Restoration Job

[IPD_Mr]

As many of you know Linda and I have been doing a bit of vintage pen work. For us the fun part is taking something old and cruddy that most people would throw away and making it nice looking and useful. With each new pen we learn a little something. With this pen we wanted to learn how to safely clean stained pens. We were given a product to try and it was not meant for this purpose at all. It did pretty good on plastic and did not remove the plating on the lever. Next is to see if this will do well with celluloid and hard rubber.

This is a no-name more or less junk pen. Now it will bring about $35 if Linda decides to sell it, which I seriously doubt. The word hoarder comes to mind with Linda and pens.
Linda did about 95% of the work. This was all done with a Bounty paper towel. No buffing and no chance of me melting another pen. :redface:

Before:

And after:

 

[Harley2001]

Nice job did you have to do any plating.Looks great

 

[IPD_Mr]

Nice job did you have to do any plating.Looks great

No plating, just a paper towel.

 

[CaptG]

Nice work. And no paper towel melted to it

 

[wiset1]

Pretty cool looking. It's like those picker shows...turn trash into treasure

 

[PenMan1]

WOW!
Is that thing on the bottom barrel a "lever fill" or a LIGHT SWITCH? The difference is night and day! BEAUTIFUL RESTORE!!!!!

 

[tim self]

She sure done good work there. Very nice recovery.

 

[edman2]

LOL If you had used a VIVA paper towel you would have probably gotten all the stain off quicker! :biggrin: Nice work. That seems like it would be a lot of fun.

 

[boxerman]

Looks good Mike & Linda.

 

[IPD_Mr]

WOW!
Is that thing on the bottom barrel a "lever fill" or a LIGHT SWITCH? The difference is night and day! BEAUTIFUL RESTORE!!!!!

You should write for a living Andy. Very nice play on words.

 

[lorbay]

As many of you know Linda and I have been doing a bit of vintage pen work. For us the fun part is taking something old and cruddy that most people would throw away and making it nice looking and useful. With each new pen we learn a little something. With this pen we wanted to learn how to safely clean stained pens. We were given a product to try and it was not meant for this purpose at all. It did pretty good on plastic and did not remove the plating on the lever. Next is to see if this will do well with celluloid and hard rubber.

This is a no-name more or less junk pen. Now it will bring about $35 if Linda decides to sell it, which I seriously doubt. The word hoarder comes to mind with Linda and pens.
Linda did about 95% of the work. This was all done with a Bounty paper towel. No buffing and no chance of me melting another pen. :redface:

Before:

And after:

So Mike after our PM are you telling me on the last picture that the nib is screwed into the front section??

Lin.

 

[IPD_Mr]

So Mike after our PM are you telling me on the last picture that the nib is screwed into the front section??

Lin.

No Lin. On this vintage pen the section is a press fit into the body and the feed and nib are a press fit into the section.

 

[rizaydog]

Looks great. Nice.

 

[Drstrangefart]

It's pretty cool seeing an oddball pen restored like that. I like doing resto work, but I don't do it often.

 

[Dalecamino]

Seriously?? It's the same pen? You've done some nice work on these pens. Both of you.:wink:

 

[workinforwood]

It looks super as in clean and restored but the pen itself sure is ugly! I like the color, but not that fat cap that is too long for the pen body, it's just bad proportions.

 

[ragz]

That's a great looking job!