My New Duofold Style Pen

I have wanted a Duofold style every day carry pen because I am afraid to carry my vintage one with me, so this is what I came up with.

I used a vintage Parker clip and installed a modern Schmidt nib in it. 13mm triple start cap threads.  It is 15mm in the middle with a taper to the 13mm at the blind cap and the threads. Cap is just shy of 15mm.

So I was very pleased at how well it all turned out.  I just wish the original Duofold had a screw in section so I could have just used and swapped it over it but it is what it is.

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.

Custom Clipless ED

This was a pen that a customer wanted built around a vintage section.

The first thing I did was to install a sac to see how it filled and wrote.

It filled but did not write so I removed the feed and nib, cleaned them all out and still no ink on the paper.  The feed was bent to I had to heat it up and put it back into place.  Then it wrote.

Threaded the section

Starting the body.

Body threaded

Finished

Pen rest

Custom Binde

Several years a go I was asked to make up some Pelikan 100 binde's.  Well after blowing through a crap load of material I said no I could not do it.

That is the background of today's project.

I was at the market a bit ago and found this "old black pen"

I bought it because it had a 14k nib and according to everyone in antique markets it is worth a small kings ransom.

Now being a typical male I had a flashback to my earlier failure on the 100's and I figured what the heck.

This is not for the faint of heart because it involved material being removed.

So with a full face mask and upper body armor on I let her rip and lo and behold I got a pen that I really like a lot.

I hope you all like as well