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I have owned tons of these before, I love them.

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I buy job lots of these on Ebay. I have a large collection of whole pens and parts, because the nibs don't always work and sometimes the barrels are cracked. I tend to use mine eyedropper style. My dedicated pen for Noodler's Baystate Blue is a blue school pen with a 304 nib that writes very wetly. I haven't tested it out to see if it's just the nib or the BSB.

 

I've noted that despite what they say-- 304, 305, M, F-- the nibs tend to develop different personalities. The newer nibs marked M and F seem to have a softer, yet wetter feel. I have a 302 with Fineline markings and it is very wet. I've only tried it with PR DC Supershow Blue and need to see how it handles other inks.

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I used the clear ones in grammar school, I know have two flat top ones now and use one for a signature pen at work. Nice pens.

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I love these pens...... and I dropped mine point down on a hard tile floor while working at school. Good bye tip. Any advice on replacing the nib?

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I love these pens...... and I dropped mine point down on a hard tile floor while working at school. Good bye tip. Any advice on replacing the nib?

 

First, welcome home. :W2FPN: It's likely the cheapest solution is to just buy another one.

 

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I love these pens, I had 4 now I am down to two, one working. This was actually my first foray into fountain pens, I managed to snag a lot of 4 of the 304 nib torpedo shape students pens for a bid of $1 (the shipping cost more at $4). Anyways I gave two away when I got my friends at college hooked into using fountain pens, not to fear I still have my trusty original, that I won't give away. I agree totally though that these pens are they are a gem to use.

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Santa gave me one of these in my Christmas stocking when I was nine. I spent the next summer in our car writing as we went from Arizona to Pennsylvania and back again and didn't know whether to hold the nib with the metal part up or down. So I blame Santa for my FP obsession. I wrote with them all through high school and into college. The clip on one rusted off and I lost it in the university library.

 

The day I discovered Sheaffer had stopped selling them, I also discovered FPN. My first post here was asking if anyone had one of them to sell. A kind soul said he had a number of them languishing in a box in his hall closet. He had them to me within the week. They're still with me and still writing.

 

Thank you, Santa and the kind sir here on FPN.

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Hi, I just broke my nib on one of these pens, I'm so upset it was my first fountain pen. Just wondering does anyone have a nib or a pen they'd be willing to part with? Please pm me, thank you

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I love these. My first fountain pens in the 80s. Geez how many hundreds of skrip jet black cartridges I went through, then tons of peacock blue, then grey, then syringes with bottles after bottle. These are alwsys my favorite at heart. And they always work.

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I currently have three. Two write really well the third's nib is rough. I use one at my desk for a signature pen. I carry a clear one with a fine nib in my planner and the other in storage.

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I love my Sheaffers! Had 4 school pens, gave one to friend. (clear) Remaining 3: black one is the smoothest and my favorite, purple one has a pretty good nib, green one is a little scratchy. (my green and purple ones look like the green pen at the bottom of the picture in post #6,and the black one like the black one in the picture below this post!) Bought my last one at the drug store just a couple of years ago.

 

Of the 4 pens I use on a regular basis 3 are Sheaffers (School, Targa and Agio). My other pen is a nice Waterman Laureat.

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Here's an assortment of the different Sheaffer School Pen styles from my collection. They get more use than many of my more expensive pens because they are such consistently good writers.

 

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From the late 50's to the mid 60's, I'm sure I had a brand new cheap fountain pen every year at the start of school. Which one...don't know. All were the cheap ones.

 

I'm sure I had some Sheaffer ball points.

 

The only thing I'm sure of is if it had a white dot on it, it was supposed to be good. That or an Arrow.

 

Fountain pens walked, or got lost or broken....and I can remember well when Ball Points still leaked enough to keep your fingers ink flecked.

 

Either one of my fountain pens had a white dot on it or it didn't and I was disappointed...It's been @ 50 years. Could well be the latter, it didn't have a dot on it Like an Adult's good pen.

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Nope. Hated them. Had a series of them- all of them threw blots all the time- on paper and in the air. All I had to do was point it an a ball of ink would go flying. Parker vectors behaved much much better, so I switched to them.

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There seem to be so many different styles of the school pen, is there a further designation to differentiate them one from another? I'm particularly wondering about the ones I have that look like the third and fourth ones from the left (the translucent blue and black barrels respectively) in post #52 by jbb.

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There seem to be so many different styles of the school pen, is there a further designation to differentiate them one from another? I'm particularly wondering about the ones I have that look like the third and fourth ones from the left (the translucent blue and black barrels respectively) in post #52 by jbb.

 

They were almost all simply sold as "Cartridge Pen". The earliest were the rounded balance shape. Next came the ones with the conical ends, then the ones flat on top and bottom. The most recent incarnation is the one on the far left in that picture and it was the first that was actually sold as a "School Pen".

 

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Here are some of my modern school pens... I'd like to see what other models are considered school pens.

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Here are some of my modern school pens... I'd like to see what other models are considered school pens.

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/DSC_0688-1-1.jpg

 

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I see from the pictures that the cartridges in these pens are really long. Could anyone tell me where to get one? Are they just regular Sheaffer carts? My boyfriend found a School Pen in the recycling bin at his internship in DC, but he threw away the cartridge. :rolleyes:

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I see from the pictures that the cartridges in these pens are really long. Could anyone tell me where to get one? Are they just regular Sheaffer carts? My boyfriend found a School Pen in the recycling bin at his internship in DC, but he threw away the cartridge. :rolleyes:

Yes, they are the regular Sheaffer cartridges. Here's one place that carries them:

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