Fountain pen in Blue Woodgrain

[jalbert]

I finally finished up the pen I was making as a birthday present for my dad. It is Elusive Blue Woodgrain resin with Smoke Lucite for the ink window. It has a #6 Jowo nib and is cartridge/converter filled. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, as this was basically my first attempt at threading on the lathe rather than using taps and dies. Thanks for looking!

-John

 

[liljohn1368]

Hey that's a good looking pen...

 

[Cwalker935]

Nice classy looking pen

 

[magpens]

Outstandingly beautiful !!!

 

[Ironwood]

Great looking pen.
Can you tell us a bit about the thread, is it a single start?
I ask because I am wondering how hard it would be to do multi start threads on the lathe.

 

[jalbert]

Thanks everyone for the positive comments!

Ironwood,
It's a single start 36tpi thread. I have cut triple start threads for the piston mechanisms in my piston fillers using Skiprat's tutorial, however I was a little gun shy about cutting triple start threads for the cap in this pen (I had messed one cap up already). I'll most likely try using triple start threads on the next pen I make. As far as difficulty goes, I haven't found it to be too bad, just a little more time consuming to set up.
Here is the link to Skiprat's tutorial. I've found it to be quite helpful!
http://content.penturners.org/library/techniques/skiprats_triple_start_threading.pdf

-John

 

[Jim15]

Great looking pen. Great work.

 

[Ironwood]

Thanks for the explanation John, and the link to Skips tutorial, I hadn't seen it before.

 

[jalbert]

Happy to help! The concept of multi-start threading confused the heck out of me until I read that tutorial.

-John

 

[Dale Lynch]

Excellent.

 

[furini]

That looks great!