To assist you in remaining current, the five most recently added or edited articles are listed right here at the top of the page. The offerings in this site focus on watermans, wahl eversharp, mabie todd, and other vintage fountain pens with semiflex, flexible, super flex, wet noodle, as well as other rare and exotic nibs. While many a pen enthusiast can change the sac in a fountain pen, setting up a vintage pen and nib for high performance flexible writing must be done by someone who. Pendemonium is your source for fountain pens and writing collectibles. And when the thing shared is pen information, it is beyond nice. We offer restoration services on a variety of vintage pens. A gorgeous, informative book which ive spent too much time poring over.
Fountain pens, book authors, repair manuals, audiobooks. We often can provide specialty services like celluloid crack repairs. Aug 01, 2009 this is a beautifully illustrated book full of colour pictures of all brands and vintages of fountain pen. My main interest is in pens that are generally regarded as difficult to restore, and pens that require the manufacture of reproduction parts. This is a wonderful book, describing the pens amazing design, its evolution and marketing, and more. Pen repair this book originally involved my father, arthur twydle, who provided a unique distillation of 60 years of repairing and teaching how to repair fountain pens. Its for collectors and people just looking to sell the nice pen they no longer want rattling.
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These are items that we use every day in a professional capacity, including items that we produce ourselves. But the repair and restoration work that can be done on a 14k or greater gold nib unit can often be astounding. Fountain pen hospital has been the source for fine writing instruments for over 65 years. I offer a variety of restoration services for writing instruments, with a focus on the reversal of dents in parker 51 fountain pen caps. This includes complete disassembly, cleaning, replacement of rubber components within the filling system, and a light polishing of the pen s exterior to remove tarnish on metal components and reduce the appearance of light surface wear while bringing out the natural shine of the fountain pen. Italic calligraphy with osmiroid vintage fountain pen by tolga girgin calligraphy handwriting. Feb 16, 2003 known as da book among fountain pen collectors, fountain pens. This search has led me into everything fountain pen related, accumulating a few more pens along the way, mostly vintage models. Pen repairs repair fountain pens pen shop store repairs. We offer a large selection of fountain pen restoration supplies. There is no pleasure in a fountain pen that will not write or write properly.
The first time an acquired vintage pen did not write i felt quite helpless to. Pen repair book new 4th edition vintage fountain pen sacs. Mike carters fountain pen recylcer is your full service writing instrument sales and repair store. We specialize in fountain pen repairs, nib repairs, nib adjustments and tuning. They have almost all sizes and they make the sacs here in the usa on original. If youve got some esties or skylines, id probably restore those as well. Written by uk pen repair experts the book includes british pens, among them.
But the repair and restoration work that can be done on a 14k or greater gold nib unit can often. Vintage calligraphy and serif font typeface alphabet chart alphabet a, hand. We came across downloadable catalogues and service manuals for some of the biggest names in the pen business. It discusses repair and restoration of most pen filling systems and has many hints for cosmetic work to improve pen appearance. We offer a dedicated fountain pen repair service for fountain pens crafted by the brands we stock at the pen shop. Click to share on facebook opens in new window click to share on twitter opens in new window. When i first ran into parker 45s i wasnt real excited about them. Profusely illustrated with superb photos by mark shepherd, vintage ads and other ephemera, and more. How to repair the piston in a tibaldi modello 60 updated specification for nylon.
Sadly, he died just before the writing began, but his spirit and teaching are present on every page, and many of the photos are of arthur demonstrating in his workshop. Retipping confronted with a damaged or mangled nib unit, many pen owners may throw their favorite writing instrument in a drawer and think it beyond repairand that is how many vintage fountain pens have come to light after years of being lost and forgotten. Our trading post offers a place to post vintage, new or used pens, pencils and writing ephemera including parts. Basic fountain pen restoration, part i diy planner.
For many years, the late frank dubiels book was the only modern manual available, but it has now been decisively surpassed by jim marshall and laurence oldfields pen repair available in the usa from pendemonium, or directly from the authors in. A practical guide for repairing collectable pens and pencils, with additional information on pen anatomy and filling systems. Use the information in these pages to learn more about fountain pens. These are the goldfilled models of the pen from the early 1950s. Ive used the eversharp manual for learning how those skylines fit together. I mainly restore and repair parkers, including parker 51 aerometrics, parker 51 vacumatics, and regular parker vacumatics. Eldon braun does superb repair work on most vintage pens. Pen repair book new 4th edition vintage fountain pen. Fountain pen repair and restoration of vintage and. Our pens are meticulously restored and great care is taken to ensure their quality. The technical pen, by gary simmons not every pen collector is interested in stylographic pens, but i am. Located just 15 minutes from downtown minneapolis, minnesota in the suburb of crystal.
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Confronted with a damaged or mangled nib unit, many pen owners may throw their favorite writing instrument in a drawer and think it beyond repair and that is how many vintage fountain pens have come to light after years of being lost and forgotten. Vintage fountain pen restoration and repair services. Your full service vintage and new fountain pen, ball point pen, and pencil sales and repair store. The turnaround is quick and his work is very reliable. We were browsing through our favourite host of online information, the internet archive and came across the fruits of some generous souls labour. Seven parker fountain pen repair manuals, from 1920about 1960.
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