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This pen was made as a request from a friend. She wanted an oversized piston filler with a #8 Jowo nib, styled like a wide-band Parker Duofold. She wanted to go with a vintage burnt orange type color, so I had a set of alumilite blanks custom cast for me, as to get the color specifically to my friend's liking. I used black ebonite for the section and finials, and amber acrylic for the ink window. The cap band and clip are both fabricated from bronze. I'm especially happy with how the clip came out, as I've never made a ball-ended clip before, and I wanted to stay somewhat true to the design of the old Parker clips. Overall, my friend and I are both quite happy with how it came out. I'm not usually into copying vintage pens, but this was too interesting of a request to pass up!

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Nicely done. Richard Greenwald sells orange cast acrylic that exactly matches the modern Duofold orange plastic. Pretty reasonable price too IIRC. It's been a while since I bought mine.

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Great looking pen!

Thanks!

 

Nicely done. Richard Greenwald sells orange cast acrylic that exactly matches the modern Duofold orange plastic. Pretty reasonable price too IIRC. It's been a while since I bought mine.

Thanks! I looked at the acrylic that Richard sells, but my friend really wanted alumilite. I wasn't going to complain because I have found those solid color acrylics Richard sell to be ridiculously hard and more difficult to turn!

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That is gorgeous!

 

Unlike you, I actually prefer to make replicas of vintage pens.

I'm ok at machining pens, but not so good at designing them, so it's safer for me to copy an existing design, at least for now.

 

Plus, it allows me to have 'vintage' pens that I can actually afford to use rather than just look at :D

 

I love the clip. This is proving the most difficult part for me.

I can't seem to find any modern-made Duofold style clips anywhere, so I may have to go the same route.

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Beautiful.

 

OK, if you were doing it for me I would make one very slight change - a wider ink window.

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Looks wonderful.

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