Hi fellas
My precious wife gave me a beautiful fountain pen for my birthday a couple of years ago and some dirty scum crawled out of the muck and stole my beloved pen! - "NOT HAPPY, JAN!"
I have missed my pen so much that I decided I would make one. It will definitely not be a biro or a pen wth a ball in the end, a "pen" such as this is simply a common form of writing/scribble stick regardless of how it is dressed up. It will be a real pen, a fountain pen, equal or better than anything you have seen. So now I have a small problem. Can someone please tell me where I can obtain a set of engineering type drawings so I can make my pen? My intention is to build, construct, make, everything from where the nib fits at one end to the the other extreme end of the pen. The only part I will buy is the nib, everything else I will make. The material I will use will be a very exotic native Australian wood, some of which has an intensely fine and beautifull grain.
To give you an idea of what I have done with exotic native wood, I will show you a photo of shaving brush an stand that I made. The photo doesn't do the beauty of the wood any justice but it will give you an idea of the woods I have available. The base is made from Australian Sandlewood as is the handle for the brush. Sandlewood is an amazinly beautiful fine grained and hard wood. It is very difficult to aquire as it's a protected timber. The vertical section is Black Wattle, a beautiful fine timber that grows on our property. I am at present making another shaving brush and stand from the hardest timber in Australia that also rivals the hardest timber in the world. It is called Desert Rosewood and is a deep dark chocolate colour that becomes almost black when it's oiled and polished.
Well I have yet to work out how to include the photo. I think I will have to post it in a separate post. After eleventeen tries, it's time to hit the hay. Sorry for the mess up, I need to learn a bit more.
Joe
"NOT HAPPY JAN" is a quote from a much loved advert on TV. You have to have seen it to understand it.
My precious wife gave me a beautiful fountain pen for my birthday a couple of years ago and some dirty scum crawled out of the muck and stole my beloved pen! - "NOT HAPPY, JAN!"
I have missed my pen so much that I decided I would make one. It will definitely not be a biro or a pen wth a ball in the end, a "pen" such as this is simply a common form of writing/scribble stick regardless of how it is dressed up. It will be a real pen, a fountain pen, equal or better than anything you have seen. So now I have a small problem. Can someone please tell me where I can obtain a set of engineering type drawings so I can make my pen? My intention is to build, construct, make, everything from where the nib fits at one end to the the other extreme end of the pen. The only part I will buy is the nib, everything else I will make. The material I will use will be a very exotic native Australian wood, some of which has an intensely fine and beautifull grain.
To give you an idea of what I have done with exotic native wood, I will show you a photo of shaving brush an stand that I made. The photo doesn't do the beauty of the wood any justice but it will give you an idea of the woods I have available. The base is made from Australian Sandlewood as is the handle for the brush. Sandlewood is an amazinly beautiful fine grained and hard wood. It is very difficult to aquire as it's a protected timber. The vertical section is Black Wattle, a beautiful fine timber that grows on our property. I am at present making another shaving brush and stand from the hardest timber in Australia that also rivals the hardest timber in the world. It is called Desert Rosewood and is a deep dark chocolate colour that becomes almost black when it's oiled and polished.
Well I have yet to work out how to include the photo. I think I will have to post it in a separate post. After eleventeen tries, it's time to hit the hay. Sorry for the mess up, I need to learn a bit more.
Joe
"NOT HAPPY JAN" is a quote from a much loved advert on TV. You have to have seen it to understand it.
