Hi pen people!
It’s nice to be back after the festive season, I had a very nice time and hope you all did too.
Whilst I’m officially beyond the three-day acceptable time limit for wishing you all a happy new year, I will just say that I am really looking forward to seeing what everybody does in 2024 and I hope you all do it in good health.
I’ve got a few ideas for improving my work in the year ahead. I’m going to do a bit more off-lathe work and try to get more out of my vertical mill. I want to explore making my own clips, more elaborate (not too elaborate!) accent rings and working more with celluloid. I have acquired quite a bit of both old and modern cellulose nitrate and it deserves to be made into pens. I just need to get my finishing to a better level with a bit of trial and error.
And bowls. I really want to make more bowls and do some proper wood turning again. I miss it a lot.
However my first effort for this year is, of course, a pen made from some good old fashioned acrylic. One of my favourites and I have a pen similar to this in my own collection.
Not much to say other than it’s got silver accents (sterling rings and Argentium coin). The pocket clip is chrome plated steel and it’s a Jowo no6 nib.
Threads are 13mm triple lead and the cap unscrews in 1.5 turns.
Cheers
Ash
It’s nice to be back after the festive season, I had a very nice time and hope you all did too.
Whilst I’m officially beyond the three-day acceptable time limit for wishing you all a happy new year, I will just say that I am really looking forward to seeing what everybody does in 2024 and I hope you all do it in good health.
I’ve got a few ideas for improving my work in the year ahead. I’m going to do a bit more off-lathe work and try to get more out of my vertical mill. I want to explore making my own clips, more elaborate (not too elaborate!) accent rings and working more with celluloid. I have acquired quite a bit of both old and modern cellulose nitrate and it deserves to be made into pens. I just need to get my finishing to a better level with a bit of trial and error.
And bowls. I really want to make more bowls and do some proper wood turning again. I miss it a lot.
However my first effort for this year is, of course, a pen made from some good old fashioned acrylic. One of my favourites and I have a pen similar to this in my own collection.
Not much to say other than it’s got silver accents (sterling rings and Argentium coin). The pocket clip is chrome plated steel and it’s a Jowo no6 nib.
Threads are 13mm triple lead and the cap unscrews in 1.5 turns.
Cheers
Ash