hi,

elaine and i will be at the show friday and saturday. YAY!!!!

who else is a comin'?

:bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1:

Im going and (hopefully) miss a day of school! :bunny1: :bunny1: :bunny1:

We are planning on attending but we're not sure which day we will be there.

I'm going! Definitely Saturday-- hopefully Friday and Sunday as well

I intend to leave MD about 6-7AM Saturday should arrive about 10AM... will be staying over and leaving on Sunday late afternoon....
Look for the big old grey bearded gnome.... that's me

BTW, I will be bringing some goodies for sale or trade....

I plan to be there. Looking forward to renewing acquaintences, looking at pens, and seeing Philly for the first time in 20 years.

Gloria and I will be there on Saturday, staying over til Sunday. Let me know if a FPN get together will occur. If so, we'll be there!
RussZ

Barbara and I will be there all three days -- in fact, we'll be arriving Thursday afternoon so we won't miss anything.

In case any other exhibitors are not aware of this, I've spoken to Jim Rouse (of Bertram's Inkwell, the organizers), and he tells me that there will be overnight security on both Friday and Saturday nights -- set up Friday morning, tear down Sunday at closing. Woo hoo!

barbara (richard) and robyn (ron),

can i sign up now to have some pens worked on? ah, please?!?! pretty please....

Hi Richard,

I may be stopping by on Sunday to brandish my new 0.4 mm cursive italic to see if I can get it adjusted for slower flow

--Rob

Plans are to roll into the show Friday morning, leaving late in the day Saturday. We'll stay with my sister outside of the city Thursday night.

Rob,

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." (With apologies to Strother Martin)

There can be profound differences in stroke width under different conditions:

• You might apply heavier writing pressure than I do; I use very, very light pressure. Heavier pressure forces the nib tines apart a little more, and you get a wetter flow and a broader stroke.
• You might be using paper that feathers more than my paper; your image shows a significant amount of feathering.
• You might be using an ink that is more prone to bleed or feather than my ink; Noodler's inks, especially the Polar and bulletproof varieties, are much "wetter" than ordinary inks, and they do in fact do this. Feathering produces a broader stroke.

How does this relate to your situation? Here's how:

I test every nib I sell, whether it's a specialty nib or simply a standard round nib. I use Waterman Blue-Black in a filled pen, on the same fountain pen friendly paper we sell on our site. Note that the size I specify is the size of the ink line on the paper, not the size of the nib itself. This is not the same as most commercial nibs. Standard nibs always come up to their standard sizes; when I make a stub from a medium VP nib, I get 0.6 mm without having to measure the stroke.

Because your nib was not one of my standard sizes, I also measured its stroke under 25X magnification, with a reticle that allows me to tune a nib to within 0.02 mm of its specified size. Your nib produced a stroke exactly 0.40 mm wide.

As a related point, a fine nib should not produce a stroke 0.6 mm wide. Modern fine nibs should be, and I calibrate them to be, 0.5 mm. Vintage fine nibs produced 0.4 to 0.45 mm.

I'll be happy to see you in Philly, but I'm expecting to find that your nib still meets my specs.

Hmm, yes, I should probably try different ink and paper. But I'll drop by anyway to say hi!

--Rob

I am coming back from Cyprus on Thursday night. So if jetlag is not too bad I should make it on Friday afternoon and possibly Sunday. Saturday does not look good because of kids schedule.

I will get to the hotel either Thursday after work or Friday and be there through the weekend.

There is a slim chance I may make it on Saturday.

--Alriel

P.S. - Is that Diamond Point part of your rotation?

I hope to be there either Saturday or Sunday. Bringing some pens to get tuned (hopefully) and perhaps buy a few inks & a VP nib.

Well, first time to a pen show since 04 Philly, I will be there with an assortment of high end pens for sale. Many of you might not know me, but I was a pretty regular fixture at Philly, DC and even the old New Jersey show back in the 90's...

kids change your hobbies sometimes.

I will be at Philly for sure on Sunday, more of a maybe for Saturday.

I was going to wait until next month for my first pen show (LA Pen Show), but since Richard Binder won't be in LA in February, I plan to make it to Philly Pen Show.

I should be arriving almost exactly a week from the time of this post!

Here's the link to the Philadelphia Pen Show website.



Philadelphia Pen Show Website

Cheers,

Jim Mamoulides
www.PenHero.com

Somewhere I apparently suggested that Robyn and I would be leaving on Saturday. Not so! Our plans are to stay through to the end of the show on Sunday.

GREAT... more time for me to give you grief...

Posted from another Philly pen show thread...

figured interest would be high here, as well....

here is but a wee sample of Da Goods...

great stuff...

One tray of Conklins...



And a pretty tray of Waterman... (several more trays of Watermans for the show!!!)



I got boxes of stuff... from low line no names to higher end stuff, as you can see. A pen for every hand...

Please do not try to buy from this post.

because this is NOT a for sale post.

I may visit on Saturday, starting from Stamford CT.
Can someone confirm, if there is a wireless web access in the hotel ?

Azhar

So when people go, do they wear a FPN emblem on their shirt? Or their FPN nickname on a name tag?


Heh, I know, that would be a bit dorky.


I'll be walking around with a stainless steel Pilot attached to my shirt. IF I am able to make it (the chaos imps are working hard on me these days).

So if you're wondering, I was the dork in the white coat and white hat on Friday afternoon [12-ish] and Saturday [12:30-2ish]. I may go back tomorrow, if my checkbook will let me. Here's the damage so far.

From Richard Binder's table:
broad nib for my clear Pelikan M200
Pelikan Grand Place [eep!]

@Pendemonium:
Aurora Blue ink
converter for Parker Vector [see below]

Bertram's Inkwell:
1 Parker Vector for myself [first fountain pen I ever owned, at age 9] and 2 additional ones that I may give to my sister's children, if it's okay with her. My niece has wanted to write with my fountain pens for a few years now but I was hesitant because she was so young. She's turning 5 next month and my nephew is 6+ so I think they can handle a cheapie like the Vectors.

Susan Wirth's table:
translucent green Pelikan M200 with fine italic nib. Now I just need to find the red and grey Pelikan demos and my mini-collection will be complete

I thought about buying a Namiki Vanishing Point but after playing with a few, I was too unsure about how I'd like that clip hitting my fingers.