Looking for a kit

[bruce119]

Looking for a kit FISHING FOR IDEAS

FISHING FOR IDEAS​

I had a customer come to me this past weekend and wants a pen. To get a feel for his taste he liked a gentleman pen I had in an Amboyna Burl but he wanted a fountain pen with an 18 kt NIB. That's not hard I can get that from Lou.

So he likes big flashy gold fountain pens collector type. He sent me a link to these two pens he was looking at and asked if I can do something like that.

Here's the photos


Here's the links
http://www.joonpens.com/Dupont, S.T._Versailles Limited Edition_pens
http://www.joonpens.com/Dupont, S.T._New York 5th Avenue Limited Edition_pens

So is there anything in a kit that would come close. I have been to CSUSA something like an Imperial perhaps or a L.E. Statesman. I thought I saw a nice pen somewhere that had a filigree that fit over the barrel something like the Dayacom Dragon Emperor.
http://www.dayacom.com.tw/product_02_limit.php?product_id=941&class_item_id=20

Any thoughts or suggestions ???

Thanks
Bruce

 

[Monty]

I know Berea make a filigree ball point but not a FP. Someone else just came out with some new filigrees, but for the life of me, I don't remember who it is.

I would think a Lotus or Imperial from CSUSA would fit the bill.
Or maybe a Cambridge from Ernie at BTW?

edit in: Found the other source, it's PSI, but they are also just for BP pens.

 

[thewishman]

Is he willing to pay the retail price? You could certainly make a nice pen for $2400.00.

 

[IPD_Mrs]

Bruce I am not too sure if there is any turning involved in that high end dyacom pen. Also I have heard big bucks for the silly thing as well. If you want something flashy like a collector pen, then I would consider the Imperial in the black Ti and see if you could talk Dawn into making a Paua shell blank. Another option would be an Eaglized blank. Something like the wave of feathers.

Mike

 

[Russianwolf]

I think Dayacom is now offering the Gent with the filigree covers, but the minimum order will likely kill the deal.

Looking at the examples. Get a nice kit and do a hell of a lamination job with some bright brass or something (match the kit color as much as possible, or get a platinum kit and go for contrast).

Option two would be to make the pen then use some gold leaf under a lacquer or CA finish.

Here's the kit I was thinking of. The Floral Classic from Dayacom. But I don't know of anyone that stocks them yet.
http://www.dayacom.com.tw/bigpic.ph...zczNy5qcGc=&product_name=RmxvcmFsIENsYXNzaWMg

 

[DurocShark]

Here's the kit I was thinking of. The Floral Classic from Dayacom. But I don't know of anyone that stocks them yet.
http://www.dayacom.com.tw/bigpic.ph...zczNy5qcGc=&product_name=RmxvcmFsIENsYXNzaWMg

I really like that, and have a couple of people in mind who would buy them in a heartbeat. If anybody has bought into that kit, please give me a holler.

 

[JohnU]

I dont know about the kit, but Ive seen your pens and I think you could probably make a blank with some white nonwood material and some brass inlay. Lots of cutting and glueing but it would be an eye catcher!

 

[DurocShark]

I dont know about the kit, but Ive seen your pens and I think you could probably make a blank with some white nonwood material and some brass inlay. Lots of cutting and glueing but it would be an eye catcher!

Brass in a mold, pour alumilite white (or white resin of some kind) in.

This gives me ideas...

 

[bruce119]

Brass in a mold, pour alumilite white (or white resin of some kind) in.

This gives me ideas...

This is the whole point of this thread​

Fishing for ideas​

Keep em coming​

.​

 

[aggromere]

in looking for high quality kits the only ones i have found are, emperor, imperial, lotus and to a slightly less degree, the majestic. If you can find someone that sells some of the other daycom highend kits please post it somewhere.

 

[wdcav1952]

Don't write off the Cambridge, especially now with the new metal couplers. The kit is ornate, but not so ornate that it would clash with an ornate blank. Consider a TruStone blank of Black with Gold web or White with Gold Web. R&B Crafts makes them available through exoticblanks.com

 

[DurocShark]

I was thinking they have some expandable mesh that could be used as well. Turn a colored resin smaller than the final diameter, wrap in the mesh and re-cast.

 

[george]

I have made a Lotus pen with burl stabilized blank recetnly - boy, was that flushy.