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    Scheduled disassembly of pens.
    As applied to Parker 51s, where the poster would take the pen completely apart for cleaning. Particularly popular on FPN. Yeah, I always thought this psychotic.

    I have a 51 I bought new in 1970. Never had the hood off. Used laundry white ink and India ink in it when I was in USAF, and flushed the pen after. Still the best working 51 of the many I have had. Proud to say I don't take them apart unless they break.
    I have a 51 vacumatic that my Grandad gave me as I was going into the third grade [early 1950's]. The pen is 1946/47. I still write with it daily. It has never been disassembled. The plunger can be a bit erratic at times. But it fills and writes the same as it always has. I have flushed it occasionally with distilled water over the years, but as it is always inked and used so even that practice is rare. Suppose that some day I may have to have the "vacuum sac and ball" replaced....... but not yet!

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    Inks with tons of feed clogging glitter that perpetuates the "take-apart-all-the-pens!" meme.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KrazyIvan View Post
    Inks with tons of feed clogging glitter that perpetuates the "take-apart-all-the-pens!" meme.
    Said ink once killed a Preppy.
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    I must not be enough of a purist. I have modern acrylic pens that I love, use shimmer to my heart's content (in said modern pens), write with inks that look like old rinsing water and play with flex. I take pens apart when I need to (or want to) and tinker with them. I grind nibs into shapes I like and then use them with my faddy inks. And I'm very content in my little sandpit.

    Does it really matter as long as we're happy with what we're doing?

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    From the perspective of the non-fountain pen world I suspect that using fountain pens is in itself something of a fad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mizgeorge View Post
    I must not be enough of a purist. I have modern acrylic pens that I love, use shimmer to my heart's content (in said modern pens), write with inks that look like old rinsing water and play with flex. I take pens apart when I need to (or want to) and tinker with them. I grind nibs into shapes I like and then use them with my faddy inks. And I'm very content in my little sandpit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mizgeorge View Post
    I must not be enough of a purist....
    You're fine. Just some good-natured bellyaching going on here.

    I love my Emerald of Chivor, but I also have chuckled at all the shimmer inks being pushed out on the market.

    Buy anything you want! That's sometimes what energizes fads, after all.



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    Quote Originally Posted by mizgeorge View Post
    I must not be enough of a purist. I have modern acrylic pens that I love, use shimmer to my heart's content (in said modern pens), write with inks that look like old rinsing water and play with flex. I take pens apart when I need to (or want to) and tinker with them. I grind nibs into shapes I like and then use them with my faddy inks. And I'm very content in my little sandpit.

    Does it really matter as long as we're happy with what we're doing?
    At the personal level, of course it matters not.
    As you said, you are free to choose whatever strikes your fancy and tinker with pens as you see fit.

    The way I see this thread, is a discussion on what trends are (or were) "in" these days.
    It is not a critic on anyone's choice, nor it is an essay on the current affair.

    Just musings between pen geeks playing arm-chair "what-ifs" and "what-I-think"...

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    I have followed a few fads, but settled back with pens I have liked since I was young. Parker 51 aero, Sheaffer Touchdown Imperials and Montblanc 144s. I like these pens because they remind that when I used them when I was young I felt a lot batter than I feel at 73, These pens also work better than the later stuff I tried.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mizgeorge View Post
    I must not be enough of a purist. I have modern acrylic pens that I love, use shimmer to my heart's content (in said modern pens), write with inks that look like old rinsing water and play with flex. I take pens apart when I need to (or want to) and tinker with them. I grind nibs into shapes I like and then use them with my faddy inks. And I'm very content in my little sandpit.

    Does it really matter as long as we're happy with what we're doing?
    Burn the witch!*

    Actually I use shimmer inks to my heart's content too. The only difference is my heart is only content if they're nowhere near me!

    *Because some people are so very earnest, I am, of course, joking.
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    Really skinny pens (yes 70's I am looking at you)

    Really fat oversize pens (the present)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandy View Post
    Really skinny pens (yes 70's I am looking at you)

    Really fat oversize pens (the present)
    I laughed at that. The only really skinny pen I own is my late wife's cross. She had very small, petite hands and it suited her grip.

    I did own a skinny Parker that I did not like from the moment I first held and used it. It was gifted to someone at the first opportunity.

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    Using fountain pens.

    Dug out my old Cross select tip pens. Fiber tip in a MB 163 rollerball pen. Found the ballpoints I used in college in the late sixties. Original refills still working. And the skinny Cross ballpoints too. The Cross desk ballpoints have nice walnut bases.

    A bunch of P51s are still good. An old fad still using original sacs. Keep replacing those twist converters.

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    Being retired for 13 years and therefore LOM confined, I missed all those new fad pens. In All I could afford at first were cheap old pens (way before Chinese pens came in), then found out I could buy Affordable ex-flagships.

    Outside of three On-Sale pens, the only new pens I bought were the 200's....yep, some are LE, one turned into normal issue.
    The translucent amethyst one was good enough for me, being able to see what was going on without clear plastic.
    I knew how it worked but one, one what the hell is ok. It's just dark enough one can't see the small splatters of near invisible ink....so don't worry about cleaning it often.

    What I really suggest for Demonstrators is to keep it NOS.....that way it don't have to be taken apart because the invisible ink is visible. One can see exactly how it works.
    Ink colors can be seen in their glass bottles.

    Herbin Stormy Gray, glitter ink impressed me. The glitter really perked up the dark ink.
    I do have some various colored Diamine glitter inks that are in shading inks...in I was looking for a 2 in 1.................there is less glitter than expected. Those I have to turn the paper in the sun light to see it well. The shading is a bit less than hoped.

    Sheen....still looking for that stuff...on good paper. with a wide range of nibs..........even had old fashioned good name inks. More than likely from before they added sheen stuff to the newer versions.
    Sheen's new, only the last 5-6 years a must.
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    Quote Originally Posted by catbert View Post
    Artisanal swirly acrylic.
    I like it. It makes attractive pens. The intent is not really different to the colourful celluloids of the past. If my circumstances were not completely straitened I would cheer up my desk with something like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrawler View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by catbert View Post
    Artisanal swirly acrylic.
    I like it. It makes attractive pens. The intent is not really different to the colourful celluloids of the past. If my circumstances were not completely straitened I would cheer up my desk with something like that.
    I like some. In the context of this thread, the elevation of materials by individual makers feels newish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michaelcj View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pajaro View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by guyy View Post
    Scheduled disassembly of pens.
    As applied to Parker 51s, where the poster would take the pen completely apart for cleaning. Particularly popular on FPN. Yeah, I always thought this psychotic.

    I have a 51 I bought new in 1970. Never had the hood off. Used laundry white ink and India ink in it when I was in USAF, and flushed the pen after. Still the best working 51 of the many I have had. Proud to say I don't take them apart unless they break.
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    Amazing! My 51 Vacs had sacs fail in ten years or less. I still have a 51 demi vac that works after 5 years. EF nib. Scratchmeister.

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