Lucite El Toro

[vick]

I got a couple of sticks of Lucite the other day and this is the first one that I have turned so far. Now I know Anthony is a bad influence!

The material is the Blue Black lucite and the kit is an El Toro. I have to say that I realy like some of the El Toro features, it is a very easy kit to leave parts off of. Only 4 parts from the kit were used on this pen.

Comments and critiques are appreciated.

 

[OSCAR15]

Go ahead and leave those parts off.....It looks classic without the made in China cheap, plated parts. I think it looks fantastic as is! Is the lucite a hard material to work with? Harder than acrylics?[?]

 

[alamocdc]

You did a good job, Mike... but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that shape. Each barrel on its own looks good, but together they just don't seem to flow. But it's early and could be just me. []

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Hi Vick,

Oh Boy, now you really have me thinking, technically really great work,,,really nice.....The body and cap shape flow, but I think I agree that they "look" to me in this image like they meet together, rather than compliment each other...Just me, I love the pen![]

 

[gerryr]

[][][] WOW, I really like that. Great job. Anthony has certainly brought you over to the "dark" side.[][]

 

[JimGo]

Very nice Mike!

 

[chitswood]

[:0][:0] Nice pen!

 

[EdwinSSIV]

Very Nice I really like the color. Personally I would like to see a break of some sorts between cap and body.

 

[Johnathan]

Anthony would be proud! Very nice looking pen.

As to EdwinSSIV's comment, no way! this pen looks much better with the seamless fit. What finish did you use?

 

[Bev Polmanteer]

Wow Mike, that is a great looking pen! I love the shape too.

 

[csb333]

That is real sharp! I've not heard of the El Toro. Where does it come from? - Chris

 

[vick]

Originally posted by OSCAR15
<br />Is the lucite a hard material to work with? Harder than acrylics?[?]

I would not call it hard to work with, it does seem to be a little harder than the CSU acrylics that I have used in the past and that made it slightly harder to work but not much. I would call them about the same to work.

Chris - the El toro is a Berea kit it only comes in a fountain pen, I got mine from Mr. Bill.

Thanks everyone for the comments I tend to agree that the way the cap and body meet leaves a little bit ot be desired, but overall I was happy with it. It was meant to be a larger version of the Nakaya Piccolo pen
http://www.nakaya.org/eproduct3.html#wood
and their style is more inline with what most of you are saying about the how the cap and body meets.

 

[huntersilver]

Very nice pens!

 

[knottyharry]

And you should be happy.
You did it proud.
Harry

 

[jdavis]

sharp looking pen

 

[Peninhandrjg]

WOW! NIce job. Now I know what to do with the El Toro kit I've got. I've made a few before. I like them, although they are a bit short. BTW, If I am not mistaken, the CSUSA Little Havana is the same type of kit. Vick, what did you do to chuck the blanks on the lathe?

 

[vick]

Originally posted by Peninhandrjg
<br />WOW! NIce job. Now I know what to do with the El Toro kit I've got. I've made a few before. I like them, although they are a bit short. BTW, If I am not mistaken, the CSUSA Little Havana is the same type of kit. Vick, what did you do to chuck the blanks on the lathe?

For this one I used the tube from an El Presidente and then drill out the body so it will actually fit a conversion pump.

The little havana does appear to be the same kit but I have never used it before so not sure if it applies but often Berea Kit have the parts seperated more so that you get more modification opportunities.

My El Grande pin chuck fit the body perfectly so I used that for the body. I am waiting to get gentlemans tubes in before I send out for a new batch of pin chucks so for the cap I just used a jam chuck for now. I used 3/8 drill rod and glue a piece of maple on it and turned the maple down to the inside diameter of the caps tube. Both the pin and jam chuck were held on my collet chuck.