new flex gold alloy

I have seen your pics. Are those
stamped out from gold sheets or strips? Some indication of cost would be
nice.

Those are original 51 and 61 nibs...except for the front third of each nib
which has considerably more gold than standard nibs. They are tipped with in
excess of 1mm deep pure ruthenium (should last 80+ years based on how long
sheaffer 1950s ruthenium has been wearing, longer than platinum sister alloys).
The new gold alloy is formed in molten gold upon the original nib - in
combination with the original nib alloy (hence the numerous adjustments to
formulas). Each one of those nibs has the original nib imprints at the base of
each nib. As to cost? That depends upon what you want (the list of
possibilities is long)...I will say they average 1/9th custom nib costs in
Japan (EXCLUDING a factory nib that is only ground a certain way...this
involves custom nib structure, not just a point shape adjustment off an
assembly line nib). Remove "inky" from the e-mail address and you'll get me.

Next group I'll put up will be of the needle fine flex nibs (I wish Rob
Morrison could write the test lines with them though...my tests show the flex
in action, but are far from artistic!!).

"Scaupaug1" wrote in message
...
I have seen your pics. Are those
stamped out from gold sheets or strips? Some indication of cost would be
nice.

Those are original 51 and 61 nibs...except for the front third of each nib
which has considerably more gold than standard nibs. They are tipped with
in
excess of 1mm deep pure ruthenium (should last 80+ years based on how long
sheaffer 1950s ruthenium has been wearing, longer than platinum sister
alloys).
The new gold alloy is formed in molten gold upon the original nib - in
combination with the original nib alloy (hence the numerous adjustments to
formulas). Each one of those nibs has the original nib imprints at the
base of
each nib. As to cost? That depends upon what you want (the list of
possibilities is long)...I will say they average 1/9th custom nib costs in
Japan (EXCLUDING a factory nib that is only ground a certain way...this
involves custom nib structure, not just a point shape adjustment off an
assembly line nib). Remove "inky" from the e-mail address and you'll get
me.

Next group I'll put up will be of the needle fine flex nibs (I wish Rob
Morrison could write the test lines with them though...my tests show the
flex
in action, but are far from artistic!!).


Thanks Nathan,

We'll sure to keep you in mind.

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Best regards,
T-H Lim
(aka Free Citizen)
Practical Italic Handwriting
http://members.boardhost.com/jp29/