Pearly White Fountain Pen

[JohnGreco]

Not too long ago I posted a gray and black acrylic fp I mounted on a rhodium tycoon kit. This is the counterpart to that, pearly white on gold. I reverse painted the blank white and put a Bock nib on the pen.

C & C welcome, thanks for looking.

 

[Proud2Turn]

Very nice. Fit looks to be spot on, outstanding craftsmanship.

 

[Hendu3270]

Great looking pen. Like Proud said, fit looks perfect.

I've tried painting the ends of tubes white at times when I was working on an acrylic pen but it seemed to compromise the glue sticking and the tubes would want to slide out without much force. How did you do the reverse painting for it to hold?

 

[JohnGreco]

Thanks!

Hendu: After I drill the holes in the acrylic I sand them down a bit with 400 grit, then apply 2 coats of paint inside the blank, sanding after each coat again with 400 grit to smooth out any clumpy spots. Then I scuff the tubes with some 320 grit sandpaper and use thick CA to glue them in place after a dry fit (sometimes I need to sand the paint down a bit more to get the tubes to slide in without scraping off paint).

No problems with them holding, but I give everything a full day to dry. 1 full day for each coat of paint + a full day for the CA. Hope that helps

 

[Hendu3270]

Thanks!

Hendu: After I drill the holes in the acrylic I sand them down a bit with 400 grit, then apply 2 coats of paint inside the blank, sanding after each coat again with 400 grit to smooth out any clumpy spots. Then I scuff the tubes with some 320 grit sandpaper and use thick CA to glue them in place after a dry fit (sometimes I need to sand the paint down a bit more to get the tubes to slide in without scraping off paint).

No problems with them holding, but I give everything a full day to dry. 1 full day for each coat of paint + a full day for the CA. Hope that helps

Thanks for the tip John. I was using med CA and scuffing the tubes as always but I was painting the tubes, and not waiting any longer than typical before moving forward with the pen. I'll try this next time.

 

[Haynie]

Nice pen, nice photo.

 

[Russknan]

Possibly dumb question: How do you manage to sand the insides of the blanks? BTW, nice pen! Russ

 

[JohnGreco]

Russ- With a piece of sandpaper wrapped around a dowel. And thanks!

 

[walshjp17]

Have you found any one paint better than others?

 

[JohnGreco]

I use an acrylic paint from AC Moore, but others have said Testers works well too.