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    $500 pen

    Well not really but his pen is money... shredded money... and hopefully it's worth it's weight in the green stuff. I just had to give this oddity a try. Enjoy.
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    Beautiful Oddity Brian, very unique. Hope you get your money back out of this one!

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    Brian, it just has that look of "old money!!" Nice work, and truly unique.

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    very cool, you mine explaining how this is done. Is the money just shredded, thrown in a tube and then mixed with CA?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alex carey View Post
    very cool, you mine explaining how this is done. Is the money just shredded, thrown in a tube and then mixed with CA?
    Honestly I purchased the blank from Rockler. But how they made it is they took destroyed currency from the federal reserve and mixed it in to clear in-lace material and laid it in to a form, then cut the blanks when hardened.

    If you visit the treasury or the bureau of engraving on a tour you can get shredded money and make you own blank... but buying the blanks is much easier.

    The blanks are on sale at Rockler right now for $4.99 not bad in my opinion.

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    Oh. I thought you meant the kind of pen that taxpayers pay for and the president signs one letter of his name with and then gives it away as a souvenir to another rich person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Minto View Post
    Oh. I thought you meant the kind of pen that taxpayers pay for and the president signs one letter of his name with and then gives it away as a souvenir to another rich person.
    I wonder how you would get in to that racket

    I would be pretty cool to be the guy(or group of guys) that made the pen/s that the 45th president (or as I like to think of him/her Obama's replacement... or the fixer) uses.

    I must do research now.

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    It looks good... I like the gunmetal/black titanium coloring of the kit with this blank. I'm assuming you painted the inside of the blank with black paint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David E Keller View Post
    It looks good... I like the gunmetal/black titanium coloring of the kit with this blank. I'm assuming you painted the inside of the blank with black paint.
    Actuly I used black titanium tubes to match the black titanium kit.

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    Even better. That may be why it seems to match so well. I like this one a lot better than the money pen I made a while ago.

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    Great looking pen. Well done.
    Bernie

    Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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    I like your blank! I did a couple and it just didn't look like money. Your's looks like you are nuts... why did you cut up money to make a pen?
    Have a Nice Day!

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    Those are fun pens to give to friends and family. I made one of those for my daughter a couple of Christmases ago. She's a CPA I also made a pen for my DIL out of Bloodwood. She's a Physicians Assistant

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