======================================================================== Nib Noise * Volume 14 Number 1 * April 2015 ======================================================================== Welcome to Nib Noise. We hope you'll enjoy reading this month's issue. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NEWSLETTER! For comments or questions, send email to: richard@richardspens.com To subscribe or unsubscribe, please DO NOT use the links in the footer of this email. Instead, visit the Free Email Newsletter page on our site: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=nibnoise ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** More About New Books from Richard (That's Me) *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last month I announced the paperback release of 366 Days of World War II. We took copies to Baltimore and Long Island, and they sold very nicely. This month, although we will not be at the Atlanta Pen Show (April 17-19), the show's organizer, Jimmy Dolive, asked us if we'd send books for him to sell there, and we're sending some. They will be available at the registration table. 366 Days is also available on Amazon, and it would make a great Father's Day gift. New this month is Volume 2 of the RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens. This book on restoration is in the finishing-up stages and will be available as an ebook early this month from Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** And Some Books Not from Richard *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We have two copies of the FIRST EDITION of Marshall and Oldfield's book on pen repair, and one copy of Alfonso Mur's massive Conklin book. They're in Barbara's Attic. http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=attic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** The RichardsPens Schedule for April *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We have no shows in April, but we'll be taking about two weeks out of the middle of the month for a combined business and pleasure trip to Ohio and Kentucky, with an unavoidable stop in Indiana to see family. Here are the days on which we'll be shipping during April: Wednesday, April 1 Saturday, April 4 Wednesday, April 8 Saturday, April 11 Wednesday, April 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Pen and Accessory Sales *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the pens (but not all the nibs) are gone. See the NIBARAMA and Barbara's Attic for the nibs that we have at this time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** From the Attic *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barbara's Attic still holds some great bargain items. Among other things, we've added some steel nibs from JoWo and Pelikan, and some gold nibs that we got from Pilot before Pilot decided to stop selling nib section units. Check them out: http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=attic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** On the Monthly Pen Show Tray *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.richardspens.com/?pens=tray You can go see what's there now, but the tray won't let itself be purchased until 10:00 p.m. Refresh the page to unlock it; if you just sit and wait, it won't ever unlock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Broad Strokes *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1921 saw the introduction of the John Hancock Cartridge Pen. It wasn't the very first cartridge pen, but it was well conceived and well made, and it sold well enough to keep it maker in business for a decade or longer. Read about it: http://www.richardspens.com/?prof=hancock Last month's Broad Strokes article was a profile of the WASP Addipoint. At the last minute before publication, a collector friend offered to send me a tray of Addipoints from his collection, in colors I'd never seen, so the article's list of colors was just a little lacking. That's been fixed. http://www.richardspens.com/?prof=addipoint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Pens That Write Right! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unless otherwise requested at the time of sale, I personally tune each new nib at no extra charge before shipment. I test the nib in a pen filled with Waterman Mysterious Blue ink and write with it on paper of better than average quality, adjusting as necessary to bring it up to the RichardsPens.com "factory" standard for smoothness and flow. If you order a new nib with customization, I will modify the nib (for an extra charge), and we will ship it without any extra delay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Follow Us on the Internet with Facebook and Twitter *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'd like to be liked on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NashuaPenSpa And you're invited to follow us on Twitter: @RichardsPens ======================================================================== If you received this newsletter from Richard Binder, you are a Nib Noise subscriber. If it came from someone else, I invite you to subscribe. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please DO NOT use the links in the footer of this email. Instead, visit the Free Email Newsletter page on our site: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=nibnoise Note: We will never sell your name or email address. Your privacy is as important to us as it is to you.