What should I do with this?

[Gorog]

Hello, everyone. I have a question, and no doubt, its going to be a LONG winding road to the question. So if you all have been following my updates, (if not, if you lost your eyes already, my condolences, and I understand, blindness is quite enough to be getting on with without me pestering you), oh forget it, I'll tell you all anyway. I have been preoccupied by looking for a crowbar to use on my 'oh so lovely' patch of bamboo stumps out in the back of the yard, 'cause dear Dad wants it done quick. But, I came across something cooler than a useful crowbar while searching dear Dad's basement of doom.
I found a piece of metal about the size, lengthwise and thick-wise, as a regular kubotan. It has serious heft to it, IS ferrous unless my Dad found and horde-ed from Area 51 a piece of alien metal that rusts yet is not ferrous, and it piques my curiosity. I am no good at telling metal from metal by spark test, seeing as I have never done it before, and know nothing of what to look for, and I am really quite sure that XRF metal analyzing guns are slightly out of my price range.
But yeah, all winking aside, I am planning on hand making this piece of metal into a...pen. Yes a pen, an extraordinary pen...so the question is, is there a cheap simple kit I could buy that would tell me what kind of metal I am working with here? I don't want to take a hand file of tempered high carbon steel to this without knowing I can reduce it safely, or efficiently, or without ruining my file.... Well, I look forward to responses, and if I get none, I'll know you all tried your best and could not find any useful information. Thanks, and peace.
David

 

[Howard Wallace]

What is your objective? Are you thinking of creating a martial arts weapon/pen. If so, I suggest you buy a sturdy metal pen. If you whap someone with a homemade whatever-it-is, you may end up in more trouble than if it was an everyday commercial object.

 

[Steve Tall]

...If you whap someone with a homemade whatever-it-is, you may end up in more trouble than if it was an everyday commercial object.

For information purposes only, and not legal advice, right?

 

[Gorog]

True, very true...I'm kind of building it more as a sort of 'get my mind off my monumental depression' project, than as a bona fide (or even a subtle) attempt to defend myself. A hefty pen is much more stable, when doing fine, precise things like drawing, or even just writing. My hands shake like crazy, and I like the balance I get from using it just as it is. If I can pull this off, or better yet, convince my mom to let me get a rod of mostly pure tungsten alloy and make something out of that, I doubt I would even take it out of the house, I'd be so afraid of losing it. My sister thinks I have genuinely lost my mind every time I say 'tungsten', but we have been rocketing farther and farther apart lately, me and all three of my sisters. Instead of going in depth into my problems like I did in my first draft of this response, lets just say that it is, as most problems are, created by a lack of understanding, specifically, in this case, about my 'issues'. Well, peace.