El Grande Closed-end Desk Pen

[igran7]

A couple of pictures of an El Grande Closed end Fountain Desk pen. The base is ebonized Cherry with Mirror Coat high gloss epoxy finish. The far end of the base looks like it has ripples, but it is the lighting. Comments welcome.

 

[Radman]

Awesome! Has to be the nicest desk set I've seen in years!
[8D]

 

[Glenn McCullough]

That is a classy looking desk pen and stand...excellent shape,very well done.

 

[R2]

Very nice![^]

 

[hilltopper46]

Beautiful!! I'm curious, I've made a couple el Grandes, so I know how big they are - what's the overall length of that pen in the holder/cap?

 

[papaturner]

Awesome! That would look nice on anyones desk.


Perry

 

[igran7]

Tony, it is a big pen. The overall length of the pen in the holder is 8 1/4" The pen body is made from one 5" acrylic blank.

 

[Stevej72]

Joe, that is a very nice looking desk pen.

 

[Tanner]

Oh, now that is very elegant looking!!! Beautiful job!!!

 

[Firefyter-emt]

I have to admit, I have been watching a few on e-bay. After my quick slide down the slope of vintage pens, I not have the strange "need" for an nice desk pen set on my desk when I address my mail.

What did you do for the post cap, is it a snap on or is it a screw cap?
I picked up a cheap pen on e-bay but it came in with a dammaged body. I plan to "re-make" the pen because it has a great looking nib assy and a snaap cap design that would be easy to remove from the cap. It may be a good canidate for this.

 

[doddman70]

Very classy i like it!!!

 

[igran7]

Lee, I actually cheated a little on this one. I body portion of the pen is an El Grande complete with threaded nib assembly. The cap portion mounted on the base is made with the Gentlemen's brass tube and Gentlemen's Gold TN centerband. The black innersleeve was replaced with a plastic sleeve turned down to fit the interior of the brass tube where I tapped threads to accomidate the pen body. Since I didn't want the pen to screw down into the cap portion, I threaded only enough for the pen body to "catch" the threads to hold it in place. The lower portion of the cap end has a 7mm brass tube to accept the swivel funnel piece.

 

[toolcrazy]

Beautiful set.

 

[VisExp]

That looks very nice. Did you ebonize the cherry with a metal acid dye?

 

[igran7]

I actually Ebonized it using Transtint Concentrated analine dye. So I guess I technically dyed the wood black.

 

[johncrane]

Looks really good Joe! well done.[]