Saturday 5 July 2014

Multicolour Swirl 'Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen'


Here is a very unusual material, also made by fellow pen maker Jonathan Brooks.  This one is a wild assortment of transparent and opaque colours swirled together.  It has a certain jarring quality in its garish colourfulness, but at the same time, the transparent swirls give it an amazing depth.  From certain angles, you can see the nib inside the cap, and the converter inside the barrel.  Very cool.

I made this material into one of my 'Shirt Pocket Fountain Pens', as I had someone expressing interest in this style.  I have installed a polished steel fine nib into the pen, and will be giving the nib a good smoothing and tuning before it goes (to wherever it goes).



Thanks for looking!

Ken

3 comments:

  1. I like this one almost as much as my own pen (which I will mail to you in the next day or so to have a look at the cap... I miss using it!).

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    1. By all means - send it my way and I will get it fixed for you, Terry. Can't have you not using it!

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