Ondrej Berkus
November 26th, 2014, 10:00 AM
Hello everyone,
after a long time of not making any really noteworthy pen, I have something I think is going to be awesome, so I thought I'd finally register here and share.
This is a pen for one customer of mine, a guy I love working for because he always enthusiasticly supports every foolishness I come up with :-)
This time, he mentioned carbon fiber and I came up with a design I know and like, made it a piston filler with a visible ink chamber, flip-out piston control and titanium hardware. There are still parts to be made and the whole pen needs to be properly finished, however the piston mechanism already works nicely and the pen writes really nicely too. The carbon fiber used on this is really high tech stuff, baked under high pressure with special binder, so there are absolutely no bubbles and voids and it holds together ( meaning it won't split when threading like the cheap (bleep)).
The plan is to anodize the titanium hardware to a green color.
Now for some pictures :-)
The whole pen.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152026.jpg
Piston control
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_114620.jpg
Piston mechanism together with ink chamber. Someone had a bright idea to machine grooves into the chamber and fill them with luminous paint.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152143.jpg
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152137.jpg
Now the whole chamber glows slightly ominously in the dark :-)
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_110830.jpg
Handmade titanium nib - hot formed, covered with a lot of oxides, requiring a lot of further clean up.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152040.jpg
And hand made feed, I love me a transparent feed :-) a lot of cleanup on this as well.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152058.jpg
Thank you for looking, take care,
Ondrej
after a long time of not making any really noteworthy pen, I have something I think is going to be awesome, so I thought I'd finally register here and share.
This is a pen for one customer of mine, a guy I love working for because he always enthusiasticly supports every foolishness I come up with :-)
This time, he mentioned carbon fiber and I came up with a design I know and like, made it a piston filler with a visible ink chamber, flip-out piston control and titanium hardware. There are still parts to be made and the whole pen needs to be properly finished, however the piston mechanism already works nicely and the pen writes really nicely too. The carbon fiber used on this is really high tech stuff, baked under high pressure with special binder, so there are absolutely no bubbles and voids and it holds together ( meaning it won't split when threading like the cheap (bleep)).
The plan is to anodize the titanium hardware to a green color.
Now for some pictures :-)
The whole pen.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152026.jpg
Piston control
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_114620.jpg
Piston mechanism together with ink chamber. Someone had a bright idea to machine grooves into the chamber and fill them with luminous paint.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152143.jpg
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152137.jpg
Now the whole chamber glows slightly ominously in the dark :-)
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_110830.jpg
Handmade titanium nib - hot formed, covered with a lot of oxides, requiring a lot of further clean up.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152040.jpg
And hand made feed, I love me a transparent feed :-) a lot of cleanup on this as well.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152058.jpg
Thank you for looking, take care,
Ondrej