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. 

Sooo Blue

I got this material in on Friday and I had forgotten how much I love this crushed velvet material.

This was the same type of material that I made my first kit pen out of about 18 years ago.
I used one of the new clicker units from Richard Greenwald's site.
It is so smooth with no noise at all when it is advancing the refill.

It is made to take Parker @ Itoya style refills.

The clip I had from a bunch of parts that I got a bit ago.

I love this blue.

A Pen Repair That Got Away

It all started out with really great intentions. 

I was given this Modern Parker Duofold by a friend of mine but it had one small problem.

Well my thought was it would look great with a black lip at the bottom of the cap.

As things usually go when I am in the studio with the fire going things get a bit out of hand.

Here is what I ended up with.

I was able to use the clip as well as the final on the cap so if I ever come across another green or black cap I can still put it all back to original Parker Duofold.

In the mean time I have a new pen for my pocket.

A new click pen

This was a color that I have been trying to get a pen made out of for a bit now.

I was finally able to get it done this weekend.

It will take a Parker style refill but right now I have the Itoya  .07 refill  in it.

For the clip I used the Parker AD Pen clip from the 70's and 80's

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.

A Pair Made Out Of Vintage Material

I had made up the pencil first for Tamer and after he seen the pencil he wanted a pen to match.

The pencil takes 2mm leads and advances like a regular mechanical pencil so it is not really a clutch pencil like most 2mm pencils.

This material I was told is over 80 years old and is wrapped celluloid.  Meaning it is wrapped around a rod and then the rod is removed so there is a spiral seam on this material as well as it has a built in hole through the center.  The pen I made to take Cross roller ball refills as I find them to be very smooth.

Any way I was quite pleased with how they all turned out and I hope Tamer is as well.

Green Lizard Click Pen

This was more of the vintage material I got from England.

This material was made by the material being wrapped around a rod so there is a hole through the center of it.  It is great if it is the right size but in this case it was not.  So I had to make up acrylic bushings for each end to get to the size I needed.

It takes a Parker style refill.

2mm Lead holder

This was a 2mm lead holder I made up for a friend of mine.

The material is some blue lizard skin I got from a place in England.

I was told that it was over 80 years old.

Not to sure of the gold but all in all a nice looking pencil