Ken Cavers Custom Pens

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 bar...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2018/09/micro-pocket-pen-in-caramel-apple-and.html

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 postin...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-year-in-pen-making.html

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 ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/05/gold-veined-marble-fountain-pen.html

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 s...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/04/green-and-purple-shirt-pocket-fountain.html

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 dril...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-whole-lot-of-amboyna.html

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...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/03/purity-style-fountain-pen-in-tibaldi.html

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 tu...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/02/guiness-mirkwood-cigar-style-fountain.html

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.  ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/02/mirkwood-compact-style-fountain-pen.html

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...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/02/purple-haze-cigar.html

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 ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2017/02/fall-foliage-cigar-style-fountain-pen.html

Hey all, Special treat today.   Someone else's pen work! Some time ago, one of my fellow pen makers, the very gifted Jonathon Brooks began to work with the Japanese Urushi styles of lac...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/12/special-guest-jonathon-brooks-aka-kin.html

Hello all, Here is another Curvy style fountain pen - this one just finished today.  This is the result of an order that I received some time back.  The order was for a custom FP in my C...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/12/white-and-red-japan-themed-curvy-style.html

Hi all, After several weeks of travel, work, family time, and more work, I finally had a chance to put in some hours in my workshop. Here is one of my Curvy style pens in a lovely translu...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/12/amber-swirl-curvy-style-fountain-pen.html

Hello folks, Here is my latest 'Susutake' style bamboo fountain pen, and I think my best one so far. Technically, 'sustake' refers to bamboo darkened by smoke over many years, but hey ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/11/susutake-bamboo-fountain-pen-with.html

So here is another one of my Curvy style fountain pens, but this time in the larger sizing.   Unlike my standard sizing, which is worked around a cap thread of 12.7mm (for a max grip diamet...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/10/large-curvy-style-mocha-swirl-fountain.html

Hi all, Here is my latest commission off the bench - using this very cool 'Ocean Lava' alumilite from Bear Tooth Woods.  But of course, like before, I'm going with 'Earth' resin, since the...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/10/earth-shirt-pocket-fountain-pen.html

Here is the result of a rather special order, placed by a couple of pen fans who both happen to be expecting.  I celebration of the new addition to their respective families, they ordered ma...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/09/twin-compact-style-fps-in-abalone.html

And, here is the third of a set of three fountain pens made using cool vintage cebloplast tubes.  The first one was finished in April, and this one is fresh off the bench last night.  Took ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/09/grey-cebloplast-c600-and-group-shot.html

More cebloplast! When I received an order for three cebloplast pens, and was sent the material (vintage cebloplast tubes), I liked it so much that I bought a whole pile more!  Here is o...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/09/blue-grey-cebloplast-c400.html

Wow - it has been quite a while since my last post!  My summer has been absolutely packed - lots of travel, a load of extra work, some home renovations, and best of all, the birth of my first gr...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/09/red-cebloplast-c600-fountain-pen.html

Hi folks, Here is another pen made from one of Jonathon Brooks' cool alumilites.  One of the fun things about the alumilite blanks is that you often just can't tell by looking at the blank...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/06/stormy-seas-large-size-cigar-fountain.html

Hi everyone, Been meaning to post this one since I gave it to my wife.  This was a birthday gift to her, and a replacement for another pen that had sadly vanished. I can't recall the nem...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/06/land-and-sea-shirt-pocket-fountain-pen.html

Hey folks, Just a quick post for this recent Cigar style FP I did.  This is another one of my Cigar style pens, a popular, classic style. This one is done in one of Jonathon Brooks' ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/05/purple-haze-cigar-style-fountain-pen.html

Well, here it is.  When I first turned the purple Ghost Koi blank into a pen a while back, I was quite surprised at how nicely it came out, as the blank looked pretty dull on the outside.  ...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/05/green-ghost-koi-cigar-style-fountain-pen.html

A few times now I have been attracted to a certain Japanese pen company's website, admiring the nice work they do on their pens, particularly their beautiful work in ebony and in rosewood.  So I...

http://kcavers.blogspot.com/2016/05/ebony-and-paua-shell-fp-in-rustic.html