Me an' Curly got Stoned last night and.....

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Here's this weekend's work! I haven't posted much around here, so here's some of my work and more of my pathetic camera skills.


Curly maple Barons, Black ti, all fountain pens. Made by request from a pew that was removed from a seminary chapel to make room for some new video cameras.

Finished in satin conversion varnish.

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Tru-stone blue web, chrome Baron FP.
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Tru-stone red w/gold web. Couldn't really get the detail in the pic of the red webbing, it's pretty dense.
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Tru-stone banded ivory. Lots of very subtle figure in this material that I can't catch in a pic. Very nice stuff to turn, one of my favorites. Turns (and looks) like butter.
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And finally my favorite of the group. Tru-stone white with gold web, in a gold ti Sedona FP. Stunning material, I wish I hadn't sat on this blank for nearly a year before using it.
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Thanks guys!!

When it comes to fountain pens, my personal preference (and policy) is closed-end ONLY unless the customer requests a mounting stud. Obviously this doesn't apply to fountain pens with really ornate/decorative end studs like Emperors.


Closed-end pens take a little bit more time, but not that much, and IMO make a much nicer writing pen (lighter and a better feel in the hand).


The other cool thing is that you can really alter the overall look of the pen by using a longer blank, making a slightly longer pen, and by making different shapes on the very end--- round, flat, etc...

YoYoSpin has some of the nicest looking closed-end pens around, I love the shapes he carves/sands on the end of some of his.
 
Nice work Matt. good to see you haven't been sitting down on the job :biggrin:, I like your closed end pens they look great, my only problem with them is they are hard to display in my stand. Guess I'll have to make a stand just for them!! I talked with several fountain pen users this past Saturday and none of them post the cap any way when they write, so I guess I'll make some more closed end mandrels and get busy, your Tru-Stone pens are gorgeous!
 
You guys are making me blush! Thanks!

randbcrafts said:
Very nice work! I like the closed ends on all of those. One of these days I'll get around to trying the closed ends.
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Once you make and use a nice closed end fountain pen, you'll never go back to the threaded end caps again ;).

I have 3 fountain pens I use on a regular basis. The one with the threaded endcap gets used the least because I hate the way it feels.

The other two are closed ends, and I love them. One in particular is a Churchill made from dogwood (from the same seminary campus as the curly maple above) that I use for grading New Testament and Greek exams (teacher's assistant). I love that pen!!!! The best fp I've ever used.
 
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