IBIS Tribute...

[PENRob]

To all... Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Peace on Earth with this custom IBIS tribute...

[Gris Nuage]

We need more info!  We need more info!  

 

[inkstainedruth]

+1 to what Gris Nudge said!  Some of those pens are GORGEOUS -- particularly the 7th one from the left (just before the green one) where the cap matches the barrel.  But betting that they're completely out of my price range.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[OCArt]

Wow, very beautiful. (I've been getting back into digital photography and in that world IBIS means "in body image stabilization" so that's was my initial thought when reading your subject line.)  

[senzen]

What a great collection, I'd never seen a striped Ibis; the demonstrators also look great. I'm lucky to have the one, in black with a CN nib.

[USG]

Beautiful collection... 👍

[inkstainedruth]

@senzen-- What's a CN nib?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Ruth....A CN nib is copper nickle version of a war time nib. Some folks have lucked out into superflex ones, others into semi-flex....mine is just regular flex.

 

Being a snob can hurt....being a poor snob even more. When Ibis pens were cheap on German Ebay....I didn't want second class Pelikans(and all I saw were balck and gold)....though a 120 or a 140 were good enough for me.

So, there was an Ibis in a live auction lot............and it was a gold nib, and I'd expected steel, and it was semi-flex..........nothing fancy, just the basic German black and gold.

 

PenRob showed enough of them that are dead pretty and I didn't know of them, or perhaps I'd not been so snobbish and got some.

[stoen]

8 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A CN nib is copper nickle version of a war time nib

Please pardon my comment. AFAIK, CN stands for chromium / nickel . It is a Pelikan proprietary steel alloy as resistant to corrosion as steel can be. 

 

Early versions had thin gold platings. Later versions were either plain or chromium plated. 

 

After the WWII, Pelikan offered paid upgrade to replace CN nibs for 14k ones.

 

So, there’s still a surplus of loose CN nibs around… often to be found on eBay.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Chromium....ok......been wrong before, will be again.

Still mine was a disappointment...........only regular flex.

Wondering about the claimed superflex and semi-flex versions.

[PENRob]

Hahaha... many thanks for your enthousiasm and explanations !

 

No worries about price range, currently the pens are not for sale, they where just made last quarter of this year as personel collection and skills exercise, triggered by a limited lot NOS tiny celluloid I could get, this was the pensize I could use it for.

Specially the seventh pen was the most dufficult one as wall thicknesses are less then 1mm, given the max outside diameter 1/2" using 8mm piston as IBIS/Rappen seem to have 8 and 8,5mm.

 

About materials : pen 1 is the original, followed by carbon, ivory celluloid, striated (from the lot) and green celluloids, brown ebonite, turtoise celuloid and acryl for the demos. The demo at the end even has a clear feed and pistoncup !

About parts, nibs (a mix of 100, taylorix, IBIS and rappen), clips caps and pistons are also authentic Pelikan parts

 

Enjoy and feel free for any further questions 

Kr, PENRob - BELGIUM

 

Some pictures, the making off....

[Bo Bo Olson]

No wonder I never saw any of the pretty Ibis's.

[Gris Nuage]

Fantastic work!  Do you have a website?

 

 

[Christopher Godfrey]

I have an early Ibis, in plain black, with the colourant wearing away from the section, giving it that see-through look; but my nib is a genuine Ibis gold nib that is probably more flexy than anything installed in my other vintage Pelikans (100s, 100Ns, 400s and 400NNs)  It truly is an amazing little nib (fractionally smaller than a Pelikan nib).

 

Wonderful work, there, PENRob!

[stoen]

17 hours ago, PENRob said:

they where just made last quarter of this year as personel collection and skills exercise

A very noble skill exercise of bringing those ancient pens back to life. It must be a great feeling of success. I guess you must have had few original nib units, caps and filling mechanisms, aside from the “limited lot” of celluloid bindes, to make/recreate this Tribute Collection.

 

IMHO, the ones with green colored barrels were more faithful in appearance to the post-war model “Ibis 130”. I don’t remember if Ibis ever had clear colorless barrels.

 

Congratulations!

 

 

 

 

[senzen]

On 12/25/2022 at 2:38 PM, inkstainedruth said:

@senzen-- What's a CN nib?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

This is what it looks like.

 

[carola]

The celluloid of the forth pen from the left almost looks like the modern M605 Black Tortoise which I like a lot.

Also the third pen with the ivory celluloid, I like that a lot.

And then there is pen nummber 11 that reminds me quite a bit of the Omas 360 Lucens.

 

Very nice pens!

[stoen]

23 hours ago, senzen said:

This is what it looks like.

Actually, there has been some variation in CN nib design and appearance, depending on the year and the pen model. Here’s another one, in a wartime Pelikan 100:

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks, stoen & BoBo Olsen!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PENRob]

Hi, some reply's to your reactions...

No I have no site but I should have INSTAGRAM... will come as soon I'm retired, so one more year, it's a matter of time, all this making and a full time job !

Thanks for the nice comparisons it bring you up and I was not aware of, I gues you mean "Stresemann", yes it has a lot of it, the turtoise I have more material of and more pens wil follow from it !

Indeed it took me some time to collect parts after years of repairs and collecting. No indeed, Pelikan never had clear ink windows, they where choosen as a nice match and "signature" !

The barrels/windows are made that way that the piston runs all the way in acryl, so the inkwindow goes 22mm deep in the barrel.

 

To enjoy, a picture of my inspiring IBIS, Rappen originals, except the carbon on the right, my first made custom....

Bye, Robert