Fountain Desk Pen
In Golden Black Inlace Acrylester
With hand-turned Solid Brass Accent Band
This Desk Set was made as a standard c/c desk pen only. Set includes the pen with barrel extension and solid brass accent band, and the solid base with threaded funnel. The material is a black Inlace Acrylester with a hint of gold laced through out.
Pen Specifications:
Color / Material: Golden Black Inlace Acrylester*.
*Note: this was a special order color blend. For details, see ‘About the material’ below.
Length: Pen (overall) = 8.75″; Section = .75″;
barrel = 3″; Band .375″; pen extension = 3.50″.
Diameter (centers): Barrel = .50″ / Band = .52.
Nib: 2-tone Steel #6 Jowo.
Accent Band: Solid brass.
Weight (pen): 21.7 gms.
Ink system: C/C only (cartridge or converter).
Base Specifications:
Color / Material: Golden black inlace acrylester with ogee edge profile.
Dimensions: 5″ wide x 3″ deep x 13/16″ thick.
Funnel: .72″ dia. x 2.25″ long, threaded.
About the material:
This pen was made from a type of acrylic called inlace acrylester (or IA). IA is soft acrylic similar to Alumilite. In order to get a piece large enough for the base, I had to special order a large ‘slab’. And since the acrylic was going to be mixed just for this order, I ask the supplier if he could custom blend the color. They have a similar color but it has more of the gold in it. So I ask him to hold back on the gold so it was more subtle. I thought it was perfect.
Solid black parts. Although I had enough material for all the parts, I decided to make the parts that had threads with a different (harder) acrylic. So instead I used solid black acrylic acetate (AA). The AA is a harder acrylic so the threads will be stronger.
Cutting out the base:
The base and pen parts were cut from a single large piece of acrylic (referred to as a slab). I cut the base to a 3″ x 5″ overall size on the table saw. Once the sides were squared up, I added the ogee profile on the router table.
About the finish:
After the shaping was completed, the base was hand sanded up to 600 grit sandpaper. 120 to 320 standard paper, then 400 and 600 grit wet/dry paper. Then hand sanded up to 12,000 grit with Micro Mesh cloth.
The final step was polishing. First I used a product called One Step plastic polish. Next I use 3M Perfect-It polishing compound (#36060) to bring the acrylic to a glass smooth surface. Finally I polish with Hut Ultra Gloss plastic polish.
Desk Fountain Pen in Golden Black Inlace Acrylester Acrylic
Miscellaneous items:
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