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Here they are. Two laminated denim fountain pens. I learned a lot from the first one, and the second one (with the gold nib) turned out MUCH better.

Not perfect by any means, though. And the dark spots are a little damp. I just washed them off before these photos and didn't let them dry completely.

 

 

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Shawn, what does the threading feel like on these type of pens? Is it much rougher than the usual acrylic?

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Thanks!The threads are a little tighter than normal due to the denim material that's in there, but not rough at all.

 

I'm working on other fabrics. :)

 

I'll be making one from pink suede or velvet pretty soon.

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Actually I find this material more interesting than micarta.

 

 

 

 

Btw what about laminated silk? :-o

 

 

 

 

 

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Nice, when you mean 'damp' as in 'Resin not cured'?

 

So what's next? Stamping out your own nibs and hand cutting feeds?

 

 

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This is SO cool!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Now, can you make a pen out of a recycled tire and call it ebonite? Just kidding. Amazing work.

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Hmmm... I bet you could. If you ground the rubber up fine enough and mixed it thoroughly enough with some resin of some sort. Don't know if this stuff would work - but I bet West System Epoxy would do it.

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really, and truly, if you connect with the rivet collectors, you will have a Huge variety of materials.

thrifting marriage of the highest order..

I'm imagining a rainbow pen via children's denims

And, a Carhartt pen, maybe you could embed that rivet as the tassie?

 

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If you embed one end of the rivet as a tassie, could it be used to snap onto my Carhartt jacket? I guess it might point straight out, and certainly that might look a little unusual, but at least it would be handy.

 

This is a great looking pen, even more unique than the Micarta that is currently in my pocket, and I would be interested in one that could accept something other than a steel Bock nib. Would it be possible to make a section with internal threads that would accept the nib unit from, say, a Bexley, with a barrel that would fit a converter? I'm thinking one of these would be pretty cool with one of my Bexley stubs.

 

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If you use shop rags it could be a mechanic's pen!

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This is a great looking pen, even more unique than the Micarta that is currently in my pocket, and I would be interested in one that could accept something other than a steel Bock nib. Would it be possible to make a section with internal threads that would accept the nib unit from, say, a Bexley, with a barrel that would fit a converter? I'm thinking one of these would be pretty cool with one of my Bexley stubs.

 

 

A Bexley nib should be able to fit--any #6 nib would fit but you have to pull the nib and feed and use the feed that Shawn sends. Shawn probably can make threads to twist in a Bexley nib unit. I will be putting a #6 14K kit nib from John Mottishaw--with flex!--in this badboy when it arrives. I will be using the feed and housing Shawn supplies just pulling and swapping the nib. Works amazing on the one I already have from Shawn!!

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really, and truly, if you connect with the rivet collectors, you will have a Huge variety of materials.

thrifting marriage of the highest order..

I'm imagining a rainbow pen via children's denims

And, a Carhartt pen, maybe you could embed that rivet as the tassie?

 

THAT would be very cool! A bright yellow pen.

I am definitely planning on doing more with this stuff. I think my second batch of blanks has turned out pretty good, too, from what I can tell so far. Better than the first I think.

 

 

If you embed one end of the rivet as a tassie, could it be used to snap onto my Carhartt jacket? I guess it might point straight out, and certainly that might look a little unusual, but at least it would be handy.

 

This is a great looking pen, even more unique than the Micarta that is currently in my pocket, and I would be interested in one that could accept something other than a steel Bock nib. Would it be possible to make a section with internal threads that would accept the nib unit from, say, a Bexley, with a barrel that would fit a converter? I'm thinking one of these would be pretty cool with one of my Bexley stubs.

 

Keep creating Shawn, I love every minute of it!

 

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Thanks!

I think a rivet would be no problem. One of my kickstarter pens is going to be a pink fabric pen - with a jewel or stone in the cap finial embedded in epoxy I think.

And like Steve says, the nibs should swap out no problem. The housings are a little different on some of them, but I think some of the newer ones should screw in and out no prob.

 

 

If you use shop rags it could be a mechanic's pen!

 

DUDE!!!! A PEN FOR MY MECHANIC! I think he'd LOVE that.

Thanks for the great idea.

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