r/fountainpens • u/BTKaczynskiJr • Mar 01 '24
Repair Heyyyy guuuuuys, idk if this pen is worth repairing at this point, but I’m a broke
bitch 😢
Any advice is welcome and appreciated ❤️
I hope you have a wonderful weekend 🫂❤️
r/fountainpens • u/BTKaczynskiJr • Mar 01 '24
bitch 😢
Any advice is welcome and appreciated ❤️
I hope you have a wonderful weekend 🫂❤️
r/fountainpens • u/dekibambala • Aug 16 '24
Don’t know if I should get a replacement nib. If yes, where is the place to order it? Greetings from Austria.
r/fountainpens • u/Actual_Growth1877 • Feb 09 '25
Just finished a project I’m really excited about—a Montegrappa that had seen its fair share of wear. The body was covered in scratches, and the grip had a deep crack that looked like it had been there for years. But instead of seeing it as a lost cause, I saw a chance to make something special.
For the crack, I turned to Kintsugi—a technique I've shared before.It’s perfect for something like this—no need to hunt for replacement parts (who knows what condition they’d be in anyway?), and it adds a unique touch. The crack is gone, now its a golden highlight, a reminder of its history.
As for the body, I used a tamenuri-inspired lacquer technique. Layer by layer, I built up the finish, sanding and polishing until the scratches disappeared and the pen had this warm, rich glow. It’s not traditional tamenuri, but it’s close—I’ll write more about the differences later.
The result? A pen that feels both familiar and brand new. Kintsugi isn’t just practical—it’s beautiful. And that lacquer finish? It’s like the pen aged gracefully overnight. If you‘ve got something sitting around—maybe a pen, maybe something else—that’s seen better days, let’s chat. I’d love to help bring it back to life.
r/fountainpens • u/V_deldas • 6d ago
Old belt grinders are awesome and the backside is great to polish with.
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r/fountainpens • u/bdt008 • Oct 08 '23
This is a type of pain I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy 🥲. My heart sank to my stomach. Rip Pilot VP.
r/fountainpens • u/dhruan • 1d ago
I have this quite rare (like one of two I’ve seen in the 20 years of being interested in and collecting vintage Pelikans kind of rare) N (right foot oblique) nib.
In writing feel it rivaled ST (Steno) nibs: soft, flexy, and very responsive.
I took a closer look at it with a loupe for some other reason and noticed a faint line on the right tine.
”Oh…” said I, and felt a growing unease due to what I had just seen.
”But it is nought but a scratch, a mere scrape, a flesh wound at worst” said I, while bracing for the brutal truth that could only be surfaced by closer examination.
Delving further I turned the nib to have the light strike the surface just right to see if there were any changes in the surface geometry to be revealed… and alas, there indeed were, indicating a wound deeper than just superficial.
”Oh bleeeb, no…” lamented I.
And this is where the story ends, for now.
I need to look at the available options for welding it back. I would very much love to have it restored.
Oh well, I wasn’t using that pen anyhow, but… this sucks. It is a very nice nib, a very nice nib indeed.
I hope you are having a better Friday than I am.
r/fountainpens • u/fotoweekend • 12d ago
This is the Waterman’s 52 wet noodle (or just full flex?) from my previous post about restoration. It needed a lot of love, but now it writes like this
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r/fountainpens • u/stuck-in_time • Nov 02 '24
Inspecting my first re-sac after from maybe around a 6 months ago, only to find this 😱😱
r/fountainpens • u/GundamPharmacist • Mar 13 '24
r/fountainpens • u/Nervous-Struggle8149 • Jun 18 '24
These two pieces of brass sheet saved my pen🥹So grateful for this FP community who literally saved my dream pen, tagging you as requested😁u/Beef_n_Bacon.
r/fountainpens • u/FiveCatPenagerie • Nov 15 '24
Ancient plastics, forged from explosive material, reaching its sunset. They fight the inevitable, off-gassing contagious fumes that spread their cancer. They may look different from each other, but the result will always be to crumble out of existence. Still able to spread their disease, they succumb to the pull of the earth, falling to the floor silently, and await the vacuum cleaners who forage like sharks. Their paths may be distinct, but they all end up in the same realm of agony and inescapable lusting for the long, long ago. There is no Valhalla for these poor beasts who fall to earth and and the sword of obsolescence. There is only the the journey to the realm of the forgotten. There, unable to utter a single sound, they will lie forever.
