Oxide SC tutorial

 Hi! Yesterday I finished a personal mod and a few people have asked for a tutorial. I'll write a bit more about the mod after the steps, in case that someone is interested in the thought process.

Specs

• Weight: medium (I don't have a scale right now, just by feel I'd say about 14-15g)
• Length: 20.7cm
• Difficulty: medium
  

Materials

• x1 Kokuyo Enpitsu Sharp (tip and front of the body)
• x1 Stalogy MP (body)
• x1 Pilot frixion colors (cap)
• x1 Pentel HGG (tip and grip)
• x1 Pilot Hi-Tec C (tip)
• x1 Uni Signo DX (grip)
• x1 Pilot dr grip playborder (inner grip)
  

Subs

You can sub the Hi-Tec + HGG tips for a signo tip (although the weight distribution feels somewhat off, I didn't like it) and the playborder inner grip for basically any spare grip that you have at home, like some anyball stripes. It's just to balance the back, so you can use anything. Also, I used a stalogy MP because they were cheaper, I think that MP and BP have the exact same bodies.

Note that there are various types of enpitsu sharp tips. The ones that I used are the type on the left. You could use the one on the right but the mod looks like ass then. It also spins differently since the weight seems to be different, although I'm not sure by how much.

How to make it

1 - Disassemble the stalogy. Take out the tip, clicker and back ring.

2 - Cut the small front ring of the stalogy. Do it carefully so the cut is straight.

3 - Disassemble the enpitsu sharp. Unscrew the tip and take the grip out. 

4 - Cut the enpitsu sharp front. Cut just at the step between the thinner front and the thicker body. 

5 - File/sand the back of the piece that you just cut. Okay this step sucks but it's one of my personals, of course it will have some amount of painful filing. Check the image below, you want to sand the back of this piece until it fits snugly in the stalogy.

6 - Fit the front part and the stalogy. I put some teflon tape on the back and screwed it on the stalogy front. If the piece is sanded just right, you will actually make some small threads on the teflon and the front won't move at all. Of course you can also just fit it by force.

7 - Remove the signo DX grip and put it over the enpitsu sharp body. Once you have checked that the front fits perfectly, my advice is to take it out, put the grip over the pen and then place it back in place.

8 - Remove all of the stuff on the frixion cap (eraser and inner piece).

9 - Insert the contents of the cap: Hi-tec tip, and hgg grip, with the ring-side of the grip last.

10 - Push the HGG tip as far as it can go inside the cap. You should be able to see a bit of it from the other side.

11 - Put the playborder inner grip on the back of the cap.

12 - Put the cap on the stalogy body.

And that's it! You've finished making the mod

A bit about this mod

I've wanted more SCs with grippy bodies, but they're quite rare. The problem is that you always have to do something wacky on the front, as bodies like stalogy or tul don't have fronts like a G3 or an RSVP would have. This doesn't just mean that the modding will be more complicated, it also means that the weight distribution can also end up being very off. 

Some months ago I tried making a TUL SC with an uniball fantom cap and some weird bic round stip grip + signo tip contraption that apparently didn't need any tape to stay in place but it was too short, too light and spun pretty bad overall. A few days ago I also tried another thing, which was to connect two BT bodies, put a tip on one of them (not a stalogy tip since that's too heavy) and a grip over all of that, but that was too front-heavy anyway.

I feel like the mod as of now isn't perfect but it's still very nice to spin. It spins almost like a medium-weight DC I would say. Please let me know if you ever make one!