I got this pen today

[Bo Bo Olson]

1 hour ago, Baka1969 said:

Do you have lovely handwriting

Pendelton Brown's writing the man who made my OB into a CI ..B

After years of working at it my Chicken Scratch has become Rooster scratch.

[Stompie]

19 hours ago, USG said:

 

 

 

You have a nice handwriting... 👍🙂  How do you feel about the pen?  Is that an EF nib?

It is my second 9019 and I am very happy with them. 

 

Yes, EF nib. I am busy grinding the shoulders so it will flex just a little more but for a mere £9 including free postage you can't really go wrong eh!

[USG]

6 hours ago, Stompie said:

It is my second 9019 and I am very happy with them. 

 

Yes, EF nib. I am busy grinding the shoulders so it will flex just a little more but for a mere £9 including free postage you can't really go wrong eh!

 

I'm interested in how you're grinding it for more flex.  Could you elaborate?

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Half moon grind outs in the nib shoulder is how Pilot makes it's soft-flex nib. One can look up Ahab Mod, for the same.

Can use a Dremel or a round Swiss file.

(some 'improvement' to the Com's software, don't show anything for Ahab Mod, which once was a very popular theme here.)

 

by By Pterodactylus..

((use this name to find it)) He did that mod to my Ahab turning it from a very hard semi-flex to a joyful superflex; first stage Easy Full Flex.

Noodler´s Ahab - Ease My Flex Mod

That fat line didn't do the trick.

[Stompie]

15 hours ago, USG said:

 

I'm interested in how you're grinding it for more flex.  Could you elaborate?

 

As the nib comes back from the tip I am thinning it down to be almost level with the feed.

 

The mods that Bo Bo is talking about is something similar to what  I did to an Ahab many years ago and mine turned out looking like what is now Conklins Duroflex nib. I was happy with that mod but I am not going that drastic on the Jinhao, I just want a little more flex or spring to the nib than what it already offers.

[Penguincollector]

  My husband and I buy our own Xmas gifts with each other’s blessing. Hobbies can be complicated, and it’s easier this way. Today, I bought a 1928 Parker Jade Lady Duofold F, a black Sheaffer Slim Targa M,  and a 1970s Pilot Lizard leather F.  I am picking up another pen tomorrow, but I will wait until it’s in hand to wax poetic about it.

[USG]

4 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  My husband and I buy our own Xmas gifts with each other’s blessing. Hobbies can be complicated, and it’s easier this way. Today, I bought a 1928 Parker Jade Lady Duofold F, a black Sheaffer Slim Targa M,  and a 1970s Pilot Lizard leather F.  I am picking up another pen tomorrow, but I will wait until it’s in hand to wax poetic about it.

 

Wax on Wax off 🤪

[Penguincollector]

2 minutes ago, USG said:

 

Wax on Wax off 🤪

I did the hand motions while reading that.

[inkstainedruth]

7 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  My husband and I buy our own Xmas gifts with each other’s blessing. Hobbies can be complicated, and it’s easier this way. Today, I bought a 1928 Parker Jade Lady Duofold F, a black Sheaffer Slim Targa M,  and a 1970s Pilot Lizard leather F.  I am picking up another pen tomorrow, but I will wait until it’s in hand to wax poetic about it.

Well, my husband has flat out told me that he isn't going to ever buy me any pens, because he's afraid of getting the "wrong" pen for me. So I buy my own, but do discuss the purchase with him first as a courtesy.  And I just inked up a pen for him to try some of the Namiki Blue I bought recently, so I could take advantage the Black Friday sale at Goulet Pens, since they had full bottles on sale (I got him two, so that should last him a while; just like I got him two bottles of Namiki Black recently, when Pen Chalet had it on sale; unfortunately, I could only get samples of the Blue, since they were OOS of full bottles of it).  And just ordered HIS Christmas present (a couple of t-shirts in a design he likes, in different colors; it's slightly different from one I got him a few years ago, but the store where I got it couldn't get that design anymore, so I had to look online.  Found a few vendors, but ended up going with the one that actually had them in his size in colors he'll tolerate wearing (navy and what they called "military green").  And of course I had already gotten the samples of Namiki Blue in the mail; I ordered 3 by accident -- I had planned to only get 2 so I could have one to try the ink as well, but I screwed up on the order and didn't notice till too late (there was a bit of miscommunication about how many of other things I'd ordered, including several packs of empty sample vials -- and I was worried that when I got the invoice it didn't actually say that everything was in the order -- just stuff like "sample vials -- check"...).  But fortunately, everything arrived in one package and in one piece....   

Of course, until he finds the blue Safari he wanted me to order last spring when I was getting the Lilac al-Star, he's borrowing a Snorkel with what I THINK is an EF nib....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Well, my husband has flat out told me that he isn't going to ever buy me any pens, because he's afraid of getting the "wrong" pen for me. So I buy my own, but do discuss the purchase with him first as a courtesy.

    This is almost exactly what my husband said. I get it, he’s into his own thing and gear is expensive once you get into the weeds with any hobby. We discuss anything that is uncommonly expensive, but otherwise trust the other knows what they want.

[Anne-Sophie]

 

I once read, in an organizing book, a long paragraph from the author, on how she made her husband buy her the perfect gift, by sending him multiple reminders about the whole process, including wrapping and card writing.

 

Why would an adult do that? Buy your own stuff!

 

 

[Penguincollector]

34 minutes ago, Anne-Sophie said:

 

I once read, in an organizing book, a long paragraph from the author, on how she made her husband buy her the perfect gift, by sending him multiple reminders about the whole process, including wrapping and card writing.

