So, if you have to make a pen for yourself, for your own personal use, and you want it to be black, which black would it be? What's your favorite color black?
What's your favorite black color wood or plastic? Let's assume it's going to go with a chrome pen kit...
Mike...
Black is not a colour but a shade. I remember so well photographing weddings where the groom traditionally wore black and the brides white so the contest was detail black and detail white. Colour pics were hand coloured.
Pics were printed in black and white the black/white areas painted over with cow gum and then sepia toned to get the skin colour. Then the cow gum rubbed off, a hand colourist would complete the photograph.
Excellent pics of available now black plastic can be seen in Jim,s posts over time (qqake)
African Blackwood (heartwood of) is an excellent tone easy to work and quite stable.
My favourite has been timber but for top black Rhino blanks take some beating.
Good luck with your choice.
Peter.