Finally got this finished up Sunday. I've been playing with this idea for the last few weeks and had been stuck on how to incorporate a cap for this pen barrel. For those that don't know, the original tool (in the fourth pic) is a guitar string-winder. It's used to quickly wind up the strings on tuning posts so you don't kill your wrist when changing strings. I have several of these laying around the house, and thought it would make a very cool and original pen.
It takes a short fountain pen cartridge. It's not long enough to take a converter. The cap is just black acrylic segmented with two medium guitar picks. I used parts from an old Churchill pen that I had scrapped. I pushed out the threaded piece from the nip coupler and made a custom ring to slide over it to allow the threaded cap piece fit flush with the lower barrel. The new nib coupler is glued into the body. I omitted the trim ring from the cap. The recessed clip is from an Elegant Beauty Sierra and was a last minute addition to the pen.
Hope you folks enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Comments, please!
It takes a short fountain pen cartridge. It's not long enough to take a converter. The cap is just black acrylic segmented with two medium guitar picks. I used parts from an old Churchill pen that I had scrapped. I pushed out the threaded piece from the nip coupler and made a custom ring to slide over it to allow the threaded cap piece fit flush with the lower barrel. The new nib coupler is glued into the body. I omitted the trim ring from the cap. The recessed clip is from an Elegant Beauty Sierra and was a last minute addition to the pen.
Hope you folks enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Comments, please!
