Hello
I don't post all the pen I made but I'm always turning them when I've time.
I don't have any lathe but a drill press and a lot of imagination :wink: so these are my 15th,16th and 17th pen I turn.
The first (PIC 1 & 2) is fountain pen carribean swirl celluloid, closed end with cap modified. Beautiful blank (blue painted and epoxied) . Nothing extraordinary but I love it.
The second (PIC 3) is more classical, roller. I don't remember the name of the celluloid. Closed-end too. Black painted inside.
The last pen (PIC 4 & 5) is a roller in stainless steel 316L, closed-end kubotan style (I made kubotan in inox too and I have seen someone who had made similar thing here). Finition "satin". Always without any lathe. My drill press and a "meuleuse d'angle" (rotative grinding tool ?) have been my principal tools. Finition has been made with 240 paper, for satin finition and Miror polish for polish parts. A lot of patience was usefull because this steel is very very hard to work with.
Please excuse me for my pictures which are very poor quality and are not representative about the quality I try to have on my pens. My english is more and more bad :frown:
For those who don't want to buy a wood lathe or a metal lathe, I confirm that's possible to work without one. It oblige to think more and to be creative
I don't post all the pen I made but I'm always turning them when I've time.
I don't have any lathe but a drill press and a lot of imagination :wink: so these are my 15th,16th and 17th pen I turn.
The first (PIC 1 & 2) is fountain pen carribean swirl celluloid, closed end with cap modified. Beautiful blank (blue painted and epoxied) . Nothing extraordinary but I love it.
The second (PIC 3) is more classical, roller. I don't remember the name of the celluloid. Closed-end too. Black painted inside.
The last pen (PIC 4 & 5) is a roller in stainless steel 316L, closed-end kubotan style (I made kubotan in inox too and I have seen someone who had made similar thing here). Finition "satin". Always without any lathe. My drill press and a "meuleuse d'angle" (rotative grinding tool ?) have been my principal tools. Finition has been made with 240 paper, for satin finition and Miror polish for polish parts. A lot of patience was usefull because this steel is very very hard to work with.
Please excuse me for my pictures which are very poor quality and are not representative about the quality I try to have on my pens. My english is more and more bad :frown:
For those who don't want to buy a wood lathe or a metal lathe, I confirm that's possible to work without one. It oblige to think more and to be creative