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Monday, 4 April 2016

Kit-less pen in deep brown rippled ebonite.

Made this kit-less pen last night. It is a regular sized pen in dark brown ebonite. Schmidt size 5 nib and local converter fitted. The size and shape is from imagination, there were no drawing. Happy with what came up finally.Thanks for viewing and as always welcome your comments.





Saturday, 2 April 2016

Mixed colour blank

One more pen to preserve my own cast blanks. Can not call it kit-less as few kit parts were borrowed from scrap.
The cap is snap on fit type, with a taper bore inner sleeve and a tight barrel end piece.
Since my blanks are not strong they were cracking at the edge. Four times the cap broke and I kept struggling for two days. Finally got fed up and used a blue acrylic piece much against the plan.
Section , barrel end piece and two couplers and nib unit were taken from a br...
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