Advice pplease

[DougD]

Hi I'm relatively new to pen turning, I have a request from a customer for a ball point pen in which the cap can be placed on the opposite end of the pen when in use. Coild anyone suggest a pen kit which would allow me to make such a pen?

 

[Gary's Pens & Turnings]

Hi I'm relatively new to pen turning, I have a request from a customer for a ball point pen in which the cap can be placed on the opposite end of the pen when in use. Coild anyone suggest a pen kit which would allow me to make such a pen?

Hi & welcome to the forum. I've never really come across many ballpoints with a cap. Rollerball might be a better approach. See link below to a Leveche rollerball with a postable cap.

Leveche rollerball pen kit with upgrade gold fittings

Leveche rollerball pen kits,Leveche rollerball pen kit with upgrade gold fittings

www.beaufortink.co.uk

 

[Adal6]

Welcome to the forum Doug

 

[flexi]

Welcome, I second the Leveche (obviously)

 

[ChrisP]

Welcome try vertex pen kit I like these because cap is magnetic

 

[Bill Mooney]

Welcome aboard.

 

[21William]

Hi & welcome to the forum. I've never really come across many ballpoints with a cap. Rollerball might be a better approach. See link below to a Leveche rollerball with a postable cap.

Leveche rollerball pen kit with upgrade gold fittings

Leveche rollerball pen kits,Leveche rollerball pen kit with upgrade gold fittings

www.beaufortink.co.uk

You have to call the kit something I suppose but surely you can just put a Ballpoint refill into it?

 

[Pierre]

Normally the ballpoints use a retracting mechanism and so there is no need for a cap. Rollerballs tend to use a cap which in the main can be postable . You will notice that the Beaufort pens are all named after winds …..each has a Beaufort scale!! I would also recommend the Leveche simply because it has a very nice quality feel. Each pen kits is shaped inside to take a certain refill ie most of the ballpoint kits use either cross style mechanisms or Parker style mechanisms so a ballpoint refill won’t just replace a rollerball refill, without a lot of ferkling around. You could of course go ‘kitless’ and design your own, there are plenty on the forum who could help you there.

 

[Gary's Pens & Turnings]

You have to call the kit something I suppose but surely you can just put a Ballpoint refill into it?

As Pierre said, “ferkling” lots of; brilliant description, new word added to my dictionary.

 

[21William]

Once again I’ve answered my own question, up to a point (pun intended). There is no reason why a Ball Point refill and a Rollerball refill can’t be interchangeable. Pen Kit manufacturers could (it seems) just forget Rollerball specific designs and just make Ball point pens then customers could just choose the type of refill they wish to use. I’m a big fan of this make (Schmidt) by the way.




I’m guessing from the comment above that some pen manufacturers do indeed utilise the Parker standard for their Rollerballs.
Which seems like a wise idea.

 

[Lancelot]

Hi I'm relatively new to pen turning, I have a request from a customer for a ball point pen in which the cap can be placed on the opposite end of the pen when in use. Coild anyone suggest a pen kit which would allow me to make such a pen?

 

[Lancelot]

Have a look for a Rineheart which has a hexagonal cap and centreband that is postable and uses a shmidt ceramic insert. Also look at a Churchill both rollerball and fountain pen.