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Hello FPNers.

 

I have read a lot about ebonite pens. I love them. But why so high prices?

 

Would it be possible to obtain a pen in wonderfully combined colours, not just black, not just mottled?

Could the pen keep its original ebonite feeder, so "rustic" and handmade, but could the owner fit another nib, perhaps even "italize" it?

 

How about a pen wrongly sent to you in the first place? So bad... but the seller (that is, the maker), offers you to return it or to keep it for half its price... hmmmm... you obviously won´t let it go!: you have this beauty in your hand, and moreover it is the perfect moment for messing around with the original nib, the original clip...

 

Will you please the attached pictures and make up your minds? Sorry my camera is so cheap, and more sorry the photographer (me!) knows nothing about picture taking...!

 

Plumista.

 

"Busca la belleza, porque es la única búsqueda que vale la pena".

 

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Hello FPNers.

 

I have read a lot about ebonite pens. I love them. But why so high prices?

 

Would it be possible to obtain a pen in wonderfully combined colours, not just black, not just mottled?

Could the pen keep its original ebonite feeder, so "rustic" and handmade, but could the owner fit another nib, perhaps even "italize" it?

 

How about a pen wrongly sent to you in the first place? So bad... but the seller (that is, the maker), offers you to return it or to keep it for half its price... hmmmm... you obviously won´t let it go!: you have this beauty in your hand, and moreover it is the perfect moment for messing around with the original nib, the original clip...

 

Will you please the attached pictures and make up your minds? Sorry my camera is so cheap, and more sorry the photographer (me!) knows nothing about picture taking...!

 

Plumista.

 

"Busca la belleza, porque es la única búsqueda que vale la pena".

 

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Hello FPNers.

 

I have read a lot about ebonite pens. I love them. But why so high prices?

 

Would it be possible to obtain a pen in wonderfully combined colours, not just black, not just mottled?

Could the pen keep its original ebonite feeder, so "rustic" and handmade, but could the owner fit another nib, perhaps even "italize" it?

 

How about a pen wrongly sent to you in the first place? So bad... but the seller (that is, the maker), offers you to return it or to keep it for half its price... hmmmm... you obviously won´t let it go!: you have this beauty in your hand, and moreover it is the perfect moment for messing around with the original nib, the original clip...

 

Will you please the attached pictures and make up your minds? Sorry my camera is so cheap, and more sorry the photographer (me!) knows nothing about picture taking...!

 

Plumista.

 

"Busca la belleza, porque es la única búsqueda que vale la pena".

 

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What a beautiful pen !

 

You did the grinding job yourself or the seller did it ?

 

Thank you. I did it myself, and it was really fun!

 

¿Por qué estarás "Perdido en Bretaña"...?

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What a beautiful pen !

 

You did the grinding job yourself or the seller did it ?

 

Thank you. I did it myself, and it was really fun!

 

¿Por qué estarás "Perdido en Bretaña"...?

 

 

I know it's fun, I've done my first nib grinding some weeks ago, and I love it!

Care to exchange techniques? :)

Maybe a thread about amateur nib grinding?

 

Estoy Perdido en Bretaña porque llegué aquí casi por azar hace 13 años... y aquí me quedé, sin saber muy bien por qué :D

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Those are very nice, the colors aren't my first choice but that's fine. I love the swirl on the top of the one cap.

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Kandan is making me a similar pen to the first one with the pearl/nakaya shape but in red and black ebonite.

 

Supposed to ship tomorrow.

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Mr. Kandan has just shipped out an acrylic pen in Cracked Ice for me. I am super excited!!

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Those are very nice, the colors aren't my first choice but that's fine. I love the swirl on the top of the one cap.

 

I am sorry I am so bad at picture taking!

BTW, how other FPNers manage to upload superb detailed and close-up pictures, provided that the FPN system does not allow uploads of more that 1.95MP?

 

In fact, all of the ends (both caps and barrels) of these pens have the swirl, becacuse the ebony rods they are made of come from factory just so in the first place, with the swirl.

 

Plumista.

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Very nice pictures. If you are worried about your resolution just take the picture normally at a high resolution and then mess with the resulting file size by working the picture in an image manipulation software. I recommend Gimp. You can take say a 8MB size file and get it down to something like 5MB just by doing some reduction work without to bad of a loss of quality resulting.

I'd like to see a nice blue cracked ice or blue swirl pattern with a medium italic nib. Your hand writing is very nice with that nib. Someplace between an old English lettering and a modern computer generated old font. Probably as distinctive as the pen itself.

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