Advanced Kit Contest Voting Poll

[Brooks803]

Here is where you can cast your vote for the 1 pen like the best. To recap here are the rules for all entries:


The rules were simple:

1. Any Rollerball or Fountain pen kit is allowed​
2. You MUST eliminate a minimum of 1 component​
3. You MUST use a minimum of 2 components​
4. Brass tubes, refills, ink converters, & spring do NOT count as components within the scope of this contest.​
5. Only 1 entry per person. The person entering the pen must be the person that made it.​
6. Your entry must not be show publicly prior to the contest end.​

There are no restrictions on tools or techniques. Everything is allowed as long as you are the one doing the work.​

Before you vote please take a moment to consider all aspects of the pen.

1 - creativity
2 - techniques used to alter the pen
3 - looks, we all like a pretty pen!
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Voters please take EVERYTHING into consideration before you vote. This is not just a pretty blank competition.

Only 1 vote per person. The results will be posted once the poll has ended.

 

[Brooks803]

Please do not post until ALL 6 entries have been posted. Thank you!

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 1

The sacrificial kit for this pen was a new style Lazerlinez Eagle chosen for it's simple, clean centerband. The cap of the pen is made from Casein and the body is made from black alumlite giving a nice but still warm contrast. I turned each part in a closed end style making a double closed end style and when capped the only visible metal part is the centerband. It is a very comfortable and warm feeling pen.

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 2

Closed end caballero with clip modified with a J Garcia tie tack

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 3

I modified the black titanium component set by replacing the cap button with a disc turned from a remnant of the blank. I also replaced the accent ring in the center band with an accent ring turned from the remnant of the blank. The PR blank is my own three-color pour of purple (blend of blue and red dye) with interference violet pearlescent pigment, white with reflex violet pearlescent pigment, and grey lavender pearlescent pigment.

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 4

This pen is made from a natural edge piece of stabilized buckeye burl that was combined with a resin swirl to fill the natural voids in the wood. I started with a rhodium and gold Jr. Gent II and replaced the cap finial and gold centerband ring with pieces of the resin fill to take this beyond the already quality hardware into a custom pen. I rounded the blank to near finished diameter prior to cutting and drilling to be able to position the cut for optimum appearance of the finished pen. After finishing with 20 coats of thin CA, careful attention was paid to grain alignment for the final assembly. This is one of my favorite wood and color combinations and I like the way the centerband ring reflects the blue in the cap. I hope you like it as well.

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 5

Twisted Cocobolo Cocobolo turned on a 3 point twisted axis.Double closed end fountain pen.Buffed with triploi and white diamond,ren.wax topcoat SPW Cabollero front section,thread adapter w/o trim ring.Centerband assembly turned flush to fit entirely in the brass tube.

 

[Brooks803]

Entry 6

The Gambler's Pen - This is a Rollerball pen made from Dice. The basic kit is the Streamline American Rollerball from Berea. The body finial part was discarded and replaced by a black die and a brass stub to mount it to the end of the body tube. All dice except the finial die are free to spin around the body tube, and so the writer can fiddle with the dice while he/she is thinking of the next thing to write. The cap is made from an acrylic blank.

 

[stonepecker]

Not an easy choice but made it.

Good luck to all the entries

 

[duncsuss]

Not an easy choice but made it.

Good luck to all the entries

I agree completely -- in the end, I had to ask myself the additional question, "which one would I like to write a letter with most?"

 

[cmiller]

This was the hardest one to vote on for me. They're all really nice. Great work.