RichF
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This was my fountain pen entry.
In creating this pen, I tried to fuse the two things I love about pen making--working with beautiful wood and component less design--into one. So I made a "wood and ebonite stick with at clip". :biggrin:
This design is really a pen within a pen. The section and interior supporting structure are all ebonite. The body has a full length sleeve so that the pen could be used as an eye dropper filler. Without the wood shell, you have a very thin ebonite pen.
The exterior shell of the pen is all wood. To create the shell, I used blank cutoffs left over from other pens. I cut the individual pieces to a thicker width, then assembled them using a herringbone design. The thick widths give the end pattern a patchwork type design and highlights the figure/color/burl of the individual woods in the design. For this pen, I managed to incorporate wood from 6 different continents.
The cap uses a rhodium clip and the clip is removable by unscrewing the cap piece.
This was my first attempt at a pen using this technique and it was a lot of fun to work thru the details. There were a couple of times that I almost gave up. I learned a lot doing this, and look forward to the next opportunity to push my self to improve. Thanks to everyone who makes these events possible. I look forward to the next one. Seeing the winning designs reminds me how much more I have to learn.
Sorry my pics aren't that good. I need to take some time to learn how to do better with them.
Rich
In creating this pen, I tried to fuse the two things I love about pen making--working with beautiful wood and component less design--into one. So I made a "wood and ebonite stick with at clip". :biggrin:
This design is really a pen within a pen. The section and interior supporting structure are all ebonite. The body has a full length sleeve so that the pen could be used as an eye dropper filler. Without the wood shell, you have a very thin ebonite pen.
The exterior shell of the pen is all wood. To create the shell, I used blank cutoffs left over from other pens. I cut the individual pieces to a thicker width, then assembled them using a herringbone design. The thick widths give the end pattern a patchwork type design and highlights the figure/color/burl of the individual woods in the design. For this pen, I managed to incorporate wood from 6 different continents.
The cap uses a rhodium clip and the clip is removable by unscrewing the cap piece.
This was my first attempt at a pen using this technique and it was a lot of fun to work thru the details. There were a couple of times that I almost gave up. I learned a lot doing this, and look forward to the next opportunity to push my self to improve. Thanks to everyone who makes these events possible. I look forward to the next one. Seeing the winning designs reminds me how much more I have to learn.
Sorry my pics aren't that good. I need to take some time to learn how to do better with them.
Rich
