budnder
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I was struck by a recent Visconti Metropolitan I saw and it got the design juices flowing thinking about how that style could be done with humble basement pen turning equipment... I guess you could call this a prototype in that there were too many unknowns to expect it to work out on first attempt. It's got some issues, the biggest of which is one of the metal strips pulled away and I backfilled with some mica just to finish to see what it would look like. I think I'll try one more round of refinements to my approach and try another to see if I can get one closer to perfect.
I'll post a pic of the Visconti Metropolitan so you can see what inspired me, and a few pix of the casting steps. In the last pic you can see the catch I had that pulled out the metal and the fill I put in.
Being inspired by brand name pens came up recently in this thread, if you're interested:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/brand-name-pens-143760/
I'll post a pic of the Visconti Metropolitan so you can see what inspired me, and a few pix of the casting steps. In the last pic you can see the catch I had that pulled out the metal and the fill I put in.
Being inspired by brand name pens came up recently in this thread, if you're interested:
http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/brand-name-pens-143760/