Cellulose Mistral

[ValleyBoy]

I decided I needed a new rollerball for the workshop and I was intending to make a custom clicker from scratch. As I was looking through my stash for a click mechanism to borrow from a donor pen I discovered I still had a couple of high quality kits. Beaufort Ink Mistrals to be precise.

So eve though I haven’t made a kit pen in quite a long time I decided, rather than complicating things, just to use the kits.

Anyway here is one of them. I used some vintage cellulose tubes. Coming back to making a kit pen after a while away was very enjoyable, and I was reminded just how good these pens are. And, of course, it’s far too nice for the workshop. So back to the pencil it is!

Cheers
Ash

 

[alan morrison]

Yes, Ash, that would indeed be a very grand workshop pen.
I did make a couple of wooden workshop pencils using sticks of graphite that I had purchased. and when finished I thought 'why did I bother?'
They are too wide to fit into a sharpener and too hard to sharpen with a craft knife! I have to sharpen them on my disc sander.
I have half a dozen shop bought pencils which do the job well anyway.

 

[Hallelujahal]

Great looking pen

 

[flexi]

That's rather nice, possibly tooo nice for the workshop.... Very nicely done