Opinions on Sailor Maki-e Butterly

[klemenv]

I am looking at Sailor Maki-e butterfly. Does anybody have experience with Sailor Maki-e pens? I am interested, if it is real, hand made Maki-e, or it is machine design and if it has Urushi lacquer, or not?

 

If anybody has seen it or have it, how does it looks?

http://www.go-pens.com/images/le_images/sailor_le_butterfly.jpg

[wimg]

Hi Klemenv,

 

Most of the sub-$500 Maki-e is based on stencil work, executed by students of the maki-e masters. If this is such a pen, it is likely to fall into that category. It doesn't mean it is not a quality piece of work, it was just made a lot faster, by people who don't have the name of the masters, yet. Generally, all maki-e is protected by several layers of transparant urushi.

 

HTH, kind regards, Wim

[Leslie J.]

Swishers says:

 

This Sailor Maki-e on Resin Fountain Pen is called "Butterfly". The Maki-e artist is Kosen Osh*ta, a fourth generation Osh*ta Maki-e Artist in this style of Maki-e painting. This style is called Taka Maki-e, from the Kaga region of Japan. It is Urushi lacquered. This pen features a 21kt Gold Japanese nib. (Please keep in mind that Japanese nibs are finer than American & German nibs). This pen is filled by cartridge or converter (one each included).

 

It's a very attractive looking pen.

 

Edit: this is embarrassing, but the name of the artist triggered the bad word filter, so I'll put a * where the "i" is.

Edited April 3, 2005 by Leslie J.

[KCat]

 

well, that brought a loud laugh in SE TX.

[klemenv]

You know the theory of Chaos, a butterfly over Tokio causes laugh in Texas

[Maja]

You know the theory of Chaos, a butterfly over Tokio causes laugh in Texas

:lol: Very clever, klemenv!

 

By the way, the title of your thread is "Opinions on Sailor Maki-e Butterly, looking something "butterflyish" for my"

 

but the ending is cut off...."for my" (what?)

 

 

I think you can edit the title of this thread the same way you would do a regular post edit.

[klemenv]

By the way, the title of your thread is "Opinions on Sailor Maki-e Butterly, looking something "butterflyish" for my"

 

honey

[Maja]

Awwww, that's nice.....

[winedoc]

The Maki-e on Resin, does not have urushi lacquer work. It is done directly on resin. I have problem with this as resin is quite fragile and very prone to break if you drop it. Better material would be on wood, ebonite based etc. But, of course, they are more expensive as well. The maki-e on resin is smaller in size. Here are few more butterflies from my collection... enjoy.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/winedoc/Pens%20from%20Orient/tn_cosmo1.jpg

 

How about "Madame" Butterfly

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/winedoc/Pens%20from%20Orient/tn_Chocofujin1.jpg

 

Kev

[KCkc]

I have the same model with Hagi-flower design.

 

The art work was done on resin directly. Work was silk-screened.

 

It is the same length as the new 1911M colors series but has a 21kt nib with gold nib/feed section trim.

 

I like the pen but beware that this pen is shorter than a regular size 1911.

 

This is like a daily user that I do not mind bringing to work. The resin is still very clean with no scrathes. The nib is superbly smooth.

 

If you have seen other maki-e work done on lacquer or ebonite, you will be able to see that this is an entry level pen quite easily even to a novie like me.

 

Nothing wrong with the superb workmanship, or materials of Sailor though.

 

It is still a very pretty pen standalone. Just that if you are going maki-e you may want to explore other makers and prices before jumping in on this one.

 

If I am to sell my pen today, I will easily lose 30% off the bat as tuition on this complex area of pen focus FYI and I did not even pay full retail....[hard lessons] So if you are fixated on this model, shop for bargains.

[soesano]

I have one of those

just beautiful