Wooden Quartet Of Japanese Pens

[daintydimsum]

  On 5/16/2014 at 2:35 PM, sotto2 said:

I guess this is the Stylo-Art website:

 

http://stylo-art.com/?mode=f10

yes it is.

 

and the Hakase pen I mentioned:

http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s667/daintydimsum/IMG_1159_zps38a584b9.jpg

[JLS1]

  On 5/16/2014 at 4:17 PM, daintydimsum said:

yes it is.

 

and the Hakase pen I mentioned:

http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s667/daintydimsum/IMG_1159_zps38a584b9.jpg

 

Ohh...that's a beauty! Love the contrast between the dark wood and the gold...

[sotto2]

Very cool! Thanks.

 

S2

[daintydimsum]

  On 5/16/2014 at 8:57 PM, JLS1 said:

 

Ohh...that's a beauty! Love the contrast between the dark wood and the gold...

And it feels better than it looks!

[Arabit]

Beautiful Hakase!

[cbbp]

  On 5/16/2014 at 8:57 PM, JLS1 said:

 

Ohh...that's a beauty! Love the contrast between the dark wood and the gold...

 

+1

[shuuemura]

  On 5/16/2014 at 12:15 AM, shuuemura said:

 

Update: I was right; the cocobolo Hakase used to be owned by Sblakers. Hope he doesn't mind me mentioning it. Thank you!

 

This pen has a fine nib tuned to write very wetly, so the line it puts down is more like a Japanese medium-broad line. Yamamoto-san's craftsmanship on this pen is just amazing. The cap and barrel are crafted from a single scantling (read: wood blank) and the wood grain lines up nicely when the pen is capped.

 

Here's a photo I just took of my cocobolo Hakase pen.

 

[cbbp]

  On 5/18/2014 at 12:31 AM, shuuemura said:

 

Here's a photo I just took of my cocobolo Hakase pen.

 

 

 

Very nice.

[JLS1]

  On 5/18/2014 at 12:31 AM, shuuemura said:

 

Here's a photo I just took of my cocobolo Hakase pen.

 

 

This might be a dumb question but does the taper at the end mean the pen is meant to be posted?

[shuuemura]

  On 5/18/2014 at 1:30 AM, JLS1 said:

 

This might be a dumb question but does the taper at the end mean the pen is meant to be posted?

 

Yes, you are right. Unposted, the pen has the same length of an unposted Pelikan M800. The balance is perfect posted or unposted.

[EclecticCollector]

These wooden pens look delightful, but if I lived in a hot/dry climate would I need to worry about the possibility of them cracking?

[shuuemura]

If properly cured I don't think that cracking would be an issue with wooden pens, similar to wood guitars which are of course even more sensitive to transitions between different climates. Of course one shouldn't abuse wooden pens by leaving them for hours and hours in the heat.

 

A little off-topic here (apologies to cbbp), but I just wrote a review of the cocobolo Hakase pen if you guys are interested.

[JLS1]

  On 5/18/2014 at 5:33 AM, EclecticCollector said:

These wooden pens look delightful, but if I lived in a hot/dry climate would I need to worry about the possibility of them cracking?

 

As shuuemura says, it shouldn't be an issue, but you would probably want to keep an eye on the wood just to be sure. FWIW, of my wooden pens, I've only had a crack develop in one of them (Pilot Custom Grandee), but it was easily fixed by a repair person. (Dr. Goretex, who's also on FPN) My suspicion is that the crack wasn't due to the heat/humidity/cold/dryness as much as it was the width of the wood at that point (very thin) and the pressure I put on the pen while writing. FWIW, my Platinum Yakusugi has gone through 2 Montreal winters (the last one being pretty brutal) but is none the worse for wear...

[cbbp]

  On 5/18/2014 at 5:48 AM, shuuemura said:

If properly cured I don't think that cracking would be an issue with wooden pens, similar to wood guitars which are of course even more sensitive to transitions between different climates. Of course one shouldn't abuse wooden pens by leaving them for hours and hours in the heat.

 

A little off-topic here (apologies to cbbp), but I just wrote a review of the cocobolo Hakase pen if you guys are interested.

 

Nice review, and certainly not off topic! Happy to read about more wooden pens from Japan.

[quetzalcoatl]

The two central are made of Cocobolo and Ebony. Recently I am using both quite a lot, with care of course, but no sign of wear are visible so far.

Q.

[shuuemura]

Is that a quartet of Hakase pens?! Beautiful collection!

[JLS1]

  On 5/29/2014 at 8:04 AM, shuuemura said:

Is that a quartet of Hakase pens?! Beautiful collection!

 

I know the 3 from the left are Hakase...not sure about the blue/white one on the end, but it's a beautiful pen nonetheless.

[cbbp]

Wow!! yes, I believe they are all Hakase.

[quetzalcoatl]

All of them are Hakase, from left:

Green celluloid with buffalo horn inserts in the cap and barrel (top and bottom).

Cocobolo wood with classic torpedo shape.

Ebony wood with gold ring in the barrel and small gold ring in the grip

Blue celluloid with part of the barrel made of buffalo horn with gold ring and clip.

All with fine nibs.

Q.

[cbbp]

  On 6/2/2014 at 6:58 PM, quetzalcoatl said:

Ebony wood with gold ring in the barrel and small gold ring in the grip

 

 

I'd love to see that gold ring in the grip section