Gold Coming Off Your Prelude?

[LamyOne]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am interested in picking up another Sheaffer Prelude, (the one I have now has chrome trim), the one I'm considering has gold plated trim, but I read a Wikipedia article that claims the gold plating is infamous for coming off.

 

Anyone here have such problems with Preludes with gold trim? Should I stick with the chrome plated models only?

 

Any advice or counsel would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

[Tweel]

I have a Prelude pencil with gold-plated trim that endured a couple of weeks of very hard use at work -- dropped on a hard floor multiple times, banged around in the car's glove compartment, tossed around while attached to (or flying loose from) a clipboard, etc. The band and clip ended up scratched but not gouged, and it lost no gold. On one hand, that suggests that it will survive normal use... on the other hand, the pencil is first-year (1997) production, so I suppose there's always the chance (I have no data) that it was made with more care then than now.

[LamyOne]

Hello Tweel,

 

OK, thanks. I did a Google search here at FPN and couldn't find any posts complaining about it, (granted, I only read through the first couple of pages), so I don't know where Wiki got this from. There is also nobody responding to this thread, so I can't see it as much of a problem - if it was, you'd think there would be a bigger response to this query. Thank you again for taking the time to chime in - I really appreciate it.

 

Although, just to make sure; I do wish you were using a newer version of the pen.

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

Edited September 12, 2014 by LamyOne

[Lyander0012]

Hello, LamyOne!

 

I recall someone commenting on my very first review here on FPN (it was of a Prelude, of course ) that the nib plating on their Prelude didn't last very long. I could try hunting down the link and seeing if the person's still active here, but that may come across as random and a bit overly familiar for research purposes alone, haha.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Kevin