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Interesting idea. But not at that price....

I can buy fountain pens for way less money than their "in" price. And an aluminum architect's ruler costs under $20 US at Staples (a plastic one was six bucks and change).

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Cool looking but what is the actual price. $50 pledge gets you %50 off of price, but no mention of the price. Looks like a pig in a poke to me.

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Cool looking but what is the actual price. $50 pledge gets you %50 off of price, but no mention of the price. Looks like a pig in a poke to me.

That is odd. It could be 50% off anything. $500.00

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Yeah. A couple of winters ago I needed a new coat and there was a 50% off sale at Macy's. And even then I couldn't afford anything there.... Ended up getting the same percentage markdown at Sears on a Lands End stadium parka -- warmer, better looking and $80 US....

Of course when I looked at the link again I realized that the four-figure price I was seeing was how far along in the kickstarter process they'd come. And then realized that there WAS no price listed. And 50% of zero is, well, zero....

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Going off previous Kickstarter projects by ENSSO, he's saying this is 50% below the RRP or MSRP he anticipates setting for the final project. Doesn't always work that way though - with the XS Pocket Fountain Pen it ended up being closer to a 25-30% discount, but a really good pen. I like the idea of this one too, but not sure I'd use it!

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About the ruler design itself. Won't it wick ink from the point where pen tip/tine, ruler, and paper, made contact ?

 

Rulers for ink have a small gap underneath to avoid this. But the KS pen's seems flush with the paper at the bottom side.

 

Then there's this old topic.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/197543-damaging-fountain-pen-nibs-with-rulers/

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