The other day I posted pictures of my Waterman 94 collection in the Waterman forum. At that time Daniel A mentioned that I didn't have a Black pen with standard trim. I told him that Black was actually one of the harder colors to find. He then told me he had one he would be interested in selling. So I ended up buying it from Daniel. It had some problems - clip was crooked, lever box looked like it was beaten on, section wouldn't go into barrel, section had deep plier marks, and cap band didn't seem to have much gold.
It took a bit of work, but I managed to get the pen in pretty good shape. I think I am finished working on it for now. I am thinking of buying an electroplating machine, and I may eventually use that on the cap band. The band doesn't really look brassed in the usual way, but somehow the gold color looks weak. One of the things I am really proud of here is that I was able to completely remove the plier marks from the section, using heat. I had never really tried to do that before. Some heat and burnishing removed most of the marks, and polishing did the rest. The edges of the lever box looked as though someone had beat on them, but a buffing pad made it look better. Overall, I am pretty happy with how it came out.
