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Right from the top, I'm going to say that this isn't an advertisement-don't ask me to make you anything, because I have a job-maybe after I'm retired, but these are prototypes, and I'm just looking for feedback.
I've posted about it before-how, some 31 years ago, now, I was mugged on the Brooklyn subway late at night, and had to respond to a knife threat with deadly force, and how I stabbed a kid with my Mont Blanc ballpoint. Those are the bare bones, but, just for background, there was an earlier incident, where I wasn't involved-I was a witness. I was 11 years old, middle school had just started, and I saw my sometime/once upon a time babysitter, my friend Michael's sister, Marie (with whom I'm still friends) take out a Bic pen, one of these:
Which they actually shot through blocks of wood and wrote with afterward, back in 60's commercials, and which I don't think they make anymore.
Anyway, Marie took one of those out of her pocket, and stabbed a boy with it-a coupla times. I was impressed-I'd expected it to break, and it did, but not before she'd caused a fair amount of pain. I filed it away, and always looked to using a pen as a weapon over the years, as I continued my martial arts training-begun that very year on my birthday.
Thus it was that I was prepared on the subway that night-where I couldn't carry a knife or gun legally-and had stashed my pen inside my sleeve, ready to deploy, as soon as I saw those boys come onto the platform. I let them have my fake-out wallet with $20 in it, and my not at all fake watch, but one of them was there for my blood, which I wasn't going to let them have.
Things I learned that night, besides not being on the Brooklyn IRT alone at 1 A.M., looking half-drunk in a suit with a fancy watch?
Blood is slippery at first-made that pen a hard thing to hold onto. One of the things that sticks in my from then-even now-is making a conscious effort to hold onto the thing when both it and my hand had a fair amount of blood on them.
Oh, and that a Mont Blanc pen is one helluva expensive thing to wind up using as a weapon, and parting with. I didn't pay $1,000 for mine, but it may as well have been, and it was hard to part with-I liked that pen.
Of course, now, things have caught up with me, and we have the "tactical pen," a variety of products that can double as a weapon-either a yawara stick, stabbing, or, in some cases, as a fist-load-and as a utility tool, like a window breaker-as well as a writing instrument, yet pass muster in a world where we're increasingly searched for weapons and disarmed in environments where some of us would rather be armed, like on an airplane.
In fact, I posted here about taking my UZI tactical pen to Las Vegas, (which is the only one I'd really recommend buying-it's adequate for what its intent is, uses Parker pen refills, and doesn't cost much, so you won't mind losing it) and not getting a second glance from the TSA-which is kind of a surprise, since everywhere I go, people see the tip of it sticking out of my shirt pocket and get all, Ooooh, what's that? Can I see? I know what that is,ooooh!
I mean, the damn thing just looks so......tactical. It's a wonder it hasn't gotten me thrown in jail. :lol:
With that in mind, I set off to the shop to try and make some pens that could be used as weapons, but would approach the beauty, practicality and innocuous nature of the Mont Blanc. Using various materials, I've machined a few pens into shapes that I hoped would allow a good grip for a force multiplier, even when a bit of blood flowed, and be a bit more camouflaged for every day carrying. I've tested the grip of them, by dipping my hand and/or the pen in oil, and their shapes seem to work-the next step will be machining some in metal, like titanium or aluminium, as most of them don't really approach the right heft for a fist-load. They do work well for stabbing and as yawara sticks, though.
This one is my favorite, in terms of weapon readiness, and I'll probably be turning titanium into something like it:
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it, and it's mechanical pencil mate, are turned from maple.The furniture is store bought, and, in this case, titanium.....
Here it is with some others. The dark brown slender set is teak, and the fountain pen, on the end, is made of a special plastic that's actually impregnated with titanium to give it that coloring:
View attachment $Picture 016.jpg
I like the fountain pen-I like fountain pens-but as a ready to deploy weapon, it loses something to the others, in that the cap has to be removed. Of course, a fountain nib is a much sharper and more blade-like tip than a ballpoint, but it's also more fragile.....
They all stab pretty well, though-I used them for insertion points for garlic cloves on a shoulder I smoked:
View attachment $Copy of Picture 018.jpg
Oh, the shoulder came out fine!
View attachment $Picture 019.jpg
:lfao:
So, what do you all think? I'd be open to a discussion on pen techniques I've developed, but I think that they're fairly mostly obvious-and pens are somewhat less versatile than other weapons-their real advantage lays in their everyday, innocuous nature....
