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As ALWAYS... great to see you and see alll your pictures.YOur photos really give a sense of what it was like there.... Good work! Did you bring home any new acquisitions?

also in one of the pix above (the one which says ralph) is that a steam punk pen? I forget whomakes them but I was hoping to see one... but must have missed it.

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Amazing! Looks like so much fun! Thank you for taking the time to post all of those pics and for giving us all a little bit of the experience.

"To the optimist the glass is half full, to the pessimist the glass is half empty, to the engineer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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As ALWAYS... great to see you and see alll your pictures.YOur photos really give a sense of what it was like there.... Good work! Did you bring home any new acquisitions?

also in one of the pix above (the one which says ralph) is that a steam punk pen? I forget whomakes them but I was hoping to see one... but must have missed it.

cheers

skip aka skyppere

 

 

Great seeing you again Skip.

 

 

My purchases are documented in this thread in the Writing Instruments forum.

 

 

The Steampunk pens are sold by Roger Cromwell. I have three pics of the steampunk pens in the report.

2020 San Francisco Pen Show
August 28-30th, 2020
Pullman Hotel San Francisco Bay
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065

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Ricky, I've been to the show for two days the last two years and I feel like Tom both years. How the heck did I miss that?! I think there's just so much pen it overloads the synapses. Good fun to see it from a different perspective.

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... I want to point out that our lovely Jon Szanto has one of the coolest stories ever: He played drums one night with Pearl Jam.

I told my son a little about Jon, and this story. He was duly impressed. I left out the part with the bow tie... ;)

MB JFK BB; 100th Anniversary M; Dumas M FP/BP/MP set; Fitzgerald M FP/BP/MP set; Jules Verne BB; Bernstein F; Shaw B; Schiller M; yellow gold/pearl Bohème Pirouette Lilas (custom MB-fitted EF); gold 744-N flexy OBB; 136 flexy OB; 236 flexy OBB; silver pinstripe Le Grand B; 149 F x2; 149 M; 147 F; 146 OB; 146 M; 146 F; 145P M; 162 RB
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You lucky scoundrels! And, oh, the pen porn...! My heart is going pitter-patter-pit-pit-pitter-patter!

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I left out the part with the bow tie... ;)

Smart move. I mean, it isn't like there aren't enough dorks in the world already... :roflmho:

"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

~ Benjamin Franklin

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I left out the part with the bow tie... ;)

Smart move. I mean, it isn't like there aren't enough dorks in the world already... :roflmho:

 

 

It's what you wear but how you wear it.

 

 

Jon looked quite dapper at the show unlike Loren and myself.

2020 San Francisco Pen Show
August 28-30th, 2020
Pullman Hotel San Francisco Bay
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City Ca, 94065

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I left out the part with the bow tie... ;)

Smart move. I mean, it isn't like there aren't enough dorks in the world already... :roflmho:

 

Dang! If dorks can play drums with Pearl Jam, then I want to be a (bleep)!

 

I mean, I want to be a (bleep) who can play drums with Pearl Jam. Oh shush!

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Thank you so much, Ricky, for the photos! They really convey what the show is like, at least as I remember Friday and Saturday - yeah, including the great dinner get-together that Joi arranged.

 

Lisa, I am so sorry that I didn't put your face together with your FPN name. We met, shook, said "Hi, I'm Barbara", "I'm Lisa" and I didn't know I was talking to Ethernautrix, of the fabulous pen collection I've ooohed over here.

 

For others, and I'm sure there are others, who I didn't recognize, mea culpa. This was only my 2nd LA Pen Show, and I beg for continuing slack as a relative newbie.

 

You experienced folk are so kind and helpful to newbies, and I loved every minute!

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What a delightful read! I really hope I can go someday. In the meantime thanks to your excellent accounting, I can appreciate it vicariously.

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Ah, you've done it again, Ricky: re-created the L.A. Pen Show experience for those of us who couldn't be there. Your photos are always so appreciated. I *really* missed being there this year.

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"I am a galley slave to pen and ink." ~Honore de Balzac

 

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Thanks so much for the show report---outstanding job! :clap1:

 

Nice to see so many familiar faces (maybe next year mine will be one of them, LOL! :lol: )

and so many nice writing instruments. That huge pocket knife reminds me of the one they had on Storage Wars-Texas a few weeks ago: http://www.squidoo.com/largest-swiss-army-knife :o

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