The Classic Pens CR2 Bamboo Limited Edition Fountain Pen
The Classic Pens CR2 Bamboo Limited Edition Fountain Pen
The Classic Pens CR2 Bamboo Limited Edition
This Pen is an out come of a collaboration between Andy Lambrou and Paul Rossi.
This Classic Pens CR2 Bamboo Limited Edition would be a very organic hand made design intended look as if fashioned from young deep green bamboo stalks.
Paul Rossi puts about about 30 hours of hand work into each pen, hand working the Italian acrylic rods, and the effort shows in the amazing organic detail. The pen, from cap top to barrel end, looks like it was cut from an exotic, deep green mottled young bamboo stalk, having five distinct segments from cap top to barrel end, cleared clean of its branches, and adorned with sterling silver metal fittings. It's a very big pen, based on the Classic Pens Mythos 877L model, making it about six inches long capped, larger than the really big Pelikan M1000.
This is a very large pen that is wonderful to hold, revealing many contours and textures in the hand. Because it's acrylic, it's not overly heavy, but it feels big, especially with the cap posted on the end of the barrel. The green acrylic has much visual depth as the barrel is turned, and Paul Rossi used a special technique to bring a stain finish, softening the waves of shading in the material. He hand cast the clip using sterling silver, integrating the Classic Pens signature clip design with two bamboo segments for a unique organic look. The base segment of the barrel is stamped with "PR" for Paul Rossi.
The pen is fitted with the large Classic Pens No. 7 nib, made by Peter Bock. These are especially nice writers, with some flex, as owners of the ZJ1 models know.
The Classic Pens CR2 Bamboo Limited Edition could be called a very limited edition, as it was to be only 10 pieces. Each pen was accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Paul Rossi and Andy Lambrou.
This particular one, is one of two prototypes made.
It will come in a leather pen case.
What you see is what you get.
Paul Rossi was a multi-talented craftsman. He began to make things at an early age, in his native Switzerland. As a teenager, he chose to acquire the finest writing instrument his money could buy, at the local stationary store, Quality and craftsmanship have always been his goals.
Paul's handcrafted pens are admired and sought by collectors throughout the world.
Rossi was an extremely talented independent pen maker.
He was head and shoulders above his contemporaries, he made pens that many independent pen makers only dream of making.
A one in a lifetime Master Craftsman.
He made one off precision parts for NASA through a 3rd party company (That was how good he was)
Unfortunately Paul passed away in June 2021
Paul Rossi is an artist, the likes of whom we may never see again, he is an artist who used the pen as his canvas.
This is not just another pen, this is a Paul Rossi Pen, it's a heirloom and a heritage pen.