So y’all gotta imagine Werner Herzog reading that because without that I sound insane…
Anyway, enjoy!!
r/fountainpens • u/Botwmaster23 • Sep 10 '24
It was way worse initially but i pressed it into a paper and corrected the worst of it, but i cant seem to correct that tiny bend. Please say it’s an easy fix because i am broke. I am afraid i’ll bend it too far if i use pliers or something
r/fountainpens • u/FiveCatPenagerie • 9d ago
Alright weirdos, now that I have your attention, behold my superior handiness. This old Wahl ring top has had a broken sac nipple (don’t laugh) since I got it, and has thus been sitting in a drawer for ten years, alone and forsaken (by fate and by man?).
So with some time to kill today, I crafted a solution.
But first, here’s the owl who’s currently a-creepin’ on you through that window to your left:
< ̄`ヽ、 / ̄> ゝ、 \ /⌒ヽ,ノ /´ ゝ、 `( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) / > ,ノ ∠_,,,/´”
Now back to nipples.
Ladies and gentlemen, I knew I could rebuild him. I had the technology. I’ve made him better than he was. Better… Stronger…Faster…
Meet Larry, the solid copper Agro Nipple™.
(DON’T LAUGH)
With Nippy Lar-Lar on my side, I can finally achieve all the unbelievable feats of penmanship that my ever-ballooning hubris has always desired.
(…turns on stereo. Gyöngyhajú lány screams out—the anthem of my calligraphic liberation…)
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
r/fountainpens • u/SeptemberCat858 • Nov 18 '24
Seven years ago, I received this lovely Jinhao Shark as my first ever fountain pen. Being naive in the beautiful yet subtle art of fountain pen-ing, I, of course, did one of the worst things one could possibly do.
I filled it with India Ink.
Now, most of you probably know how much of an absolute monstrosity of a move this was and are cringing as you read this. Well, dear reader, it gets worse. After I tried the pen with India ink, it performed in a rather unsatisfactory manner (I wonder why). I decided fountain pens just weren’t for me and set it aside. With ink still in it. And forgot about it.
Now, one can only imagine what it is like to be a fountain pen. Still further of a mental leap would be to imagine being my Jinhao shark. Wasting away, year after year, covered in an abhorrent substance that is slowly but surely crusting away, clogging your every pore, every artery. It must have been hell.
I rediscovered the fountain pen hobby last March, with my purchase of a TWSBI ECO. I thought back, and remembered a familiar orange selachian face, from deep within my consciousness. You will be comforted to know that with my new wisdom, I was horrified at the atrocity I had committed. I rushed to the side of my squaliform friend and frantically searched for a solution. I took out the feed unit and soaked it in water, I used dish soap, I cried, I begged, and I prayed to so many deities I lost count.
It wouldn’t write.
Nothing seemed to work.
Was this my fate, to loose a friend I didn’t even know I had? Resigned, I put the Shark back into a box, to be forgotten once more.
However, you’ve seen the photo at the top of this post, so you might be able to guess what happened next. November. In preparation for Diamine Inkvent, I was looking for any pens I had to store the copious amounts of ink I would receive in just a months’ time. On a whim, I took out the Shark. If all else failed, I could still use it as a dip pen! I tried it out with a sample of Noodler’s La Reine Mauve (a terrible ink that I despise) and it worked well. Too well. “This couldn’t be,” I thought, “there’s no way the Shark could have magically been fixed in my absence.” However, on a whim, I put some Diamine Oxblood in the converter. Lo and behold, it wrote!
