jtate
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Pelikan fountain pens are recognized as amongst the nicest pens ever made. I personally use them on a daily basis. Their barrels, however, are dull green strips. Seen one, seen 'em all. So I started mimicing Chris Burton who does custom work on Pelikans. He removes the exterior skin (called a 'binde') and fabricates a new binde for the pen from any number of materials - acrylic, celluloid, black hard rubber, red hard rubber, mottled hard rubber. My first few efforts were not so great as I didn't have my technique down. This one, however is pretty nice.
Blue acrylic over the original inner tube of the vintage Pelikan 140 fountain pen.
Please forgive the poor image quality. I was just so pleased with the pen I wanted to share so I just put it on the office scanner and made an image.
Blue acrylic over the original inner tube of the vintage Pelikan 140 fountain pen.
Please forgive the poor image quality. I was just so pleased with the pen I wanted to share so I just put it on the office scanner and made an image.