Greg Minuskin - Quite disappointed

[pengeezer]

HI John,

I'm keeping that one until the if/when I manage to score one with even better color, which might be a bit. I have a couple of this sort in the pipeline though, a bit darker but still ok, for what will be well lower cost.

regards

david

I figured as much. Any Chilton Long Island pens in the bunch you have to go thru?



John

Yep. Very clean pen in black celluloid. That one can be available.

regards

david

Saw your previous post here about a lot of things you have to do to play catch up. How long do you figure before you
can get to it(Will probably need time to pull $$$ together)?



John

[welch]

Daniel, yhes, I still have the Parker 100 with an 'S' shaped nib. Also have a replacement P100 that jumped out of my hand and onto a carpeted office floor. I am not meant to write with the 100: only conclusion.

On GE Information Services (GEIS): see the oral history from Warner Sinback in 2004: http://archive.computerhistory.org/r....102658003.pdf

Warner was an "executive consultant", a permanent advisor to the GEIS division president when I started. Chris Brook write the data network, using a GE DPS 6 for what a Cisco router now does. Pete Lovell, Roger Dyer, and a few others wrote the email system: GE Cross-file, about 1970. Commercialized as Quick*Comm. I think Norm Harbvey and Roger worked on the commercialization of the Dartmouth Time Sharing Operating System (DTSS) toward what eventually because GE's Mark III. The trick was that two Dartmouth professors had written DTSS on the only hardware on campus: a GE 625 mainframe and a GE communications computer. GE commercialized the 635 as a combination of the 625 and the comms device; Kemeny and Kurts at Dartmouth got all the GE hardware they wanted.

[david i]

HI John,

I'm keeping that one until the if/when I manage to score one with even better color, which might be a bit. I have a couple of this sort in the pipeline though, a bit darker but still ok, for what will be well lower cost.

regards

david

I figured as much. Any Chilton Long Island pens in the bunch you have to go thru?



John

Yep. Very clean pen in black celluloid. That one can be available.

regards

david

Saw your previous post here about a lot of things you have to do to play catch up. How long do you figure before you
can get to it(Will probably need time to pull $$$ together)?



John

Potentially this week.

regards

d

[david i]

Saw your previous post here about a lot of things you have to do to play catch up. How long do you figure before you
can get to it(Will probably need time to pull $$$ together)?



John

Not sure this is quite on-topic to the overall thread, but since you asked...



Might be a good one for the Black Pen Society.


-d

[Flounder]

Here's a link to the "Lounge".

Here's a link to "For Sale".

This is the "Market Feedback" section.

[david i]

Here's a link to the "Lounge".

Here's a link to "For Sale".

This is the "Market Feedback" section.

Here's a link to McDonalds.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/home.html

Hmmm....

[Chris Pen]

What does McDonalds have to do with anything?

Me thinks Aunt Sally has made a visit.

[david i]

What does McDonalds have to do with anything?

Me thinks Aunt Sally has made a visit.

McDonalds makes lard shakes, or so the story went.

regards

-d

[Jon Szanto]

I love the smell of thread drift in the morning.

Having said that, if people cared, they would actually say "well, this is getting too far off-topic, so I'll post this elsewhere". But, no.

[david i]

"Cared" offers many nuances.

And, perhaps off-topic to that claim about nuances-- or perhaps not-- I do tend to address what pops up where it pops up. People deserve responses. It shows... eep(!)... caring

regards

-d

[Farmboy]

"Cared" offers many nuances.

And, perhaps off-topic to that claim about nuances-- or perhaps not-- I do tend to address what pops up where it pops up. People deserve responses. It shows... eep(!)... caring

regards

-d

Must be the doctor in you.

[david i]

"Cared" offers many nuances.

And, perhaps off-topic to that claim about nuances-- or perhaps not-- I do tend to address what pops up where it pops up. People deserve responses. It shows... eep(!)... caring

regards

-d

Must be the doctor in you.

Perhaps. I tend to try to keep the medical thing and the pen collecting thing a bit separate. The doctor-patient relationship requires a bit more graciousness than dealing with some of the... stuff... that goes on in pen collecting Of course there also is the teaching thing. A fair bit of my medical time is spent doing clinical instruction with students and Residents.

regards

-d

[pengeezer]

My apologies for temporarily pulling the topic off-topic. David,can you PM me about the particulars on the Chilton?