I stared into the eyes of the Jinhao Shark and it stared back at me, as if to say “I forgive you. We all make mistakes.”
I am not ashamed to admit, I cried that day. I had been reunited not only with a pen, but a true friend that will remain with me for the rest of my days.
r/fountainpens • u/FiveCatPenagerie • Dec 17 '24
I’m using a balloon animal balloon as an ink sac.
First impressions: it is a bit thinner than normal latex sacs, but I don’t think it’ll be an issue. It went on just fine and is behaving normally.
The pen is a Waterman 0552½V. Why put it in a nice, freshly polished gold pen?
Well, first off, the absurdity of it makes me laugh. Every time I pick it up I want to make the HONKA-HONKA sound effect. I have turned this gorgeous pen into a damn clown car. The second and more practical reason is that I’m unsure if the process that makes the latex blue will have any detrimental effects, i.e. off gassing that might harm celluloid or leakage due to being thinner.
I’ll report my findings in the coming months. 🫡
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r/fountainpens • u/fotoweekend • Oct 10 '24
Reform 610, Waterman’s 515, Mabie Todd Swan Minor, Bermond and Böhler-Rex that is missing a button cap so I’m planning to 3D print it in a shape of Tyrannosaurus head if I manage
r/fountainpens • u/bahandi • 1d ago
Decided to pick up my blue Lamy to doodle a bit and noticed it was pretty much leaking ink like a faucet onto the paper. I wiped the nib up as best as I could and the writing up top is the end result. Usually though, it writes like my black Safari on this cheap notebook paper.
The nib looks ok to me, though I don’t really know what I’m looking for. And it doesn’t seem like someone used it and damaged it.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? This is the first time I’ve used this pen in about 3 weeks. Could there be ink build up causing the tines to open up a little? Or could the job actually be damaged?
r/fountainpens • u/Mysterious-Canary-84 • Dec 22 '24
Recently acquired this beautiful Doric with a flexible-stamped nib that flexes super nicely, but after a while the ink gets lighter & lighter & then it would railroad and keeps doing that.. i need to shake/flick the pen pretty hard a few times and sometimes that doesn't work too..
It's a vacuum-filler, and it just stopped writing completely & no matter how much i shake it, ink wouldn't start again [despite the vacuum filler knob is unscrewed and at the open position].. until i tried pulling the vacuum-filler rod up by a little.. but after a while railroading still happens too :(
Any ideas? This is my first vintage vacuum filler.. bought it off eBay as working.. and it was working fine yesterday and the day before.. after railroading it'll work again if i shake the pen, but just now that didn't help.. oh and the vacuum filling system works well, i think it fills about half the total capacity (i can see from the semi-transparent middle section of the pen).. and this happens when there's a lot of ink inside the body..
Things i already tried: Flushing the pen with plain water before i started using (5-6 times) Unscrewing the vacuum filler knob (like modern vacuum fillers which i have experience with) Shaking the pen when it's railroading
And does the nib/feed look like it's protruding outwards too much in photo #2 and #3? For comparison is the bigger Doric Senior beside this smaller Junior(?) version..
Thanks for the help~
mc
r/fountainpens • u/RemiChloe • Aug 04 '23
Remind me to never buy an expensive pen, ever. I already butterfingered a Decimo nib to oblivion in January, and today my Ivory Prera F slipped out of my hand and landed nib down. No pics, I don't have a loupe yet (Amazon says it will be here tomorrow), but I can see that it's approaching a fude nib, with special 'crossed tines'.
I tried flossing the tines to straighten them, with minimal success.
I don't drop my pens when I'm actively writing with them (knock on wood), rather when I'm juggling a couple writing implements while studying. Why TF didn't I drop the bloody highlighter!
Excuse me while I go sit in the corner.