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Edison Custom-Made Desk Pen


Robert Ridyard

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When I was six years old, penmanship was still considered important and the school that I attended in Montreal used dip pens to teach children how to write. My desk had a round hole in the upper right corner for the ink bottle. (Desks rarely had a hole on the left side because being left-handed was frowned upon in Catholic schools of the 1950s.) My love affair with fountain pens thus began at an early age.

 

I am now 61 and have used a variety of fountain pens over the years: Sheaffer, Sailor, Montblanc, Pelikan, Visconti, etc. Although they are all excellent writing instruments, I have always missed the delicate balance of the dip pens of my youth. A few weeks ago, I contacted Brian Gray at Edison Pen and explained that I longed for a fountain pen that would have the feel and balance of a dip pen. He agreed to make a desk pen for me, based on one of the models in his Signature line of pens. We exchanged a few e-mails and finally agreed to use the Huron as a starting point.

 

My dream pen arrived in the mail a month later: a light, exquisitely balanced cartridge/converter desk pen made of red and black ebonite, with an 18K gold nib. The pen is seven inches long, excluding the cap, and it writes like a charm. I have posted several photos of the pen, including one where it is placed alongside a Pelikan M800, a Montblanc 149, and a dip pen.

 

This was my first experience with the Edison Pen Company. Am I a satisfied customer? Absolutely! Brian Gray is an outstanding craftsman who really goes the extra mile for his customers. Would I recommend the Edison Pen Company to a friend? Most certainly, without any reservation whatsoever.

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OOOOO! I have often thought about asking Brian for a desk style pen! Bravo. It's gorgeous with the proper length in the hand for pausing and thinking (what I call "writer's thought pause pose").

 

Awesome. Enjoy!

 

P.S. Welcome to FPN, too! Thanks for sharing your pen with us.

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very nice pen :thumbup:

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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OOOOO! I have often thought about asking Brian for a desk style pen! Bravo. It's gorgeous with the proper length in the hand for pausing and thinking (what I call "writer's thought pause pose").

 

Awesome. Enjoy!

 

P.S. Welcome to FPN, too! Thanks for sharing your pen with us.

 

 

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Thank you for reviewing your Edison Desk Pen! :notworthy1: I was considering either a Nakaya Desk Pen or about asking Brian to make me one. Then Brian had the FPN LE pens, so I made that pen my first Edison. I just have to decide on what material to have it made out of!

 

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The Edison desk pen looks so similar to the Nakaya Desk Pen, particularly the cap, which is no small part of why I wanted a Nakaya Desk Pen in the first place.... hrm.

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WOW! What a super looking desk pen. The red and black really do make a statemant. But, how does it write? What style nib did you select? If you were to order another, what would you change?

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