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I just saw this on eBay. One of the more bizarre items that have crossed my screen. Anyone tried one of these, or even heard of it before?

 

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It looks like it may work, although it also looks like it may interfere with the paper surface if used at a low angle.

 

Thoughts?

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It looks very interesting.

I agree with you, I think it will scratch the paper if used at low angles.

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Sniff, sniif: do I smell "snake oil"? Of course it would touch the paper; I have had enough experience rebuilding pens and trying to get the flow right and finding smudges...And that is with the traditional tapered feeds.

 

And in his ad he states:

 

"Greater ink capacity gives you freedom to create more with less stops"

 

Presumably he means "fewer stops" but grammar aside, what the hell does that mean?

 

My pens "stop" when they have run out of ink - full stop!

 

And if you want fewer stops, buy a Ford pen - 3.3ml of ink would keep me going until my right hand fell off!

 

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Well, it's just a small spring welded under the nib. Theoretically it should hold more ink through surface tension, I guess. If I can find a small spring I may have a go at supergluing to a dip nib to see how it works. Anyway, all I am seeing here is a 'feed' for a dip nib, sort of, but then again Esterbrook already did that with the dipless line.

 

 

 

By "stops" I think he means that you can write more words between dips.

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Doh! a DIP pen! I still do not see how one could write with it.

 

As for "stops", well all my attempts with dip pens have been failures - I can see how they could write beautifully, but a blot followed by half a word is a stop too far for me.

 

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