How to make a feather quill pen
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2014
- This is a tutorial on how to make a Quill pen out of a feather.
Fun and easy project and a perfect companion to my tutorials on
how to make paper and how to make a wax stamp sealer. You just
need a large feather and an inkwell.
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The feather needs to be heat treated in hot sand to harden the feather to preserve the tip. The nib will ware down over time and require more trimming and thus not last as long, probably not important unless you plan on using it for a lot of writing.
Also your holding the nib upside-down which will make the pen much harder to use, plus there is way to much ink on the pen that will make rather rounded letters instead of the fine intricate writing normally done with a heat treated and precisely sharpened properly inked nib.
Was just going to make those points.
Dinesh Kumar what? Why would you comment just that?
Elaborate more on the heat treating please. I have a crow feather I want to make into a quil pen.
@@RVsoloman5000 same
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Helpful and easy. I love how you just cut to the chase and don't dilly dally.
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Awesome Project! My Dad and I made some of these when I was about 5, such a great memory. I actually got the idea from a book, that I had checked out from the public library, wish I could remember the name of it. Thanks for bringing back a wonderful memory!
Might've been Harry Potter
for all those who are trying. it needs to be sharper and smaller.
Thanks
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Just an extra tip, apparently the very end of the feather isn't as strong as further up on it, just under where the actual feathery bits start. So, person reading this, if you're looking to make a stronger quill pen the you should probably start a bit further up. I reccomend Bernadette Banner's video on quill-making. Also, the thicker the tip of the quill/pen thing is, the thicker the writing seems to be, so if you want a thin pen, just make the tip thinner.
I was able to make this from a cockatoo feather I found outside. It works great, thank you!
I think a tame ducks feather would work too! I live on a farm (well, of birds lol) and we collect the eggs. On a side note, duck eggs are really good for baking! Back to the point. All ducks drop feathers that are small and downy, but occasionally they will drop a wing feather of sorts. They are also good, but the turkey feathers are also sturdier (in my opinion) and not as rare. Don't know why I typed this much, but okay! XD
+epicfantasy I'm pretty sure I will! This video was really fun to watch, and I can't wait to try it out! Also, how much money would ink like that cost at a store do you think.... I know you made yours out of berries, but just curious. :3
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If you have geese or turkey I would recommend using that instead because they are stronger than the usual pigeon or magpie feather.
My dad showed me how to make quills a couple of years ago so I am glad someone else makes them the same way I do.(note I am 13).
But most of the time I'm lazy so I do a more basic quill
You're using it upside down!!! 😂
Nice catch! I had to go back to see that. I have never used a feather for a pen, just fine tip metal nibs from sketching.
Lol! I noticed that too! XD
I actually just made mine following this guy's instructions, and what I found is that while one side runs out of ink, the other side still has some to retain; so all you have to do is rotate the feather in order to keep writing before having to dip.
Jennie Towan it doesn't matter cause it still works.
An upsideown writing is a trick to make the flow controllable to make it abit thiner for some bad quality paper
Me and my uncle just went goose hunting and I took the feathers so I'm going to do this
Thanks for the great idea
You just got a subscriber!
I like this channel ,there is no unnecessary music
Really, really amazing video. Incorporating the finished pen into the video like that, inspiring! And of course to make a quill pen now
I'm currently trying to make something like this out of the long skinny handle of one of those combs. I never understood why a hair comb comes with a long, skinny, sharp hand, unless you can get these in prison, and it just cuts down on labor.😂
Speaking of prison, the only tools I'm using are razor blade, a fixed, blade, knife for prying, and a flat pair of semi needle nose pliers for pulling😂
You could give me whatever they use to write signatures 10 billion years in the future, and it would still look like somebody trimmed a willow tree and threw all the sticks into a giant pile.
Think of literally any heavy metal bands logo😂
I can't tell you how good I did or how well the project turned out but I can tell you without a doubt whatever it is that makes a person a good teacher. You definitely got it my dude!!!! Exceptional and the diagrams were... well it's obvious why that was the most replayed portion😂
And the archaic and simplistic style, surprisingly made it so much more easy to understand!!!❤
Thank you for your kind words. And, you clearly can think, and craft. Keep making things! The world has a need for creative thinkers.
Thanks for sharing! My son just collected a bunch of goose feathers. Now I know what to do with them! :)
finally someone else who is left handed!!
I found a crow feather in my yard. will that work?
Maybe, give it a try!
epicfantasy Ok, thanks!
Did you try it? I'm curious to know if it works.
Nope! It doesnt... I found feather buy just now, though, and I wanna get some pheasant feathers
I mean goose
This was really easy to understand, thanks for the tutorial! Can't wait to make my own
I’m gonna start taking notes in math class with this. thank you
That is so easy! Why did I not try this years ago?! I had to try twice but it was really simple and works brilliantly. :D
I made my first quill pen when I was 10 and nobody showed me how to do it. I just copied the fountain pen I was using. It worked great. Made my own ink, too by boiling oak galls when my granny told me that's how the people in the mountains, you would call them "hillbillies" probably, did it.
Conditioning the feather makes the quill last longer & the nib not curl.
Thank you! Really liked the instructions drawn out before you started actually cutting the quill. Going to give it a try write now. Subscribed!
Yes, it's a good idea.
I made one but have not tried it yet. All of your videos I have watched so far are great!!!!!!
Question: Are feather quill pens mass produced anywhere? I've never come across them and I've always wondered why, given there's so many metal nibs that attempt to be derivative.
They probably are not produced because they are out dated and replaced by modern day fountain pens.
@@ThatGuyWithNoLife There's a different and quite beautiful quality, when you draw with a pen with limited ink capacity. i.e. a fountain pen can never produce a pen and ink drawing with the aesthetic refinement of a Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael or Rembrandt.
the sketches were a big help. going outside to grab up some feathers!
Have fun! Good coincidence here. Right now I am making paper!
Thank you it really means a lot to me to learn our history and having links to it from people like you that are willing to take the time to teach me. I'm off to write some poetry and song lyrics. Thank you
I read that you use warm soapy water to soak the feather before cutting and using a toothpick to clean out the shaft before fashioning the tip.
I make all your projects and I love the stuff you make (:
There’s always something special about writing like it’s the 15th century!
I have some really beautiful peacock feathers that im going to cut into a pen now! They are really lovely flight feathers, black with a shine of greenish blue. Cant wait!
Come on sarah do you havr kids????
Vashon Johnson uh, extremely personal question. I prefer to keep that to myself. Why is this being asked might I say?
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problem with this ! Who we are in Christ is all that matters!!!
Vashon Johnson I do not believe in god. Im sorry if that offends you in any way, but I would rather not believe in something there isn't uch proof towards.
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I'm gonna try this. There's this eagle who always comes around the house at dusk when the sun is setting behind the mountains. It soars overhead, it spirals down, and it always lands on the electric post outside my house. Every now and then, it drops a feather or two straight down as it sits there, and next time a feather rains from above, I'ma turn it into a quill. Thanks for the video, my dude.
Came here because my daughter found some big seagull feathers at the beach and wants to make a feather pen. Next will be the berry ink tutorial! Thanks, Will!
You are very welcome! Have fun! And thanks for watching!!
Am I the only person that came here to make a quill too match the one's in Harry Potter?
No I did too
Pratyush Srivastava me too!
As well as I
Oh that's an amazing idea.
I'm here for the same reason!!
I love your intro. 😂 I subscribing just to hear that every day.
loved the tutorial, and followed along. you should go into how to make ink next.
thank you, great video! I made a few quills and they work well, although I do have to have them at odd angles/upside down since the feathers are so stiff, and instead of writing properly they start making double lines or bouncing and splashing ink everywhere... Maybe it just takes practise, but anyways..
AWESOME VIDEO!!!
did this with a large ostrich feather... oh.. my arm just got soo tired! it was FUN though :D thanks for the tutorial, i put too much effort into mine, this is much easier and more stable of a technique.
You use a flat tip nib for calligraphy and a pointed tip nib for normal cursive writing
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The flat tip(called a stub) is used for italic scripts and gothic or more modern fraktur.
The pointed tip is used for flexed cursive scripts like Spencerian or copperplate(many more exist)
Either can be used for normal writing, my everyday pen is a stub nib fountain pen.
I use vulture's feather: it's free and easy to collect in Chile. Obviously, it works fantastic and I can write with thin lines (the trick is carve a line along the tip, don't cut it along)
I am building one right now! We have turkeys so i can make jow many i want!
Excellent. Probably big feathers too!
so awesome! I like it
The best easier tutorial ever!
Absolutely awesome thank you sir
Thank you for the tutorial
Thank you for the tutorial on making a feather ink pen. Also helpful is that you illustrated how to hold it to write. In my naive previous attempts to create a feather pen, when I went to write with it, I erroneously held the open end down; obvious failure. Thanks again.
open end down is the right way to use it. He writes with it upside down
I have a Quill with a beautiful white feather. But there's a slight yellowish discoloration on the edges of the feather. I'd really like it to be perfectly white. Any ideas on how I could acheive that?
I love it I am doing it right now!
I made some ink with coffee. It was pretty thick and worked really well.
That's pretty cool. I never thought to try coffee.
Such a great video thank you! 🪶
Very clear and succinct. Thanks.
A good friend of mine made some black walnut ink and mailed it to me. Im gonna make one of these quills and send her a letter with her own ink!
try, writing using this at school or office!
Doesn't sound like a good Idea😂, but as an activity it sounds good
Peacock feathers work very well for this
Thank you. Helped a lot.
really cool great love old things
Soak it and then do it in hot sand to harden the feather. Also, the first few flight feathers are the best
Great comment. Great suggestions. Thanks!
Made the quill and it is awesome
Legendary tip
Write with your own pen 😂🤣
Hi there! Thanks for the video. I have an antique journal i would like to make a quill. I found some bird feathers although i don't think any are turkey. Do you think they would work the same way?
Not sure,. GIve em a try!
Were could i get some ink to wright with and maybe an ink well too?
so useful thank you !
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Most excellent mee lad!!.....by the way, i made one out of a seagull feather, I live by long island sound in connecticut- works great.
You guys are not alone
Interesting that at the start of the video he was left handed and then at the end he was right handed.
Thanks for the tutorial, this one made the most sense!
Oh this is really cool
Thanks :)
TOTALLY WORKS THX BEACH AND EPICFANTASY !!!!! 👍🏿 👍🏿
I think you need to learn what to do with the quill pen. Some calligraphy lessons perhaps
I need those too...
Yeah, ikr
you can find em on youtube.
I've been thinking of making an authentic medieval cook book to use at 15th century re-enacting and you keep coming out with all these really useful videos about paper making and now this!
Have you thought of doing on on book binding Will?
epicfantasy Would be awesome to see all those tutorials coming together, using them all to make a medieval style book, all from scratch!
I would love to see that!
That's awesome!
Medievally quills were not split down the centre. There is no need to make the slit with once living material as it wicks the ink naturally. Try it out.
where can you find turkey feathers?
Thank you it is wery usefull
I made one with peacock feather it is so beautiful
Can we use peacock feather to write?
what are those old fashion moving backgrounds called. The ones that moves
I can write with my finger like that, 😀
How do these all natural quills 'hold'? for example if i would not use it for a month (after it's been used), would it still work?
And once the tip has worn off, can i just cut a new one a bit higher above the first cutting?
Great questions. I returned to these after a couple of months and they needed some tweaking because of all the dried ink. One needed to be recut. Yes cut a new one a bit higher works if needed. Clean them well after use and they will require nothing.
epicfantasy Thank you very much for the clear awnser. I'll definitely give it a go!
that's pretty cool, I found a hawk feather in the woods and I was thinking of turning it into a feather Quill Pen, I was going to make some ink to write with using 2 cycle mix oil, that was too thin, so I was going to mix it with corn syrup to make it a little thicker, so that it wasn't like writing with water, it's still not working, I must not be doing something right to get it to the proper thickness, so I decided to go another route and started watching this video and the video of you making the ink, a hawk feather would make a beautiful pen, I think.
I just emptied the INK from a pen and it works great! (I was too lazy to make my own)
im going to try to do it
could i use one of thes for taking notes at school i think it would e cool to have a quill like harry potter
Where did you buy the feathers
just found a nice hawk feather (our hawks are huge) and it fits nicely in my hand - I think a metal tip is best though
i used a female peacock feather. dull brown though very stiff. I tried nibs made at the end of the feather in the hollow area and got nibs tat laddered easily from the split end. my best nib was made in the middle of the feather where there is that foam like material not the crispy plastic stuff and no split and left quite a bit of the foam on the nibs inner and found that it acted like a sponge for ink and i could write a lot more letters between dips than with a split
How many grits do you use for the sandpaper?
Where did you get your ink
Dang, that thick base makes me wonder how a feather like that would just pop off.
I also forgot to add, for Christmas that year I got a Calligraphy kit. Even though it was the cartridge type, I remember making a big mess with the ink at first,, but I actually got pretty good at it. I would practice the letters that were in the included book, and went through many cartridges.
oh and great tip for the metal nibbed crow pens use a match or lighter to blacken the nib with soot and you won't have to dip more than once per line of words. it is amazing how much a little soot can do am assuming that thisis what the sand is meant to achieve
Listen, I'm a young teen, but I have always had a strange sort of gravitation to old stuff like this? especially around 1700s stuff right now, I'm ordering a nice quill pen I found online and it's just I don't understand why I like it so much, I just do
We use any birds feather ?
Where can you get ink for the pens?
Do you just rinse it in water after you are done writing with it??? Nice video!!
Does the slot cut all the way through or just a small cut through the center?
Just a small cut.Experiment with it, start small and try it. You can always slot it further as you like it.
epicfantasy Alright thanks for the reply! :D
This is awsome keep up the good work will :)
Thanks Glenn :)
epicfantasy whats your next video will...
Hmmm... I have a choice. Probably going to be a big foamboard two handed sword from Elder scrolls.
epicfantasy YESSS!. and how do i give you a pic of my assassins creed hidden blade?
epicfantasy and it is so so cool that you rad all comments most people don't even touch the comments you are awesome.....
Where did you get your feathers?
I just bought a feather pen set with notebook and all that stuff for my sister I hope she doesn't like it so I can have it myself XD
Can I use a chicken feather? I own chickens and a few of them keep losing feathers (due to molting) and I wanted to know if I could just use that
cool! always would try to make these as a kid... one time i just shoved the filament from a normal pen up inside a feather and glued it because i wanted one so bad... haha. thanks, will! i'm left handed also, lol lefties unite!
I need one!
Can it work with pen ink??
It looks to me that you are writing with the quill upside down (see, for example, 4:21). Shouldn't the long portion of the quill's nib--the side with the slit--be held so it's on the top?