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Custom Fountain in Burl and Alumilite

Gregory Hardy

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I have been struggling for months to come up with a way to make a custom ("kitless") pen that allows for the use of wood. This one is a stabilized maple burl with Alumilite fittings. The body of the pen is sleeved with a brass tube. Then alumilite fittings were turned with a tenon. Boring and threading (inside and out) could then happen as usual. The cap is sleeved with alumilite in similar fashion. The pen then was finished with CA - the finish "fades" on the end fittings, but both the resin and the CA polish the same, so the end result seemed to work. I still need to do some thread polishing and a final buff, but this one's going to work! The pen features a Bock #5 nib and no clip or roll-stop (per customer request).

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Thanks for looking!
 

Gregory Hardy

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Thanks, gents. This was really a "concept pen" to prove to myself that it wasn't impossible on a wood lathe. Now I am ready to give the pen some shape, a clip, some embellishments and a proper polish. I have placed too many constraints on myself in order to "work small." The cap-to-barrel is 12mm, and the section-to-barrel is 10mm. Getting pretty darned thin. I found some section measurements that feel good to my hand. Really not a pen to write home about ("write home with?") but some mysteries have been solved. Now I can try to make it beautiful!
 

Gregory Hardy

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Upper New York State
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Greg
You have a tenacious knack of finding solutions to problems. Great looking pen Greg.

You may or may not recall that I spent several days last summer emailing you with questions that I now reread and think, "That poor man must have the patience of a saint. He didn't even know me but he continued to explain details that were escaping me." I appreciate your willingness (and that of the other members on this forum) to answer questions that help solve problems. Self-made pocket clips are the next obstacle! (BTW - I love the new layout on the clips page on your site. Very user-friendly, and your posted dimensions are God send.)
 
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