A little blue Emperor

[gerryr]

This might be the first post of a Jr. Emperor. I got my kits from the group buy late last week, my Beall collet chuck on Friday and the collets today. I was waiting on the collet chuck to do this. Lapis Lazuli Tru Stone from CSUSA, beautiful stuff with lots of gold veining. Once I figure out how to get the nib apart, I have a 14K nib from Anthony that goes on this and a Schmidt converter. I will have this for sale at a show in a couple of weeks, a college town and the school colors are blue and gold.

Comments welcome

 

[alamocdc]

Wow, Gerry, that's pretty![^]

 

[JimGo]

Very nice Gerry!!!

 

[Dario]

Wonderful pen Gerry!

 

[PenWorks]

Fine looking pen Gerry, looks like you got a good blank to work with.
Good luck at the show.

 

[Ligget]

Those are lovely kits, brilliant work on the pen![]

 

[wdcav1952]

Wow, wow, and wow! Beautiful work, Gerry.

 

[jscola]

Beautifull pen Gerry!! The color looks great with that kit. Joe

 

[Jim15]

Beautiful pen.

 

[Penmonkey]

Very nice!

 

[johncrane]

you blokes are just to good" It's a great pen mate.

 

[OSCAR15]

Beautiful Jerry ...Great choice of material for that kit!

How does it turn??? Ive heard it is hard to turn tru stone and kinda rough on your chisels...Nevertheless, That one is worth it,,,BEAUTIFUL PEN!

 

[gerryr]

Thanks for all the kind comments. This is the fourth pen I've made from Tru Stone and this one was definitely harder to turn than the others. I re-sharpened my round nose scraper 4 times on each barrel. I don't know why this blank is different, maybe the gold stuff is more abrasive. The other two colors I did were pretty easy.

 

[GBusardo]

Looks fantastic Gerry, Thanks for the picture

 

[marvok]

Great looking pen,i would like to know how the nib comes apart as well.

 

[thewishman]

I love lapis - was afraid to try the tru-stone because the blank in the catalog looked monochromatic. Your pen looks fantastic! The gold veining really makes it stand out.

Three thumbs up! (I'm all thumbs, so I can give more than two.)

Chris

 

[ed4copies]

http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=6707&SearchTerms=nib

This is the definitive education on nibs, from the "nib-master" Anthony.

Don't start reading unless you have some time-but it is GOOD-I have it in my shop as the "bible" on nibs.

Oh, and finding it was easy-on page 9 of 9 doing a search for nibs and penworks, so all you had to do is know Anthony wrote it and it was "findable".

 

[gerryr]

Ed,
The problem with this one is that it is a bit different from the Baron nib which I have replaced before and it did not want to come out. I was finally able to get it out, but it took a LOT of wiggling.[:0] But thanks for the link, I will use it.

 

[ed4copies]

I had the same problem not too long ago with a Churchill. Finally got it out, but only after two reasurring conversations with Anthony that it WOULD come out.

 

[ken69912001]

Wow i really like that pen.

 

[txcwboy]

very nice combonation !

Dave

 

[Jerryconn]

That is a stunning pen Gerry! WOW!

 

[Roy99664]

Beautiful Pen Gerry!

I have been looking for a blank of about that color. In your opinion would engraving with gold colorfill work with that blank?

Thanks

 

[DFM]

Great looking pen and Kit. The two look like they are meant for each other.

 

[huntersilver]

Nice pen! Ann Arbor bound!

 

[Glenn McCullough]

what an eye catcher, so elegant looking!great job. There'll probably be a run on Jr E's and tru stone, now!

 

[Jim in Oakville]

Hi Gerry,

That is Drop Dead Beautiful!! What a great pen blank for that kit!!

This is a 10 +++!!

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[Stevej72]

Wow! Gerry, that looks great!

 

[blacksmith2461]

that pen is excellent thats something to be proud of nice job[]

 

[Stretch]

WOW! That is a classy pen!

 

[Kaspar]

Gorgeous pen. I think Blanco Nero would look good in that as well.

 

[Kaspar]

.... Oops, again. I keep double posting for some reason.