Anyone made their own reed pen?

I'm certainly interested, Alan - a bit quiet on this subject, because I've never used a reed or bamboo pen. But I do use dip-pens; and a brush with Chinese ink sometimes; and pencil with ink washes - charcoal with ink; and I've used cocktail sticks, match-sticks, bits of card, charcoal, conté crayon, quills .... for all that, I've not done much of it recently so haven't much left to show for it. I am encouraged to go back though, and have another few cracks at it. I think the answer to the question about 'why reeds/quills/dip-pens' as opposed to a convenient pen with pigment ink and a reservoir, or a sketching fountain-pen with different inks, is the quality of line - the life you can get even from a flexible steel nib, and certainly from a reed, or bamboo (as I know from others' work). I shall look back in the thread for Daveyboyz's suggested pen - may even have used it myself, and they score heavily if you're working in the field: playing with an open bottle of ink in the great outdoors is not something I want to do. And indoors, all of these implements have their uses - it's just that it's in artists' nature to experiment with their materials. (On the subject of these convenient pens, one of my favourites is the UniPin brand, made by Mitsubishi.)

Thanks for that, I shall investigate - I'd like one of those.