Kyoto Celluloid

[mke]

While I dislike the company Wancher, they have in this Kickstarter a collaboration with Kyoto Celluloid.

You might be interested.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wancher/wancher-x-kyoto-celluloid-dream-pen-celluloid

[lascosas]

I've got I think 3 Kyoto Celluloid pens, and I am not impressed.  I'm sure they are correct in calling them celluloid, but they look like medium quality Chinese acrylic.  And I stay away from Wancher.  One bad experience years ago.

[mke]

What if it were true, what I heard, that one of the Big 3 outsourced the production of their modern celluloid resin to a certain company in Kyoto. 

 

[mke]

4 hours ago, lascosas said:

celluloid

 

I had a discussion with the owner of Kyoto Celluloid 7 years ago and he told me that there were only 2 companies (worldwide, both in China) which still made the dangerous nitrate version of celluloid and he expected that these factories would close too.

Probably, nowadays all celluloid is modern, based on acetate.

 

[Ron Z]

I hope that I'm wrong, but having seen many pens that have decayed and crumbled,  I'm very skeptical about modern celluloid pens made by anyone, and the Italian makers in particular.  I had a Chinese copy of the Sheaffer Balance a few years ago that shrank and decayed rapidly.   With only two Chinese manufacturers left, I hope that these are different.

 

BTW, using celluloid sheet material rolled into a tube to form a barrel is old technology.  Both Sheaffer and Parker used it in the 30s.  The seam is visible on some early Vacumatic pens.  I have seen seams on Sheaffer Balance pens that have a line of "needle tracks" running up the inside or downside of the pen where bubbles formed where the material was fused.  Outside isn't a problem, inside often makes the pen unusable because each of the needle size marks will break the vacuum as the plunger is pushed down.