I recently had a friend send me a few pieces of tubular cebloplast (celluloid acetate), a vintage plastic, to see if I could do anything with it. This green material was the thinnest, and by that, I mean very thin, at 12mm OD. Not much room for error, even with a small pen! But intrigued, I figured I would have a go at it.
First of all, I could not use my usual #6 JoWo - way too big for this material. I had a few #5 Bock and JoWo nibs in stock, so decided to use one my Bocks. Had to make a smaller grip section to look decent with the smaller nib, and thus a smaller barrel would fit. In the end, ended up using my M12 triple-start tap and die for the cap to barrel threading, and since I knew I would end up with a thinner cap, I figured it was a good opportunity to try out one of these cool clips, which I had never used before.
The Bock nib is a steel medium, gold plated, matching the gold coloured clip and complementing the green cebloplast. The pen is not perfect - I would have preferred to make it able to post more easily, and the clip ring has a tiny space under it that bothers me, but these are things I can work on with the next one, and overall, I am very happy with the outcome.
The pen is here posing with a similar sized Pelikan M400:
Thanks for looking!
Ken
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