John

[Farmboy]

Must be the doctor in you.

Perhaps. I tend to try to keep the medical thing and the pen collecting thing a bit separate. The doctor-patient relationship requires a bit more graciousness than dealing with some of the... stuff... that goes on in pen collecting Of course there also is the teaching thing. A fair bit of my medical time is spent doing clinical instruction with students and Residents.

regards

-d

Good thing. I don't know if we could afford the co-pay...

T

[david i]

Must be the doctor in you.

Perhaps. I tend to try to keep the medical thing and the pen collecting thing a bit separate. The doctor-patient relationship requires a bit more graciousness than dealing with some of the... stuff... that goes on in pen collecting Of course there also is the teaching thing. A fair bit of my medical time is spent doing clinical instruction with students and Residents.

regards

-d

Good thing. I don't know if we could afford the co-pay...

T

I'm inexpensive

-d

[kirchh]

Daniel, yhes, I still have the Parker 100 with an 'S' shaped nib. Also have a replacement P100 that jumped out of my hand and onto a carpeted office floor. I am not meant to write with the 100: only conclusion.

On GE Information Services (GEIS): see the oral history from Warner Sinback in 2004: http://archive.computerhistory.org/r....102658003.pdf

Warner was an "executive consultant", a permanent advisor to the GEIS division president when I started. Chris Brook write the data network, using a GE DPS 6 for what a Cisco router now does. Pete Lovell, Roger Dyer, and a few others wrote the email system: GE Cross-file, about 1970. Commercialized as Quick*Comm. I think Norm Harbvey and Roger worked on the commercialization of the Dartmouth Time Sharing Operating System (DTSS) toward what eventually because GE's Mark III. The trick was that two Dartmouth professors had written DTSS on the only hardware on campus: a GE 625 mainframe and a GE communications computer. GE commercialized the 635 as a combination of the 625 and the comms device; Kemeny and Kurts at Dartmouth got all the GE hardware they wanted.

But you'd said GEIS had probably invented email; all that says is that some folks there wrote *an* email system in about 1970, but by then, email was already in use in several widely-deployed systems for almost a decade.

I'd be happy to take a look at your specially-crafted "S" nib if you'd like.

--Daniel

[New York Scribbler]

Hi Guys. First post. I found this thread in a google search for Greg Minuskin. I was trying to figure out why he keeps blocking my email address every time I ask him a question... I first asked him a question about a repair. Here are the questions and responses copy/pasted:

$65.00 plus postage.


Greg Minuskin
greg@gregminuskin.com
www.gregminuskin.com


On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:55 AM, jay####@###### wrote:


Any rough guess as to what it would it would cost to get the Sheaffer white dot lifetime vacuum filler working, assuming it needs the typical internal gaskets etc?




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: "Greg Minuskin" <greg@gregminuskin.com>
To: "jays###" <jays#########>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 10:22:01 AM
Subject: Re: possible refurb on a Sheaffer white dot lifetime pen I won on eBay



Thanks for your email!


All pens are sold on a first come, first served basis. Just keep checking my website www.gregminuskin.com and if you see something you like, let me know asap. I hope to make you a customer soon!


Sincerely,


Greg Minuskin
greg@gregminuskin.com
www.gregminuskin.com





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On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:20 AM, jays######### wrote:


Hello Greg. I am a lifelong fountain pen enthusiast turned recent collector. I've only recently really been able to spare a little extra money to acquire some pens that are "nicer" than the Lamys and Chinese pens that make up most of my collection. I recently won an auction for a vintage Sheaffer white dot lifetime pen. I'm not used to winning any of the gold-nibbed vintage pens and was surprised that I won it. Specifically this pen http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Shea...p2047675.l2557

I'm reasonably handy and have tinkered with pens nibs, but it looks like I'm in over my head on vacuum fillers. I was just curious if you work on these pens and if so what a rough estimate on cost would be to get a pen like this working. I'm assuming it's going to need work, but won't know until it arrives.

PS: I only found your site yesterday and think I will get pens from you instead of eBay from now on . You sell working pens at very reasonable prices, and I have just a little spare Christmas money left over..


