Affectionately known as “Da Book,” Frank Dubiel’s magnum opus is the one indispensable book for every fountain pen collector. If you repair pens, or collect pens, or use pens, or just want to know how they work, you need this book. It’s the only book we sell right here on our site. Go here for more information and to purchase.

Even if you don't care about color and inclusions in gemstones, you do care about crystallization and cracks in pens, and a better loupe means you can see them better. The BelOMO loupe is what you need. This is serious optics, for a remarkably low price. Go here for more information and to purchase.

You’ve bought a BelOMO loupe. How are you going to carry it? What better than the BelOMO lanyard? This inexpensive woven nylon lanyard is custom made to carry a BelOMO loupe. Go here for more information and to purchase.

When you need to see what’s down there in that pen’s barrel, what you need is a lot of light. You need LED Lenser. It’s super bright, and it won’t fall apart on you the weay the cheap ones do. Go here for more information and to purchase.

For surface restoration and smoothing nibs, fine abrasives are essential. Add controllability, and you have Micro-Mesh Buff Sticks. In the Nashua Pen Spa, we go through these Micro-Mesh buff sticks “like there’s no tomorrow.” Go here for more information and to purchase.

Smooth your own nibs. Nib smoothing isn’t for everyone, but if you want to try it, you need very fine abrasives. I use these films, which are designed for the fiber-optics industry, and I consider them to be the very best product available for smoothing nibs. Our Basic Kit includes two Mylar sheets and a small piece of 0.002" sheet brass for flossing nib slits and the ink fissures in feeds. Our Student Kit includes the Basic Kit plus two inexpensive cartridge/converter pens to practice with. Go here for more information and to purchase.

The most common repair vintage pens need is replacement of their ossified sacs. It’s not at all difficult — if you have the right tools. Our “Twicks” kit contains a pair of blunt tweezers and three picks that are just what you need to get going. All four pieces are made of solid stainless steel for lifelong rust-free performance. Go here for more information and to purchase.

Repairing your pens is half the fun — but you can’t do it without sacs. Here they are! We offer top-quality U.S.-made sacs made using the original White Reubber Company formula and produced on the original White Rubber Company machinery that turned out millions of sacs for Parker, Sheaffer, Waterman, and most of the other pen American pen companies from 1919 until the 1980s. Go here for more information and to purchase.

Our sac cement is a special high-quality orange shellac that we’ve chosen for its stickiness and for its long shelf life. Ordinary sac cements have about a six-month shelf life; then you have to throw them out and buy more. Ours stays good for at least five times that long. Go here for more information and to purchase.

If you take pens apart, you can do it the wrong way or the right way. The wrong way is to grab a pair of J. Random Pliers and hack away. The right way is to pick up a pair — or two pairs — of section pliers. These are the ones we’ve been using at the Nashua Pen Spa since before the turn of the century. Go here for more information and to purchase.

For taking the section out of a pen, you need something to give you a good firm grip on the barrel. Our “Get-a-Grip” gripper squares are ideally tacky and nicely padded to give you the control you need. Go here for more information and to purchase.

There are certain tools that you will use over and over again, on virtually every pen you repair. We have gathered up these essential basics into a single kit for you, at a discounted price. Go here for more information and to purchase.

If you repair Vacumatic fillers, you need Vacumatic lubricant. Parker’s factory assemblers and field repairers used it. The Parker Vacumatic service manual calls for it. It’s the only way to get a diaphragm to seat properly in the pen. Go here for more information and to purchase.

One of the problems in restoring Touchdown filling systems is getting O-rings that are really the right size. Our custom-made O-rings are an exact replacement for the Sheaffer originals. Go here for more information and to purchase.

One of the problems in restoring plunger filling systems such as Sheaffer’s Vacuum-Fil and Wahl-Eversharp’s One-Shot, until now, has been the availability of high-quality plunger head gasket material. The high-grade, high-durometer synthetic rubber sheet we offer is ideal. Go here for more information and to purchase.

The late Father Terry Koch once told me, “Those pliers aren’t good for a d--- thing.” He was wrong. For the odd tasks where you need a nonmetallic jaw on both sides of the material or when you need really clear visibility of a very small area, there’s no substitute for these great reinforced nylon pliers. Go here for more information and to purchase.

For polishing pens, you can’t beat Simichrome. This stuff cuts through grease, grime, tarnish, oxidation, ink, and more. I’d be lost without it. Go here for more information and to purchase.

Brighten up your pen’s furniture with a non-abrasive Sunshine^® Cloth. We found these at a wholesale jeweler’s supply company, and for us they’re the best available. Go here for more information and to purchase.

INK-NIX is the World’s Best Ink Remover. At every show we go to, people ask me, How do you get the ink off your hands? This is how — this stuff really works. Rub it on, add just a little water and lather it in like soap. Gradually add more water as you lather. Rinse it off, and the ink goes down the drain. Go here for more information and to purchase.

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