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…I get a really nice pen that needs restoration, and take it apart carefully — and when I go for the final disassembly step, removing the lever so that I can deal with the barrel bulge caused by the snap ring that holds the lever in, SNAP! the barrel turns into two half barrels, broken through right at the smap-ring groove.

Yeah, that happened this week. Fortunately, the pen was mine, not a client’s. And fortunately, I have the technology to deal with the problem. Within minutes of having broken it, I had the barrel fused. After the solvent had flashed off (several days after the “incident”), I finished the joint back down to the proper surface. If you look for the break, you can see where it was by observing slight discontinuities in the color; but you can’t see it on the surface…

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For 2009, Bexley has created a modern reinterpretation of the great Oversize Wahl-Eversharp Equi-Poised. This isn’t recycled material that came out of the back room, it’s a brand new hard rubber, and the pen handles like a dream…

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With the recent strengthening of the U.S. dollar, we’re able to offer the CP8 at a sigificant reduction in price. And with each CP8 ordered during January, Classic Pens is including a free limited-edition, serially numbered copy of Fountain Pens : United States of America and United Kingdom, by Andreas Lambrou…

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Hi folks!  Look who’s finally come up for air!!!  Yes, believe it or not, I’m still alive and kicking.  It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted, and there’s a pretty good reason why.  Initially, I wasn’t planning to tell it (because quite frankly, I wasn’t exactly sure when, or how, it would end), but …

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Yesterday and today have been fun in a big way. In two days, two fascinating pens have hit the bench.  First, yesterday was the day I got to work on another of those wicked cool pens I’ve never seen before. I actually started this one a few days ago, but I ran into something that required the owner’s agreement before I could proceed; and I finally got to finish it yesterday.

Where, oh where is the Wahlnut when you need him?

Wahl-Eversharp began making plunger fillers in about 1935. This is well known. It’s also well known that the Doric was the only Wahl-Eversharp plunger filler, right? Wrong. The pen I show here is a plunger filler, but it’s not faceted, and it has a triple cap band and no Gold Seal. And it has an undersize nib. Doric? Unh-uh, most emphatically not. Which makes it a wicked cool pen…

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