Strictly speaking I didn't make this, you could say it was commissioned.
Our story begins while I was at our local market a couple of months ago, I was browsing the Opinel display case and spotted a miniature sharpening steel. Pretty neat, and since it was bright and shiny just had to be bought, twas only 6 (£4.50) I was happy to pay that.
Fast forward a month to when I was in the UK recently. I was staying at my mate's house Paul. He's the one who made those pens I put up as a prize in my recent 1,000 posts competition. Here's Paul's website
Anyway with sharpening steel in hand and a pen blank we'd bought earlier I "supervised" my mate while he turned this up for me.
Rather pleased with the end result and a vast improvement over the original handle that was just begging for a slice of thumb to be sacrficed to the Gods of sharpening things had I used it with any pressure or speed.
Hope you like what you see. Yes I know it's pink, that was the whole idea. Making it findable, if dropped. Hey at least I don't have a pink pillowcase and matching bunny slippers. LOL! (Sorry Badger73 couldn't resist it!
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Our story begins while I was at our local market a couple of months ago, I was browsing the Opinel display case and spotted a miniature sharpening steel. Pretty neat, and since it was bright and shiny just had to be bought, twas only 6 (£4.50) I was happy to pay that.
Fast forward a month to when I was in the UK recently. I was staying at my mate's house Paul. He's the one who made those pens I put up as a prize in my recent 1,000 posts competition. Here's Paul's website
Anyway with sharpening steel in hand and a pen blank we'd bought earlier I "supervised" my mate while he turned this up for me.
Rather pleased with the end result and a vast improvement over the original handle that was just begging for a slice of thumb to be sacrficed to the Gods of sharpening things had I used it with any pressure or speed.
Hope you like what you see. Yes I know it's pink, that was the whole idea. Making it findable, if dropped. Hey at least I don't have a pink pillowcase and matching bunny slippers. LOL! (Sorry Badger73 couldn't resist it!
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