Evening Pen Friends!
I haven’t made any wooden pens for a while but the urge came over me last week so I decided to revisit how I made them in the past and try to improve things with regard to my approach.
The way I used to make them involved gluing the liners, sleeves and finials together and then finishing the pen as a whole. This is fine but I like to have contrasting finishes between the wood and the acrylic, (satin v gloss), like I have done in this pen. It’s ok to do that with a completed pen but masking areas off is quite tricky, especially as the barrel and cap are both tapered, and you can end up getting buffing compound penetrating the edge if the wood, and wood lacquer going over the acrylic. Not ideal.
So now I have a more component based approach where I can make and finish each piece separately and then assemble the pen at the end. Well almost! Enough for me to achieve my aims in any case.
This is green dyed and stabilised maple burr with acrylic and sterling accents. Both cap and barrel are fully lined with acrylic. It features a Jowo 6 nib and a chrome plated steel roller ball clip.
Cap threads are 13mm triple lead.
Cheers
Ash
I haven’t made any wooden pens for a while but the urge came over me last week so I decided to revisit how I made them in the past and try to improve things with regard to my approach.
The way I used to make them involved gluing the liners, sleeves and finials together and then finishing the pen as a whole. This is fine but I like to have contrasting finishes between the wood and the acrylic, (satin v gloss), like I have done in this pen. It’s ok to do that with a completed pen but masking areas off is quite tricky, especially as the barrel and cap are both tapered, and you can end up getting buffing compound penetrating the edge if the wood, and wood lacquer going over the acrylic. Not ideal.
So now I have a more component based approach where I can make and finish each piece separately and then assemble the pen at the end. Well almost! Enough for me to achieve my aims in any case.
This is green dyed and stabilised maple burr with acrylic and sterling accents. Both cap and barrel are fully lined with acrylic. It features a Jowo 6 nib and a chrome plated steel roller ball clip.
Cap threads are 13mm triple lead.
Cheers
Ash