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Darkbulb
May 5th, 2016, 06:34 PM
Some time ago I bought this Sheaffer NoNonsense/Viewpoint pen;
http://i63.tinypic.com/mhzfo9.jpg

It unfortunately didn't come with any cartridges or a converter so I wasn't able to try it out right away.

Fast-forward to this week, and about $8 later (which was about the cost of the pen as well...), this converter (86700) arrived;
http://i66.tinypic.com/33wo0aw.jpg

It popped straight in...
http://i64.tinypic.com/9aphti.jpg

..filling it with ink from a bottle was a breeze and a few seconds later it was ready to go:
http://i67.tinypic.com/2a9cqz5.jpg

Scribbed down some stuff on today's date in my Hobo and really, really liked how the pen wrote!
http://i67.tinypic.com/anfwnp.jpg

mrcharlie
May 5th, 2016, 10:44 PM
Prior to these pictures I'd never seen a Viewpoint with a non-italic nib. At least I think that is a regular F nib, not an italic F nib, isn't it? If so, I didn't know they made them like this.

Darkbulb
May 5th, 2016, 10:51 PM
Prior to these pictures I'd never seen a Viewpoint with a non-italic nib. At least I think that is a regular F nib, not an italic F nib, isn't it? If so, I didn't know they made them like this.

Yup non-italic. I really like it :)

Jon Szanto
May 5th, 2016, 11:13 PM
I tend to think of the Sheaffer NoNonsense pens as the "Pilot Metropolitan" of it's day. Had there been people asking around about a first fountain pen to get back then, that's what I would have suggested. But it was only me, and a few other music students who were also doing music copying, that were using fountain pens.

I still have two from when I was an undergrad in the 70's.

Darkbulb
May 5th, 2016, 11:30 PM
I tend to think of the Sheaffer NoNonsense pens as the "Pilot Metropolitan" of it's day. Had there been people asking around about a first fountain pen to get back then, that's what I would have suggested. But it was only me, and a few other music students who were also doing music copying, that were using fountain pens.

I still have two from when I was an undergrad in the 70's.


Yeah it's a sweet pen. I was packing my bag tonight for tomorrow and the NN got immediately put in it..edging out more expensive and 'better' pens.

Lady Onogaro
May 6th, 2016, 09:27 AM
Darkbulb--Did you see my thread on the Sheaffer No Nonsense pen with the bird? It looks like these came lots of varieties. I do like your demonstrator!

katherine
May 6th, 2016, 10:58 AM
I think the translucent No Nonsenses are pretty cool looking. I have one with a Broad Italic... It's way too wide for me to write with though. :/

Sailor Kenshin
May 6th, 2016, 05:24 PM
I think the translucent No Nonsenses are pretty cool looking. I have one with a Broad Italic... It's way too wide for me to write with though. :/


A Pikachu-yellow NN was among my first fountain pens, back in the day when you could walk into any art supply store and buy one or two.

I went through a NN phase. With older models the sections are swappable.

katherine
May 6th, 2016, 05:48 PM
Now I want a pikachu-yellow one to draw little pink cheek-circles on. >___>

Sailor Kenshin
May 6th, 2016, 06:18 PM
Nail polish might work. ;)

There was a pretty good thread about NN colors a while back.

Here... (http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/37003-nononsense-color-range/)

Pen Hero has a decent article about them, too.

Pikapi? (http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferNoNonsense.htm)

Lady Onogaro
May 6th, 2016, 08:02 PM
I think the translucent No Nonsenses are pretty cool looking. I have one with a Broad Italic... It's way too wide for me to write with though. :/

You can swap out the nib unit. The Broad Italics usually came with the other two nib units so that you could swap them (they were part of a calligraphy set). Sometimes you can buy the nib unit. The modern ones work on the old barrels just fine, I have found out. You can buy them at Barnes and Noble in the set or at Michael's.