For a while I've been wrestling with a way to make an all-wood kitless pen. (I only like to work with wood, no offense to acrylic.) This has gone some way toward answering the question. It uses the tubes, nib and feed, and section and cap threads from a Gents pen, but that's about it. Notice the wooden clip - my wife is having kittens about me selling these things and the clips snapping off left, right and centre. Looks pretty cool, though, huh?
Also the wooden grip on the section. It's not great - it's turned off-centre so is forcing the cap to cross-thread. Will have to re-turn it ... Oh, and the segmentation I'm calling AdAstra. (Any calls for a step-by-step pictorial on it?) It's ALL walnut, the white wood is sapwood while the rest is heartwood. Once I'm confident I can make these without problems I'll cut into my exotic stash (courtesy of Jim).
I got the idea from this article by Richard Kleinhenz, although it has my own unique flavour (mostly to fix messes I made as I went along)!
C&C welcome.
Also the wooden grip on the section. It's not great - it's turned off-centre so is forcing the cap to cross-thread. Will have to re-turn it ... Oh, and the segmentation I'm calling AdAstra. (Any calls for a step-by-step pictorial on it?) It's ALL walnut, the white wood is sapwood while the rest is heartwood. Once I'm confident I can make these without problems I'll cut into my exotic stash (courtesy of Jim).
I got the idea from this article by Richard Kleinhenz, although it has my own unique flavour (mostly to fix messes I made as I went along)!
C&C welcome.