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Thank you - I love watching your videos, they're always interesting, and your handwriting is wonderful.

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Very interesting to see so many affordable pens tested together. Thank you.

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I love the Parker Vector! I have one that is UK made, it's a fine nib but it tends toward medium broad.

 

I use a converter in my Parker, do you know if the squeeze filling system holds more ink than the converter?

 

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Careful when buying a bird.. you'll end up with a flock before you know it.

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Some one bought up the Herliz name...I'm 99.99% sure it is not made in it's old factory in Heidelberg. I think I'd heard about it if it was.

 

I have a palm full of old Herliz nibs ('60-50's),,,sort of nailish to stiff regular flex.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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This is a series on cheap fountain pens - astonishing that for only a few Joachimstaler you can buy a whole lotta pen.

 

I had no clue what a Joachimstaler was, so I looked it up. I'm assuming someone else may also not know so I thought I'd explain that it's (apparently) a silver coin that was used about four hundred years ago in what is now Germany.

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I had no clue what a Joachimstaler was, so I looked it up. I'm assuming someone else may also not know so I thought I'd explain that it's (apparently) a silver coin that was used about four hundred years ago in what is now Germany.

A Joachims-Taler is a Taler, in English Dollar

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Thank you for the amazing videos.

-William S. Park

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” - Graham Greene

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