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Hey Pen Fans!

The Edison Pen Company is now offering in-house nib customizations.

This service is not only for Edison Pens, but also for any other brand of pen that you own, with a few possible exceptions…

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His Nibs.com update — Promised restocking
November 19th, 2008

As mentioned in the last newsletter, I was expecting orders from China, Pakistan and India. China arrived first.

So, in no particular order, we present our Chinese redux!

On the blog….Mickey’s 80. Did you get him a card…

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Monday’s entry drew an amusing comment: “Aren’t you concerned about the effect all of this fountain pen pornography might have on young people?” Gee, and here I thought…

Oh, okay, I’ll admit it, I’m pushing pen porn. So here’s some more.

Back in July, I did some work on a Chris Thompson Red Giant replica. A few of the parts were original Parker, but most were Chris’ additions to make a working pen. It was nonetheless an impressive bit of penflesh. Here, so you won’t have to go back and look for it, is the centerfold I published in July…

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There are more pens to do before I call it a day, but I’m really chuffed over the three pens i just played with. Here they are next to their writing samples, all ready to go home.

These pens are, from left to right, a Fairchild retractable dip pen from about the time of the Franco-Prussian War; a Mabie, Todd & Bard “Swan Pen” from 10 or 15 years later; and a Mabie, Todd & Co. Swan from perhaps a bit later yet. All are lovely examples of the penmaking arts of a century and a quarter past. And they all write remarkably nicely, too. The Fairchild’s needle-pointed flexible nib was bent sharply to the left about a millimeter from the tip; the first Swan’s feed had warped away form the underside of the wonderful stub nib, and the second Swan’s feed had warped away from top side of that pen’s bent and cracked nib. All are well and happy now, except that I didn’t weld the cracks in the second Swan’s nib…

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Goooooooood Morning, just a few days for Madrid Pen Show, we are excited counting the hours for the Show. Everything is ready, and I need to say that this year we have had more dealers requesting for table that we can handle.

We are having 38 dealers in the room, 4 from USA, 4 from UK, 3 from France, 1 from Belgium, 1 from the Netherlands, 1 from Italy, 1 from Israel, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Argentina and the rest are from several parts of Spain…

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