Rich L
June 9th, 2013, 07:19 PM
I was encouraged by the site owners to post this in this forum even though it has been a pen making exercise, so here goes -
This is a new engraved pattern on my Slipstream line of pens that sports black-lip mother-of-pearl on each end. The barrel and cap are solid sterling and the section is nickel silver (keeps cost down a bit). The barrel is one piece meaning that there is no screw-in finial at the end. The cap finial, which does screw on is solid sterling. The nib is my stamped design on a Bock 250 (#6 size) gold nib with the two-tone rhodium plating on the gold for the contrast in the logo. The clip is also solid sterling of the Argentium variety because it hardens up a little better for springiness.
Outside of the nib and the converter inside, I make all the parts. The barrels are from blank tube, the section is from solid rod, the clip is from a flat sheet. The engraving on the clip and barrels is done on old hand-cranked guilloché machines and the mother-of-pearl I get in bulk shapes to cut and grind to fit the ends of the pen. All the internal parts and sleeves with single and multi-start threading are cut on my lathe and by the way the cap and barrel threads are 4 start .75mm pitch for you threaders out there. :)
I hope you like the looks of it. It weighs 71 grams capped, it does not post (in my opinion too heavy and unbalanced that way) and comes with a choice of fine or medium italic nib. I make these s o s l o w l y...
I'm so slow I have't even put these up on the web site, yet. :tsk:
Cheers, :cheers:
Rich
This is a new engraved pattern on my Slipstream line of pens that sports black-lip mother-of-pearl on each end. The barrel and cap are solid sterling and the section is nickel silver (keeps cost down a bit). The barrel is one piece meaning that there is no screw-in finial at the end. The cap finial, which does screw on is solid sterling. The nib is my stamped design on a Bock 250 (#6 size) gold nib with the two-tone rhodium plating on the gold for the contrast in the logo. The clip is also solid sterling of the Argentium variety because it hardens up a little better for springiness.
Outside of the nib and the converter inside, I make all the parts. The barrels are from blank tube, the section is from solid rod, the clip is from a flat sheet. The engraving on the clip and barrels is done on old hand-cranked guilloché machines and the mother-of-pearl I get in bulk shapes to cut and grind to fit the ends of the pen. All the internal parts and sleeves with single and multi-start threading are cut on my lathe and by the way the cap and barrel threads are 4 start .75mm pitch for you threaders out there. :)
I hope you like the looks of it. It weighs 71 grams capped, it does not post (in my opinion too heavy and unbalanced that way) and comes with a choice of fine or medium italic nib. I make these s o s l o w l y...
I'm so slow I have't even put these up on the web site, yet. :tsk:
Cheers, :cheers:
Rich