Purple Modified

[Sandsini]

I've been working on these modified Platinum El Grandes for a while now and I think I finally have the procedure down.

This one's been done in Eugene's Violet Eclipse with pure black Acrylic ends. The Section is El Grande. I turned down the included cap thread piece and replaced the molded plastic finial with black acrylic.

I use one of these every day and I really like the light weight and the hand feel. The only issue I have is with the cheap molded plastic nib feed. Does anybody know of an upgraded feed or section that will fit the El Grande?

Thanks,

 

[dcannon]

I'm hoping someone will chime in with a section/nib upgrade option, but there aren't any that I know of offhand. I have seen some that turn down the cheap section as far as possible, but without losing the threads, and glue a "sleeve" of desired material over it. It looks great from the pics I've seen online, and opens up some section shape options, to an extent. Still on my list to try.

Beautiful pen by the way!
Dan

 

[Sandsini]

Thanks Dan, I've seen the same sleeve trick, which looks great, but it doesn't change the poor quality of the feed. The feed on an El Grande just pushes in and I find that it loses the ink flow way too often, a problem I don't have with higher quality kits.

Cheers,

 

[Sappheiros]

That is a very nice job!

 

[PR_Princess]

Great job on the pen Eric. I really like the black accents...and that purple ...WOW!

 

[Sandsini]

Thanks Dawn! Much appreciated.