An old fashioned ebonite taper cap Eyedropper

[Glen]

This one was fun to make, based on a Waterman style taper cap, with a homemade feed and nice little nib from a Ingersoll dollar pen, they had some nice nibs. The feed design was based on a patent owned by AAWaterman and used around 1903, I think he bought the patent as his name is not as designer. I had tried to make a feed from that design before and it worked well for an early eyedropper.
I'm still working on the lathe skills, but I think the threads are better on this one, and it helped drilling out the section using a center bit.

 

[Jim15]

Great work.

 

[TDahl]

Very nice.

 

[Penultimate]

Great job, I'm impressed you made a feed. How did you make the ink channel?

 

[Glen]

Great job, I'm impressed you made a feed. How did you make the ink channel?

Thanks for the comments! This unique feed is made by holes drilled rather than a classic channel, as milling one would be harder, although good functioning channels can be done by hand but just doesn't look that good...eyedropper ink flow is more particular than any rubber sac or lever pen from the era. I'll try later to post a picture of the patent drawing of this feed.

 

[Glen]

This is the feed:

 

[Penultimate]

Wow, precision machining. Looks like another challenge someday. Thanks