Do you need some wooden pens?

[mke]

If you do need such pens, I can recommend the services of Renee Meeks at Scriptorium Pens. [This post is not a paid advertisement, nor is it requested by Renee, she doesn't even know that I am posting it. I am just a satisfied client of her.]

 

The following pens are my Scriptorium pen family. (Sorry for the distortions in the photo, taken with a mobile phone.)

 

The first 6 pens from the left are wood shell over ebonite pens. The ebonite gives stability and the wood the special feeling. The two last ones are 100% wood as they are dip pens which do not need to be shell pens.

While there are so many more beautiful woods, I guess, I will stop buying new ones and use the ones I have.  🥰    (😢 for the woods I don't have)

 

 

The grip sections are ebonite. I dislike that most wooden pens and metal pens have black grip sections. In discussions with Renee, we therefore tried to match the woods to available ebonites.

 

 

from left to right
1) Custom design in Ancient Kauri Wood (New Zealand) & SEM Ebonite Honey 10/8;

    Bock 380 14k EF
2) Custom design in Olive Wood (Palestine, Extreme Figure) & SEM Ebonite Sand 06;               

    Bock 380 18k M CSI grind (by nibgrinder)
3) Custom design in Mahogany Wood (Honduras) & SEM Ebonite Brown 04/08;

    Bock 380 14k EF
4) Custom design in Amboyna (Heirloom Quality) & NYH Cumberland;

    Jowo #6, 14k, semiflex
5) Custom design in Camatillo (Mexican Kingwood) & NYH Cumberland;

    Bock 250 in Pt950 XXF grind (by fpnibs.com)
6) Custom design in Snakewood & NYH Cumberland;

    Jowo #6 18k, EF CI grind (by nibgrinder)
7) Custom design in Tie Dye acrylics;

    Bock 380 Titanium EF
'8) Idyll in custom designed acrylics, now available as Japanese Autumn acrylics;

    Jowo #6 EF
9) Churchillized Epic in Illuminated Amber Tortoise (Acrylics);

    Jowo #8, Pendleton's Butterline Stub
10) Custom design in Nikko ebonite, aftermodified to midori tamenuri;

     Bock 380 14k EF
11) Dip pen Literatis in roasted curly maple;

    for Jowo #6 nib units
12) Custom design: double dip pen in ancient bog oak (Ukraina), hammered silver bands;

    for Jowo #6 nib units

[bsenn]

They're all beautiful, but I especially like the cap of pen 9. Looks like a stately 100 year old flattop.

[langere]

Do these wooden pens dry out faster than plastic pens?  I've found that to be the case with some of the wooden pens I possess.

 

Erick

[mke]

2 hours ago, langere said:

Do these wooden pens dry out faster than plastic pens? 

 

I don't think so but I have to admit that I haven't really tested it. What I can say is that I never had to unscrew the barrel and prime the feed by turning the converter nob. Some pens I had before (and sold meanwhile) needed that - also depends on the ink.

 

[Lloyd]

Can the ebonite lined pens be eyedroppered?

[Scriptorium Pens]

As long as the barrels are fully lined, they can be eyedroppered.  Mine are., and I imagine most other pen makers do the same.  Best to ask them, though.

[K Singh]

These are beautiful pens 👍 And agree with you that wooden pens should come with ebonite sections. I don't understand pens that claim to give a natural feel because of the wood body, and then they have metallic, and often slimmer, sections.