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Seattleite
If you think of it as a journey it can be a pleasant one, in both realms. Pens do offer some room to explore Polygamy that may-well prove awkward for most matrimonial situations. Always wondered how some guy (isn't always the guy) would bring the subject up. Its hard enough to say "look at this nice little new pen I picked up. Isn't she pretty? Flexible, too! Can't wait to get her into the rotation."
Anyway, one thing that I have found, by sharing many of my old flexible vintage pens with users less familiar, is that mostly, people find them easier to approach than they expected. There is a lot of chat-room hype out there. A decent vintage flexer can sometimes handle a bit more omni-directional tine displacement when writing than one would expect. Back in the earlier days of 2020, when people used to breathe on each other, I would try to make sure that I always had a few different flex-nibbed oldies for folks at our pen club to try. I observed that most people can pretty quickly get the feel for normal use with a smooth one, then learn how to add some pressure and try longer tines and finer tipping. This said, most of us can easily start, explore and enjoy the journey. Just be flexible.
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Bob
Hehehehe...I see what you did there.
I will definitely remain flexible. Since almost the start of my fountain pen journey earlier this year, I've been making my pens into modern flex-pens with parts from vendors such as kanwrite, FPR and FNF. It's been a learning experience and I am loving my results, but the lure of the vintage experience has baited me from day one. I've become one of the "Pen-Polygamists" when I originally intended to have one pen do everything I needed (Impossible at worst and highly unlikely at best).
Today, in a local antique shop, I found my first examples of older fountain pens that were not mine EVER! This is the first time that I have physically seen other fountain pens in my entire life.
THEY WERE SO SMALL!!!
Literally, Esterbrooks, Wahls, Wearevers and Sheaffers...all less than 5 inches in length with the majority of them being closer to 3.5 inches!! The nibs were half the size of a modern #5 and the feeds were like toothpicks!
Did people of past times have smaller hands?
I considered buying all of them for the $60 asked and reselling them on Ebay.
I may still. it would be a simple task to clean them up and get them sale-ready.
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