Book On Vacs - Reco?

[siamackz]

My wife bought me a gift card from fountainpenhospital but I dont want any pens or ink from there. I am wondering about a few books though. One of them is Parker Vacumatic, by Geoffrey Parker, David Shepherd, & Dan Zazove

 

Any happy users here?

[Diabolical_Engineer]

It's an excellent reference book. I really need to buy a copy at some point.

[siamackz]

It's an excellent reference book. I really need to buy a copy at some point.

Have you flipped through it (since you dont have it)?

[joss]

I read this book from first to last page and it is simply awesome. I easily recommend it to really anyone who is even just remotely interested in vintage fountain pens, be it Parker Vacumatic or anything else.

 

So a better question might be: "are there any non-happy users".

[siamackz]

I read this book from first to last page and it is simply awesome. I easily recommend it to really anyone who is even just remotely interested in vintage fountain pens, be it Parker Vacumatic or anything else.

 

So a better question might be: "are there any non-happy users".

Glad to hear it! Thanks for sharing!

[inkstainedruth]

I bought a copy for myself last Christmas when I was at my sort of annual pilgrimage to Fountain Pen Hospital. The book is absolutely gorgeous, but I do have one quibble -- I would have liked to have seen a comparison chart of models by size all in one spot. Because let's face it -- Vacs are something where you can't tell the players without a scorecard -- e.g., "is this a Junior or a Slender or a Debutante or some transitional model?"

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Freddy]

Get the book....Good read.Well worth your time.......{Of course...I have and read}

Fred

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[ThomasB]

Great reference...I find myself referring to it quite often

[bsenn]

Ruth, there is some info here which might be helpful:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/276634-vacumatic-sizes/

[JotterAddict62]

I have all four of the Parker books by David Shepherd excellent reading..

[Glenn-SC]

I don't even collect Vacumatics and I own this book!

[siamackz]

Ha! This one seems like a no brainier I look forward to enjoying the book!

[inkstainedruth]

Ruth, there is some info here which might be helpful:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/276634-vacumatic-sizes/

 

Yeah, I have that chart downloaded as a .pdf file, but it's hard to scroll through. I was hoping that the book would have, say, a double page spread where I could go to and have a bookmark stuck in the book.

Especially now that I have the Azure Blue Pearl Speedline filler (for the longest time I thought that color ONLY came in 3rd Generation Vacs). But I can't narrow it down enough to the actual model for my inventory notes -- someday I MIGHT need to get a rider on my homeowners' insurance, given that the few vintage pens I got appraised a few years ago were valued at more than I paid for them, including repair costs (although for the most part it was a ballpark appraisal for the entire collection I brought in -- which didn't count stuff like the cheap Chinese pens, the Noodler's Konrads, etc., and was before I got the really pricy (for me) M405s.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth