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    Default Re: Where to start?

    CD: that's a nice blue-jay, but now you MUST get a green...and a red. A simple jeweler's cloth will clean off most of the 65 years of grime a pen has collected. I've been tempted to get a buffer attachment for my drill...just from remembering how we used the shop-class buffer to make old pennies gleam.

    Incidentally, given a blue full J, you'll be wanting a blue slender J and small J.

    Same thing with the green and the red. Nobody can stop with just one.

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    And we have not mentioned the desk pens and the dipless and ....

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    Default Re: Where to start?

    Quote Originally Posted by dgator View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by DanDeM View Post
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    I purchased 2 Esterbrook J's from the Andersons. I would certainly make this your first stop. Brian and Lisa are great people! (No affiliation, just a happy customer.)
    Another +1 here on the Andersons. I have not bought any pens from them, but that's the first place I would go for sacs and j-bars for doing your own Estie repairs (again, no affiliation other than as a happy customer).
    IMO Brian is the go-to guy for all things Esterbrook.
    Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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    @ CD,
    The Esterbrook world is LARGE. Much much larger than I thought when I got started with Esties.
    I would sit down and think about how you want to start collecting Esties.
    Maybe the J series (Js, or LJs, or SJs), or ALL the pens of one color (ie red; dollar, transitional, J, LJ, SJ, M2, etc), then maybe the transitionals, or the M2, or ...
    What I am saying is a plan will help to focus your collecting, so you can "finish" a set rather than have a scattered collection (which isn't bad either).

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    Quote Originally Posted by countrydirt View Post
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    I love it! 2668 nib is capable of italic style lines depending upon how I hold the pen
    What you have observed is an artifact of the way these untipped nibs wear. If you look closely at the tip you will see that it has worn a foot. Sadly your nib is on the way out, and when you replace it with an unused one, you will no longer get this italic effect. The 9668 has tipping and does not wear this way. I actually prefer the 2668 over the 9668 because it is slightly longer.

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