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This was my first time incorporating Tru Stone into a pen. It's pretty brittle and has basically no tensile strength, so I treated it as I do when using wood. It is sleeved over ebonite on the cap, and acrylic on the barrel. The Tru Stone is a pattern called "banded malachite" that I've had laying around for a while. The clip and accent bands were fabricated from nickel silver, and it uses a #6 nib. It is a piston filler, and uses my handmade unit. One of the pictures shows the piston knob unscrewed, and the piston extended all the way. Thanks for looking!

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Swirling dreams of green. Thank you for sharing it.

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Congratulations jalbert, you surely make stunning and perfectly finished pens.

And making them with your own made piston filling system is" the cherry on the cake !"

I've also tried the "true stone" material but found it extremely brittle, the cap lip cracked when the cap was falling down on a parquet floor . So you did well in making the cap lip from hard rubber !

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Very attractive!

Écrire c’est tenter de savoir ce qu’on écrirait si on écrivait. – M. Duras

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Gorgeous work! I have to admit to having largely given up on trustone, partly for the reasons you mention, but also because I found it could not keep a polish - became dull very quickly with handling. I started finishing the trustone with a glossy CA finish, but then decided that was way too much work. Seeing the gorgeous malachite trustone you have used here makes me want to rethink that - it looks incredible!

 

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Jeez that's a nice pen, how did you build the piston?

"If brute force has failed to yield the desired result, it simply means you've failed to yield enough force."

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Jabert, that is a beautiful pen!

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Beautiful pen, John! I especially like the way you embedded the Tru Stone material in the cap finial and the wider metallic bands. That malachite material is really striking. Thanks so much for posting this exceptional pen.

 

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