Really Nice Blue Esty Nib Holder

I found this rod of blue yesterday when I was cleaning up as well as a stash of Esty nibs.

I was trying out some filling systems and ended up making this little baby.

The nib is a 1555 and it has a really nice ink flow to it.
I set it up as a squeeze filler and it holds a lot of ink.
Really good balance as well as the slip cap make for a really nice pen.

A Couple M215's

It has been to long since I have been in the shop as we have been working at THIS all summer and early fall.  But everything is all put to bed and the woodpile is all stacked up and set to go.

This first one was a M215 I had got a bit ago but was just waiting for the right material to talk to me.

This was some material I got a long time ago.  It  takes a lot of fine shallow cuts to get a good job.

This second one started out as a desk pen that I got on an E bay auction a while ago.

It was large enough that I was able to get the binde out of it.

The pen was dried out and it has an air hole on one side but I thought it was sort of cool so I left the hole.

I have never seen this material in a pen before but I really liked it a lot. 

It Started With A NOS Sheaffer Nib Unit

I got a NOS Sheaffer nib unit in the mail last week so it has been on my bench all week just looking at me asking to be made into a pen.

Earlier this week I had made up a new section that was to be used in a vintage pen that had a lever as a filling system.  The twist was that the customer wanted it to take a Pelikan M400 nib.  So I made up a ebonite section with a sack on one end and the threads for the M400 on the other end. 

No pictures as per the customers request but it got me thinking about the Sheaffer nib.

So this is what I made up.

 This one is just a squeeze filler.  Very similar to a lever filler but your fingers do the squeezing on this one.

I have a bunch of the Here 616 caps that I love building pens around so that is what I ended up doing.

Mr Clicker

I do like making custom click pens so these are a couple that I have finished off is the past little bit.

The first one was made up out of some ebonite I found at the back of my drawer and it was just long enough to make a click pen out of.  I used a Parker Ad Pen clip on it.

Number 2 was the same material from a pen I did a bit ago.  Also an Ad Pen clip on this one.

New Click Pen

I was doing some cleaning up yesterday trying to keep busy and I came across this rod of plastic.

I was needing a click pen so I built this one to take the Parker gel refills.

I was able to come up with a Parker clip off of a modern pen that I was able to make work.

Commissioned Piston Filler

This is the second piston filler that I have made out of this material.  I had about 5/8 of an inch left over so it was close.