Micro Pocket Pen in Caramel Apple and Red Pearl

Hi folks,

Here is something a bit different.  I had made a series of 'Micro Pocket Pens' a few years ago, but with a threaded barrel end to allow the cap to be screwed onto the end of the barrel.   I didn't really like the look of the exposed threads, though, so haven't made these for quite  awhile.

This time, I have opted to allow posting by friction, which actually worked out quite nicely.  The pen is quite compact when closed, and when posted, the cap is quite secure on the barrel end (won't fall off while you write), and extends the pen enough to be fairly comfortable in action.

The pen is of course cartridge only, as a converter would require quite a bit more barrel length. 

This pen is available on my sales page.

Thanks for looking!

Ken

A Year in Pen Making

Hi all, been a long time since I updated my website, since between work and family life I have not had as much time lately for pen making.  Still have managed to squeeze out a few, mostly posting them on Instagram (@kcavers).

Here is a sampling of a few of the pens that I have put together over the past year or so:

Cool Moonlight Pen - a lovely shimmering silver and black resin, done up in my deeply posting Compact style:

Moonlight and Starlight Compact style pen - once again using the same moonlight resin as above, but paired with a darker resin with points of light reminiscent of starry skies:

Red Swirl and Black Curvy style with inlay - in acrylic resins:

Matt Black Ebonite Curvy Style Pen with Real Paua Shell Inlay:

Tropical Sunset Compact Style Fountain Pen (I love this material!):

Arctic Ocean alumilite Compact style Fountain Pen:

Green Swirl Acrylic Bamboo Style Fountain Pen:

Arctic Night alumilite Semi-Compact style Fountain Pen:

Black Ebonite with Ivory Celluloid Inlay Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen (a tribute to the first fountain pen materials!):

Black Cherry Alumilite Compact Style Fountain Pen:

Sunny Granite Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen (this one is still available and is on my 'Available for sale' page):

Well, I guess that's about it for now.  Hopefully will get a few more in before the year is out...

Thanks for looking!

Ken

Gold-Veined Marble Fountain Pen

Hello folks,

A while back I was sent this cool material by a customer who asked that I turn it into a pen.  I discovered that this material (a marble white with real gold foil embedded in it) is made of polyresin, which I had some time ago sworn off using because of brittle nature and its tendency to shatter - while turning, and when dropped on a hard surface.

Fortunately I happened to have a piece of pearly white alumilite on hand, which has none of those nasty tendencies, so I used that for the grip section, and for an insert into the barrel from which to cut the threaded tenon.  The gold-marble still managed to split a couple of times along the gold foil while turning, but nothing a bit of handy CA couldn't deal with.

In the end, I am quite happy with how it came out.  I had planned to make one of my 'purity' style pens (cap all one diameter, barrel all one slightly smaller diameter, rounded ends), but the recurrent cap splits forced me to finish it off with a slightly different shape.  In fact, I kind of like it, and will probably make more of these.  But I don't have a name for this style yet.  Will have to think of something.

With the little bit of remaining gold-marble, I made a little pen rest so that this pen can studiously avoid tumbling onto hard surfaces and shattering.

The pen is here posing with what seemed like a very appropriate nib - an 18K fine, to match the gold veining.

The fill system is as cartridge/converter as usual.

Thanks for looking!

Ken

Green and Purple Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen

Just got this pair of odd blanks in with a recent order.   Not enough of either to make a pen, but they looked like they might go together, and it just happened that I needed a break from some studying I was doing, so off to the workshop, and this pen was born.

in fact, the green material looked more like it belonged with the purple before I started turning it, as there was a fair bit of purple in it.  Sadly, once I turned it down to size, the purple was mostly gone.  Still, they seem to go together fairly well.

The pen is done in my Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen style, which is super-handy for the workplace with the fact that it has the clip and posts securely.

The filling system is cartridge/converter as usual.

Thanks for looking!

Ken