New Ongoing Project At Conid, The Elephant Bulkfiller !

[fountainbel]

Hi fountain pen friends !

I'm very happy to shear a new ongoing project at Conid, the fabrication of a huge "Elephant pen" !!

The Conid team consist of young creative and motivated people, a pleasure to work with for an "old frog" as i am.

They came up with the idea of making a huge demonstrator allowing showing the features of the Bulkfiller on a large scale.

The "Elephant Bulkfiller" demonstrator is an exact copy of a regular Bulkfiller - scaled up with factor 10 - and will be shown at pen shows in the future.

The pen is completely fabricated on a new 3D printer CONID installed a few weeks ago

Attached a link to the Conid blog, on which Jonas - the creator of the pen - explains in detail how the work started ,evolved, and the hurdles he was confronted with.

I'm sure you will enjoy reading this fascinating article, wishing you lots of reading pleasure !

And,… keep tuned, the Elephant pen nor the story of its creation are finished yet !

Regards, Francis

 

http://conidblog.com/the-elephant-pen-part-1/

[Michael R.]

That's pretty cool!

 

Looking forward to see this developing :-)

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[piscov]

That's a very interesting project Francis!!

 

Do you think in the near future it will be possible to use 3d printing to make a good usable pen with the same detail that lathe´s mills and injection technology offer us today? Are some parts already possible to be made only by using a 3D printer?

 

Best regards

 

Vasco

[fountainbel]

That's a very interesting project Francis!!

 

Do you think in the near future it will be possible to use 3d printing to make a good usable pen with the same detail that lathe´s mills and injection technology offer us today? Are some parts already possible to be made only by using a 3D printer?

 

Best regards

 

Vasco

Hi Vasco,

I truly expect 3D printing will become an alternative production approach in the future.

However actually the material remains somewhat porous, so for parts which contain the ink- the barrel- or which are occasionally immersed into the ink - the section - there are still some potential problems.

Could be a complementary coating will solve this problem.

The 3D printing process remains actually also rather time consuming, but this will hopefully improve in the future!

Francis

[mongrelnomad]

Gives new meaning to the term "demonstrator"! Good luck with the latest endeavour!