Kaspar
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... or maybe not.
I have a customer in England. He's bought two Statesman fountain pens in stabilzed buckeye burl over the last two Christmases.
He wants an "all organic" pen. No plastic, no metal, no synthetic glues used, no synthetic resin stabilization, drilled, tapped, and shaped to fit a parker duofold nib, and made from buckeye burl.
I have a pretty good grip in how to do most of this, but there are two huge problems:
1) Unstabilized buckeye burl is very soft and weak. I could perhaps vacuum stabilize it with an organic glue after drilling and turning turning so that there's a good chance the glue will permeate all the wood, then it might be strong enough, except ...
2) I cannot find an all organic glue. Or even a recipe for making one. Maybe there is one out there that I am unaware of or maybe something like wood glue is "organic". I don;t know.
Any comments, suggestions, advice on how to proceed, and the clearing up of misconceptions welcome.
I have a customer in England. He's bought two Statesman fountain pens in stabilzed buckeye burl over the last two Christmases.
He wants an "all organic" pen. No plastic, no metal, no synthetic glues used, no synthetic resin stabilization, drilled, tapped, and shaped to fit a parker duofold nib, and made from buckeye burl.
I have a pretty good grip in how to do most of this, but there are two huge problems:
1) Unstabilized buckeye burl is very soft and weak. I could perhaps vacuum stabilize it with an organic glue after drilling and turning turning so that there's a good chance the glue will permeate all the wood, then it might be strong enough, except ...
2) I cannot find an all organic glue. Or even a recipe for making one. Maybe there is one out there that I am unaware of or maybe something like wood glue is "organic". I don;t know.
Any comments, suggestions, advice on how to proceed, and the clearing up of misconceptions welcome.