Pen Repair

This was a pen that I got back last month.

It is a ebonite click pen that takes a Parker style refill.

The customer was going through airport security and as he was taking his jacket off it "ripped the pen out of my pocket and it flew across the floor".

End result     Floor 1 Pen 0

Because the click end was black a made a black tip to match.

So at least he has his pen back to working order.

My M800

It took me a while to get up the courage to do this one because is the most expensive pen that I have "cut" into.  I had some help from Chris Burton as well.

I took it slow and steady and in the end I was very pleased at how well it turned out.

If you hold it up to the light you can still see the piston moving.

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. 

M600 Binde

I learned a few things about pen construction on doing this pen.

The green striped material is seamed and welded onto a green tube for the body.  I had always thought that the body was one solid unit.

The section is then welded into the green wrapped tube tube. 

The customer had chosen this color and I think it was a fine choice.

I really love the idea of dressing up these high quality pens and making them my own.

New Section And Nib For Indian Made ED

I had a customer contact me about his ED pen that he was not happy with the flow of the pen and ink was leaking around the feed.

He supplied me with a new nib and housing and this is what I came up for him.

Before

A Couple Of Dressed Up Birds

I got these two in the other day to have bindes made up for them.

They are both M200's

The colors were picked out by the customer and I think they turned out quite nice.

First up the black one.

Next the white one.

Hooded Nib

After seeing twissy's pen on FPN I knew I had to make one of my own.

I used a Pelikan 200 series nib that takes a converter.

I built it so that a Hero cap would fit on it.