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One of the problems in restoring plunger filling systems such as Sheaffer’s Vacuum-Fil and Wahl-Eversharp’s One-Shot, until now, has been the availability of high-quality plunger head gasket material. The solution: The high-grade, high-durometer synthetic rubber sheet we offer is ideal…

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There’s this Marine Green VACUUM-FIL that I’ve had here entirely too long due to a basic error of stupidity, viz., the misplacing of the pen’s blind cap.  The blind cap found and the pen’s filler restored, the owner will soon be receiving a gorgeous writing instrument back into the fold.  That’s a good thing. But what’s interesting about the pen, other than its utter gorgeositudinousness, is that it was produced very early in Sheaffer’s 15-year love affair with the plunger filler. Things hadn’t yet been standardized. Oh, goodie.

The pen is oversize. This means that the plunger gasket’s outer diameter is big, and so is the backing washer that keeps the gasket from flipping backward too far on the downstroke. That’s only to be expected. But the nut is also bigger than the usual size, and its shelf, the shelf that locates the gasket on center, is bigger, too. Which means that the lovely set of standard-size punches that Francis Goossens made for me doesn’t have a punch the right size for the gasket’s center hole. So I had to turn a punch on the lathe…

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I thought I was being clever with this shot…

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Got an email from Field Notes this afternoon that was advertising some of the places that Field Notes show up, so I decided to take a couple of minutes to surf up their site to see if there was anything new out there for consumption.
No new products yet…
But, they did give me this…

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I’ve always enjoyed hearing/reading someone else’s take on a topic that I’ve covered, and from time to time I’ll pick on someone for their opinions. This time, it was Patrick Rhone, a longtime friend, fellow blogger, and mentor of mine. Patrick was kind enough to share his thoughts on individual picks at each price point…

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