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Yes,the eaglehead appears on French 18k nibs of Parker 75 also.Thanks a lot.But why then its being scratched so badly?I hope the company will be able to reply.

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Perhaps a picture of your scratches is possible. Gold is soft and I suspect the hard plastic guide ridges have keen edges. This may be worse on some caps than others. Waterman will do nothing for you, it's a case of how do I prevent this happening. Maybe return to my answer....metal polish....but polish the plastic guides rather than the gold. Wrap cotton cloth on a suitably shaped dowel and polish away.

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Thanks for your kind suggestion.All the used pens being sold on ebay that I saw are having such scratches.Its surely a design defect as mentioned earlier.

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Hi,

 

Your nib is a completely different shape from the one on the Edson Sapphire blue pen I purchased new two years ago.

 

It looks more like the nib from a Waterman Carene....

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No, the last image that he provided is from the reverse side of Edson so far as I understand.His first set of images were from Carene, just to explain how silver polish works to remove scratches.

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Not the slightest scratch on my nib after two years of heavy use.

 

The cap does not contact the nib at any stage during removal or replacement

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Even though we now know the answer, I received a reply from NRW CS, asking for the pen to be sent to them before they could assess it for repair. Yes, when all I asked was what material was the nib structure (the fancy part top aft of the nib itself). Perhaps my Q was lost in translation.

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Hello

I again request others owners of Edson FP to share their experience.Is it a design defect that affects most pens or its mine cap thats creating the problem? I thoroughly inspected the cap in bright daylight and found nothing wrong in it!And its a NEW pen!I was having a look at the images of used edsons that I found from ebay and almost all of them were having such scratches.Other users please share your experience.

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parban, I am having the same issue as well. I just purchased a brand new nib, after 3 days I noticed scratching around the middle of the nib, noticeable on a lot of the gold! The cap has a black sleeve on the inside that is rubbing. I use my pen often so I take the cap off often during my work day. It must be a design flaw. I'm sad about it, but happy with the price I got the nib for, and it writes beautifully!

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parban, I am having the same issue as well. I just purchased a brand new nib, after 3 days I noticed scratching around the middle of the nib, noticeable on a lot of the gold! The cap has a black sleeve on the inside that is rubbing. I use my pen often so I take the cap off often during my work day. It must be a design flaw. I'm sad about it, but happy with the price I got the nib for, and it writes beautifully!

Wrong inner cap?

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I have an Edson and no problems whatsoever, which is not the case with my carene that looses ink like hell with good flowing inks.

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