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Monthly Archives: April 2021

High Street Fountain Pens for a Fiver

30 Friday Apr 2021

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Cheap Fountain Pens, Cheap fountain pens uk, Cheap Pens, fountain pen, Helix Oxford, Helix Oxford Fountain Pen, Manuscript, Manuscript Classic Fountain Pen, Manuscript Fountain Pen, Monami, Monami Fountain Pen, Monami Olika, Monami Olika Fountain Pen, Paper Mate Ninja, Paper Mate Ninja Fountain Pen, pilot, Pilot V4, Pilot VPen, Pilot VPen V4, platinum, Platinum Preppy, Sainsbury Fountain Pen, Schnedier Xpect Vivaz, Schneider Fountain Pen, Schneider XPect Vivaz Fountain Pen, WH Smith, WH Smith Fountain Pen

Let’s be honest. Many of us when we started down the slippery slopes of the fountain pen world discovered a plethora of cheap Chinese pen on eBay and tried a few out. These mainly worked, but over time we realised they are just cheap copies of other makes and while some people do continue to use/buy them, others like myself stop. Thing is for disposable starter pens to give to friends and colleagues light they are hard to beat, so the question I set myself was could I buy pens just as good on the UK high street for £5 or less. The only stipulations being that the nibs had to have tipping (not just a butterfly fold) and the pens had to be refillable. As I know some of you may raise the question over the Pilot VPen V4, which in theory you can refill, I have included one of those as well as a bench mark, though you will have to pull the nib and feed once empty for it to really count.

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Replacing the Sac in my Father’s Parker Duofold Senior

23 Friday Apr 2021

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fountain pen, fountain pen repair, new sac, parker duofold, parker new duofold, Parker New Duofold Senior, sac replacement

Last September (2020) I took possession of my late father’s Parker ‘New Duofold’ Senior fountain pen, which I part covered at the end of this piece. A week back I went to use the pen to find the ink had evaporated, and on refreshing with a little water I then found it appeared to be leaking around the base of the sac. Or so I thought. The net result was some careful disassembly to discover the real problem, and then the repair. The work itself was simple enough so I will be covering it here as an example of why you should not necessarily be scared to do repairs such as this, and will also include the mistakes I made and the bullets I dodged.

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Pens in Daily Use April 2021

16 Friday Apr 2021

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daily carry, fountain pen, musings

I know I’m irregular when it comes to these updates as my pens rotate at the pace to match the shifting of tectonic plates, still even I did not realise it’s been eight months since I last posted about the fountain pens in front of me, yes August 2020 was the last time I listed my pens in use.

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Narwhal Schuylkill Porpita Navy

09 Friday Apr 2021

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fountain pen, Narwhal, Narwhal Schuylkill, Narwhal Schuylkill Porpita Navy

Narwhal appeared on the fountain pen scene around a year and a half back producing cheap and cheerful piston filler pens with in-house made nibs. Based in California, this small start up has quickly developed a fan base and after a year released a new model, the Schuylkill, with a prominent ink window which is still visible when the pen is capped. Two limited editions were included with this launch, with 365 ebonite pens appropriately called the 365, and 800 of this the Porpita Navy finish in a unique acrylic.

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April 2021 Fountain Pens For Sale Part 2

09 Friday Apr 2021

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for sale, fountain pen

I’m a bit stop/start when it comes to trimming the collection. I envy those who are able to just look at their pens, grab a number, advertise them and sell them (though in reality most still need to work their way through the various for sale sites/platforms). I actually composed this list a while back, but never acted until now and have split the total listing in to two as I’m posting these on the Fountain Pen UK Facebook group and do not want to abuse the freedom to occasionally advertise.

Note this is a UK only sale.

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April 2021 Fountain Pens For Sale Part 1

02 Friday Apr 2021

Posted by dapprman in Pens

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for sale, fountain pen

I’m a bit stop/start when it comes to trimming the collection. I envy those who are able to just look at their pens, grab a number, advertise them and sell them (though in reality most still need to work their way through the various for sale sites/platforms). I actually composed this list a while back, but never acted until now and have split the total listing in to two as I’m posting these on the Fountain Pen UK Facebook group and do not want to abuse the freedom to occasionally advertise.

Note this is a UK only sale.

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