maple.
Step 5
In each piece with beveled edges, make coaxial holes with a drill, with a diameter equal to the outside diameter of the aluminum inner tube. Glue the beech piece with super glue to the ebony part you have drilled and put on the drill, and then continue drilling. Thus, the holes will be connected in one straight line. Do the same with the third piece.
Step 6
Dilute the epoxy again and saturate the threaded aluminum tube. The threads should be completely saturated with glue. Slide a piece glued from three drilled wood pieces onto the tube. Squeeze the workpiece with the clamps and wait for the epoxy to harden.
Step 7
After the parts are dry, use a training lathe to grind the handle body. Clamp the end of the handle into the chuck and clamp the free end with the center. After placing the workpiece on the machine, start processing it so as to carve an even cylinder, the diameter of which approximately corresponds to the maximum diameter of the handle.
Step 8
Then continue to grind the cylinder to the left and right so that it tapers towards the ends, finishing the surface with a file and sandpaper. Sand the workpiece with fine sandpaper until a flat and smooth wooden surface appears.
Step 9
After that, cut off the excess edges of the protruding aluminum tube, and from both ends of the handle, cut a thread on the tube from the inside by 10 mm in depth, the step of which should not exceed 0.5 mm. Use a tap to cut threads.
Step 10
On the light part of the pen body, you can apply a personalized inscription, which must first be printed in Photoshop, printed in a mirror image on a laser printer and attached to the tree, glued with masking tape. Then heat the lettering on the outside with an iron, carefully so that the paper does not stick to the handle.
Step 11
Remove the paper after heating - the ink will remain on the pen in black toner. It can be tinted with black permanent marker to make it look sharper and more beautiful.
Step 12
It remains to make the caps, screw them onto the threads and varnish the handle, completely dipping it into the jar, and dry it.
