Platinum 3776 Redux

[stan]

13 hours ago, amk said:

What's the little fat one? Is it a tribute to the 'jumbo' pens of old? It's very cute!

The model was called the Glamour, sometimes written Glamor. There is a write-up here: https://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2010/11/glamour.html

[Paul-in-SF]

On 11/1/2021 at 8:10 AM, effandpee said:

FWIW, I did have problems with my 3776 Gathered drying out, but the hack described here (including by contributors to this thread!) managed to help things: Platinum Pen - Loose Cap - Japan - Asia - The Fountain Pen Network

 

Thank you so much for pointing me to this thread. I tried the solution of pushing the metal piece further in, and now the snap is much more definite and holds better. I will be inking up this pen soon to see if this helped with the nib drying out. 

 

This may not be a permanent solution, but for as often as I ink my pens, this will probably last as long as I do. 

[amk]

Thanks for the reference Stan. I think I may be going on safari again looking for this glamorous beast!

[aimi]

I knew of the Ocean Celluloid faceted (which is probably my favourite 3776 visually and which I sadly do not own. I do have the blue Karakusa with the same base celluloid though), but not that there was also a faceted Koi Celluloid! Incredible collection. I really like the raden sakura one in the 5th picture.

[stan]

43 minutes ago, aimi said:

I knew of the Ocean Celluloid faceted (which is probably my favourite 3776 visually and which I sadly do not own. I do have the blue Karakusa with the same base celluloid though), but not that there was also a faceted Koi Celluloid! Incredible collection. I really like the raden sakura one in the 5th picture.

This is the koi faceted model. I've got a copy of it together with the blue somewhere.

 

 

[stan]

Bonus picture.