Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, show Us!

November 29, 2013

How's THAT for slant!!

Good one!

November 30, 2013

What a week! I decided to reward myself for all the good things I have done. Of course with a fountain pen.

November 30, 2013

@akstorm - I like the one with the elephant as the clip.

November 30, 2013

November 30, 2013

@tringle, I've always been curious about Krone pens. Yours looks lovely. Congratulations on a new pen and a job well done this week.

November 30, 2013

It's been a quiet holiday so far; the other day I found my bounty of pens overflowing so I wandered into my shop and came up with the interim solution in cheap white pine. I repaired, sort of, my Waterman No. 52 by switching out nibs. It came with a damaged Conklin #2 that I've not yet been able to tune satisfactorily. Then the lightning bolt hit; the nib and feed don't match. So I swapped out the #2 for a #3 Conklin from a junker Crescent I purchased recently for parts.

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And the Interim Solution to the Pen Problem. I'm deciding on a stain and don't care for what I see, so I'll probably mix one using tung oil, turpentine and oil paint pigments. It's made of white pine; holds 33 pens. For those interested, it's 0.50" diameter holes bored on 0.75" centres to 2.0" deep; finished to 220 grit. I'll post another pic when it's stained and finished. It's footprint is about 9x3 inches, ~3.5 inches tall.

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November 30, 2013

@rev Thank you!

November 30, 2013

@akstorm - I like the one with the elephant as the clip.

Yes it is interesting, i actually didn't notice the elephant themed clip until i read someone's post pointing that the clip was elephant shaped. And i was like, wait, i have that pen too.

November 30, 2013

@RevDr - Missing the food shoot for this one, but, this is one of the pipes my Grandaddy passed down to me some years ago...

November 30, 2013

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This, or very similar -- it's been over two decades -- from Dick Blick if anyone is interested -- lwj

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November 30, 2013

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(Lamy 27 30 - F ..... Noodler´s Apache Sunset)

November 30, 2013

November 30, 2013

Ptero —

No number on the cap ring, there are two plus symbols ( + ) between "Pelikan" and "Germany" on opposite sides, ii.e.: + GERMANY + PELIKAN. The top tapers rather like a Parker 45. The cap itself has the pelikan and two fledglings stamped into a dished recess.

I haven't gone to Fink's jewelers yet; the Conklin junker arrived not long ago and I used that nib. I will eventually get the #2 repaired, but the urgency is not there now.

Tringle —

Yes, graphics folks like that, drawing boards aren't places one wishes to clutter up. In my case, I have the space betwixt my printer and tower for the stand, so I designed around that rather than a carousel concept. The graphics one has a base about a foot in diameter, as I recall. One of these days I'll un-earth it from where ever it got packed when we moved to this house.

Plus there is a certain satisfaction in being able to see the horde in one place, rather than jammed into two old-fashioned tumblers. The next time I'm down in the Mayodan area, I'll pick up a bundle each of Steve Wall's oak and cherry shorts and re-do it, plus whatever SWMBO wants.

Y'all have a good one, it's about time for me to disappear before the University of Tennessee takes the football field and SWMBO starts yelling at them. She was watching Duke/UNC. Nobody for me to root for there; I'm a Wolfpack fan and Duke Medical Centre rubbed my nose in "Not Duke, not worthy of Our Exalted Consideration" for too long to get me to root for them.

Leon