I'm wondering if anyone knows of a solution to my dilemma. I wasn't sure how smooth or fine the various VP nibs would be so I bought a fine nib pen and an extra medium nib. The problem is I like both and want to keep them around and switch them depending on paper/mood/number of cups of coffee, etc. Since I move around a lot at work I need to keep these babies in my pocket. Is there a "cap" or something I can put on the spare nib to protect it when it lives in my pocket?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Richard Binder ships VP nibs with what looks like a short section of a plastic drinking straw over the nib. It's the perfect diameter for a push fit on the lower end of the assembly. I suppose you could heat seal one end, and there you would have a cap. The assemblies seem a bit too thin and fragile to carry about without the protection of say, a tube of some kind. But anyway, that would do it.

Doug

The perfect cap for a VP nib is... another VP. At $85 (including the nib) a pop or even less, why not have two? I believe Richards sells the body only for $80...

Actually I was thinking that too. I saw somebody selling one on the classifieds here and thought that would definitely be the safest way to keep it and make the second nib most accesible. I may still do it.

Yeah! Siv's got it. Which explains why I have so many pens!