A FEW EXECUTIVES vintage style

[mrburls]

Here are a few Executives using somemore of the 1930's vintage material I got recently. I just love working with this material, I don't even want to work with anything else now. There is no need for reverse painting and polishes up like nothing else.
Why can't they make pen material like this today?

Thanks for looking, Keith "mrburls"

 

[Kaaawaz28]

those are just amazing
Aloha Thomas

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Absolutely love those vintage blanks and you made them sing...Thank you for showing them.

 

[SteveG]

Love that vintage stuff! You did a nice job with it. I be jealous. My "Vintage" drawer for pen materials is not very full.

 

[RichF]

Really love the vintage material. The pens look absolutely awesome. I would love to have a drawer full of that to make pens from.

 

[boxerman]

Very very nice pens. What's is the blanks made of? Or is that can say material?

 

[76winger]

Oh WOW!

I love the style of the Executive anyway, and those vintage blanks look absolutely stunning on them.

 

[mrcook4570]

Those are spectacular! Love the materials.

 

[dow]

Well Keith, if that's the best you can do, then I guess it'll have to do, then.:biggrin::biggrin:

Nice work!

 

[jasontg99]

Keith,

Those pens are AMAZING!!! I LOVE the first pen.

Jason

 

[mrburls]

Very very nice pens. What's is the blanks made of? Or is that can say material?

The material is Cellulose Acetate. It is wrapped around a mandrel when it is made so there is a hole in the rod already. Sometimes the hole is just the right size and sometimes I have to carefully redrill hole on lathe in a collet.
For example the black with the gold crackling had an outside diameter of 11.6 mm and an inside diameter of 7.3 mm I needed a 3/8" diameter hole for the Executive pen. Well the wall thickness was so thin the first one cracked. So I tried it again but drilled half way from both ends and it worked.
Some of the rods I plan on refilling with black epoxy and redrilling them to the size I need for other pens.
Also plan on using some of this to try kitless pens but only have to used a solid black ebonite (which I also got from the 1930's) for finial on ends.

Keith "mrburls"