First fountain pen....

Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad
See more from John M

J

John M

Member
Joined
May 20, 2009
Messages
217
Location
Antioch Ca
This is my first one, a guy at work wanted one so I made it for him for cost plus 5 bucks just so I could make one and not have it sit around. It was fun. It is an El Grande and a black and orange blank. Took some "tuning" to get it to right, if you want to call my work on it tuning, but it does write nice, I have never used a fountain pen before. Comments are welcome, I would like to do nicer ones with nicer nibs in the future, but dont want to mess up that much money.
 

Attachments

  • CIMG0176.jpg
    CIMG0176.jpg
    63.2 KB · Views: 278
Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad
I really like the Fountain Pens, they look very "rich". I dont know why but they seem intimidating, but it is just like any other pen as far as making it.
 
John, I hate to tell you, but Fountain Pens don't sit around near as long as you might think, and a pen like that should fetch around 80 bucks or better even here in the wilderness where people still scratch messages in the dirt with sticks, in a real place you should be able to get a hundred or better.
 
How good are these tips in these pens? ( I know they are bottom of the barrel, but just for conversational sake) I keep hearing about lous fountain tips, If I were to sell something for some good money would I want to change out the tip? As you can see in the pick, I had put ink in it and was writing with it, everytime I try to wipe off the ink on the tip, it just fills the rag and leave some on the tip, I try to be careful and wipe it off, but if you just touch that little slit, the ink flows out and you have to start over again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom