{"product_id":"tactile-turn-stonewash-titanium-anso-pen","title":"Tactile Turn Anso Pen","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"s-5d75e5a3-e058-4e34-92f8-e79fa7151caf\" class=\"shg-c\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"s-5d75e5a3-e058-4e34-92f8-e79fa7151caf\" class=\"shg-c\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"shg-c\" id=\"s-a3fb7505-b83d-408e-9c2b-9d6f699de68e\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"shg-rich-text shg-theme-text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePick your material: Titanium or Brass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by Will Hodges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy father was a cabinetmaker before he met my mother and joined her architectural scale model company and had a deep appreciation for modern Danish furniture. Clean design, great materials, and proper craftsmanship is part of the culture and no one exemplifies the attention to detail better than the legendary designer, Jens Ansø. I remember seeing some of Jens' knives at Blade Show Atlanta back in 2017 and loving them but I was too intimidated to introduce myself. Imagine my surprise when Jens reached out about a pen collaboration in August 2024. I immediately sent the initial design specs to the team, picked my jaw off the floor, and set the wheels in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur first formal meeting was at Blade West later that year where he showed Kevin and I his prototype and we started talking through how to make it happen. He wanted a VERY slim pen with a hexagonal body which is much more difficult to manufacture than it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlim pens on their own are difficult and Jens wanted to go significantly slimmer than anything we had done before and utilize our Side Click mechanism, requiring plenty of iterations to get right. On top of that, the hexagonal body was a bigger challenge than expected. Most of the time, hexagonal-shaped pens are made from extrusions of aluminum or brass which is straightforward. Titanium hex is a different story and the suppliers that were willing to do it required \u003cem\u003ehuge\u003c\/em\u003e orders which we didn't feel comfortable with knowing if the tolerances were even slightly off we'd be sitting on a lot of very expensive scrap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, our solution was polygonal turning which involves timing a cutter and the rotation of the material just the right way to produce different shapes. I won't bore you with too many details but I will say that there were some serious barriers in changing DEEP internal settings in the machine that ran these that will keep most other machined pen makers from doing this. Credit to Kevin's incredible knowledge and experience to make this happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pen is a result of an amazing collaboration – Jens came up with something quite difficult and the team stepped up to make it happen. I couldn't be happier with the results and I know Jens feels the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnurled grip + hexagonal body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuper slim diameter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitanium or brass body and top button\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitanium side click button\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMilled titanium clip with Ansø icon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccommodates ONLY Parker-style ink refills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDiameter:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.315\" (knurled + flat-to-flat hex sections)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLength:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.3\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitanium Weight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.672oz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrass Weight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.168oz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInk Refill:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ohto PG-105 with blue ink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecause of the slim diameter constraints, the Ansø pen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eonly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaccommodates Parker-style refills and comes in a single length equipped with an Ohto PG-105 0.5mm blue ink refill. For the initial batch, we're excited to offer the pen in both Stonewashed Titanium and Brass which adds a bit more heft and will patina over time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NC Blade","offers":[{"title":"Stonewash Titanium","offer_id":48859260289252,"sku":"10-JA2-TTM-TTM-1","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Brass","offer_id":48859260322020,"sku":"10-JA2-BRA-TTM","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0517\/8857\/9006\/files\/C1F6FC00-D8ED-43F2-B54A-C9621BCA0C50.jpg?v=1777664868","url":"https:\/\/ncblade.com\/products\/tactile-turn-stonewash-titanium-anso-pen","provider":"NC Blade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}