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Hi,

 

One of my good customers sent me a ミュー９０ to regrind to cursive italic. I thought you might be interested in looking at the pictures of the insides of the pen.

 

All the parts

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/3163476639_3d5707ec72_b.jpg

 

Such a large feed!

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1096/3164314860_c7ab6822fd_b.jpg

 

Cartridge connector

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/3163483265_557a9023af_b.jpg

 

Pretty trim ring comes in two parts

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1008/3164322182_5d4fb7d240_b.jpg

 

Nib

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1144/3163491375_1d9c8f67b8_b.jpg

 

Nib has a feed alignment piece

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1141/3164329228_8fc46f1fb9_b.jpg

 

Matching groove in feed

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1090/3163497477_3d5bcb0a3f_b.jpg

 

The nib, after rough grinding

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/3163624293_50cbc134ff_b.jpg

 

You can see the feed is a little translucent

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/3164461952_46535b0802_b.jpg

 

I finished the nib and put it all back together. It writes beautifully now!

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/3164464616_42eddc9e02_b.jpg

 

After taking this pen apart, I can see the care that Pilot took. It's just as beautiful inside as it is outside. My own ミュー９０ is not ground since I prefer the standard Pilot fine nib :D

 

Dillon

Stolen: Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red ends Medium nib. Serial number 1216 and Aurora 98 Cartridge/Converter Black bark finish (Archivi Storici) with gold cap. Reward if found. Please contact me if you have seen these pens.

Please send vial orders and other messages to fpninkvials funny-round-mark-thing gmail strange-mark-thing com. My shop is open once again if you need help with your pen.

Will someone with the name of "Jay" who emailed me through the email system provide me an email address? There was no email address provided, so I can't write back.

Dillon

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Very nice work, Dillon (as usual). Thanks for the photos of the pen disassembled. Very interesting, so much so that I actually waiting for my super-slow-mo dial-up to load it. It was worth the wait. :)

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WOW!!! Thanks, Dillon!

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Very cool...has me thinking..hmmmm..pm sent.

 

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Nice work, but I'm like you Dillon the Pilot/Namiki nibs I have are just sweet right out the box. Happy New Year.

 

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One of my good customers sent me a ミュー９０ to regrind to cursive italic. I thought you might be interested in looking at the pictures of the insides of the pen.

Yes, actually, thanks!

 

First, this makes me want to get a medium and have it ground similarly. I love my Myu 90's XXF point (it is marked F but man, it is finer than anything but the XXXF Binder VP nib my wife has, I think it even beats my Prera). For a random goob (e.g. me) what would a cursive italic job run?

 

Question: The circular ring that holds the cap in place, although stronger holding than my wife's Myu 701, isn't as strong as I'd like. Do you think I could get it to hold a bit more firmly by slightly adjusting the ring (spring)?

Would that be seriously courting disaster?

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Hi,

 

The ring can't be really made any tighter because it actually doesn't rely on spring tension to hold the cap on. It snaps into a groove at the cap edge. It's a nice system :D

 

Dillon

Stolen: Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red ends Medium nib. Serial number 1216 and Aurora 98 Cartridge/Converter Black bark finish (Archivi Storici) with gold cap. Reward if found. Please contact me if you have seen these pens.

Please send vial orders and other messages to fpninkvials funny-round-mark-thing gmail strange-mark-thing com. My shop is open once again if you need help with your pen.

Will someone with the name of "Jay" who emailed me through the email system provide me an email address? There was no email address provided, so I can't write back.

Dillon

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Pretty pictures!

 

Would you mind if you could show us a writing sample on how it writes? It might be quite nice to see.

 

Shamouti

 

 

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I totally got two pen people fascintated today by uncapping one of these. It was like crack!

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The writing sample is the last picture in the bunch.

 

Dillon

Stolen: Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red ends Medium nib. Serial number 1216 and Aurora 98 Cartridge/Converter Black bark finish (Archivi Storici) with gold cap. Reward if found. Please contact me if you have seen these pens.

Please send vial orders and other messages to fpninkvials funny-round-mark-thing gmail strange-mark-thing com. My shop is open once again if you need help with your pen.

Will someone with the name of "Jay" who emailed me through the email system provide me an email address? There was no email address provided, so I can't write back.

Dillon

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It looks as good as it writes! :)

 

Dillon

Stolen: Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red ends Medium nib. Serial number 1216 and Aurora 98 Cartridge/Converter Black bark finish (Archivi Storici) with gold cap. Reward if found. Please contact me if you have seen these pens.

Please send vial orders and other messages to fpninkvials funny-round-mark-thing gmail strange-mark-thing com. My shop is open once again if you need help with your pen.

Will someone with the name of "Jay" who emailed me through the email system provide me an email address? There was no email address provided, so I can't write back.

Dillon

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And it writes a good as it looks!

 

Works both ways :)

 

Dillon

Stolen: Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red ends Medium nib. Serial number 1216 and Aurora 98 Cartridge/Converter Black bark finish (Archivi Storici) with gold cap. Reward if found. Please contact me if you have seen these pens.

Please send vial orders and other messages to fpninkvials funny-round-mark-thing gmail strange-mark-thing com. My shop is open once again if you need help with your pen.

Will someone with the name of "Jay" who emailed me through the email system provide me an email address? There was no email address provided, so I can't write back.

Dillon

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Beautiful pics of the inner workings of this pen! I find myself deeply admiring its purity. Pilot really did this 90th Anniversary pen right.

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Very cool. It sure looks true to the original- it would be interesting to compare that to a MYU ...

 

Anyway - any white knuckles with this one since, unlike say a Parker 75, if you don't get it right you've got to replace the entire front end of the pen? ;)

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Anyway - any white knuckles with this one since, unlike say a Parker 75, if you don't get it right you've got to replace the entire front end of the pen? ;)

 

I went for it..no white knuckles here...maybe dillo had some when he was doing my pen recently...ahhh...but alas all went well!

 

Rick

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"the last pen I bought is the next to the last pen I will ever buy.."---jar

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