Fountain pen in St Elmo's Fire

[Chriscb]

Afternoon,

A bit bigger pen this time, turned from a Erinoid blank called St Elmo's Fire, sporting a Bock #5 gold plate nib (F). A very slight barrel taper and a tiny step between the cap and barrel. Still playing with the ratios!

Capped length: 147.33mm
Uncapped length: 138.43mm
Barrel diameter: 15.61 - 14.73 mm
Section length: 26.37mm
Section diameter at pinch: 10.2.

As ever, comments and critiques please.

Chriscb

 

[Paul in OKC]

Nice.

 

[Chriscb]

Nice.

Thanks

 

[PatrickR]

Looks nice!
only thing I see that you could improve on are the threads. They look like they weren't lubed enough. I polish the tenon first and then lube liberally, after about 4 turns back it up (not off) and reapply, repeat until done. Then after you remove the die and clean away the swarf lube and with the lathe off pull a piece of sewing thread trough the threads to finish polish.

 

[Chriscb]

Hey that's a great tip - thank you. Just what I'm after.
Chriscb

 

[Jim15]

Great work.

 

[Chriscb]

Great work.

Thanks.

 

[leehljp]

Beautiful colors!