The August Nib Noise has been mailed.

Nib Noise is a free monthly e-newsletter that Don Fluckinger and I
publish. This month's issue contains a reference article on chased
hard rubber, a new short story, and an essay about creating a
signature to go with your favorite signature pen. Also in this
month's issue is the following announcement about the upcoming
Washington, D.C., SuperShow:

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*** Show Tunes *** by Richard Binder
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It's August. That means it's time for the big event of the summer!
It's
the Washington, D.C., SuperShow, the world's largest pen show, and
it's
only a stone's throw from America's capital in Tysons Corners,
Virginia.
I'll be spending the weekend of the 7th through the 10th regrinding
and
adjusting nibs for walk-up clients. The show runs all weekend, and on
Saturday and Sunday it'll be open to the general public for a piddling
$6.00 entrance fee. Come on out to the Sheraton Premiere and spend
some
time with hundreds of your pen- collecting colleagues and thousands of
great new and vintage pens. Check out the show's Web site:

http://www.pencentral.com/penshow/

As always, I'll bring along a few pens and my remaining stock of Jimmy
Tom's pen-friendly pads to sell, as well as a supply of my preground
Pelikan M200 italics, obliques, stubs, and more. I'm still featuring
my
unique ItaliFine, which writes as a 0.9-mm cursive italic when you
hold
the pen normally and switches to a fine when you turn the pen upside
down. I'll also have a small assortment of miscellaneous styles that
aren't listed on my Web site, including one or two very flexible M250
nibs in 14K.

I've ordered a new print run of my fountain pen anatomy posters, and
I'll have them available at the show. Here's what one of my clients
said
about these posters:

I had seen some of these on your website, but I did not realize
how awesome they are printed out on glossy paper. They are just
perfect! I will frame your posters to go next to my wooden
stained deskwall unit.

Set 1 features a typical lever filler and the Parker Vacumatic, and
Set
2 shows Sheaffer's Snorkel and the Parker "51" (aerometric version).
These posters are 8-1/2"x11", commercially printed on high-gloss heavy
Kromekote paper, and they're great for framing. Check them out on my
Web site:

http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ac...fp=posters.htm

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bounces.

Regards,
=Richard
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