Sailor Kop In Tamenuri Urushi

[mke]

I read on that flyer that the diameter is 20mm - and on a seller's site: the barrel diameter is 20mm. Not cap?

 

Is this the same with all the other similar KoPs.

If someone has this pen or a similar one, could you measure please the cap diameter.

Thank you!

 

 

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found that the seller mixed it up

20 mm is most probably the cap diameter

nibs.com says the barrel is 0.6" (15.3mm) and the section 0.5" (12.7mm)

Edited June 20, 2019 by mke

[Wadude]

Apologies for resurrecting this topic from its year-and-half sleep, but I would like to weigh in on the “handmade” debate.

 

At least for the new Shirodame model, it would seem that it’s entirely handmade. Here’s the text in Japanese:

 

漆芸作家 西原功修氏の手作業により時間を掛けて丹念に仕上げられたボディに手書きの署名とシリアルナンバーを加え、セーラー万年筆独自の超大型21金ペン先を搭載いたしました。

 

So they expressly state that the artisan prepares the body manually, “conforming it diligently”, before putting his signature and the serial number.

 

This is, of course, for a different pen altogether, but perhaps the English text was a mistranslation?

[Sakura FP Gallery]

1 hour ago, Wadude said:

Apologies for resurrecting this topic from its year-and-half sleep, but I would like to weigh in on the “handmade” debate.

 

At least for the new Shirodame model, it would seem that it’s entirely handmade. Here’s the text in Japanese:

 

漆芸作家 西原功修氏の手作業により時間を掛けて丹念に仕上げられたボディに手書きの署名とシリアルナンバーを加え、セーラー万年筆独自の超大型21金ペン先を搭載いたしました。

 

So they expressly state that the artisan prepares the body manually, “conforming it diligently”, before putting his signature and the serial number.

 

This is, of course, for a different pen altogether, but perhaps the English text was a mistranslation?

It is handmade and the artist Kousen Nishihara painted the pens himself. When the Sailor delegation visited Sakura FP Gallery I've asked explicite this question because of the doubt Sailor created on the leaflet "signed by". 

[Wadude]

I’m glad it has been put to rest. It’s one of those silly things, but it somehow dismayed me to no end to think about Sailor spraying urushi on a pen (!) and then selling it for ¥330,000.

[mke]

> It’s one of those silly things, but it somehow dismayed me to no end to think about Sailor spraying urushi on a pen (!)

It could have been a pupil of the artist who painted the pen and the artist just added a drop here and there and then signed it. But as Catherine got an answer regarding who painted the pen, you can start sleeping well again.