penwash
March 24th, 2018, 07:35 AM
I got this Pelikan for a song from Japan. Because it came with a binde that looks like a samurai who lost his last duel.
So of course I need to fashion a new binde for it.
After hesitating whether this one has a screwed-in piston assembly or the push-fit one, I tugged carefully at the piston blind cap and a couple of wiggles later it's obvious that it is the push-fit. That makes my job easier, because the piston filler is still in one piece.
Secondly, I don't have to go super thin on this one because the original binde has some thickness to it, unlike the one on my Pelikan 100 (https://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/20612-Pelikan-100-rebuilt).
I still have the rest of my orange SEM ebonite plus I'm a sucker for woodgrain ebonite look, so it's an easy choice.
On the lathe:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4774/40086734885_1df49bae4a_c.jpg
Before I finished it (with the old binde):
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/40083302165_99868f5f15_c.jpg
After the piston assembly and the nib are back on the pen:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4781/40937980282_5e0ed30a36_c.jpg
Final note: I'm learning a bunch and I think I started to get the hang of sanding/polishing which is as tricky as every wood-worker that I talked to said it would be.
So of course I need to fashion a new binde for it.
After hesitating whether this one has a screwed-in piston assembly or the push-fit one, I tugged carefully at the piston blind cap and a couple of wiggles later it's obvious that it is the push-fit. That makes my job easier, because the piston filler is still in one piece.
Secondly, I don't have to go super thin on this one because the original binde has some thickness to it, unlike the one on my Pelikan 100 (https://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/20612-Pelikan-100-rebuilt).
I still have the rest of my orange SEM ebonite plus I'm a sucker for woodgrain ebonite look, so it's an easy choice.
On the lathe:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4774/40086734885_1df49bae4a_c.jpg
Before I finished it (with the old binde):
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/40083302165_99868f5f15_c.jpg
After the piston assembly and the nib are back on the pen:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4781/40937980282_5e0ed30a36_c.jpg
Final note: I'm learning a bunch and I think I started to get the hang of sanding/polishing which is as tricky as every wood-worker that I talked to said it would be.