Pen For Emily

[Jim in Oakville]

Hi,

This is a pen I am just made for a wonderful young lady named Emily. She has special personal physical issues that required that if a pen were made for her that it meet a few dimensional chacteristics.


She needed a pen that had a defined grip point 1 1/2 inches above the writing point with a diameter of about half an inch. Her favorite colour is also important, it's blue.

I chose to use a blue ice bowling ball blank from Pens of Color, a few simulation Ivory cuts offs from another project and I use the hardware from a cigar pen.

I discovered that my baron pin chuck works really well for this diameter tube so I tossed the hardware and went for a desgn that was functional and fun to make.

Anyway, here is Emily's pen, I am looking forward to hearing about how she might like it.

 

[arjudy]

Very nicely done. How wonderful of you to make something so nice for a special person.[][][]

 

[Ron Mc]

Beautifully done. I really like the way it looks without all of the hardware to take away from the beauty of the material!
A beautiful pen for a beautiful young lady.

 

[gerryr]

Jim, I think you did an outstanding job on this. It looks really nice. The only thing I would change and I think you could still do it, would be to replace the black trim ring with the alternate ivory. To me, the black looks a bit out of place, BUT that's just my opinion,

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Originally posted by gerryr
<br />Jim, I think you did an outstanding job on this. It looks really nice. The only thing I would change and I think you could still do it, would be to replace the black trim ring with the alternate ivory. To me, the black looks a bit out of place, BUT that's just my opinion,

Hi Gerry,

That is a GREAT idea!!!! Thanks for that thought!

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[Johnathan]

Jim - Great job! I love the color.

 

[Fangar]

Jim,

Excellent work. Now some of the people that asked me why one would want to make a closed end cigar have an idea of what I was thinking when I said that. Nice work.

Fangar

 

[alamocdc]

Very nice, Jim. Great job and I'm sure Emily will love it.

 

[atvrules1]

Very nice job Jim. It looks great. Let us know how she likes it.

 

[airrat]

Nice idea Jim, glad you could accomadate her needs.

 

[thewishman]

Pretty pen with a nice purpose. Hope it works well for her.

 

[Scott]

Excellent, Jim! I agree with replacing the black trim ring.

Scott.

 

[Jim15]

Nice looking pen, I'm sure she will love it.

jim

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Thanks Every one for your kind thoughts and comments...I am mailing the pen in the morning..

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[jdavis]

very nice pen