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I was told that Peter Ford in either Melbourne, or is it Sydney, who owns a pen shop does some work on nibs. He is a dealer of vintage pens. I will look thru my old pen magazines and see if I can find one of his ads.

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I was told that Peter Ford in either Melbourne, or is it Sydney, who owns a pen shop does some work on nibs. He is a dealer of vintage pens. I will look thru my old pen magazines and see if I can find one of his ads.

 

Peter Ford's website offers pens for sale and repair workshops, but he states there somewhere he doesn't take in repairs.

 

Jack Landau (ytland on this forum) is apparently very good, but he told me this week he's not taking on any new work at the moment.

 

A chap called John, contactable through Pen City in Melbourne does good work, but has been experiencing health problems and hasn't been very active of late.

 

Pensmith in Berwick offers repairs, but I don't know much about them.

 

Not a lot of options unfortunately.

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Thanks heaps for the detailed reply!!

 

I want to get my Lamy 2000 ground down to a finer point - it's an extra fine but it seems to write more like a medium-fine (it's about the same line width as my Vanishing Point Medium). I'll have to see how much shipping would be to the US, if it's not too much it might be worth sending it someone over there.

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On checking out the Pensmith website, this is the (fairly recently rebadged) "Old Post Office Pens" people. I can't speak for their service either, but they're the only outfit I know of in Australia that offer any kind of nib / pen repair service - so it might be worth dropping them a line before shipping to the US?

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Anyone know what the current situation is in Australia? I'm hoping to get a damaged Pilot 74 ef reground into a cursive italic.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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I'd be interested to know this too!  I sent a Parker Sonnet to The Pensmith a couple of years back to repair a bent nib, and they did a pretty good job of it.  I don't think they do nib grinds, though, just repairs.

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