Le Tigre

[Valleyboy]

Hi All

I suspect some of you, like me, have a "special drawer" of pen making blanks which holds those materials that mean a bit more than the typical run-of-the-mill materials. In my case these are typically rods that were recovered from some of the bigger pen manufacturers who, sadly, are no longer in the business and consequently means the blanks that were once made in abundance are now rather scarce.

One such example is this Conway Stewart "Le Tigre" cellulose that was fairly popular back in the day, but isn't so easy to get hold of these days. I had a single, small rod that was enough to make a pen from but I had to flesh it out with some black acrylic finials and section. The rings are sterling silver and the nib is my own Bock no6 in flex titanium. I have started to grind my own nibs these days, which is another rabbit hole.

I also added a clip which is chrome steel.

Pen details: 13mm triple start threads, 15mm barrel diameter (tapered). Overall closed length = 143mm.

Cheers
Ash

 

[CjG78]

Superb mate. Just superb

 

[Jim15]

Awesome work.

 

[KMCloonan]

I've never seen anything like this. The blank is absolutely stunning. And the finished pen is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.

 

[TDahl]

Very nice.

 

[MedWoodWorx]

Hi All

I suspect some of you, like me, have a "special drawer" of pen making blanks which holds those materials that mean a bit more than the typical run-of-the-mill materials. In my case these are typically rods that were recovered from some of the bigger pen manufacturers who, sadly, are no longer in the business and consequently means the blanks that were once made in abundance are now rather scarce.

One such example is this Conway Stewart "Le Tigre" cellulose that was fairly popular back in the day, but isn't so easy to get hold of these days. I had a single, small rod that was enough to make a pen from but I had to flesh it out with some black acrylic finials and section. The rings are sterling silver and the nib is my own Bock no6 in flex titanium. I have started to grind my own nibs these days, which is another rabbit hole.

I also added a clip which is chrome steel.

Pen details: 13mm triple start threads, 15mm barrel diameter (tapered). Overall closed length = 143mm.

Cheers
Ash


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amazing, love the custom finial. Is silver hard to turn?i have bought some 0.3mm leaves but haven't used them yet, cheers

 

[Alan Morrison]

Rhagorol, Ash. Excellent.

Alan

 

[Valleyboy]

Superb mate. Just superb

Thanks Casey

 

[Valleyboy]

I've never seen anything like this. The blank is absolutely stunning. And the finished pen is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you!

 

[Valleyboy]

amazing, love the custom finial. Is silver hard to turn?i have bought some 0.3mm leaves but haven't used them yet, cheers

Thank you Mike.

Silver is really forgiving to turn and its quite clean (nice clean chips unlike, say, brass which creates a real mess).

I tend to turn the ring in-situ (as part of the pen) is I cut washers out of silver sheet that are slightly oversized and fit the to the pen to turn them down.

You can, of course, make the ring and finish it separately then turn the pen down to the right size and add the ring afterwards.

The only thing to keep in mind is that its quite expensive so you don't want to waste too much. So keep any waste and you can either melt it and re-use yourself or there are companies who will buy it back off you if you dont have the equipment to do it yourself.

Cheers
Ash

 

[RGVPens]

Awesome pen Ash!

 

[Sataro]

Great job! Very impressive!

 

[Valleyboy]

Awesome pen Ash!

Thank you Gary

 

[Valleyboy]

Great job! Very impressive!

Thank you