Revival Of My Proust

[rokurinpapa]

The grip section of my Proust and besides the inner resin inside the silver tube of the body had been cracked. But the pen was repaired

perfectly by Hikkigukobo, Mr Kanesaki's company. He is a rising but skilled craftsman. Sorry, his blog is written only in Japanese.

 

rokurinpapa

[Chrissy]

Excellent work. It's a shame I can't read Japanese.

[zaddick]

That is good to know as getting MB to fix this semi-common issue is about $500 nowadays.

Edited March 2, 2018 by zaddick

[Inkling13]

Yay! It lives!

[Tom Kellie]

~ The photo series showing the restoration process is outstanding.

The images were made with a Canon IXY(IXUS) 140. They demonstrate that high quality fountain pen images don't require larger camera and lens set-ups.

Thank you very much to Rokurinpapa for posting the link.

Tom K.

[Zaphodbebullbrox]

I love the Proust pen, it is one of the pens on my list.

[Tintenvogel]

Last year I bought a Montblanc Marcel Proust relatively cheap on ebay. Turned out the barrel was broken and I sent it in to Montblanc for repair, which cost me about €450. Now it writes perfectly well and is a very lovely piece.

 

By the way, is anyone using an Marcel Proust pencil?

[torstar]

Always good to read about a Proust coming back into use.

 

I've been fortunate that I have not caused problems for the 13 or so years it has been in my custody.

[rokurinpapa]

Excellent work. It's a shame I can't read Japanese.

 

summary: I made the cracked section coated with artificial urushi, but the ink leak could not be stopped.So I

decided full -scale repair and asked Mr.kanesaki to do so. At first he made the grip section of his own

making. He insisted on the perfect restoration of the original shape. He used pictures that he

searched on internet for reference. But he noticed that the inner resin of the silver tube was also

cracked. He remade the grip section and tube seamlessly. He was very careful of the position of the

parts.

I heard that he used special fairly unfading black ebonite .

 

rokurinpapa

Edited March 11, 2018 by rokurinpapa