jtate
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This is a Pelikan 100N (I think from the early 1930's) which had a crack from the lip of the pen about halfway to the threads. I got the pen on a commission to make a new "binde" for it. That's the colored skin on the barrel. In inspecting it I found the crack. The owner asked me to go ahead and do my best on it so here it is. I turned a tennon on the section (that's what you call the front part that holds the nib) and used a piece of black acrylic to turn a collar to slide onto that tennon. WIth a snug fit and two-part epoxy, it sealed that crack. I put it back on the lathe and turned the collar down to traditional fountain pen section dimensions. I removed the old binde and made this one from red marbled acrylic. The body of the pen is stained black internally so you see that threough the binde. I also colored the inside of the acrylic tube (with a Black Sharpie) to keep any bubbles in the epoxy from showing.
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