My Grandfathers Pen

My dad gave me this pen years ago telling me that it had come from my grandfather.

I don't think he ever did drafting but here we are.

It is ebonite and I really like the style of this pen.

I did use it with the needle point in it but very hard for normal writing so when I had some shop time I sat down and did some measuring.

I use an Esterbrook nib in it and I really like how the nib screws into the section a bit.

Even so it was an 3mm to long to fit into the cap so I had to take take the cap apart and drill out the jewel to take the tip of the nib.

Now I can use my grandfathers pen as a daily writer.  Nice having a bit of connection to the past.

Inkograph and Esterbrook Conversion

The first one is a inkograph drafting pen that has some really nice coloring that I thought would make a really nice fountain pen.

This is the section that came with the pen

This is the section made up

End result

Very happy with how it all turned out

The Esterbrook was a felt tipped marker that I converted to take a Pilot refill.

I think it took some sort of ink cartridge

Built a new section to take the new nose cone.

Looking good