Waterman Junior Horror Story

[melro]

First , the images of before it arrived on my hands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[como]

Thank you for sharing your story. I guess you could have sent to a nibmeister to have it re-tipped, but perhaps the cost isn't worth it and you did have fun doing this It happened to me once. I dropped a British vintage pen that was a no-name pen when I was in the process of changing sac etc. One side of the tipping material fell off and I discovered that it was not a gold nib (a gold-plated steel nib which I had not suspected)! Contacted the seller and got a partial refund (didn't want to be bothered to ship back). I did the same as you: ground it to a stub. I played with it for a while and re-fitted it with a gold Warranted nib and sold it as a Frankenpen for about the same amount I bought it (so just a little bit of loss considering that I put in a gold nib and serviced it). All part of doing and learning and some fun and some frustration. All good.

[melro]

Thank you for sharing your story. I guess you could have sent to a nibmeister to have it re-tipped, but perhaps the cost isn't worth it and you did have fun doing this It happened to me once. I dropped a British vintage pen that was a no-name pen when I was in the process of changing sac etc. One side of the tipping material fell off and I discovered that it was not a gold nib (a gold-plated steel nib which I had not suspected)! Contacted the seller and got a partial refund (didn't want to be bothered to ship back). I did the same as you: ground it to a stub. I played with it for a while and re-fitted it with a gold Warranted nib and sold it as a Frankenpen for about the same amount I bought it (so just a little bit of loss considering that I put in a gold nib and serviced it). All part of doing and learning and some fun and some frustration. All good.

 

yeah! it was a lot of emotions for one pen! hahaah

 

I thought f sending it to a nibmeister , but i dont know any in brazil. I guess I could send to it overseas , but the cost would be high and it would take a long time. Thats why i decided to grind it. And i do realy like the writing of it now.