Meeting Mr Lakshmana Rao Of Guider Pens Again…After A Year And Some More…Part 3 – The Guider Red Acrylic Jumbo

[shrujaya]

This is the third part of my narration of my meeting with Mr Lakshmana Rao and the new pens that he had made…I posted the first two ones almost immediately, and wanted to give some gap before I posted the rest…but I suddenly realized that the gap has become too huge…

 

Here is the Guider Acrylic Jumbo in Red… the White Super Jumbo in acrylic and the current one are both Mr Lakshmana Rao’s experiments in acrylic with big size pens…one can say that this is his ‘Acrylic Phase’… the earlier two posts on Guider Acrylic Kid and White Super Jumbo showcased his size related experiments…and it is not that he has not made pens in Acrylic earlier…one can say that he is a traditional ‘ebonite pen maker’… and only occasionally dabbled in acrylic…

 

I liked it as soon as I saw this pen…it is similar in shape and size to the Guider Black Ebonite Jumbo… here are the photos…

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/1-GuiderRedJumbo-capped_zpsee8f9096.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/2-GuiderRedJumbo-uncapped_zpsbd2e6f39.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/3-GuiderRedJumbo-posted_zps537e6c2e.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/4-GuiderRedJumbo-clip_zps685dfbe5.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/5-GuiderRedJumbo-nib_zpsedabbf1f.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/6-GuiderRedJumbo-section_zps918d67d5.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/7-GuiderRedJumbo-feeder_zps8b3b4c4d.jpg

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/8-GuiderRedJumbo-capcloseup_zpsb6c71b67.jpg

 

One can see the increase in translucency as one reaches the cap lip…the dark red becomes lighter…

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/9-GuiderRedJumbo-acrylicrod_zps49fb83e1.jpg

 

This was something new to me…this is an acrylic rod…Mr Lakshmana Rao had brought this with him to show me…the present Red Jumbo was made from one such rod…I always thought only ebonite came in the shape of rods and had to be bored to make pens…and acrylic and celluloid came in the shape of tubes…and therefore one had to seal the ends with ebonite or any other suitable substance to make the tubes into pens…so when Mr Lakshmana Rao showed me this, I was surprised and asked him and he told me that acrylic is available as rods too…and when I saw the pen I realized what he said…there are no stoppers at the barrel end and cap end… this is true of the White Super Jumbo too… maybe these rods come in single colours and it is easier to make single colour pens with these rods…but when it comes to swirls and whorls, one has to go to the sheets and tubes…this is my understanding…I may be completely wrong…

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/10-GuiderRedJumbo-acrylicrodandredjumbo_zpsccf45ee7.jpg

 

Red acrylic rod and the Red Acrylic Jumbo…

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/11-GuiderRedJumbo-withblackjumbo_zps9a330891.jpg

 

With the Black Ebonite Jumbo

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/12-GuiderRedJumbo-withblackandwhitejumbo_zps6cb1b387.jpg

 

With the White Acrylic Super Jumbo and Black Ebonite Jumbo

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/13-GuiderRedJumbo-allguiderjumbos_zps6af840fb.jpg

 

A group photo of all the Jumbos that Mr Laksmhana Rao had brought with him…you can see Jumbos in mottled green and mottled brown ebonite too…

 

Thanks for visiting and reading…

 

Shrujaya

 

 

[terminal]

Funny I just got out my Guider and was carrying it this week, and I thought of your posts. Thanks for the part three!

[hari317]

Thank you for documenting these models.

 

The White one is really thick, the red and black and others seem to be the same size. Did he mention why the others are not as fat as the white?

 

Tube Vs Solid Rod: Japanese Celluloid available with Guider is in tube form, so he needs end plugs of ebonite etc. Ebonite comes in solid rod or tube form. Solid rod form is more prevalent today. Acrylic comes as thick sheets, which is then cut into square sticks, then rounded on a lathe and then pens made out of it.

 

Best

Hari

[Mesu]

Beautiful pens. The red pen is looks very striking.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[shrujaya]

Thank you very much Hari, terminal, and Mesu...for visiting, reading, and responding...

 

terminal...I feel positively energised knowing that I was in your thoughts when you picked up your Guider...there is part 4 too in the same forum...

 

Hari...thanks for the clearing up info about celluloid and acrylic raw material...why the red acrylic is not as fat as white acrylic? It is quite possible that the white acrylic sheets were thicker than the red ones and thicker sticks were possible with white...just my guess...again, must ask GLR...and the black, mottled brown, and mottled green jumbos are ebonites...all are of the same shape, more or less...it is only the white acrylic which is the biggest...

 

Mesu...the red acrylic is indeed striking...got one already?

 

Regards,

 

Shrujaya

[Mesu]

Mesu...the red acrylic is indeed striking...got one already?

 

Not yet. The pen is too huge for me

 

But if you keep posting amazing pics like this, i might just take the plunge