drawing on metal with pens ?

[Indy Joneds]

evening all, i did some seraching and found snippits about pens like the itoya fine point 0.1 and a rotring in another post. but just to clarify some engravers are drawing straight onto the metal with these pens ? because there was some mention of plastic about and didwant to go and buy one of these if they are just being used to draw onto plastic then somehow trace/scribe that onto the metal . im sure i saw a photo on a post the other day with ink on a barrel . I cant find anywhere in uk that selss an itoya pen but if some one could just let me know if the rotring does do this or any fine pen does this i would be very grateful . thanks

 

[sinan]

http://sakuraofamerica.com/component/product/products/382
You can draw with these but they are not permanent. I use 0.005 and some times I use spray varnish to make it permanent.

http://www.parinenterprises.com/niyo/diamond-marking-pen.html

If you can find this pen is better. They are permanent.

 

[Riflesmith]

They are available on eBay!

 

[Indy Joneds]

i cant find the the second one , but i can get a sakura off of ebay , but it only goes down to 0.2mm. when some of the other pens go down to 0.03
but not sure how well they will work on metal . does the ink need to be oilbased ?

I have ordered a sakura 0.005 on your advice anyhow. so thank you sinan.

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

Itoya is good, also Pilot drawing pen M-20DR.
SKU#4 902505 133077
used in pic below:

 

[Indy Joneds]

thanks guys

cant get itoya , but can get pilot
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271880677...49&var=570716977698&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
hope this is the one you mean barry .
thanks again
its 3am but

 

[Dave London]

The .005 works if you dry the ink with a hair dryer do a soft flame. YMMV

 

[diandwill]

There is a retail store locator if you click on the links. You have to put a zip in...at least for the first one!

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

thanks guys

cant get itoya , but can get pilot
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271880677...49&var=570716977698&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
hope this is the one you mean barry .
thanks again
its 3am but

That looks correct.