Trying to keep my hand in....

[skiprat]

Nothing very special. White PR and copper. It took me ages with shaky hands and about 10mins working at a time. Apologies for shoddy phone pics.
Nice to be back in the cave though.....

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Nice to see you creating again. Thanks for sharing.

 

[magpens]

Beautiful work, Skip !!!

Thanks for showing !!

 

[bsshog40]

Very nice!

 

[Dalecamino]

Agreed it's a bit below your usual standard. But still a beauty, and much more attractive than anything I've done lately.
Good to see you back in the shed.

 

[Larryreitz]

An incredible pen from an incredible pensmith.

 

[BRobbins629]

Still got it!! Nice

 

[Curly]

I like the clean lines. Well done.

Pete

 

[Lucky2]

It's a special pen to you, it's the first one you've done in a while, therefore special. I like it, the copper and white look good together.

Len

 

[Displaced Canadian]

I have a question. On the body of the pen where the nib threads in and the copper collar, how much materiel is left there? I'm just starting on a similar thing and am wondering how it's going to work. I like the look of the copper and the white.

 

[skiprat]

Chris, there is about 1.5mm of threaded pr under the collar. As you can see though, I made the threads long enough to go much deeper into the wider part of the body.
I wouldn't have risked it without the collar.
I was actually going to affix the nib end and then make the finial removable. In fact, the whole pen was going to be a lot fancier, it was planned to be a tri-lobe shape and with wave segments. But I really am struggling with shaky hand and fatigue. I nearly gave up completely after belting my knuckle on the chuck jaws..
Thanks for the comments guys, but I think you are being too kind...

 

[mark james]

"Nothing very special..." for you, is still a superb work. The colors and profile are excellent. I love it.

 

[howsitwork]

looks good to me Skip

 

[jttheclockman]

Talk about still having it, you still got it too. Nice combination with the colors. Works well together. /.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Chris, there is about 1.5mm of threaded pr under the collar. As you can see though, I made the threads long enough to go much deeper into the wider part of the body.
I wouldn't have risked it without the collar.
I was actually going to affix the nib end and then make the finial removable. In fact, the whole pen was going to be a lot fancier, it was planned to be a tri-lobe shape and with wave segments. But I really am struggling with shaky hand and fatigue. I nearly gave up completely after belting my knuckle on the chuck jaws..
Thanks for the comments guys, but I think you are being too kind...

Hadn't thought about the threads going past the collar. Now I need to make a longer nib. Thanks for the help.

 

[Jim15]

Looks pretty special to me!

 

[PenPal]

Hooray for Skiprat your the Tigers Stripes mate,so original and the shaping is incredible my friend,totally blown away by this pen and so happy for you making it.

Peter.

 

[Hubert H]

Simple can be very elegant! You have done it again - congrats on a very nice pen.

 

[leehljp]

Beautiful Work Sephen!

 

[Dieseldoc]

Skiprat:

For sure you jumped out the box on this one, Excellent.

 

[LouCee]

Very nice work, great to see you back at it!

 

[mick]

Very nice Skippy!

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