Montblanc Meisterstück 134 From The 1930S

[Michael R.]

Recently I was able to purchase a few really nice vintage Montblanc parts. With the help of my parts box I was able to put together a very clean Meisterstück 134 with some nice and early original design features.

Cap top, gripping section and filling knob are made from ebonite while cap sleeve and barrel are celluloid. The feed is the early smooth type. It has a nice 225 two tone nib. The long ink window was kept nicely and the cap shows a crisp imprint. Unfortunately the ebonite part of the filling unit was broken and needs to be re-done. All other parts of the telescopic piston filler are intact and work nicely.

 

I'm still debating this with myself but I think I will keep the the hard rubber parts as shown on the pictures instead of overly restoring them.

 

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[Michael R.]

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Cheers

 

Michael

[carlos.q]

That is a beautiful pen. Congratulations!

[CS388]

Fantastic!

 

Good call to keep it original, it looks excellent.

You really do have some of the best pens I've seen.

 

Congratulations - and thanks for sharing.

[zhryj]

Thanks for sharing, it is a great pen. I like it!

[kazoolaw]

Two thoughts:

 

-You've been on a roll lately with recent acquisitions

 

-You must have an amazing parts bin!

 

Thanks for sharing,

 

gary

[Michael R.]

Thank you for all of your nice comments.

 

Not all pens are recent acquisitions; some I just have not taken pictures of until now.

 

But yes, this was a very lucky recent find of parts and they made a very clean pen.

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[siamackz]

Fantastic window. So hard to find in such condition! Normally I am tempted to restore the ebonite to black, but on some pens where the ebonite is a variation feature of the specific period then I like to leave it as is so that the material is obvious and tells us about the pens production

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[Michael R.]

sooooo ... a little update :-)

 

This is how the filling unit arrived: a piece of the filling unit made from ebonite was broken off and showed some residues of an unknown glue (?!); obviously this attempt of repair did not work in the past.

 

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How would you have moved from there?

 

Originally I wanted to send it to a professional repair person to have the broken part replaced with a newly manufactured ebonite part. But being impatient and also liking to try to fix things by myself I gave this a try.

 

Using two-component epoxy glue I tried to glue the broken part back to the filling unit and filling all remaining gaps with the same.

This was a little bit tricky as I was risking to get epoxy everywhere into the filling mechanism to glue everything stuck. After lots of sticky fingers and swearing I was able to have everything set and let it cure for a day or so (while being able to remain all moveable parts moving):

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Today everything was cured and hardened so it was time to sand away any excess:

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What do you think?

So far I'm happy with the result and really hope that the epoxy repair will last.

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[siamackz]

Great job, let's hope it holds. There is a always the option for Plan B (expert repair) if it doesn't. Its a great pen and deserves to be working again. Enjoy it!

[CS388]

Repair looks good. Fingers crossed it stands the test of time!

[SomersetSwan]

A great pen, and thank you for showing your progress. Great photography!

[iancorben]

That is brilliant. I hope the repair holds, the truck is to have the right glue on as clean a surface as possible. I can imagine the sticky fingers and swearing you mention!

 

Sticky fingers crossed!