jalbert
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My weekend project:
A fountain pen made from blue lapis and transparent blue acrylics, both from Beartooth woods. I made the clip from Argentium silver sheet. The nib is a bock #8 rhodium plated gold nib. The pen is about 5 3/8" long when capped, and has 13mm diameter threads. It fills via syringe, but has a neat mechanism that seals off the ink chamber when the barrel finial is screwed all the way down. You unscrew the finial to fill the smaller ink chamber, which the nib draws from, and then screw the finial back down to limit the amount of ink available to write with. This is advantageous if you are flying with a pen, or in a situation where the pen may get jostled around.
A fountain pen made from blue lapis and transparent blue acrylics, both from Beartooth woods. I made the clip from Argentium silver sheet. The nib is a bock #8 rhodium plated gold nib. The pen is about 5 3/8" long when capped, and has 13mm diameter threads. It fills via syringe, but has a neat mechanism that seals off the ink chamber when the barrel finial is screwed all the way down. You unscrew the finial to fill the smaller ink chamber, which the nib draws from, and then screw the finial back down to limit the amount of ink available to write with. This is advantageous if you are flying with a pen, or in a situation where the pen may get jostled around.
