Post by aissa on Mar 5, 2016 4:08:45 GMT -5
I'm curious, how does Alumilite hold up in the long term?
I mean decades or even centuries.
Alumilite is a very popular material for custom fountain pens.
Looking at something like "Mineral Sea Lava Explosion Alumilite" or "Arctic Koi Alumilite" it's pretty obvious why that is.
However, there are a lot of vintage fountain pens that exhibit shrinking, warping, brittleness, and/or discoloration, and I wonder what will all those Alumilite fountain pens be like in 50 or 100 years.
Does the kind of Alumilite used matter?
What about dyes and fillers? (I'm particularly interested in tinted transparent Alumilites.)
Precision of the mixing ratio?
I mean decades or even centuries.
Alumilite is a very popular material for custom fountain pens.
Looking at something like "Mineral Sea Lava Explosion Alumilite" or "Arctic Koi Alumilite" it's pretty obvious why that is.
However, there are a lot of vintage fountain pens that exhibit shrinking, warping, brittleness, and/or discoloration, and I wonder what will all those Alumilite fountain pens be like in 50 or 100 years.
Does the kind of Alumilite used matter?
What about dyes and fillers? (I'm particularly interested in tinted transparent Alumilites.)
Precision of the mixing ratio?
