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cheap italian fountain pens
I got a pack of a dozen Italian piston fillers recently on ebay. They
have cute, tapered plastic bodies, medium-narrow and semiflex gold-plated fine nibs. Very light-weight. Also an ink window. Nothing fancy, but they write as well as anything I've tried up to about $50 a pen, and they were only $37 for the lot including shipping. Look sort of like the old scripsert Sheaffers (of the cheapest class I mean). A few days ago another dozen went for about $30. Look under 'Italian fountain pens' if you're interested. I'm virgiliopoeta on ebay. Be nice and don't bid against me if I ever try to get another pack. : - ) The nibs are a little scratchy, but are easily smoothed by running the nib back and forth over the columns of the Lincoln memorial on the obverse of a Lincoln penny, with the columns vertical like a ladder, and holding the pen perpendicular to the 'ladder'. Hope this doesn't sound too stupid to the experts here, but it really works. Don't use any pressure though, just let the point slide over the metal a few hundred times. Also helps to loosen them up by flexing the nibs, pressing gently down onto paper. |
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Hey that works great. Not a big change, but a palpable reduction in
scratchiness. Now, the trouble is that it doesn't sound good. Not techincal. So what are we doing? Burnishing! Um, lets see . . . column burnishing. Sounds good. As in "No, all its needs is a bit of column burnishing." The nibs are a little scratchy, but are easily smoothed by running the nib back and forth over the columns of the Lincoln memorial on the obverse of a Lincoln penny, with the columns vertical like a ladder, and holding the pen perpendicular to the 'ladder'. Hope this doesn't sound too stupid to the experts here, but it really works. Don't use any pressure though, just let the point slide over the metal a few hundred times. Also helps to loosen them up by flexing the nibs, pressing gently down onto paper. |
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Call it Gibsonizing. Or Lincolnizing. Or memorializing. Or
scalarization. Or pseudo-stilbose (from the Greek). Or polissage (from the French - my favorite). Or polition (from the Latin). Or... De-scratcherization, using a copper de-scratcherer. "Yours for only 3 payments of $29.95, and if you call in the next FIFTEEN MINUTES, we'll include a free roll of 50 de-scratcherers!" delete what doesn't belong there Satrap I find delusions of grandeur to be absolutely true |
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