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Hi -

I've been wondering how the marble barrel on the entry level M20x series is made. With the ink window, it seems pretty sophisticated. Are there any videos or other info on that?

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It's the binde, just like stripped or any other binde. A sheet of somesort of sturdy plastic, precisely cut?

Now that I looked, I see no slit.....don't see a slit on my W.Germany grayish 200 either.

So perhaps it's cut and wound on a mandrel and 'welded' …..then slipped into the pen.

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I've always assumed it wasn't a binde actually. I don't know how the ink window could so clearly be separated from the marble color if they are all one piece though. I kind of doubt the marble binde is cut from acrylic bar stock though...it's a mystery!

 

Maybe Joshua of The Pelikan's Perch knows? Or possibly Ron Zorn could tell us.

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I have read here that the m2xx aren't made with binde, but completey made of resin. So the marble effect is produced as with any other marbled plastic item.

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Its my understanding that the tradition series (M1xx/M2xx) pens are made from resin and do not utilize a binde. There are no good videos that I’m aware of to illustrate that process. There is a video now many years old that shows the making of a striped Souverän which is fun to watch.

 

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Thanks for the feedback. Can you get that kind of marbling from injection molded resin? Or does it have to be milled from a bar?

 

I'm just wondering because more expensive pens like the M101 special editions use that marbled effect and I'm just amazed to find it in the humble M20x version, at about the same price as the regular black model.

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Thanks for the feedback. Can you get that kind of marbling from injection molded resin? Or does it have to be milled from a bar?

 

It is probably milled from a bar of acrylic. At the prices Pelikan charges, I would certainly hope so.

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It is probably milled from a bar of acrylic. At the prices Pelikan charges, I would certainly hope so.

 

 

The material feels like resin, not acrylic. It also scratches much too easy to be acrylic. There's also the clear, sharp and abrupt transition from the marbled color section to a clear ink window. It would have to be two pieces to be made from acrylic and achieve that effect (clear section sleeved with an acrylic binde).

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Its my understanding that the tradition series (M1xx/M2xx) pens are made from resin and do not utilize a binde. There are no good videos that I’m aware of to illustrate that process. There is a video now many years old that shows the making of a striped Souverän which is fun to watch.

 

 

I'm guessing most of the processes carried out by the people in this video have been replaced by robots now...sadly.

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I'm guessing most of the processes carried out by the people in this video have been replaced by robots now...sadly.

As far as I know the process of manufacturing Pelikan pens is by and large unchanged from what it was in the video. There are plenty of places there where human craftsmanship and touch simply can not be replaced with machines. As in, the processes and steps in the manufacturing where a human could be replaced with a machine have already been modernized ages ago. That said, Goldspot pens should come out with a Pelikan factory tour video from their european tour this summer, have been keenly waiting on that ever since I heard of it. :)

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As far as I know the process of manufacturing Pelikan pens is by and large unchanged from what it was in the video. There are plenty of places there where human craftsmanship and touch simply can not be replaced with machines. As in, the processes and steps in the manufacturing where a human could be replaced with a machine have already been modernized ages ago. That said, Goldspot pens should come out with a Pelikan factory tour video from their european tour this summer, have been keenly waiting on that ever since I heard of it. :)

 

 

I would love to see that tour video too. Hopefully it gets posted in a thread here somewhere, I don't follow Goldspot.

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They said it will be several weeks away, plenty of editing that goes into making those. I will try to remember to post a link to it here once it has gone live.

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