1'st Place: Jon Tello (jontello)
Title of Your Entry: Thin Body Vintage / Modern Pen
Description: Old Cellulose Acetate under 10 mm / takes international cartridge converter /Challenge- no room for threads/ Metal piece take threads instead of material / The top of cap made into a pen pillow that screws off the pen and to be used when writing but always with you / All the metal pieces are hand textured to match the Acetate.
I had this pieces of old Cellulose Acetate from 1930-40's that was a little under 10mm and I was determined make a pen that takes an international cartridge converter which this pen does. The challenge with this ultra thin piece of acetate is that there was not much room for the threads so I decided to make a metal piece that could take the threads instead of the acetate material. This metal piece right behind the section is 12 mm thick the nib section is 9.2mm at its thinest point. The average thickness of a regular pencil can be from 7-8mm, so as you can see its very thin. The pen is fitted with a Bock# 5 nib unit.
The cap of this pen is made with an OMAS Teal Blue Moon Material. It matches the color and tone of the Acetate perfectly. It has a metal piece at both the bottom and the top of the cap. I am all about functional pens and I love clip-less pens. The problem with these type of pens is that sometimes they can roll off the table. Not something you want to happen with your fountain pen. I decided to make the Metal top piece into a pen pillow that screws off the pen. This way when you are using it you can always have somewhere to put your pen on that is always with you because it is built into your pen.
All the metal pieces are textured to match the Acetate Material.
Pen body
- At its thinnest point: 9.4mm
- At its thickest point: 12mm
- Length 13.3mm including nib
Pen Cap
- 14 mm thick
Pen capped
- 138 mm long
Pen Materials
- OMAS Blue Moon (Cap)
- Vintage Teal Cellulose Acetate (1930-40's)
- EML Silver steel
But your pen is superb!.
