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I remember reading about folks sending a pen to have the nib ground....I think there was someone in Edinburgh, but anywhere in UK is great : recommendations?

 

I have a couple of pens which need attention:

- a Mont Blanc Monte Rosa which has a nib so scratchy as to be unusable

- an Omas piston filler which I took apart(I should not have done that....an old habit of taking things apart, but then not being able to get them back Together)and which I now can't reassemble.

 

Grateful for ant help

Thanks

Alex

"As many nights endure Without a moon or star So will we endure When one is gone and far "Leonard Cohen, of blessed memory(21/09/1934-7/11/2016)

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I would be tempted to send your Omas back to Omas to have it reassembled. That's probably not something a nibmeister would do.

Thanks....it was such a stupid thing to do, I know.....and I've just noticed a typo in my original post which said I'd be grateful for ant help. I know it's said that fools laugh at their own jokes, but I do love that.....visions of fountain pens being brought to me carried by armies of ants....

 

Any help, of course was what I intended......

Alex

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john sorowka based in England is the one I use for nib work. repaired/restored 4 pens for me now, and all 4 are fantastic writers

 

Great service and well priced, can't fault his work.

 

pm me if you want his email address (I dont want to post it on an open forum)

 

Ren

 

ps Don't call him a nibmeister, he frowns upon the term. :)

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john sorowka based in England is the one I use for nib work. repaired/restored 4 pens for me now, and all 4 are fantastic writers

 

Great service and well priced, can't fault his work.

 

pm me if you want his email address (I dont want to post it on an open forum)

 

Ren

 

ps Don't call him a nibmeister, he frowns upon the term. :)

I quite agree, especially about the comment referred to in Ren's PS.

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Thanks to all for the help....and word 'n--m---ter' has been stricken from my vocabulary :)

Alex

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Vintagefountainpens dot co dot uk, based in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, is also very knowledgable (and inexpensive). HTH.

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Vintagefountainpens dot co dot uk, based in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, is also very knowledgable (and inexpensive). HTH.

Thanks(and I love your sig. at the bottom)

Alex

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