Sailor Kenshin
March 20th, 2014, 10:25 AM
I bought an old Generation at the LIPS. It's fairly well-used, with scratches on the barrel, but that just makes me more likely to grab it and write with it. Because I am somewhat mental about new, pristine-looking pens that cost more than $30.
It is also fairly intact, and wrote with just a water-dip (old dried cart in there), yet the tines are visibly mis-aligned. I flushed it yesterday and re-filled with Diamine Beau Blue, and though it still writes, it skips a bit.
I've aligned tines before, but this is a gold nib, and a MB, and that makes me chicken.
Any advice? I don't want to send it to MB because, as I said, crazy as it sounds, the scratches just make me more likely to use it.
It is also fairly intact, and wrote with just a water-dip (old dried cart in there), yet the tines are visibly mis-aligned. I flushed it yesterday and re-filled with Diamine Beau Blue, and though it still writes, it skips a bit.
I've aligned tines before, but this is a gold nib, and a MB, and that makes me chicken.
Any advice? I don't want to send it to MB because, as I said, crazy as it sounds, the scratches just make me more likely to use it.