BLUE BAMBOO!

Interestingly enough, my 'bamboo' styled pens with their unique 'inlet ends' have sparked quite a bit of interest, and I have filled quite a number of orders for them - not only in the material I originally used (a polyresin with a grain-like look to it), but also in a wide variety of acrylics which bear essentially no resemblance at all to real bamboo.  This one would be a good example of that.  The result is a fun, whimsical take on the bamboo pattern, in a bold, beautiful colour!

This acrylic, the dark blue flake (or 'crush') acrylic, is one of my own favourites (one of these days, I will actually keep one for myself...).

Finishing an acrylic pen properly is a painstaking process, involving many hours of drilling, turning on the lathe, threading, finishing threads, and 'detailing' all the ends and openings to cap, barrel and grip section (sanding, finishing and polishing the openings), and finally sanding down the cap, barrel, and grip section with a series of 10 different grits of paper, from 400 grit up to 12,000 grit, ending with a polishing liquid that leaves a breathtaking shine, and makes the penmaker smile.  The total time taken to make a pen like this is about five and a half hours.  Time well spent!

This royal bamboo is equipped with a fine tip polished steel JoWo nib, and a steel-trimmed converter.

Well.  That pen was fun to make!  Thanks for looking!

Ken