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Hi all,

Attached a few pictures of a new prototype I've just finished.

The raison for making these prototypes is to get comments from the board, so CONID can decide in a later stage which versions they will launch in production.

The HR rings - 0.4 mm wall- are shrunk in grooves in the barrel.

For installation one needs to heat up the rings and expand them to get them in the grooves.

Once in the groove one heat them up again so the shrink tight in the grooves.

Not easy, but feasible...

As always your comments and thoughts are very welcome!

Best regards, Francis

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/fountainbel/P1000372.jpg

 

 

 

 

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mbankirer Extremely Rare

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Pretty! Reminds me of a Skeleton pen but, the way you described the rings, means it is a smoother barrel...as opposed to the metal overlay. I can see this filled with a bright ink!

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Oh, much nicer than the last one. Up until now I found the pen interesting from a technical viewpoint but generic in aesthetics. Now I can see this is getting somewhere :thumbup:

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This is the best-looking of the Bulkfiller designs to date!

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RMN Museum Piece

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From a technical point, the way you place the rings, I find this interesting. And I aprecciate the thought of progressing width of the bands. But visually it's not really my thing.

 

I keep visualising it with yellow ink... like a bee...

 

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would you be doing them in different colours? how about metals? imagine if it was bronze which tarnished over time :o

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Thanks all for your valued comments !

@ D.ick ,not like a bee, but like a wasp ! ;)

@ chad.trent : these "special executions" will only be made in small series,probably starting by the end of the year

Francis

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I really like it. More of a skeleton feel than a straight demonstrator. Classic and in trend at the same time.

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This pen has not the caracteristics I am looking for in a demonstrator.

What is does have is another splendid design.

 

A beautiful piece of engeneering. I especially like to technical details you are adding Francis. The pen really comes to life with that kind of detailed information.

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I like it. I presume HR = Hard Rubber? Are the cap, section and barrel end also hard rubber?

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I like it. I presume HR = Hard Rubber? Are the cap, section and barrel end also hard rubber?

The rings are hard rubber, the section, filling knob and cap are black delrin..`

Francis

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Love it. I'm sure your heard plenty of feedback on the siloette of your pens, but I'll gladly say that I am firmly in the flat-top camp. I also really love the effect produced by the barrels rings, both in terms of how it maintains the demonstrator aspects while gaining some visual gravity and also in the way the gradual variation of ring widths adds some extra dynamics to the design. Keep up the great work.

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Love it. I'm sure your heard plenty of feedback on the siloette of your pens, but I'll gladly say that I am firmly in the flat-top camp. I also really love the effect produced by the barrels rings, both in terms of how it maintains the demonstrator aspects while gaining some visual gravity and also in the way the gradual variation of ring widths adds some extra dynamics to the design. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for your interesting feedback Seth !

The gradual decreasing bandwidth of the rings (starting from the filling knob) symbolizes the gradual decreasing ink volume.

On further thoughts, I could alternatively make all bands with an identical width, and gradually decrease the space between the bands towards the section.

I wonder if this would look better....what do you all think?

Francis

 

 

 

 

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Hi all,

Attached a picture showing the pen with the alternative radial bands arrangement : all bands with an identical width, and gradually decrease the space between the bands towards the section.

Which version would you prefer?

Thanks for your input !

Regards, Francis

PS: I don't succeed to add the pictures directly anymore , sorry, but this is the Photobucket link

 

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PS: I don't succeed to add the pictures directly anymore , sorry, but this is the Photobucket link

 

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I have had to opportunity to see the first design in real life and I have to admit it looks great. Even better than on pictures.

 

PS: currently I am working on a review of the Bulkfiller streamline demonstrator. Received it a week ago...

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I had to rotate the pic for a good compare.

I like the second version better, for one thing, the broadest black ring in the first version is gleaming too much. Perhaps a more matte ring would chage that, but of the two as shown I like the second best.

 

But I liked the length stripes better.

 

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