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I have an R&K one. It's interesting, and fun, but I don't use it much (I don't use any dip pens much, but when I want to use a dip pen, I invariably reach for an esterbrook steel nib. I'll toy around with the others but for actual writing, I don't care for the glass, personally.)

 

The glass pen is a very wet writer; all dip pens are, but this one is "globs on the page" as opposed to just "exceedingly wet".

 

That said, the R&K glass pen is very well made. Scratchy isn't quite how I would describe it- it doesn't snag the paper. "Extreme feedback"?

 

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I have a couple old Spor pens. They're kind of fun, but I miss the flexiness of a metal nib.

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Last year, while on a cruise to the Dominican Republic I had the chance to buy a few glass Glass Pens. I didn't buy them because I thought they would be too fragile.

 

 

Yes, I have a J. Herbin glass pen that chipped very soon after I got it. I'm usually very careful with my things, but accidents happen, and this one happened sooner rather than later. :(

 

I have had my eye on these: http://www.glasspens.com/pens.html

for years now, but I always seem to have more important things to do than decide which one to order.

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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Astronymus Collectors Item

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My humble collection of glas pens. The above is the amber version by J.Herbin. The other two are vintage ones I got from ebay some time ago. There are paper sheets enclosed in the glas.

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OH MY I love the vintage ones.

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

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I keep looking at this one

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262948150287?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

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Are those dip pens or do you fill them? I know of vintage glas nipped fountain pens.

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mke Antique

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I just got my first batch of dip pens, none of them is a wet writer. One tends towards being MF, the other two to F.

But they are fun to use. (At least at the moment.)

And none of them has problems with Parker Quink as many of my fountain pens do. :)

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If you want to go the vintage route, you can get glass pens with ink filling sacs. I picked up two safeties at the Ohio Pen Show last week and I saw many more.

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> glass pens with ink filling sacs - I picked up two safeties at the Ohio Pen Show last week

Pictures please.

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I had one, lucky sold it. It did nothing a stiff dip pen would not do....for dipping and testing ink.

As a writing pen I found it useless...in as a nib, there really wasn't much of anything it did. One did have to hold it high, as I remember.

It left me with a feeling of Why? Why were they ever made, why were so many of them made.

I missed what ever it was they were for.

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My humble collection of glas pens. The above is the amber version by J.Herbin. The other two are vintage ones I got from ebay some time ago. There are paper sheets enclosed in the glas.

Love those bottom two.

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

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Back in the 90s, a lot of them were sold in gift sets with glitter ink full of large gold flakes, that would have clogged any other pen. Such sets disappeared from the market when sparkle ink gel rollers came onto the market.

 

That's when I bought my awesome ones.

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I've tried my best, but I can't write with dip pens. :( However, I can write with glass dip pens. :) I bought two J.Herbin glass dip pens from Bureau Direct. One had a beautifully fine nib and was perfect. The other one.... didn't and wasn't. So, basically, I only have one J.Herbin glass dip pen that writes 'properly' as far as I'm concerned. I use it to dip into my 'comparison inks' and write the brand and ink name when I'm doing ink reviews. It's a blue marbled glass pen and I really like it. The amber one that has a thick blob at the end, instead of a really fine piece of glass, needs throwing away, but so far I haven't done that. :(

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Try re..."grinding" it before trashing it. Like usual, what have you got to lose?

You do not have a right to post. You do not have a right to a lawyer. Do you understands these rights you do not have?

 

Kaweco Supra (titanium B), Al-Sport (steel BB).

Parker: Sonnet (dimonite); Frontier GT; 51 (gray); Vacumatic (amber).

Pelikan: m600 (BB); Rotring ArtPen (1,9mm); Rotring Rive; Cult Pens Mini (the original silver version), Waterman Carene (ultramarine F)

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I have a J. Herbin glass dip pen but it is way too scratchy and barely lays down any ink. I've tried sanding, but clearly I have no idea what I am doing because it hasn't seemed to help at all.

 

I used to have another one, a Rohrer & Klingner, which worked really well, but alas it was lost in a move.

 

I'll give it another try - I suspect I was just being too timid about it.

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Oh my, I love your spider avatar!

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

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