======================================================================== Nib Noise * Volume 15 Number 2 * May 2016 ======================================================================== 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Our Next Pen Show Will Be the Washington DC SuperShow *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We will not be attending any pen shows before DC in August. Have a great summer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Did You Notice the Great Sawbuck Special? *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A few days ago, I put up a wonderful black ebonite Sailor King of Pen as a Sawbuck Special on the Barbara's Attic page. The price drops by a sawbuck ($10.00) each day until the pen is sold (or until it reaches a predetermined minimum price. http://www.richardspens.com/?acc=attic+sawbuck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** On the Monthly Pen Show Tray *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've changed the way the tray page works. In the past, somehow, it would occasionally let people buy pens before it was supposed to do so. Now, if you visit the tray page before the Witching Hour, it should not show the Add to Cart buttons. Promptly at 10:00 Eastern Daylight Time on the evening before May 1, it will automatically reload so that the buttons will appear. This way, you and everyone else will have the same fair chance to beat each other out for that grail pen! If my programming skills are still inadequate to prevent premature sales, we will cancel any such errors and return the payments. This is the only way we can ensure fairness to all. http://www.richardspens.com/?pens=tray PLEASE EMPTY YOUR BROWSER'S CACHE TO SEE THE NEW PAGE! And trust me, there are some pens you want to see. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** You Asked for It, We Answered *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The RichardsPens Guide to Fountain Pens, Volume 2: Restoration has been available in two deluxe printed editions for a couple of months. Have you bought your copy yet? This is the book that repair expert Jim Marshall calls "a formidable book...if you are interested in restoration, don't miss this one!" You asked for it in print, and we’re happy to say we’ve made it happen. We’re offering a premium full-color perfect-bound paperback through Amazon.com. The inside margin is wide enough that you can have it punched and put into a 3-ring binder. Or if you’d prefer a larger format that will lie flat on your repair bench, we've arranged with another vendor to supply a special oversize coil-bound edition, as well. Of course, the Restoration volume, like the rest of our guides, is still available in multiple ebook formats as well! Please check out my other books while you're getting ready to order your copy. http://www.richardspens.com/?bks=richard+vol2 IF SALES OF THESE PRINTED BOOKS JUSTIFY THE EFFORT AND EXPENSE, WE WILL MAKE THE OTHER VOLUMES IN THE RICHARDSPENS GUIDE SERIES AVAILABLE AS PRINTED EDITIONS FOR YOU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Broad Strokes *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When is a pen that has a nib neither a dip pen nor a fountain pen? When it’s a dip-less pen. Read all about it right here: http://www.richardspens.com/?desn=dip_less ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Pens That Write Right! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unless otherwise requested at the time of sale or unless otherwise noted in Barbara's Attic, 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 (gold nibs only), 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 our occasional tweets 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. 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