Jump to content

Free Nib Straightening - Read Post Well Please


gamingoodz

Recommended Posts

First, I must ask that if you are interested to read this all carefully and in its entirety. Thanks.

 

Hello there I recently got a nib block and made some burnishing tools so I can straighten nibs as I am a collector and recently got into vintage pens. I was hoping to be able to find good deals on vintage pens with bent nibs so I can save some money and fix them up to have some nice pens for myself. Well seems for some odd reason finding vintage pens with bent nibs for sale is much harder than I had thought it would be.

 

Anyways I want to get some practice straightening nibs but that is a problem because I have no bent nibs to practice straightening and bending my own nibs just to straighten them just doesn't sit well with me haha. So that brings me to this post, if you have a pen with a bent nib that you would like fixed I am offering to do it for free, with some restrictions and warnings.

 

Understand that I am no expert in this and cannot guarantee that the nib will come back much better condition than It was sent. This is for me to practice while also offering a service to the community for free. Please do NOT send me really expensive nibs! Don't have super high expectations, I will do my best and will try to get it as straight as I can but remember that I am learning as I go here. Don't send me anything that you wouldn't want to loose, while I am no idiot, things do happen and my fear is that with fragile vintage nibs or nibs with very small tipping that while straightening the tipping could snap off. That is why I ask that you only send nibs that are not worth much.

 

I want to help and repair some nibs worth repairing so people could use them again but I also don't want anyone sending anything worth much in case something goes wrong.

 

I will take the first few people that want nibs straightened, say maybe about 5 people? And then after that I will have to judge what my time schedule can afford to take and if I am able to I will take some more. I recently went back to college to get an associates degree in network administration and I work also so time is very limited. Which brings me to another point, please do NOT expect super fast return times as I am extremely busy between school and work. I will do my best to get it back to you a.s.a.p but I can only do so much at a time.

 

You will have to pay shipping to me of course and then the cost to return it to you. I would really prefer US only just to keep shipping simple.

 

 

Thanks,

Jeff

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 5
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • gamingoodz

    2

  • amberleadavis

    1

  • AndWhoDisguisedAs

    1

  • Ayoungentrepreneur

    1

Jeff, this is a very nice offer. Thank you.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Jeff, I'm game. I have a cheapie Jin Hao 599 medium nib that I dropped and the nib's never been right (or "write" since). Hey, if you can repair it, great. If not, c'est la vie, I'm not using it anyway. I'm in no rush. What's your address? And, thank you!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Jeff, I'm game. I have a cheapie Jin Hao 599 medium nib that I dropped and the nib's never been right (or "write" since). Hey, if you can repair it, great. If not, c'est la vie, I'm not using it anyway. I'm in no rush. What's your address? And, thank you!

 

I sent you a PM with my address if you want to send it over I will do my best to get it fixed up for ya. Thanks

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is a really cool idea. This is basically what I do for friends and family nowadays. I ask whether they have any old pens lying around (that they usually don't care much about anyway) and then I try to fix 'em up as much as I can. Let's keep learning!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33494
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26624
    5. jar
      jar
      26101
  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More
  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...