A while ago I had planned a trip to, amongst other things, meet a few friends I had made online over the years. One of them already had gotten a fountain pen from me (he got a camera this time around) but the other had not got one. And I knew that he wrote with fountain pens. I fancied working with metal again and I knew that he is a supporter of West Ham United. So the scene was set.
It didn’t take long until I saw the pen in my minds eye, I just needed to find pen blanks in approximately the right colours and make a sterling silver and brass crest that I could rivet to the pens cap.
For the football clubs logo I went with just the crossed hammers, for simplicities sake. Here it is sawed out, nearly ready to be soldered to the sterling silver plaque I had made earlier. I designed the outline on my PC and printed it to a regular sheet of paper which I glued to the brass sheet.
Yes, in hindsight the perfectionist in me wishes that I could have got the hammers handles straighter.. On the other hand I wanted it to look handmade to a certain extent, since it is. But who am I kidding, I should probably just use my jewellers saw a tiny little more often!
I decided to secure the little rivets with some expoxy glue on the inside of the cap, just to make sure definitely none escapes.
Here’s the final product:
Cheers and thanks for reading,
Geoffrey