4 replies to this topic

[matt]

...for someone who sands down the Parker 51 barrel/blindcap joint this severely?

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/201026605986

 

I was thinking he ought to be slapped with a running belt sander or suffer an eternity of frequent jabs with an XF nib.  But Ernesto just said he ought to be shot!

[david i]

Suspect I need to raise prices on the true gems I have in the pipeline...

 

regards

 

-d

[RCliff]

I have a buckskin that is similarly "tapered" at the blind cap/barrel joint, and no I have not sanded it down myself. Wonder what the probablities of two of these out there.

[FarmBoy]

I have a buckskin that is similarly "tapered" at the blind cap/barrel joint, and no I have not sanded it down myself. Wonder what the probablities of two of these out there.

I unfortunately see more and more that have been 'recently restored' using this technique. Even more common are 'professionally removed' barrel engravings.

I prefer unrestored pens.

Todd

[wastelanded]

I have no problem with engravings, viz. my signature: they give a pen some humanity.

 

I do have a problem with pens defaced like this one has been.