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Hi all!

Have you ever seen like a pen like this one? This one is from Edison though I have never seen it on the market and, frankly: ''I WANT ONE!!!''

 

However freaky it is it is still remarkably beautiful. Share your thoughts about this two-nib wonder!

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I have never seen anything quite like it although I have seen pen/pencil combos on eBay from time to time. Also, how would one go about filling a double ended pen?

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I have never seen anything quite like it although I have seen pen/pencil combos on eBay from time to time. Also, how would one go about filling a double ended pen?

 

Isn't the Edison version supposed to be a double sided eyedropper, division in the middle of the barrel?

 

It's interesting without making me actually want one. If you carried it in a pocket with one nib up, mightn't the other nib leak into its cap? On the other hand, it's one way to have two ink colors available.

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Isn't the Edison version supposed to be a double sided eyedropper, division in the middle of the barrel?

 

It's interesting without making me actually want one. If you carried it in a pocket with one nib up, mightn't the other nib leak into its cap? On the other hand, it's one way to have two ink colors available.

Ah, makes sense now. As for it leaking into the cap, I wouldn't imagine that this thing was designed with practicality in mind.

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I make them, too. It's not a new concept. There are some pretty awesome two nib pens out there from the last 100 or so years.

 

http://newtonpens.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/double-ender-raffle-winner/

There have been lots of two nib pens made. Some with both nibs at one end, some with a nib on either end.

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I wonder if there is double sided as in Once has BP and the other has a FP.

 

Perfect pen. Carbon papers you got the BP, but your notes is FP.

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I'm sure they can be made{smile}..too.

 

But if someone wants a Once with a ball pen and fountain pen..check out the

inexpensive Visconti Monte Carlo..or for more bucks the double nibbed Alchemy.

 

But you say you want something different....try a Zerollo......Many vintage fountain

pens with mechanical pencil on one end and fountain on the other..these combos

can be found on the cheap..some not so........................................................................

 

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Here's a thread on Brian's original double-nibbed pen, with comments from the customer who collaborated on the design: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/252693-a-double-ended-pen-why-not/

 

I know that he (the original owner/collaborator) loved the pen, though when i met up with him for show-and-tell I didn't get to hold it because he had already loaned it out to someone else for a play date. I hope to see one in person at the Ohio Pen Show next month.

 

Nice to know that someone else is also making modern ones!

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I saw the one that Shawn made last Thursday at the Arkansas Pen club meeting, pretty neat!

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That was TRHall. Yeah he's pretty awesome. He carries that thing around too. I got to play with it too. :)

 

Yes, he told me you had it. I was quite envious of you that day (as consolation, he allowed me to borrow a TWSBI to try to turn me to EF nib dark side - didn't work)!

 

And may I say, as an aside, your work is also quite lovely!

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Uhm. They don't all have a step. And it's not very deadly.

Well you are sort of the exception. The Edison pens I've seen and other smaller custom pen making people's pens I've seen go for the flush design of the cap to the body.

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