dlddr
Member
Few weeks ago I posted a thread about the possibility of salvaging a pen that I made many, many years ago, specifically the possibility of taking it apart, giving the blanks a new coat of CA, and putting them on a new hardware kit. I couldn't do it myself since I no longer had a shop to do it in and there was no prospect of doing it either since I moved into an apartment and I don't have any access to a shop. Members on the thread pointed me toward "Curly", A.K.A. Peter Christensen. I contacted him via PM and initially, he refused to accept payment or compensation, even with pen blanks. After I insisted, because the pen had great sentimental value to me (the pen is one of the only things remaining after I decided to sell all of my pen blanks, kits and tools for extra cash), he agreed to accept 2 or 3 pen blanks for the service.
He lives in Aldergrove, B.C., and I live in Burnaby, B.C., and though the two places are an hour away, he came all the way to my apartment and picked up the items in person. He only accepted a few plastic pen blanks, which I insisted and was happy to give, since I was planning on selling them anyway. I told him that I wanted the pen to be refitted with new hardware, and the finish to be restored to its original glossiness.
Today, he came to deliver the pen in person, once again all the way to my residence, and I am very happy with the results. Not only did he refit the pen with expensive brand-new hardware and give it an even, glossy coat of CA, he fixed every single imperfection on the pen. The pen was a closed end baron in mescalbean burl, the first closed-end I ever made, and I made many mistakes on the pen besides uneven CA coating and improper care of the hardware. He turned away the glue build up in the grooves and at the long closed end, turned away a chip in the blank, and fixed the unevenness in the closed end blank due to my not having centered it correctly on the mandrel. I'm glad that as I leave this hobby behind I have something to remember it by, and hopefully this pen can become a family heirloom or something.
Besides this instance, I've always noticed a sense of goodwill on this forum between its members and to support each other in this common-interest enterprise, and I hope to see others also benefit from such humanitarianism.
Thanks again to Curly, and also the people who made this forum possible.
Jeremy
He lives in Aldergrove, B.C., and I live in Burnaby, B.C., and though the two places are an hour away, he came all the way to my apartment and picked up the items in person. He only accepted a few plastic pen blanks, which I insisted and was happy to give, since I was planning on selling them anyway. I told him that I wanted the pen to be refitted with new hardware, and the finish to be restored to its original glossiness.
Today, he came to deliver the pen in person, once again all the way to my residence, and I am very happy with the results. Not only did he refit the pen with expensive brand-new hardware and give it an even, glossy coat of CA, he fixed every single imperfection on the pen. The pen was a closed end baron in mescalbean burl, the first closed-end I ever made, and I made many mistakes on the pen besides uneven CA coating and improper care of the hardware. He turned away the glue build up in the grooves and at the long closed end, turned away a chip in the blank, and fixed the unevenness in the closed end blank due to my not having centered it correctly on the mandrel. I'm glad that as I leave this hobby behind I have something to remember it by, and hopefully this pen can become a family heirloom or something.
Besides this instance, I've always noticed a sense of goodwill on this forum between its members and to support each other in this common-interest enterprise, and I hope to see others also benefit from such humanitarianism.
Thanks again to Curly, and also the people who made this forum possible.
Jeremy
