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Which Ink To Refill A Pilot V Board Master (Dry Erase Marker) / Blue Or Black
ville900 posted a topic in Th-INKing Outside the Bottle
Hello, I'm looking to refill a Pilot V Board Master dry erase marker with blue or black ink. By construction this pen can be refilled as its end is easily unscrewed to a small plastic cartridge. The thing is I don't know which ink to use as it needs to be : 1/ compatible with the felt tipe 2/... -
Flexible Nibs And Global Market Trend
strelnikoff posted a topic in Fountain & Dip Pens - First Stop
Hello all, I'll start this post - or thought excersize - with a question: - Do you feel that current fountain pen industry is slowly moving toward re-introduction of proper flexible nibs? It occurred to me, while watching fp reviews online, reading etc - that in each one of them there is at le...- 50 replies
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Will The 'luxury' Market Kill The Fountain Pen Industry?
Uncial posted a topic in Fountain & Dip Pens - First Stop
Oh the woes of fountain pen economics! It really is only the larger companies that have the real ability to produce a cheap fountain pen that is a profit maker rather than a loss leader. However, I do believe that in the last five or so years there has been quite a dramatic shift in how companies, b...- 59 replies
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"According to Euromonitor, North America was the one zone in which fountain pen sales shrank in 2016, down 3.5 percent year-over-year." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-02/fountain-pen-sales-are-surging-despite-flat-luxury-global-sales
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Hey guys! After seeing just how extreme nib sizes can be, I was curious if there was a "silver bullet" of oblique pen holders. In other words, is there any oblique pen holder out there that will fit most nibs? Thanks!
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What Is The Fountain Pen Market Like?
LDWoodworth posted a topic in Fountain & Dip Pens - First Stop
I'm new to fountain pen, and I was surprised that there wasn't more retractables in the low end price range. The posts in that thread helped me understand that the R&D for it is prohibitive. But it also made me realize that I'm on unfamiliar ground, so I'm going to ask about the lay of the land. The...