The Latest Work From The Workshop....

[Jeffrey Garrett]

A rather nice German 'Blue Iridescent' material with a combination of aluminium and silver accents. This is a fairly large pen... measuring 160mm capped, uncapped and ready to write, it measures approx 145mm. The diameter of the pen is 16mm and consistent throughout the whole length of the pen... no shaping on this one.... Curiosity got the better of me, I wanted to see how it felt in the hand.

 

I added a couple of cabochons, raised on the cap, flush on the barrel. The cabochons are turned from the same blue pen material. The nib unit is made by Jowo, set in a Delrin section. I may change the section, to the same pen material. The solid silver cast clip was made in the US, by Specialist - Mike Redburn.

 

By coincidence... The pen material matches a ring and cufflinks... to make up a set!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking, once again.. Comments welcome.

 

 

Jeff

[visvamitra]

I like the way it looks.

[ian1964]

That is a very nice colour combination. I like what you have done with the accents very much. The whole thing is stunning...would love to see this in a red.

[GranTorino25]

That looks great Jeff, nice one!

[SoulSamurai]

Looks great! I personally like the uniform diameter, and the silver bands do add to the overall appearance.

[Jeffrey Garrett]

Visvamitra, Ian1964, Gran Torino25 and Soul Samurai,

 

My thanks to you all for your kind and encouraging comments.

 

My photography skills are not that brilliant. The next little project is to make a light box. That may enable me to produce a better photograph.

[zaddick]

That is a nice looking pen. Great work.

[SoulSamurai]

Have you ever heard of the Foldio? It's a small folding lightbox that's useful for taking photos of small objects. I have an older model, it works quite well although I feel it doesn't necessarily play nice with cheap cameras (it's too bright for my smaller camera at least). It's not too expensive so it might be worth giving it a try.

 

[Jeffrey Garrett]

Have you ever heard of the Foldio? It's a small folding lightbox that's useful for taking photos of small objects. I have an older model, it works quite well although I feel it doesn't necessarily play nice with cheap cameras (it's too bright for my smaller camera at least). It's not too expensive so it might be worth giving it a try.

 

 

Thanks for the heads-up on this.. I will look into that.

[Jeffrey Garrett]

That is a nice looking pen. Great work.

 

 

Thank you for the compliment. Much appreciated.

[jcgolov]

This is a real nice looking pen indeed....!

[Martinsroom]

Lovely

[amberleadavis]

Stunning

[my63]

Very nice work the blue works well with the silver.

[Jeffrey Garrett]

My thanks to you all for your kind comments

[Chrissy]

That is another really nice looking pen. Well done you.

[Jeffrey Garrett]

That is another really nice looking pen. Well done you.

 

 

Thank you Chrissy, much appreciated

[bobje]

Jeffrey, here's another approach to a lighting studio box. Depending on the size of the box you choose, it can go fairly large.

 

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

[Jeffrey Garrett]

Thanks Bobje,

 

I looked at your link and am progressing along the same sort of lines... all very much experimentally, I must add!

 

What I have done so far, is to make a box and installed integral LED lighting. The aim is to slide another box inside, made from opaque perspex. I am hoping this will diffuse the light. I will add slide-in coloured perspex 'shields', to alter the colour temperature. It is 'work in progress'. I hope to have another play with it, soon.

 

The main driver here, is to attempt to make a lightbox with integral lighting, that can be adjusted. It may not work! Having fun playing with the idea though.