Has Anyone Heard Of Henry Simpole?

[Truffle Finder]

I am doing another overlaid pen for Conway Stewart, [it has been 'in the pipeline' for a while now] and having made the 'masters' of both the cap, and barrel, they have been cast in silver, so I have been working on them [on a daily basis] for quite a while now.

As most people on this thread have probably heard by now, there have been some major changes at the Conway Stewart factory recently. The new Managing Director is Alastair Adams, who is also MD at the Onoto Pen Company. He has asked me to get a sample overlaid pen ready for him to take to the Washington Pen Show in August, so I have just finished an example-pen so it will be winging it's way down to Plymouth on this coming Monday, and should be there by Tuesday.

Sometimes there is a little worrying situation when the first 'cast' copy of an overlay is made up, and fully 'finished', but I'm pleased to say that this one has come up trumps! I am really pleased with it!

I'm afraid I can't yet disclose which pen design they chose from my examples of recently done overlays, but I for one am very pleased that they chose this one! It is in my opinion a very pretty design, quite unlike any other overlays that I have done in the past!

All will [i'm sure] be revealed shortly, but I am sure that you will understand that I cannot divulge that information until Conway Stewart have seen it!

Sorry about that!

Truffle Finder.

[Ghost Plane]

You know I'm tired when I read that "came up turnips"

[esterbex]

Hahaaaaa! Been there, done that.

[View from the Loft]

Why is it that whenever I come close to having saved enough for a pen with one of your overlays that I get hit with a bug unexpected bill for something that really is essential? And just when you tease us with this news ...

 

Oh well, better start filling the piggy bank - again.

[Truffle Finder]

I am pleased to say that the owner of the Dunhill Namiki Pen [that I repaired last week], was delighted with the work that I had done, so much so, that he came back to my stand later on in the day, with another Namiki pen, which also is in need of major transplant surgery!

The pen has got a 'D' shaped piece missing from the mouth of the barrel, right across the barrel threads, so the first stage of the operation will be to select a donor pen, with exactly matching threads, then I will start the 'surgery'!

I will post on here my progress!

Truffle Finder.

Edited July 13, 2014 by Truffle Finder

[View from the Loft]

I find it very reassuring that these pens with what appears to be major damage are being rescued from being thrown away, or at best turned into donor pens.

 

It's a shame that so many pens have been junked over the years in this age of throwaway, when generations before us understood how to mend and recycle.

[Truffle Finder]

So far, I have clocked up about three hours, selecting the right 'donor pen', and have been filing the brass cylinders, [and the collars on the section] so that everything will fit perfectly, when I get to the 'glueing' of the component parts.

It is a little like following a recipe in cooking, 90% of the work, is basically preparing everything ready to be combined in the correct order! That might sound simplistic, but basically it is true, it's all in the prep-work!!!

I'll keep you posted!

Truffle Finder.

[View from the Loft]

It is a little like following a recipe in cooking, 90% of the work, is basically preparing everything ready to be combined in the correct order! That might sound simplistic, but basically it is true, it's all in the prep-work!!!

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Like so much in life:) Edited July 13, 2014 by View from the Loft

[Truffle Finder]

Well, after virtually 12 hours after I first started working on it, I have just finished the Dunhill Namiki Pen repair. I'm not suggesting for one minute that I have been working on it all that time, but it has been a major surgery job!

Some of that time is taken up while the glue sets!

I did say that I would keep you posted!

Truffle Finder.

[Truffle Finder]

I come with glad tidings!

I sent a sample overlaid pen down to the 'powers that be' down at the Conway Stewart factory in the West Country. They were having a meeting there on Wednesday, and I had been asked to produce the sample so that everyone could have a look at it.

I telephoned Alastair Adams this morning to ask him how it went, his response was that everyone thought that it was a winner!

It is quite unlike any other overlay that I have made in the past, and I'm hoping that some photographs can be done very soon.

Truffle Finder.

[esterbex]

Wonder when the big reveal happens....

[Ghost Plane]

Tick...tick...tick...

[Truffle Finder]

Anyone would think that you were all waiting for the Spanish Inquisition!!!

All in the fullness of time. All in the fullness of time.

Truffle Finder.

[Ghost Plane]

(Reaches for the comfy chair)

[View from the Loft]

Please no, not the comfy chair ...

[esterbex]

Wellllllll I guess the reveal happens now....A birdy dropped an email with some lovely pics of a certain mystery Conway Stewart to post to this space...A familiar face, no?

 

[RMN]

Ooohhh, nice, and a whole new road CS is taking....

 

 

D.ick

[Truffle Finder]

BOO! BOO! BE DOO!

 

Thanks Esterbex!

 

Truffle Finder.

[esterbex]

[vannesspen]

Anyone would think that you were all waiting for the Spanish Inquisition!!!

All in the fullness of time. All in the fullness of time.

Truffle Finder.

Esterbex- this is awesome!

Lisa

Edited July 21, 2014 by vannesspen