This is the third part of my narration
of my meeting with Mr Lakshmana Rao and the new pens that he had made…I posted
the first two ones almost immediately, and wanted to give some gap before I
posted the rest…but I suddenly realized that the gap has become too huge…
Here is the Guider Acrylic Jumbo in Red…
the White Super Jumbo in acrylic and the current one are both Mr Lakshmana
Rao’s experiments in acrylic with big size pens…one can say that this is his
‘Acrylic Phase’… the earlier two posts
on Guider Acrylic Kid and White Super Jumbo showcased his size related
experiments…and it is not that he has not made pens in Acrylic earlier…one can
say that he is a traditional ‘ebonite pen maker’… and only occasionally dabbled
in acrylic…
I liked it as soon as I saw this pen…it
is similar in shape and size to the Guider Black Ebonite Jumbo… here are the
photos…
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| One can see the increase in translucency as one
reaches the cap lip…the dark red becomes lighter… |
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| This was something new to me…this is an acrylic
rod…Mr Lakshmana Rao had brought this with him to show me…the present Red Jumbo
was made from one such rod…I always thought only ebonite came in the shape of
rods and had to be bored to make pens…and acrylic and celluloid came in the
shape of tubes…and therefore one had to seal the ends with ebonite or any other
suitable substance to make the tubes into pens…so when Mr Lakshmana Rao showed
me this, I was surprised and asked him and he told me that acrylic is available
as rods too…and when I saw the pen I realized what he said…there are no
stoppers at the barrel end and cap end… this is true of the White Super Jumbo
too… maybe these rods come in single colours and it is easier to make single
colour pens with these rods…but when it comes to swirls and whorls, one has to go
to the sheets and tubes…this is my understanding…I may be completely wrong… |
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| Red acrylic rod and the Red Acrylic Jumbo… |
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| With the Black Ebonite Jumbo |
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| With the White Acrylic Super Jumbo and Black
Ebonite Jumbo |
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| A group photo of all the Jumbos that Mr
Laksmhana Rao had brought with him…you can see Jumbos in mottled green and
mottled brown ebonite too… |
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