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Those do look nice. I shall fight FPAD! What exactly is demi-sized? Can someone give a size comparison to a regular pen for any of these? Oh no... I am asking questions, that is the first sign of impending *AD doom.

 

yeah, all this talk of the FPs is piquing my curiosity, too!

Before I venture into yet another potentially expensive hobby I have a few questions....

1. I have to wear a uniform for work (both jobs) and keep a pen in the handy-dandy pen slot in the left breast pocket....what's the risk of a pen leaking?

2. I also have to fill out a lot of 3 sheet thick carbon-less forms - meaning I have to press rather hard to get it to come all the way through....Is this possible with a FP? Or will the nib tear through the paper?

That's about it for right now....I'm just wondering about the practicality of it for me at work....I hardly do any writing at home so it probably wouldn't be worth the investment for just home use...

 

There are a lot of pens listed with measurements on the RichardsPens site.

 

My Lamy Safari is about 6 1/2" while open, 5 1/2" closed and 1/2" at the wides point (lid).

 

If you treat it well, it shouldn't leak. Just be sure to keep it nib up in your pocket. If you clip it into your shirt pocket, this won't be an issue.

For the forms, you probably want a "manifold" nib. They're made just for this purpose.

I'm on an Esterbrook kick right now. I like them because you can have one single working pen, then get a bunch of knackered ones, but with good nibs, on the cheap. Then you can swap out from your collection of nibs as necessary. Later you can get those pens restored at a reasonable price. Average for restoring Esties is ~$30. So far I got one SJ at an antique shop for $16, and one last night off the 'bay for ~$16. In both cases, the nib is more valuable than the entire pen (shhhh!).

If you don't mind spending the extra $30-40 for restoring, you can get a very nice vintage pen for about that much again, if not less. Still under that $100 budget.

 

Thanks Brian....now as for the differences between eye dropper, piston, etc... what do those mean and which is the preferred method?

 

this is the wrong forum/website for posting pictures of measuring your pen's

 

If you take out a random character from Charlie Brown, it becomes a cautionary tale about a bunch of drug-addled kids, and the invisible horrors they face.

Inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield I present to you, One Nut Shy:

 

those are perfect!!!
glad I could contribute the name

 

Thanks for the info, do you have any experience with oblique nibs?

 

If you've seen one nib, you've seen 'em all...

 

FYI 45º with 30mph wind = too damn cold to mow, I'll try again later.

 

Morning all.
I crashed relatively early last night... 2:30 or 3ish?
But hey... I'm here now.

 

:happy102


How's that new brush coming along?

 

morning folks!

that one nut shy post made me laugh really hard. Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee at that moment.

And as for what makes one a Yankee- basically, it's a title reserved for any annoying person from outside the South. Days of Thunder could be right, though- it could be that living in California doesn't make you anything. :happy102

 

Thanks! Be sure and digg it, if you digg.

http://gentlemanbeggar.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/one-nut-shy/

 

Well, I'll take you QB. I'm a Vikings fan, we need something better than what we got, and I'd say Campbell is better than what we got.

-Moe

 

Not yet. I've got an italic and a flex, and that's all for specialty nibs at present.

Those are all different methods of filling the pen, and vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. Eye dropper is quite literally filling the barrel of the pen using an eye dropper full of ink. Piston is similar to how a hypodermic is filled. This is where personal preference and availability come into play. Most converters for cartridge pens (that let you use bottled ink instead) use the piston method (per Richard's Pens).