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The first of my optical assistants has arrived .

Now I can NIB'le by sight rather than NIBling by feel ..

No need to reach for a MACRO camera / lens combo = I can see !

 

Hopefully be enjoying some serious NIBling shortly ...

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Actually , more than enough !

There is a second set of lenses inside ..

+ There is the little magnifier on the outside ..

 

There be plenty of magnification ...

 

I have a NIB in my Jinhao 992 that I have been playing with and I did it all by feel and magnifying glass ...

This cheap nasty vision enhancer is actually superior ..

Really looking forward to playing with that NIB in the 992 ( Now that I can see )

I say , that I can see because when they came , I spent maybe 30 minutes looking at NIB's .. ( And I can see )

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Maurice Noble, the wonderful artist who greated the layouts for the Warner Brothers cartoons, taught a workshop in the Eighties which I had the honor of attending. He was in his nineties at the time, and he wore a very similar apparatus to see what he was drawing. What impressed me was that he was still a working artist, still working on projects with all his faculties as sharp as ever.

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That will likely not provide the magnification you need for adjusting nibs.

 

I have one. it's no 40x loupe, but with a good supplemental light source, it's good enough.

Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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I want to be able to see what I am doing to the NIB as I do it ..

In that regard they work well ..

 

When all the optical enhancement gets here . maybe a review on them .

 

I know these are cheap N nasty , but they work !

 

Looking forward to actually using them , maybe even today .. If time permits

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