Looks neat, doesn't it? Anodized titanium coating is very, very thin and very fragile so this would be a 'looker' not a daily user. To get the brilliant colors requires an etch of HF acid or Multi-Etch followed immediately by the anodizing process. If you look closely, notice there are no reds or blacks and orange requires a bit of imagination.
When you say HF, do you mean hydrofluoric acid? I don't know why I thought that was at least a semi-controlled substance.Looks neat, doesn't it? Anodized titanium coating is very, very thin and very fragile so this would be a 'looker' not a daily user. To get the brilliant colors requires an etch of HF acid or Multi-Etch followed immediately by the anodizing process. If you look closely, notice there are no reds or blacks and orange requires a bit of imagination.
Those are awesome pens. I'm considering getting into kitless at some point. I keep seeing gorgeous reasons to try itIf I remember correctly BradG has posted some anodized pens and perhaps a tutorial on how he did it.
Aluminium, Anodised Purple Kitless Fountain pen
Handmade with aircraft grade aluminium, and anodised purple, featuring a German JoWo Nib Will be half a dozen colour variations of the same pen over the next few days, so il just post them as replies on this thread rather than creating a new post for each one.www.penturners.org
One for the Musicians. Kitless anodised fountain pen
One for the talented among us with a passion for music . A hand crafted aluminium fountain pen, featuring a two tone gold JoWo fine nibwww.penturners.org
Anodised Elephants
A kitless fountain pen, anodised featuring Elephants , and a JoWo nibwww.penturners.org
I couldn't find his tutorial, but those links will give you some ideas!
Including anything organic like your skin and bones lol. My high school chemistry teacher used to be a chemical engineer and would talk about what it would do to you at a cellular level.Yep. Hydrofluoric Acid which is one reason Multi-Etch was developed. It's still nasty, requires ventilation, works best heated, eats nearly everything except plastic.
I mostly know how to do from when I was going to anodize some lightsabers I made in school for machining. Have some of the equipment, but my lathe can't thread for crap, so I haven't finished those sabers (7 years later lol)Look him up on YouTube, Brad Gothard. He had a three part tutorial on anodizing aluminum.
Look him up on YouTube, Brad Gothard. He had a three part tutorial on anodizing aluminum.