Thursday 31 March 2016

'Mirkwood' Cigar style Fountain Pen


Hello folks,

Figured I'd move this one from the sale page, now that it is gone.  Here is one of my Cigar style fountain pens in a material that has been begging to be used.  I keep collecting cool materials, but since most of my orders are custom, new materials can sit around for a long time before I get a chance to work on them.  Well, I decided to give this one a go, mostly because I really love earth tone colours.


The blank was as usual pretty boring looking before turning it.  A mottled mix of dull, flat browns and greens.  Blah.  But having turned so may of Jonathon Brooks' blanks before, I know better - once you start turning it, it's like a butterfly emerging.  And this was certainly true here - the gorgeous pearly swirls are definitely eye-catching, and yet still reminiscent of the dark swaths of brown and green of a deep forest.  'Mirkwood' - this was well named indeed.

The pen is fitted with a broad two-tone steel JoWo nib, and is a cartridge/converter filler.



Sigh… I still have so many really cool looking blanks crying out to me…

Thanks for looking!

Ken

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