'Mirkwood' Cigar style Fountain Pen

Hello folks,

Figured I'd move this one from the sale page, now that it is gone.  Here is one of my Cigar style fountain pens in a material that has been begging to be used.  I keep collecting cool materials, but since most of my orders are custom, new materials can sit around for a long time before I get a chance to work on them.  Well, I decided to give this one a go, mostly because I really love earth tone colours.

The blank was as usual pretty boring looking before turning it.  A mottled mix of dull, flat browns and greens.  Blah.  But having turned so may of Jonathon Brooks' blanks before, I know better - once you start turning it, it's like a butterfly emerging.  And this was certainly true here - the gorgeous pearly swirls are definitely eye-catching, and yet still reminiscent of the dark swaths of brown and green of a deep forest.  'Mirkwood' - this was well named indeed.

The pen is fitted with a broad two-tone steel JoWo nib, and is a cartridge/converter filler.

Sigh… I still have so many really cool looking blanks crying out to me…

Thanks for looking!

Ken

'Golden Sunrise' Cigar Style FP with Black Accent Bands

This material, one of J Brook's alumilites, is amazingly cheerful.  I just had to rename it for this pen as 'Golden Sunrise' - the colour alone makes me happy.

Still, I wanted to add something to break up the single colour, so I decided to add in some accent bands in black acrylic, and am pretty happy with how it came out.

The pen a bit smaller than my usual Cigar style, making it a bit more portable.  It is fitted with a fine nib, and is cart/converter fill.

Like many of my pens, this one has found a new home in Singapore.

Thanks for looking!

Ken

'Dragon Fire' Cigar Style Fountain Pen

I have to say that the sale of this pen was one of the most fun sales I've had.   While on a work trip to Toronto, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet with a great group of fellow pen fans who arranged a get-together so that we could all meet while I was in town.  So last friday, an excellent evening of conversation around pens, paper, and ink, accompanied by a decent quantity of beer (and even some top notch single malt scotch - thanks, Bob!) was had by all.  During this meet up, this pen was claimed by its new owner, Gerald.

It is however still in my grasp, as I will be swapping out the 1.1mm stub ruthenium coated nib for a broad one.

In any case, I thought I would take opportunity not only to thank the wonderful folks that I met last friday, but also to put up a few pics of this pen.

The material used here is another of Jonathon Brooks' alumilite blanks which he calls 'Dragon Fire'.  And, once again, it looked brutally dull before I started turning it.  In fact, it just looked plain black, so I wasn't sure how the name 'Dragon Fire' came about.  Then I put it on the lathe and started opening it up to reveal this amazingly nice deep translucent red mixed with opaque, smoke black.  Great name for this material, Jonathon!

Thanks for looking!

Ken

'Arctic Night' Curvy Style Fountain Pen

Finally got to this order after having been just itching to get to it.  I love this gorgeous material, so reminiscent of the dark winter night sky (outside the city, that it…).

The buyer wanted this pen done in my 'Curvy' style, but with the news coned instead of flat as I usually do them.  Good choice, as it turns out.  Somehow suits the style very nicely.

The pen is fitted with a medium steel JoWo nib, and is of course a cart/converter filler.

I would write more about it, but it is bed time.

Thanks for looking!

Ken