Good Idea Turned Into A Semi Okay Pen

[jj9ball]

You ever pick colors to make a pen and then have this wonderful vision in your head of a headturning, absolutely gorgeous, amazing, irresistible, pen? You rush over to the lathe spend 3 hours working on it and then.... you hear that noise from the Price is right when someone loses ( wha, wha, whaaaaaaa) and then pen you see before you is underwhelming and not at all what you had envisioned. So this is exactly what happened with this pen. If you see it an like it... please don't take offense I just envisioned it to look different... and good news, its for sale. I would love to hear questions and comments both good and bad.

 

 

The pen itself is just over 5 1/2" long capped. It does post and the pen is 6 5/8" long posted. The pen body is 5 1/8" long. The cap to barrel threads are 14mm. The pen has a medium nib with a k6 screw in Schmidt converter pump. I did make the interior of the pen very large... it'd probably hold about a half a bottle of ink as an eyedropper. It has a 10.25mm hole drilled through most of the body.

 

[linearM]

I think it's the gray sort of matt looking section and finials. Is it aluminum or acrylic, whatever it is it doesn't work with the bright metal in the nib and clip. Substitute black for all of the grayish colored elements. I like the shape of the pen and the style of the clip..

Edited July 30, 2016 by linearM

[stonezebra]

I agree with linearM, the finial/band color does not work with the pen's color scheme. I also think they're a bit too wide for the size of the pen itself. I like the shape of the pen and section.