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I wanted to share my very first restoration! Thanks to the community here on FPN (and Pendemonium for parts) I have a functioning pen. I think it may be a Balance Craftsman?

 

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The good people at Gouletpens.com were nice enough to send me a matching notebook (completely at random) and I have it loaded with Diamine Graphite - which I think is a deep mossy green/grey.

 

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BTW - No affiliation with either of these sellers - just a happy customer!

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May it serve you well over the decades.

 

AbE: speaking of going green, one of my favorite childhood memories ...Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'

 

 

 

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Congrats on your first restoration.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

Taught man that which he knew not (96/3-5)

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May it serve you well over the decades.

 

AbE: speaking of going green, one of my favorite childhood memories ...Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'

 

As the old chestnut goes:

Do you like Kipling?

I don't know. I've never kippled.

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Tomorrow is a mystery.

Today is a gift.

That's why it's called the present

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