Then he blocked my email address as I found out a few days later when I tried to buy a pen that he posted. So I logged in to my work email address and bought the pen. Sent emails back and forth until the eBay transaction was complete in less than 30 minutes. Received the pen, it's okay aside from the nib slipping around, whatever I still like the pen as my first "working" vintage pen with a gold nib. So tonight he posted a needle point "wet noodle" pen and I sent him a question from my work email as I know people's definition of "wet noodle" can vary. Copy/paste:

Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 6:22 PM
To: Jason #####



It is easy to flex, with lots of flow, no scale.




Greg Minuskin
greg@gregminuskin.com
www.gregminuskin.com


On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Jason Urton <jason@flemingleeshue.com> wrote:


Curious as to what your definition of a wet noodle is? Does that mean that it flexes very easily to 3 times it's un-flexed line length, ie from a F to BB?

Then I sent him an email to thank him for explaining his definition and.. Copy/Paste:

Undeliverable: RE: flex pen for sale
Microsoft Outlook

Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 7:08 PM
To: Jason #####


smtp11.gate.ord1a.rsapps.net rejected your message to the following e-mail addresses:

Greg Minuskin (greg@gregminuskin.com)


smtp11.gate.ord1a.rsapps.net gave this error:
<Jason########>: Sender address rejected: Blocked by this recipient


Your message wasn't delivered due to a permission or security issue. It may have been rejected by a moderator, the address may only accept e-mail from certain senders, or another restriction may be preventing delivery.

He blocked my work email too. I've already bought one of his pens and paid promptly (les than 30 minutes). Am I doing something wrong? I'm so confused! I'm just trying to expand my collection into vintage pen territory at what seemed like good prices, but I somehow managed to get myself blocked with 2 email addresses. Do I just make a google or Hotmail address the next time he posts something I want to buy? Sigh...

Jason
New York Scribbler

[mhosea]

Am I doing something wrong? I'm so confused! I'm just trying to expand my collection into vintage pen territory at what seemed like good prices, but I somehow managed to get myself blocked with 2 email addresses. Do I just make a google or Hotmail address the next time he posts something I want to buy?

You want my opinion? Don't fret about it. Don't try to figure it out. If you ask the girl to dance, and she says no, just bounce off. She wasn't the one. Keep your eyes peeled for Rick Krantz's sales. He used to post them here and may still, but my recollection is that he was struggling with the "Panjo" sales system that we started using here. You can also find his sales on www.fountainpenboard.com, which is a very collector-oriented board. If you need some help with repairing a Sheaffer vac filler, try Ron Zorn at www.mainstreetpens.com. If you want my opinion, that's who you should have been talking to in the first place for that sort of thing. Now if you need a nib retipped or nib crack repaired, then Greg would have been the guy to talk to. Again, this is my opinion.

[Cob]

Well, I have no experience with Mr Minuskin, but if you would like what I suppose I could describe as a more"communicative" service then there are plenty of other dealers.

If you are willing to buy from the UK you could do not better than deal with Deb at Goodwriter's Pens Addiitonally Deb runs an excellent and informative blog; you'll find the link on her pages. I and a number of fellow geeks have bought from her and have had absolutely first-class pens and first-class service.

Cob

[Rick Krantz]

Thanks for the nice comment. However, i'm not looking for any new customers... LOL... j/k

just look for my sale posts on the boards. I unfortunately tried to work with the Panjo system, to no success. I regrettably cannot get it to do what I want it to do, but once in a while, I will try to list. Your best luck if you want to see my wares is to just do a search for my name on any of the other sites. What I sell I try to typically price reasonable, and with very few exceptions, I offer a 1 year warranty on the stuff I sell, typically that it will successfully write and function properly for a year. If you find issue or even break it, i certainly will do my best to help you, and for the most part, even outside the 1 year time period.

As for Greg, I dunno, all of my interactions have been good with him, not sure I'm just hoping it was a miscommunication between you both, or some software glitch. Greg's a cool guy, and does expert work. I don't want to speak for him, but I don't think he does Sheaffer Vac fill repair. YOur repairers for these are Gerry Berg, or Mike and Linda Kennedy of Indy Pen Dance.