Or should I say modified finials.
Below are three finials
Left------modified "euro style" finial from a PK MON PAR
Center----Stock MON PAR finial
Right-----Elegant American finial
The mon par finial is brass and is easily turned Down on my wood lathe a@500 rpm and HSS tools
I used the mandrel sold by CSUSA to hold the stock finial in a Beall collet chuck.
This of course will lead to the situation of the plating turned off on the top of the finial but I have plans for that.
You might ask why not just get a kit that has the shape of finial that I like.
The answer is the PK MON PAR is the slim line of the Parker refill pens.I find it very forgiving in tolerances and once I get rid of the "hat" and "belt", I have the guts for a Parker refill pen that I can design a blank around.(I am not crazy about the supplied clip either)
The only critical measurment is the length of the bottom tube and that would be the same as in any Parker refill style pen.
I wish to make my pens as unlike a kit pen as possible i.e. to give a customer the option of as much of a "custom pen" as I can,not just offering a different wood or acrylic blank for a kit that can be bought off the "shelf" by anyone.
Since I don't machine components I use what I can get off the shelf and adapt them to suit my ideas.
I hope this is an idea that someone else can adapt to their own pencrafting.
Below are three finials
Left------modified "euro style" finial from a PK MON PAR
Center----Stock MON PAR finial
Right-----Elegant American finial
The mon par finial is brass and is easily turned Down on my wood lathe a@500 rpm and HSS tools
I used the mandrel sold by CSUSA to hold the stock finial in a Beall collet chuck.
This of course will lead to the situation of the plating turned off on the top of the finial but I have plans for that.
You might ask why not just get a kit that has the shape of finial that I like.
The answer is the PK MON PAR is the slim line of the Parker refill pens.I find it very forgiving in tolerances and once I get rid of the "hat" and "belt", I have the guts for a Parker refill pen that I can design a blank around.(I am not crazy about the supplied clip either)
The only critical measurment is the length of the bottom tube and that would be the same as in any Parker refill style pen.
I wish to make my pens as unlike a kit pen as possible i.e. to give a customer the option of as much of a "custom pen" as I can,not just offering a different wood or acrylic blank for a kit that can be bought off the "shelf" by anyone.
Since I don't machine components I use what I can get off the shelf and adapt them to suit my ideas.
I hope this is an idea that someone else can adapt to their own pencrafting.