Now, I've got a Parker Duofold...but a Sheaffer Duofold?The legendary Parker 51 and the outstanding Sheaffer Duofold, two fine roads that get you to the same place...the joy of writing. Every Fountain pen user should one of each in their pen tray ready for use.
The Sheaffer version was the Radite, no?Now, I've got a Parker Duofold...but a Sheaffer Duofold?
Those must be as rare as finding hen's teeth on a blue moon!
Exactly...and in Jade, to boot!The Sheaffer version was the Radite, no?
You guys make all the coolest stuff in Wisconsin. Harley's. Thorogood boots. Cheese.Well, I grew up in southern Wisconsin and the old Parker pen plant was about 10 miles away from where I grew up and I know people who worked there; so for me its Parker.
LOL! Well, rest assured that the higher-end Sheaffer pens don't leak. But Sheaffer was really late to the ballpoint market and that's probably one of the things that did it in an independent company. Their take was that people were going over to ballpoints because they didn't want to get their fingers inky, so their answer was a fountain pen with a complicated filling system that used a tube to dip into the ink bottle.Speaking as a ballpoint/rollerball kind of guy, I have to go with Parker, then Cross. Sheaffer is a name from my distant past. I think I may have had a Sheaffer fountain pen in grade school. In fact when this thread opened I had to look them up to see if they are still around. That pen leaked a lot which is probably why I haven't used a fountain pen since.
I go you a few more: Pabst, Miller, Leinenkugel's, Spotted Cow, Usinger's, Husky tools, Milwaukee power tools, Dremel, Wisconsin is where the snowmobile was invented (no matter what Ski-Doo says), Kohler, its the place where labor unions started, Frank Lloyd Wright, Les Paul and at once point in time it was the home to the oldest GM plant in the world.You guys make all the coolest stuff in Wisconsin. Harley's. Thorogood boots. Cheese.
Better nibs for sure!Parker was the more famous; Sheaffer made consistently better pens!