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Apparently I was not quick enough get any of the Pelikan M800 demonstrator fountain pens when they were first released, since they sold out in, like, a millisecond. Luckily, life is about second chances, and I was contacted a couple of months ago to see whether I had any interest in ordering any if Pelikan could be convinced to make another limited production run, I immediately said, “Hell Yeah!” The folks at Chartpak, Pelikan’s US distributor must possess extraordinary persuasive abilities because they succeeded and a shipment of the brand-spanking new clear-as-ice Pelikan M800 Demonstrators arrived the other day.

Visit the Pear Tree Pen Company at http://www.peartreepens.com/Pelikan-M800-Fountain-Pen-Clear-Demonstrator-p/964114.htm to order your very own at what I believe to be the lowest price going…
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Hi Pen Fans.

First off, I’m heading to Philly on Thursday for the pen show.

I’ll be at the show all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I hope to meet some of you live.

Also…at the show, I will have some new things with me…

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There are some things you just can’t do to a pen. One of them is to make a good flexie out of an 18K nib. Oh, you can tweak things and make the nib a little softer, but 18K nibs just don’t make good flexies. The usual outcome is a nib that bends very easily — once — or a nib that resists bending until it can’t fight back any longer, at which point it fails catastrophically.

So when the owner of the gorgeous handpainted Stipula LE above asked me to flex its nib I was understandably dubious. Then the ol’ eyeballs lit on the nib and saw the magical 585 designation. 14K. Oh-h-h yeah! Flexible City, here we come…

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You can see better than ever now that we’re stocking the superb 20X quadruplet loupe from BelOMO. It’s a perfect partner for the 10X triplet, and anyone who works on nibs can’t afford to be without one of these babies — especially since (unlike the ones with the famous name) they don’t cost a penny more than the 10X type.

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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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