Blue Crush Cigar-Style Fountain Pen

Here, fresh off the bench, is my latest finished custom order, a cigar style fountain pen in the rather striking blue crush acrylic.  The order requested that the nib section be a little longer than my usual, and that the cap and barrel be closer to the same length than my previous cigar pens (like this black ebonite one).  

I tapered the barrel just a hint more than my previous cigars, and am rather happy with the result.  Must do more of these and play around a bit with that.

The pen is fitted with a polished steel JoWo broad nib, and is a cartridge/converter filler (converter already in the pen).

I keep coming back to this blue acrylic, and keep loving it.  One of these days, I'll make one for me.

Thanks for taking a look!

White Wedding Pen

I received an order for a wedding pen, hoping that I could use a similar material to one which I had used before .  As it urned out, I had a couple of pieces of this material left, so having a bit of a deadline (well, the wedding), I got to it.

The pen is equipped with a signature-worthy broad steel JoWo nib, and is - you guessed it - a cart/converter filler.

The resin itself, acquired from a fellow pen maker, is quite fascinating stuff.  It appears at first glance to be simply pearly white with a nice shimmer to it, but held a certain angles, a nice iridescent green pops out.  Very cool.

Anyhow, I hope the one who ordered it likes it as much as I do :-))

Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow

This pen is a custom order that was inspired by a previous black and yellow pen that I made.  In this case however, the one ordering it chose to have a clip on the pen, as well as to go with a more conservative shape.

In order to preserve the classic shape of the pen, I decided not to make it postable.  While the cap draws the most attention, the axial inlay on the barrel end serves to tie the cap and barrel together visually.

This black and yellow mix is one of my favourites as the black swirl in the yellow acrylic becomes framed so nicely by the black trim.

The pen, like the vast majority of my pens, is a cartridge/converter filler, and is fitted with a medium two-tone JoWo steel nib unit.

Well, another fun project comes to a close.  On to the next one!

Green Swirl Bamboo and Pen Rest

While I have posted pics of a Green Swirl Bamboo before, I thought I would put this one up anyway.  The person who ordered this pen had seen pics of the previous one, and was drawn to the cool acrylic, but also wanted a matching pen rest for it, having seen the other pen rests that I recently did.

As I was making this pen rest, I thought I would try something a bit different - so I added some black trim to each end of it, and then inlaid some black and green swirl acrylic into the black trim.  I rather liked how it came out - I hope the new owner does as well!

Thanks for looking!

Ken