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Nib Acquisitions March 2017
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A Cannon tactical, by Cool Hand. Because, everyone should have a pen that can be lubed with gun oil.
Loaded with a Schmidt Easy Flow 9000 refill.
No heresay call here! It writes and gets your writing we call that a win!
2 new bottles for me in today's mail, both from Papier Plume: a bottle of the Garden District Azalea and one of the Forget-Me-Not Blue.
Last weekend I bought from Andersen Pens, 3 #16 sacs and a 1551 Esterbrook nib. When it shipped Monday, I figured I would have by end of the week. Then USPS took possession. Appleton, WI another town in WI, then Atlanta, GA (at which time I scratched my head just a bit) . Instead of on to Salt Lake City and me? Next stop: Oakland, CA. That was on 3/1 in the afternoon - expected delivery 3/2. The out scan was on 3/2 about 1:30 am. It finally hit SLC this afternoon..... Nothing like taking the long way around.....
I'm a sucker for pretty, vintage celluloid. This inexpensive, third-tier Eagle definitely meets that criteria. Although the hardware is missing most of the gold plating, the 14K nib is a very nice, semi-flexible writer.
@Snargle that's a beautiful celluloid, Larry! Did you have to re-sac it?
It had what looked like a new sac already installed, but it was leaking around the feed, so I took out the old sac, knocked out the nib and feed, cleaned and reset them (the nib seemed to be not pushed in sufficiently), and installed a new sac. All seems to be working properly now. Whoever did the work didn't reassemble it correctly. Fortunately, it was an easy fix.
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I haven't been posting many of my acquisitions lately, but I'm excited to try this one.
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That stuff looks sweet Erik...looking forward to hearing what you think.
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Indeed, it does. I'm going to try to give it a test run this weekend. I'm a fan of the other Edelstein inks that I've tried, so I have a feeling that I'll like Smoky Quartz as well. I have a few different reviews that I'm behind on with posting.
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Lovely Eversharp Skyline nib from a demi model -- I've got plans to make a Pelikan 140 nib unit using it to replace a defective oblique medium. The 14k Skyline is a lot stiffer, possibly a manifold nib for carbon copies.
Color balance doesn't do the gold justice.
Color balance doesn't do the gold justice.
