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The Kambar was born out of my desire to have a thick, absolutely pure flat ends pen. The problem with such pens is that if the exterior is a pure cylinder, the section to barrel interface will have an irritating step. To avoid this, I had the cap diameter increased slightly. The pen was manufactured for me by Gem and Company in Madras. The owner of Chennai based ASApens.in was the interface between me and Pratap (Owner of Gem and Co.), without his help this pen could not have been made. The pen has the name Kambar, a honorific version of the name Kamban, the name of the medieval Tamil Poet and author of the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana, known as Kambaramayanam. http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af39/hari3171/GamaKambar/IMG_9720.jpg The stock 35mm (German designation No. 6 ) nibs http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af39/hari3171/GamaKambar/IMG_9721.jpg The pens dimensions are as under: Capped: 161mm Open: 126mm+24mm or 28mm depending on the nib fitted, will come to that in a bit. Section dia: 13mm-15mm, tapered. Section's gripping length: 22mm Barrel dia: 18mm Cap dia: 19mm I have to admit that this pen is inspired by my wonderful Dani Trio Sho Genkai, but without the shutoff valve coming in the way: http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af39/hari3171/GamaKambar/IMG_9729.jpg But the Dani Trio has a 40mm gold nib installed, so I also arranged a version of the Kambar featuring a 40mm nib unit from the M1000: http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af39/hari3171/GamaKambar/IMG_9730.jpg The nibs: Stock IPG, Sho Genkai, M1000 installed http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af39/hari3171/GamaKambar/IMG_9732.jpg Cheers! Hari