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Amazingly, even a "plain black" Estie can still make me go WOW!

 

So the last Esties to go out for Christmas will leave today for Austin, Tx. (to a member of my Chatty Morons<.org> fambly) It had to wait for a 2 pen case for it and it's pencil to go into that I decided on at the last minute.

 

This was my first black Estie I restored. :yikes:

 

I think the black plastic is more similar to the pastel plastic than the usual Estie plastic in that it's softer. For those who polish them up in the future, I'd START with a 1000 grit or so instead of ending with it next time.

 

Still this 65 year old last rendition Black Trannie and pen look like they came off the production line today. It's also got a flat feed 2668 that if it wasn't the nib that came with the pen originally, could have been.

 

I loaded it with some DCSSB as my friend also wants to try that ink (they're also getting a vial of it in the box) and I wanted them to see what it looked like on paper on the note I wrote to them about their set.

 

It writes so well it'll make you cry (with joy).

 

There are LOTS of people who spent ALOT more on pens that don't write nearly as well as this one. And, the black Trans is just such a clean, classic look.

 

:wub:

 

(I will say though that the the uber-glossed black, being almost like Onyx is hitting pretty high on the Psychotic fingerprints on pen index... It really needed that coat of Renaissance wax.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL-who is kinda motivated now <rare occurrence these days> to do one of the black 3 ribber Trannies I have up for myownsef.

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Nice one, Bruce!

I don't have any pocket size Esterbrook lever-fillers presently, other than a tapered desk pen set that's all black all of mine are swirly.

The only black Estie lever-filler I do have is imprinted with U. S. Government and seems to be made of a much cheaper, softer plastic than any of my Esterbrook pens including the barrels of my beloved XT/ XXT Dip-Less pens.

Even the black taper of the desk pen is softer than any other Esterbrook pens I have, with a very visible seam where it was cast-molded that runs right over the threads were it attaches to the pen barrel.

I guess it was Esterbrooks attempt at making their first cheap, semi-disposable desk pens for the U. S Government [? I'm shooting in the dark there?], as the ones i have that are marked U. S. Navy are all of much higher quality plastics and much better made overall.

I'd bought my wife an all-white Esterbrook Nurses' Pen some time ago and restored it for her to work with as a Medical Assistant, double white jewels and all, it too is perhaps one of the best writers I've ever come across.

“I view my fountain pens & inks as an artist might view their brushes and paints.

They flow across paper as a brush to canvas, transforming my thoughts into words and my words into art.

There is nothing else like it; the art of writing and the painting of words!”

~Inka~ [scott]; 5 October, 2009

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