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A fellow FPN member I correspond with sent me several gold plated nibs made by the Arnold pen company. On examination I thought these nibs were designed for fountain pens, When I tried one in a dip pen I found it difficult to control the ink flow. I have several old feeds I had salvaged, and rather than trying one of the Arnold nibs in a fountain pen, I pulled out the ferrule from one of my dip pens.

 

Putting the nib and feed together making sure both were accurately aligned then wrapping plumbers tape around them until I achieved a snug fit pushing them into the pen holder.

 

I dipped the pen in Diamine Blue/Black ink and started writing. I ended up with around 100 words on just one dip.

 

However this is not an original invention, because as most member know Esterbrook was making the Dipless pen.

 

Having read a recent topic about inserting dip pen nibs in fountain pens. Then surely the same can be achieved adding a feed to a dip pen nib and inserting it to a pen holder. This is what I have done using a Roeder and a Belgian made nib.

 

So far I've been successful in writing about 80 words with one dip. One of the advantages is the ease of cleaning after use, particularly if one wants to change color, just a quick rinse with water will suffice. Unlike a fountain pen which seems to need endless flushing.

 

The one in the middle has a Sheaffer desk pen nib i salvaged

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If you don't have a spare feed that fits, you can make a feed out of beeswax.

There was a post on it, that looked good.

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If you don't have a spare feed that fits, you can make a feed out of beeswax.

There was a post on it, that looked good.

Thank you for providing that tip, I will give it a try out.

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The Pickwick, the Owl and the Waverley pen

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According to a current thread on Pen History, the idea of attaching a reservoir of some sort to a dip pen dates to at least the 1830s, when it was referred to as a "fountain pen".

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According to a current thread on Pen History, the idea of attaching a reservoir of some sort to a dip pen dates to at least the 1830s, when it was referred to as a "fountain pen".

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I also found the thread Bo Bo Olson mentions dated 2011.

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