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    Default Re: The wonderful world of old dip pens and caligraphy

    Hi Cryptos. While everyone else is asleep we can talk on the same time zone. Yes I had a bit of trouble working out the various types of handwriting. It is a bit confusing. There is traditional copperplate and there is a modern version sometimes called roundhand and I think it is also referred to as spencerian or american copperplate. Anyway it is the one Erica's teaches and I really like the style. I have a book by Gordon Turner and I was going to get that Eleanor Winter's book as it gets mentioned many times. Here is an example of my lessons this morning.

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    “When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

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    Wow, Laurie, you are miles ahead of me!

    I just used one of the resources from Flourish to print out a some guide sheets (at 52 degrees of angle). Will have a go with that when I get a moment - not tonight though as I am being dragged into a sports hall by some enthusiastic students who mistakenly believe that I can play a sport! Little do they know, hehe.

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    Here is the nib holder which I turn it from a brush rod. I used the electric drill as the lathe. Cut the shape with the files, saw, sharp knife and some sandpaper. Dye it with Diamine Schubert and finished with six layers of lacquer. After the lacquer hardened and polish into high gloss.
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