 

Why would an adult do that? Buy your own stuff!

 

 

 That woman sounds exhausting.

[Anne-Sophie]

On 11/21/2023 at 2:27 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

 I like my nimble 12-18g pens....

I just weighed one my heavy pens, 44g for a Lamy Persona. when posted it does lay in the pit of my thumb.

Pendelton Brown took a no line variation 18 K nail OB into a B cursive italic.

His writing, his photo's.

Taken form somewhere....Black Titanium Oxide, don't put in the sand box with other pens. The clip presses out  for a real tight grab on your shirt.

Mine is from 1990..........the same designer also designed the new Lamy Imporium.

 

Beautiful pen!

[Anne-Sophie]

On 11/18/2023 at 4:18 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

I am glad I started out as a bottom filler chasing cheap old pens....in I ended up with my fair share of pretty ones.

Senator 60-70s

 

Pound of coffee the pen and the ink.

Until I got the ink, I didn't know Uhu (a glue company made fountain pens and inks) The new gasket and a rebuild cost more than the pen was wroth' but It is mine, and I  am not going to worry about a future loss of money...or I'd never open up a beer bottle.

Pretty enough... mid '50's.

How cheap was cheap back then....the two doubles, the green stripped and cracked Ice and the blue and red clipper nibbed pens, were under €25. '60's semi-flex tear drop not a stub.

Is not a Wearever just came in that box...

Clipper nib....three tailed airplane.  One of the prettiest planes ever made. I worked on them for three years.

The same in blue...have two, one I put on my very best Rupp made maxi-semi-flex nib, the nib I discovered the maxi-semi-flex rating with. Two have that clipper nib....

Have over 35 semi-flex and 16-18 maxie's.

 

I've three of four of the 790's (400 size)...my first one cost €15...then €19....now still cheap at €60. Well made, well balanced, stubbed semi-flex. torpedo/cigar shape was very popular back then, 120/140, MB 146/9 Swan Torpedo.

silver plated diplomat...not golden, bad light.

 

Full tortoise Boehler 54 Gold....steel nibs, in that was made after Hitler sold all the gold 1938. Probably under or near €20.

 

Austrian...mid '50s'...semi-flex, tear drop tipping.  NOS both. A nice poster who is no longer  posting told me about them.

Tiny cracked ice...gold semi-flex.

 

You should know the generation before me....ie more than 15 years ago....got real cheap pens.

And the generation after you will say the same.

 

I didn't know, until you mentioned it a few years ago, that UHU made anything else than glue.

 

You have an eye for beauty, all of those pens are mesmerizing, and I am not a vintage collector, but, the blue and silver ones have caught my eyes.

 

Is the plane a Clipper too?

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

12 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 That woman sounds exhausting.

That woman sounds as if she's gonna end up getting hauled into divorce court....

I have managed to convince my husband that I don't want him buying me board games....  I'll take that for the "win"....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

13 hours ago, Anne-Sophie said:

Is the plane a Clipper too?

Yes, one of the names of the Super Constellation, Super-Conie, was the Clipper.

There were a few different  'Clippers' around at the time, Pan Am's deluxe flying boat was called a Clipper also.

 

The Connie and Super Connie were too expensive to make. Howard Hughes, had different bulkhead bracing sizes for the streamlining. Which is why it's so beautiful.

Douglas just used one bulkhead size for it's cheaper  DC-4.

 

The Super Connie, was the very first AF-1, back when IKE was president.

First class overnight flight.

 

Wing tip tanks gave the plane another couple hours flight time. This is a C model.

Whistling in the dark, when a plane that is rated for 12 hours flight time is up 13. Was up for one of them and debriefed two that were into an hour over due.

D or an H model can't tell which form there. The first AWACS planes. Can't see the radom under.

Ugly AF gray. Pretty Navy plane escorted by an F-4, a plane I tested on but never worked on.

........................

When a pilot came in white faced after a 12 hour flight; he had a little problem of walking out to glue the wing back on or putting a motor in his pocket....but if he came in fed faced, his auto-pilot didn't work.

I was the auto-pilot repairman..........

Under the radio, I had a 9" wide, foot high, 18 inch long, forty pound computer, with six vacuum tubes and six dials to twist as the book said. The PB-10 autopilot was also vacuum tube.

 

A micro switch for raising or lowering the nose wheel was..8"x4x2'....at the time I thought that was a tad big for micro, but that was new back in the day before.

I remember that because for that landing, the flight engineer had to climb down in the nose wheel well or next to it,  and hand crank the nose wheel down. 

The first of the 5 flights where I was met by racing fire engines and ambulances. One can become a bit blasé, five or six times in a row.

.............

Back in the day of the draft, 9-11 would never have happened in all the men would have at least had basic training behind them. We would have laughed at carpet cutters.

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

That woman sounds as if she's gonna end up getting hauled into divorce court....

I have managed to convince my husband that I don't want him buying me board games....  I'll take that for the "win"....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 😂 for real. 

[Penguincollector]

   So this is a combination of yesterday and today, but I just got a chance to photograph them: a free Pelikan, a free Waterman Ideal desk pen, Pilot Silvern Dragon B, Sheaffer (seller said it was a slim Targa, but It is identical to my black Fashion, I bought it for the converter, and I will eventually look to see if a slim Targa inlaid section fits),  Pilot Lizard F with pouch, and a jade Parker Duofold Lady ring top.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Nice haul.

 

[Penguincollector]

45 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Nice haul.

 

 
 Thank you!