Customized Pilot Vanishing Point

[Danko]

Took a chipped matte black Pilot Vanishing Point and refinished it...

Edited January 31, 2016 by Danko

[Cryptos]

That is awesome! How was the patterning achieved?

[Tasmith]

Very cool!

[bizhe]

Like the distressed rhodium.

[annakat]

That is gorgeous!!

[Danko]

That is awesome! How was the patterning achieved?

I acid etched the pattern into the brass using ferric chloride.

[Ted A]

That is absolutely fantastic.

[Oranges and Apples]

[Joseph B]

Wow, talk about turning lemons to lemonade. Very enterprising. Beautiful result.

 

Joe B.

[markiv]

nicely done.

[visvamitra]

That looks really cool

[Brooks803]

Very cool! Did you disassemble the pen first? I'm more curious about the click mech part. I've taken the nib end apart and removed the clip before, but I couldn't figure out the click end.