I've posted about it before-how, some 31 years ago, now, I was mugged on the Brooklyn subway late at night, and had to respond to a knife threat with deadly force, and how I stabbed a kid with my Mont Blanc ballpoint. Those are the bare bones, but, just for background, there was an earlier incident, where I wasn't involved-I was a witness. I was 11 years old, middle school had just started, and I saw my sometime/once upon a time babysitter, my friend Michael's sister, Marie (with whom I'm still friends) take out a Bic pen, one of these:
Anyway, Marie took one of those out of her pocket, and stabbed a boy with it-a coupla times. I was impressed-I'd expected it to break, and it did, but not before she'd caused a fair amount of pain. I filed it away, and always looked to using a pen as a weapon over the years, as I continued my martial arts training-begun that very year on my birthday.
Thus it was that I was prepared on the subway that night-where I couldn't carry a knife or gun legally-and had stashed my pen inside my sleeve, ready to deploy, as soon as I saw those boys come onto the platform. I let them have my fake-out wallet with $20 in it, and my not at all fake watch, but one of them was there for my blood, which I wasn't going to let them have.
Things I learned that night, besides not being on the Brooklyn IRT alone at 1 A.M., looking half-drunk in a suit with a fancy watch?
Blood is slippery at first-made that pen a hard thing to hold onto. One of the things that sticks in my from then-even now-is making a conscious effort to hold onto the thing when both it and my hand had a fair amount of blood on them.
Oh, and that a Mont Blanc pen is one helluva expensive thing to wind up using as a weapon, and parting with. I didn't pay $1,000 for mine, but it may as well have been, and it was hard to part with-I liked that pen.
Of course, now, things have caught up with me, and we have the "tactical pen," a variety of products that can double as a weapon-either a yawara stick, stabbing, or, in some cases, as a fist-load-and as a utility tool, like a window breaker-as well as a writing instrument, yet pass muster in a world where we're increasingly searched for weapons and disarmed in environments where some of us would rather be armed, like on an airplane.
In fact, I posted here about taking my UZI tactical pen to Las Vegas, (which is the only one I'd really recommend buying-it's adequate for what its intent is, uses Parker pen refills, and doesn't cost much, so you won't mind losing it) and not getting a second glance from the TSA-which is kind of a surprise, since everywhere I go, people see the tip of it sticking out of my shirt pocket and get all, Ooooh, what's that? Can I see? I know what that is,ooooh!
I mean, the damn thing just looks so......tactical. It's a wonder it hasn't gotten me thrown in jail. :lol:
With that in mind, I set off to the shop to try and make some pens that could be used as weapons, but would approach the beauty, practicality and innocuous nature of the Mont Blanc. Using various materials, I've machined a few pens into shapes that I hoped would allow a good grip for a force multiplier, even when a bit of blood flowed, and be a bit more camouflaged for every day carrying. I've tested the grip of them, by dipping my hand and/or the pen in oil, and their shapes seem to work-the next step will be machining some in metal, like titanium or aluminium, as most of them don't really approach the right heft for a fist-load. They do work well for stabbing and as yawara sticks, though.
This one is my favorite, in terms of weapon readiness, and I'll probably be turning titanium into something like it:
View attachment $Picture 015.jpg
it, and it's mechanical pencil mate, are turned from maple.The furniture is store bought, and, in this case, titanium.....
Here it is with some others. The dark brown slender set is teak, and the fountain pen, on the end, is made of a special plastic that's actually impregnated with titanium to give it that coloring:
View attachment $Picture 016.jpg
I like the fountain pen-I like fountain pens-but as a ready to deploy weapon, it loses something to the others, in that the cap has to be removed. Of course, a fountain nib is a much sharper and more blade-like tip than a ballpoint, but it's also more fragile.....
They all stab pretty well, though-I used them for insertion points for garlic cloves on a shoulder I smoked:
View attachment $Copy of Picture 018.jpg
Oh, the shoulder came out fine!
View attachment $Picture 019.jpg
:lfao:
So, what do you all think? I'd be open to a discussion on pen techniques I've developed, but I think that they're fairly mostly obvious-and pens are somewhat less versatile than other weapons-their real advantage lays in their everyday, innocuous nature....
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