Vintage G2 Refill Holder

 I finally got brave enough to get the shop thawed out.

I had to put the block heater on for an hour on the head of the lathe before it would turn over.

 

I was digging around my stash the other day and I found this material that I was told was from some vintage stock.

I am not sure the age of it but it did make a nice looking pen.

This one was cobbled together from some assorted bits.

The clip and washer as well as the black top were from a Parker fountain pen that I had some extra parts.

I drilled and threaded the end to take the clicker unit.

This one takes the G2 refills as well as the Uni-ball Jetstream Rollerball refills.

The only thing is you have to remove or cut off the little plastic blue bit on the end of the Jetstream and then it is the same size as the G2

 

Any way I was very pleased with the pen and that it will take two types of refills.

 

Blue Hard Rubber Click Pen

I found some really nice pens the other day.

Now I love how these pens write with a .5 needle point on them but the body left a bit to be desired so this is what I came up with to house this really nice refill.

I used some blue/black ebonite that I had and I was quite pleased at how it all turned out.

Orange Hard Rubber Pilot G2 Refill Holder

Everyone knows I love the Pilot G2 refills but the plastic bodies are a bit wanting so I made my own.

Pelikan Pencil Conversion

This project has been sitting on my bench now for close to a year.

I was sent two old pencil bodies and asked to convert them to take Parker refills.

Like any time you are using old parts there is a risk.

We tried my first idea on a green one that was a common color and I ended up with a bunch of bits. Bad day.

So that is why this one sat on my desk for so long trying to come up with a idea that would still have a complete pen at the end of it all.

One day like many of my projects a solution just hit me and this is what I ended up with.

Homemade Tools

This was a tool that my wife wanted me to make up for her to hold her heat gun and small hot iron for her wax work.

I am now going to build one to hold my Dremel on my work bench.

We looked at buying one of these for her but looking at them they seemed to be really flimsy for what you were getting.  So a few dollars at the hardware store a bit of welding and here is what I ended up with.

PS I build better pens than I do welding.

A good solid tool

Orange Black Hard Rubber Comission

This was a custom commission modeled after my 51 style pens.

It had to take a long Waterman cartridge and have a F nib.

The ebonite was some stock I got a while ago from a vendor in Germany and it is a really nice color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is now on it's way to it new owner and I was a little sad to see this one go,

Squeeze Filler

This was a filling system that I have been thinking about trying for a while now.

With some encouragement or I should say some pushing from a friend at our pen breakfast.
So this is what I ended up making.  I had some black/red ebonite in my stash so there was enough to make a matching section.
The hardest part was installing a breather tube on the small nib unit that I was using.  Then making up the section was a bit of fun as well.  It had to have threads for the body, a area for the metal squeeze unit to mount on and then the sac had to be able to be mounted as well.
Any way I was quite pleased at how well it turned out.



So all in all a great day in the shop and I have a nice pen to use.  

Now I am told all I have to do is figure out how to make the cap with a clutch in it.

So off to the drawing board.