jalbert
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I just finished up this crescent fill fountain pen. It's based off an old design, and something I'd wanted to try for a while. It uses a sac as the ink reservoir, and the mechanism to fill is a pressure bar that's attached to the ends of the metal crescent. The black plastic ring prevents the crescent from accidentally being depressed, and expelling the ink. To fill the pen, you rotate the ring until the slot in it aligns with the crescent, then you press the crescent down and release it while the nib is submerged in ink. Here is a video :
http://instagr.am/p/B14Kmgaju3m/
I made the pen from vintage lizard skin cellulose acetate and black acrylic. I used nickel silver for the metalwork rather than stainless, since I can solder it easily. To keep the vintage theme going, I used an old esterbrook nib.
http://instagr.am/p/B14Kmgaju3m/
I made the pen from vintage lizard skin cellulose acetate and black acrylic. I used nickel silver for the metalwork rather than stainless, since I can solder it easily. To keep the vintage theme going, I used an old esterbrook nib.