OscarHallStudios
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This is an interesting wood I got from Beaufort Ink which has a contrasting color grain, which I tried to preserve by keeping the pen barrel quite wide. Happy with the results.
Leadwood & Urushi Fountain Pen
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Hippie3180
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That wood is so beautiful and the finish is gorgeous, well done.
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
I really like the beauty of single blank wood in all its forms (in spite of my interest in segmenting - which has always been wood). This pen is wonderful. LOvely artistry. Thanks for sharing.
Jim15
Member
Beautiful work.
OscarHallStudios
Member
Thanks for the kind words Mark! I do have one admission to make, however.. this was actually two separate blanks.. I managed to get the contrasting color to be similar on each by the depth I turned them to, and got very lucky when putting it all together that here it lined up perfectly! I would love to take the credit for it, but mother nature deserves it here!
OscarHallStudios
Member
Thank you friend! Here is a breakdown of the dimensions for this pen:
From top -> bottom
Cap top: 17.6mm diameter
Cap bottom: 18mm diameter
Barrel top: 17.5mm diameter
Barrel end: 13.7mm diameter
Cap length: 68.4mm without point
Cap point length: 5.5mm
Barrel length: 71.6mm without point
Barrel point length: 3.2mm
Barrel thread length (acrylic): 10.3mm, translates to ~ 1.5 turns to open/close
The wooden section is sleeved using Beaufort Ink's metal inside sleeve
Section length: 25.4mm
Section top: 11.3mm diameter
Section bottom 11.5mm diameter
Sometimes I use acrylic and sometimes I use ebonite for the cap/barrel sleeving. It does not make a lot of difference, but I prefer to work with ebonite usually. They end up usually with a thin coating of urushi, anyway.
Oops that was quite a detail. Thank you . However if I use a 18 MM diamond cast blank or for that matter Evne Japanese ebonite ending up at 17.6/18 isn't possible. You must be using atleast 20 MM i guess .Thank you friend! Here is a breakdown of the dimensions for this pen:
From top -> bottom
Cap top: 17.6mm diameter
Cap bottom: 18mm diameter
Barrel top: 17.5mm diameter
Barrel end: 13.7mm diameter
Cap length: 68.4mm without point
Cap point length: 5.5mm
Barrel length: 71.6mm without point
Barrel point length: 3.2mm
Barrel thread length (acrylic): 10.3mm, translates to ~ 1.5 turns to open/close
The wooden section is sleeved using Beaufort Ink's metal inside sleeve
Section length: 25.4mm
Section top: 11.3mm diameter
Section bottom 11.5mm diameter
Sometimes I use acrylic and sometimes I use ebonite for the cap/barrel sleeving. It does not make a lot of difference, but I prefer to work with ebonite usually. They end up usually with a thin coating of urushi, anyway.
OscarHallStudios
Member
Yes, for some of my wooden pens I use spindle blanks which are much wider, like ~25mm for example. This is because when I sleeve the inside of the cap, I have to drill somewhere in the 14-15mm range and if the wood is too thin then it can easily break during this step. I use 25mm to make it easier.
Unfortunately most of the wooden pen blanks are sold in 19/20 MM Sqr which makes it difficult to sleeve in. Back home in India , we don't get these exotic varieties in lumber Sizes which makes it a very huge investment for me.
Is it M 13x0.8 for barrel and cap for the above dimensions ?Thank you friend! Here is a breakdown of the dimensions for this pen:
From top -> bottom
Cap top: 17.6mm diameter
Cap bottom: 18mm diameter
Barrel top: 17.5mm diameter
Barrel end: 13.7mm diameter
Cap length: 68.4mm without point
Cap point length: 5.5mm
Barrel length: 71.6mm without point
Barrel point length: 3.2mm
Barrel thread length (acrylic): 10.3mm, translates to ~ 1.5 turns to open/close
The wooden section is sleeved using Beaufort Ink's metal inside sleeve
Section length: 25.4mm
Section top: 11.3mm diameter
Section bottom 11.5mm diameter
Sometimes I use acrylic and sometimes I use ebonite for the cap/barrel sleeving. It does not make a lot of difference, but I prefer to work with ebonite usually. They end up usually with a thin coating of urushi, anyway.
OscarHallStudios
Member
Is the threaded length on barrel included in the total barrel length of 71.6 MM ? with a schimdt converter , 10 Mm ( threads ) + 65 mm ( projection of converter into barrel ) itself is 75 and with another 7-8 mm for for the finial will make it wiil make it close to 88 mm. In your case it's 74 Mm. kindly explain.Ah, I see see. That's a shame.
Yes
OscarHallStudios
Member
The thread length was not included, so the barrel is approximately ~84mm including the pointy end and the threads. The converter seats somewhere around the middle of the thread (roughly). There is probably ~2-4mm of material at the end of the barrel.
Thank you .
TurnTheWorldAround
Member
Outstanding!!!