The Bebe Fountain Pen in Vanity with Copper Kintsugi

Posting Cap:

Yes

Length, Cap Off

147mm
Length, Cap On
156mm

Body Diameter, Widest

15.78mm

Grip Diameter

11mm, 29mm long.

Nib - Steel

Jowo #6

Ink

Schmidt K5 International Converter, included, or compatible cartridge. Any fountain pen compatible ink.

Colorway

‘Vanity’
Deep, brooding swirls of chameleon purples shift before your eyes from indigo to Aubergine, flecked with bright gold. Vanity is created with a specialty pigment used in high end vehicle paint to achieve the otherworldly color-shift effect. This was the last bit of this material I had, and the cap cracked at the very last stage of polishing and detailing. Instead choosing a different cap material, I repaired the crack with genuine, solid copper, using a method known as electroforming, and rethreaded the cap. After days of trial and error to bring the two materials together, followed by hours of hand-detailing and multiple layers of sealing coats later, the new cap was finished, now with a lovely squiggly copper kintsugi repair.

Hardware Material

Aluminum

Out of stock

Markov's Notes:

“The Bebe Fountain Pen was designed from the ground up to be my personal daily writer. I wanted a lightweight, well-balanced fountain pen with a bit of length on it, but with the weight balanced in the lower half. It needed to be lightweight enough to stay comfortable for pages of notes, but chonky enough to withstand the inevitable rough and tumble of being shoved in my back pocket, the bottom of my bag, and being accidentally tossed across the room a few times. I inverted the traditional cigar shaped ends on the body and cap to give my fingers a built-in worry stone for when I was lost in thought. Each Bebe uses my hallmark tough and lightweight glass-touch material. The end result is a pen that, even if I was fishing it out of the bottom of my bag, still looks like elegant, functional art. Years later, the Bebe prototype remains my daily writer.”