Adding To The Flock

Tuesday at 10:08 PM

@carola OMG, those light tortoise are SOooooo beautiful!!

[Oh, and the 450 pencil in Light Tortoise has arrived today. I just can´t help sharing a picture... don´t those two look like a happy couple of newlyweds? 😍

Tuesday at 10:21 PM

7 minutes ago, OCArt said:

@carola OMG, those light tortoise are SOooooo beautiful!!

[Oh, and the 450 pencil in Light Tortoise has arrived today. I just can´t help sharing a picture... don´t those two look like a happy couple of newlyweds? 😍

Thank you, OCArt. I got very lucky with the pen a few years ago and when I saw the pencil come up, I thought those two would just be perfect together. Not that I needed another pencil (other than the pens I don´t use them a lot), but well... those two were simply made for each other.

Tuesday at 11:51 PM

2 hours ago, carola said:

Oh, and the 450 pencil in Light Tortoise has arrived today. I just can´t help sharing a picture... don´t those two look like a happy couple of newlyweds? 😍

Oh, my! Those are simply gorgeous!!

Congratulations on the wonderful pair!

2024-11-20T07:16:14Z

10 hours ago, carola said:

What you have described here about the "frankenpiston", is basically what my repair guy told me had happened. And that the friction fit assembly had already been broken when he removed it. Exactly this very unprofessional repair attempt is why I want to have a word with my father at our next meeting, because there is a fair chance that he was somehow involved into first breaking and then trying to repair the pen. 😉

Here are some pictures of the restored pen. (You can still see some a little bit over enthusiastically applied silicon grease in the ink window, but nevermind, it is mostly gone by now.)

Oh, and the 450 pencil in Light Tortoise has arrived today. I just can´t help sharing a picture... don´t those two look like a happy couple of newlyweds? 😍