Last year I stumbled across a so called shake mechanism for ballpoint pens. I found that little thing rather interesting and by the end of last year I started to built my own version of a „Shake Pen“.
I really didn‘t expected this project to be so challenging and take me a few months and so many tries. A lot of trial and error and dozens of testpieces were made to find the right dimensions, materials, techniques and order of operations to finally get both a working Shake Pen and a product with pleasantly finish.
Despite it‘s simple appearance, a lot of different techniques were used to built the pen including basic turning and milling, deep-hole-drilling, sheet metal bending, electro etching. Especially etching the little symbol to the pens clip was a long journey to get to a satisfying result in the end as it was the first time I experimented with this really cool technique. It's definitely not the last time I used it.

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Shake Mechanism:
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Making the main body
06:19 Making the cap
08:31 Modifying the shake mechanism
09:32 Making the spring steel clip
13:00 Electro etching the symbol
14:26 Final assembly

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