Chip On Lacquer, Touch Up With Nail Polish ?

[fabian3194]

Hi,

 

I have a small chip on the barrel of my Jinhao X250 fountain pen. The barrel is metal with a deep red and black finish.

 

What would you folks use to touch up the chip/scratch ? Nail polish, touch up paint for cars ?

 

Especially want to hear from those who've fixed this sort of thing in practice.

 

Having said all this, it might be more economical to buy another pen, since they're AUD $3.49 with free postage.

 

 

This is the model:

 

[c4bb0ose]

For such an inexpensive pen, as long as it writes well the outside wear personally is of no concern. If you are bothered by it you could try patching it up with some kind of clear resin but I doubt it will look brilliant, add on to that you would have to invest in decent polishing to get it to blend in with the rest of the pen.

[Tinjapan]

Double post, sorry.

Edited January 19, 2015 by Tinjapan

[Tinjapan]

I have used nail polish to seal a laquer coat of arms on my plastic kendo "do", or chest guard. Wouldn't think of using nail polish on my handmade, laquered, leather covered, bamboo "do" however. Great difference in quality and price.

 

Laquerware dishes being very common in Japan, laquer repair kits are also common. We have used a synthetic laquer to repair at least one of our laquer dishes, not wanting to use nail polish on something that holds food. This synthetic laquer was not expensive and far less "dangerous" than the real thing. If you or anyone in your home is allergic to poison ivy or poison sumac, real laquer can cuase some realy bad problems.

[Chrissy]

For that price, if it bothered me, I would buy another pen

[fabian3194]

Thanks for the lacquerware information. I think there must be a whole world of know-how in the realm of 'touching up'. In the movie Toy Story 2 it reminds me of the man detailing Woody before he was on sold to a collector.

 

Of course, given the price of the pen is cheaper than nail polish the obvious solution is to just buy another one, but the more coveted solutions are the answers sharing know-how.

 

[ac12]

You NEED a good and steady hand.

I have NEVER been able to touch up chipped paint so it looked good. You could always and easily see where I made the "fix."

The only time I feel it is "needed" is where the underlying material needs protection. Example metal that would rust if not sealed and protected.