Micro Pocket Pen in Caramel Apple and Red Pearl
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3y ago
Hi folks, Here is something a bit different.  I had made a series of 'Micro Pocket Pens' a few years ago, but with a threaded barrel end to allow the cap to be screwed onto the end of the barrel.   I didn't really like the look of the exposed threads, though, so haven't made these for quite  awhile. This time, I have opted to allow posting by friction, which actually worked out quite nicely.  The pen is quite compact when closed, and when posted, the cap is quite secure on the barrel end (won't fall off while you write), and extends the pen enough to be ..read more
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A Year in Pen Making
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3y ago
Hi all, been a long time since I updated my website, since between work and family life I have not had as much time lately for pen making.  Still have managed to squeeze out a few, mostly posting them on Instagram (@kcavers). Here is a sampling of a few of the pens that I have put together over the past year or so: Cool Moonlight Pen - a lovely shimmering silver and black resin, done up in my deeply posting Compact style: Moonlight and Starlight Compact style pen - once again using the same moonlight resin as above, but paired with a darker resin with points of light reminiscent ..read more
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Gold-Veined Marble Fountain Pen
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3y ago
Hello folks, A while back I was sent this cool material by a customer who asked that I turn it into a pen.  I discovered that this material (a marble white with real gold foil embedded in it) is made of polyresin, which I had some time ago sworn off using because of brittle nature and its tendency to shatter - while turning, and when dropped on a hard surface. Fortunately I happened to have a piece of pearly white alumilite on hand, which has none of those nasty tendencies, so I used that for the grip section, and for an insert into the barrel from which to cut the threaded tenon.&nb ..read more
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Green and Purple Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen
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3y ago
Just got this pair of odd blanks in with a recent order.   Not enough of either to make a pen, but they looked like they might go together, and it just happened that I needed a break from some studying I was doing, so off to the workshop, and this pen was born. in fact, the green material looked more like it belonged with the purple before I started turning it, as there was a fair bit of purple in it.  Sadly, once I turned it down to size, the purple was mostly gone.  Still, they seem to go together fairly well. The pen is done in my Shirt Pocket Fountain Pen style ..read more
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A Whole Lot of Amboyna
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3y ago
Hi everyone, Here are the first two pens of a four-pen order, all in amboyna burl wood.   Definitely one of my favourite woods to work with.   Despite the fact that it is a pain to drill (the crazy grain makes it hard to maintain a straight drill), the smell is wonderful!  Has a lovely pungent spicy smell to it.  Which of course, you can't tell from these pens because they are completely sealed.  But trust me, it's nice. The two pen styles here are the 'Simplicity II' (the flat, bevelled ends), and the 'Purity' (spherically rounded ends).  Both are very ..read more
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'Purity' Style Fountain Pen in Tibaldi Impero Celluloid With Inlay and 18K Nib
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3y ago
Hi folks, Here is one I just finished today, a custom order for which the customer sent me this lovely celluloid and asked me to turn it into a pen. The material is a very cool grey-in-blue-matrix which gives it an awesome effect.  And, celluloid!  Love that stuff - turns my workshop into one giant cough drop with all that awesome camphor.  Hard to find, though.   Since the nib that was chosen for this was a two-tone nib, I thought I would add a warm accent inlay into the mix to tie it all together. Anyhow, this style is a relatively new one, a bit of a take o ..read more
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Guiness (Mirkwood?) Cigar Style Fountain Pen
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3y ago
Finally, we come to this Cigar style pen which is done up in what I initially thought was a Mirkwood alumilite blank (from Jonathon Brooks), - which is what the customer ordered - but as I turned it, and saw no green, I realized that it was actually a Guiness (or Root Beer, depending on your drinking habits) alumilite.   But now, as I take  a few pictures of it in good lighting, I see a few hints of green, and am starting to wonder if this may in fact be Mirkwood, but with very, very little green.  Honestly, I don't know.  Here too, I will let the customer decide if ..read more
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'Mirkwood' Compact Style Fountain Pen
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3y ago
OK, so this order was actually supposed to be a Cigar style pen, but somewhere along the way while making this, the picture I had in my head of a Cigar pen turned into a Compact style pen.  No idea why, but just as I was finishing it, I realized that I had made the wrong style (*facepalm*).   So, I will check with the one who ordered it, but you may see this one go up for sale soon... Anyhow, the 'Mirkwood' alumilite, another of Jonathon Brooks' blanks, is a cool mix of brown and green.  The actual ratio, is of course impossible to know until the pen is actually turne ..read more
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Purple Haze Cigar
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3y ago
Hey all, Just a quick post with one of my recent Cigar pen orders. This alumilite material, originally Ghost Koi purple - made by Jonathon Brooks - got renamed somewhere along the line with one of my previous pens, and 'Purple Haze' has kind of stuck. The pen is a converter/cartridge filler, and is fitted with an EF steel JoWo nib that will be write-tested, smoothed, and flow-adjusted as desired prior to departure. Cheers, Ken ..read more
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'Fall Foliage' Cigar Style Fountain Pen
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3y ago
Hello everyone, Finally got some time in my workshop this week.  As usual, the cold winter is making it hard to use what little time I have free to get work done, but things came together this last few days for some pen making. Here is a pen in the good old Cigar style, done up in 'Fall Foliage' alumilite, a very cool material. The nib is a steel JoWo medium, and the pen is cartridge/converter fill. Not much else to say, really - going to write-test and smooth the nib, and get it all packed up to ship! Thanks for looking! Ken ..read more
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