Remake-Reshape Job 05- Chinese Gentleman

[sanyalsoumitra]

 

I had this oversized Chinese pen named Gentleman as shown. This was an excessively heavy , un-balanced and uncomfortable pen that came with a fine two tone steel nib. The nib was damaged earlier and changed by a large President nib. I had been thinking to modify the pen for long, so finally dismantled the full pen. Both the cap and barrel were lacquered brass tube about 1 mm thick, the cap was solid brass and the barrel end finial was a very thick and heavy piece of brass ID 7 mm , OD 11mm x about 26 mm long- shown here in black. There was an additional coil wire inside the barrel to make it even heavier. This was the reason the pen was top heavy and un-balanced.

Present Look :

 

 

 

Work done : 1. The cap and barrel section the lacquer paint was machined off and the brass tube was undercut to 0.4 mm thickness- retained the section coupler.

2. Discarded the old cap and barrel and replaced by black ebonite end finials with embedded wood buttons.

3. Wood used is Paluchina- some kind of Chinese pinewood. Finish 5 coats of CA and micromech + water polish.

4. The barrel is in two pieces , the end is a hollow wood cap with a aluminum strength tube insert to maintain stiffness. The barrel ring is actually the inner tube skimmed to the surface at the join of the end cap.

5. Finial buttons are of the same wood.

6. Slight curvature to replace the straight lines of the older pen .

7, Cap band is again the inner tube skimmed and exposed to surface.

The pen took too long to make as I could not decide on the choice of end finials.

This is now a pretty light and speedy pen despite its bulk. Please let us know how you like this new pen.

 

End finials :