My first Jr. Statesman

[Firefyter-emt]

This is the best I can get on a photo so bear with me. I think I should of gone with the gold trimed kit on this instead, but anyway here it is. The blank is a very wild african black wood. It was quite a pain to keep it togather with the grain pattern like that. This was also my 1st CA finish, took me a little bit to get it right, but I hope it can take some daily abuse over the Lacquer finish.

This kit is a fountian pen, and once the noodlers ink comes in I can install the schmidtt ink pump that is sitting here on my desk and give their luxury blue a shot.

There, I adjusted the color a little to get it as close to correct as I could.

 

[NavyDiver]

Hard to see the grain, but from what I can make out it looks really nice.

 

[DocStram]

Lee ..... however long it took you to match up the grain, was time very well spent. The swirls on the cap match up great with the bottom swirls. They have real impact.

 

[NavyDiver]

Hey,
That's not fair changing your pictures after my post [:I] .

The new pics really show off the wood.
Great job!

 

[johncrane]

Good job LEE very nice looking Statesman mate []

 

[Ligget]

Great work on the pen Lee![]

 

[Firefyter-emt]

Thanks guys, I am happy with it myself. Although I do wish I went with the gold trim, it still works quite nicely. I might just make one in gold trimming with some of the very deep black Blackwood that I have here. I made a Americana FP in it and it's so dark that unless it's in the daylight, it looks like solid black. I kinda like that wood coloring more than this (even with the wild grain pattern)

I am also supprised on how light the pen really is. I thought it would be pretty heavy and in fact, it's close to or maybe even lighter than the Americana FP I have been using.