======================================================================== Nib Noise * Volume 14 Number 3 * June 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Sumer Is Icumen In *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's June, we have just wound up the Triangle Pen Show (where I snagged some pretty cool tray bait in the auction), and we have no pen shows on the calendar until the middle of August, when we will be at the Washington DC Fountain Pen SuperShow in Tysons Corner, Virginia. I will be teaching my infamous nib smoothing workshop at the show; registration will open in late July. More info next month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Speaking of Pen Shows... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As you know, I remind you fairly frequently that there is no better place to find pens and meet pen people than at a pen show. Besides having a ball meeting old friends and making new ones this past weekend, I filled yet another slot in my Morrison Patriot collection. Earlier this year, I bought an Army Patriot -- at a pen show, of course -- that is ordinary in every respect except that it's a baby pen, a full inch shorter than the standard Patriot. Well, lightning has truck twice. At the Triangle Pen Show, a friend brought me the matching baby Patriot pencil. I don't think one of these has ever been on eBay, folks. Only at a pen show! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Reading Is Never Out of Season *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The recently published 366 Days of World War II is selling well. We had 10 copies with us at the Triangle Pen Show, and they have all gone to new homes. There are plenty more copies available, however. Last month I published The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Volume 2: Restoration as an ebook that's available from Amazon (Kindle), Apple (iPad, iPhone, Macintosh), and Barnes & Noble (Nook). It's filled with advice, instruction, and lots of pictures. It'll guide you all the way from your first lever filler to that Tibaldi Modello 60 that's been sitting in your drawer since its piston broke. http://www.richardspens.com/?bks=richard I have other books on the page, too. Now, with Restoration and 366 Days of World War II both out there in the world, I'm debating what to write about next. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** The RichardsPens Schedule for June *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the Triangle Pen Show just over, we're home and rarin' to go. Here's our shipping schedule for June: Saturday, June 6 Wednesday, June 10 Saturday, June 13 Wednesday, June 17 Saturday, June 20 Wednesday, June 24 Saturday, June 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Where Did Our Nibs Go? *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To repeat what I said last monnth about nibs: Our nib stock is very low right now, and we have moved all of the nibs we have available at this time into Barbara's Attic. We have several types of nibs on back order, and as they return to stock, we'll add them to the Attic. THIS WILL INCLUDE FLEXIBLE NIBS, so if you're a flexie hound you will need to check the Attic instead of the NIBARAMA page. http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=attic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** On the Monthly Pen Show Tray *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.richardspens.com/?pens=tray As I write, it's almost l 10:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, when the monthly Pen Show Tray will automagically open itself up for your buying pleasure. In the meantime, please feel free to browse! http://www.richardspens.com/?pens=tray ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Broad Strokes *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Pen Detective's Guide is back, this time with a short (and very incomplete) survey of third-tier pens: http://www.richardspens.com/?det_gde=5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Pens That Write Right! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unless otherwise requested at the time of sale, I personally tune each new nib we sell 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.