Tuesday, April 2, 2013

My "Monster Tuckie"

I thought about running this one yesterday, and then I thought – since I’m not entirely convinced this is a hack job – that running it almost on April Fool’s day might be perfect.

Here’s the pencil:


It’s sort of a Sheaffer Tuckaway - or rather, like a TUCKaway. Here’s the behemoth next to a normal-sized Tuckaway that Joe Nemecek brought for me to the Philly Show:


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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 6:57 AM

    Jonathan, I have a first generation Tuckie and I've compared its parts to those of your monster TUCKie. The gold barrel, eraser assembly, and cap over the eraser are right off of a first generation. I did not take the nose cone off, but the mechanism has the eraser "bumper" like your disassembled monster. So, I'd say someone has replaced the short black section of the original with a longer section from something else.
    John Hubbard

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  2. Jon VeleyApril 2, 2013 at 8:01 AM

    Hi John, I'd be interested to know what yours looks like inside. My hesitation is that I don't think I could put a shorter front section on this one even if I wanted to do so-

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  3. AnonymousApril 2, 2013 at 12:09 PM

    Jon, I have to agree with John! If you haven't obtained one by then, I'll bring a "1st year" Tucky all-gold-filled pencil to the DC show for comparison. The back parts on yours do identically match up with the pencil I have.
    -Harry

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