Classic Clipless Fountain Pen in 'Cappuccino Humbug' Acrylic

Here's one that I finished last night.  Finally someone chose this cool acrylic for their custom pen!  I have been itching to use this stuff since I got it, but I guess I needed an excuse.

So anyway, the order was for one of my 'Classic' style pens, clipless, in this material, with a two tone fine nib.  No problem.

Interestingly, as I turned this material, which is pretty obviously a resin composed of chips of another layered acrylic, I came across one solitary black chip, mixed in amongst the others.  I thought that was pretty cool, so I hope the buyer does too :-))

When I bought this stuff, it was called 'cappuccino', but since everyone renames these acrylics when they sell them, and since my wife thought they looked like the candies known as 'humbugs', I thought the name was appropriate.

So there we go.  I hope the new owner likes it, because that's what it's all about!

Thanks for looking,

Ken

Ivory Celluloid Bamboo

Here is a custom order I just finished, a 'Bamboo' style fountain pen in this cool 'ivory' celluloid.

I don't often get the chance to turn celluloid on the lathe, as it is a pretty rare resin to get hold of.  One of he earliest plastics, it is made of polymerized cellulose, and when turned, gives off a strong camphor smell.  Matter of fact, my whole garage smelled a whole lot like a cough drop while I was working on this pen :-))

This pen was a custom order, and as requested has a medium steel JoWo nib installed.  It also came

equipped with a good quality converter, as it is a c/c filler.

One of the things I like most about this material is that it looks so convincingly like casein resin.  Maybe also like ivory, but I think less so.

In any case, it was a lot of fun to work with this stuff, as I don't come by it very often.

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers...

...is that these Tiger-Stripey pens are so popular!

This Tigger was ordered as one of my 'Classic' style fountain pens, but using this lovely acrylic.

This one is fitted with a two-tone steel JoWo nib, and as usual, is a cartridge/converter filler, complete with the converter.

It is finally starting to warm up a bit now (at least, not so much of a deep-freeze), so working in the shop is becoming more pleasant.  Not hard to find excuses to be out there...

Thanks for looking.

Ken

New Design - the 'Shirt Pocket' Fountain Pen

I am always on the lookout for cool fountain pens that fit well in my shirt pocket.  Yes, I am that much of a geek, and proud of it.  In any case, they are hard to find - at least, in the higher end fountain pens.  Most charge a higher price simply for being larger pens.  But in the real world, those of us who carry our pens in the shirt pocket want nothing more than a decent, quality pen small enough to fit the shirt pocket, but large enough to use comfortably.

Enter the 'Shirt Pocket' style fountain pen.  I made this one to be short enough capped to fit in my pocket easily, yet when posted (even unposted), it is the perfect size for long writing sessions.

This particular pen was made out of some really cool striated green ebonite that I have been dying to use, and so is made with flat ends to show off the ebonite cross-sectional patterns, but of course it could as easily be made with rounded, 'torpedo' ends.

In any case, this was the first 'just because I wanted to' fountain pen that I have made in a while.  Loved the experience!

Comments welcome.

Ken