Turquoise Phase

[Valleyboy]

I seem to be going through a bit of a turquoise phase at the moment for some reason. This is another cellulose acetate that is similar to the last one I posted but its more pearlescent. I finished it with sterling silver accents and a chrome clip. The nib is a Jowo no6.

This pen is my stepless model and has 14mm cap threads (I tend to default to 13mm usually). This was the first style of pen I ever made and I named it the "TroubleShooter". This, along with all the subsequent models, are named after certain types of people I worked with over the years and there was one guy who just had a very unique and effective way of getting stuff done. He was a New Yorker and a part-time fireman and he made a lasting impression on me. He was the first person I ever heard say the phrase "don't let perfect be the enemy of good". I think about that a lot as I tend to procrastinate quite a bit over whether things are good enough. (They never are).

Cheers
Ash

 

[jrista]

Beautiful pen!! Really love the colors. The chrome accents are perfection.

Curious, though...what exactly do you mean by "stepless?" I haven't gotten into bespoke pens yet, still trying to hone my craft (which has been very slow due to health issues lately), before I try my hand at something like this. Truly beautiful pen, though.

 

[Valleyboy]

Beautiful pen!! Really love the colors. The chrome accents are perfection.

Curious, though...what exactly do you mean by "stepless?" I haven't gotten into bespoke pens yet, still trying to hone my craft (which has been very slow due to health issues lately), before I try my hand at something like this. Truly beautiful pen, though.

Thank you Jon.

By step-less I mean that there is no step or lip on the barrel. Quite often you will see that pens widen just behind the threads on the barrel as a landing place for the cap to register against when you screw it on (so the threads don't just keep turning and "run aground").

However on the step-less pens there is no lip or step on the barrel so typically the end of the section registers against a small step inside the cap to the same effect.

Here is a photo of one of my pens with a step on the barrel, seen in the bottom right of the image.

Cheers
Ash

 

[Curly]

Great pen. Whomever ends up with it is lucky.

As for naming pens after people you have known. I wonder what the "pain in the +++" pen will look like? Or are they the ones that get binned?

 

[Valleyboy]

Great pen. Whomever ends up with it is lucky.

As for naming pens after people you have known. I wonder what the "pain in the +++" pen will look like? Or are they the ones that get binned?

Ha thanks Peter.

I have come up with quite a few names but my wife vetoed most of them. I do have a Jobsworth and a Hedonist though. And a SweetTalker, from when I worked behind a bar with a guy who was very popular

 

[Jim15]

Awesome work.