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, deepholedrilling, 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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Detailed video on the etching process:    • Metal Etching  How To Do It At Home  

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Shake Mechanism:
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Etching felt, electrolyte and stencil from: https://www.schillingmarking.de
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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