Wet noodle?

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A certain gentleman sells what appears to be an almost endless supply of needlepoint wet noodles. My question is this: does this gentleman actually have some kind of stock access that is not available to just about everyone else in the pen hobby, or does this gentleman doctor the nibs he has to make them into wet noodles even if they were never made to be that way?

When I hear from sellers of vintage flexible nibs how hard it is to source them, it seems somewhat suspicious that one guy has no difficulty in posting sales for such nibs more or less day after day.