After Long Absence, Some Custom Carbon Fiber, Luminous And Titanium

[Ondrej Berkus]

Hey everyone,

 

after a long time of not making any really noteworthy pen, I have something I think is going to be awesome :-)

 

This is something for one customer of mine, a guy I love working for because he always enthusiasticly supports every foolishness I come up with :-)

This time, he mentioned carbon fiber and I came up with a design I know and like, made it a piston filler with a visible ink chamber, flip-out piston control and titanium hardware. There are still parts to be made and the whole pen needs to be properly finished, however the piston mechanism already works nicely and the pen writes really nicely too. The carbon fiber used on this is really high tech stuff, baked under high pressure with special binder, so there are absolutely no bubbles and voids and it holds together ( meaning it won't split when threading like the cheap (bleep)).

 

The plan is to anodize the titanium hardware to a green color.

 

Now for some pictures :-)

 

The whole pen.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152026.jpg

 

Piston control

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_114620.jpg

 

Piston mechanism together with ink chamber. Someone had a bright idea to machine grooves into the chamber and fill them with luminous paint.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152143.jpg

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152137.jpg

 

Now the whole chamber glows slightly ominously in the dark :-)

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141121_110830.jpg

 

Handmade titanium nib - hot formed, covered with a lot of oxides, requiring a lot of further clean up.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152040.jpg

 

And hand made feed, I love me a transparent feed :-) a lot of cleanup on this as well.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141124_152058.jpg

 

Thank you for looking, take care,

Ondrej

[takkun]

Absolutely beautiful! And I like seeing anything with its own filling mechanism.

I've got access (but have to learn first) to some CF-forming equipment and some pretty high-tech machine tools at school. One of these days, I'm going to build a pen around the Pilot CON-70 converter.

[ChrisN]

Can't wait to see this one all polished up!

[EncreSarcelle]

Impressive! I'd love to see it all finished.

[Ondrej Berkus]

Thank you guys, I appreciate the kind words :-)

Guess a little update won't hurt, I made the cap click mechanism today as well as played around with sort of a tube nib. I made a prototype from brass and the owner liked it so I made a larger one from titanium.

 

The brass prototype

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141127_123729.jpg

 

And the titanium one. The feed ( transparent one ) will go into the tube after I make it.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141127_153554.jpg

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_20141127_153618.jpg

 

 

Thank you for looking, take care,

Ondrej

[Ondrej Berkus]

So, this pen got away so quickly I haven't even had time to take some pictures :-) However, the owner provided me with these two to show until he visits our photographer. Please enjoy and share any comments or criticism you might have.

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_220618640293883.jpeg

 

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s280/papiknives/IMG_215872414322199.jpeg

 

Thank you for looking, take care,

Ondrej

[zaddick]

That is a stunning piece of work. Congrats on finishing it. Impressive.