Hi all!
I have been searching nice clips for quite a long time.
Once in a pen show in Paris where a lot of fountain pen addicts were awaited, I made a bundle of my nicest kitless models with the clips I had, all made of an embossed sheet of metal. I heard thrice the same comment : "Nice pens indeed, but too bad, the clips look really cheap. Have a good day, Sir!" Poor sales, sadness, bad sleep, only dry bread and tepid water for one week, fiancée in a huff and so on, I let you imagine the valley of sorrow I crossed.
So I looked to high end kits to salvage the clips, but it was expensive and sort of a nonsense for kitless'. As I make a lot of Jr Gent II and don't always use the clips, so I could re-use them in a kitless, it is simple and solid and not "cheap" looking:
But this clip can be a bit too long sometimes, and I was tired of using always the same look and the same ring diameter (around 14mm, a bit wide), I was looking for different and versatile clips, with no luck up to now: no one proposed solid clips wheresoever.
And Beaufort came.
Two kind of clips are available, the cheapest is embossed, but the 2.97 £ (God, that is precise!) is solid. Six different designs declined in gold or chrome, each with one, two or even four different ring diameters. A dream!!!
I have an inclination for this one. With 4 different ring OD's (13.6, 12, 11.2, 10 mm), I can use it for whatever pen I like, with visible or invisible ring. Furthermore, it has a little rounded recess where it is easy to glue an accent. I love it.
With it,one could make a well-dressed pen I suppose:
Of course, there will always be a missing diameter (I mean THE diameter I wanted this day) and design (you know, this lovely Japanese clip so simple I saw somewhere), but nothing is perfect in this old word.
Thanks Phil, for giving us the means to upgrade our pens!
I have been searching nice clips for quite a long time.
Once in a pen show in Paris where a lot of fountain pen addicts were awaited, I made a bundle of my nicest kitless models with the clips I had, all made of an embossed sheet of metal. I heard thrice the same comment : "Nice pens indeed, but too bad, the clips look really cheap. Have a good day, Sir!" Poor sales, sadness, bad sleep, only dry bread and tepid water for one week, fiancée in a huff and so on, I let you imagine the valley of sorrow I crossed.
So I looked to high end kits to salvage the clips, but it was expensive and sort of a nonsense for kitless'. As I make a lot of Jr Gent II and don't always use the clips, so I could re-use them in a kitless, it is simple and solid and not "cheap" looking:
But this clip can be a bit too long sometimes, and I was tired of using always the same look and the same ring diameter (around 14mm, a bit wide), I was looking for different and versatile clips, with no luck up to now: no one proposed solid clips wheresoever.
And Beaufort came.
Two kind of clips are available, the cheapest is embossed, but the 2.97 £ (God, that is precise!) is solid. Six different designs declined in gold or chrome, each with one, two or even four different ring diameters. A dream!!!
I have an inclination for this one. With 4 different ring OD's (13.6, 12, 11.2, 10 mm), I can use it for whatever pen I like, with visible or invisible ring. Furthermore, it has a little rounded recess where it is easy to glue an accent. I love it.
With it,one could make a well-dressed pen I suppose:
Of course, there will always be a missing diameter (I mean THE diameter I wanted this day) and design (you know, this lovely Japanese clip so simple I saw somewhere), but nothing is perfect in this old word.
Thanks Phil, for giving us the means to upgrade our pens!
