======================================================================== Nib Noise * Volume 16 Number 10 * March 2018 ======================================================================== Welcome to Nib Noise. We hope you'll enjoy reading this month's issue. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NEWSLETTER! The robot that sends it out hasn't yet learned to read. If you have comments or questions, send email to: richard@richardspens.com To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit the Free Email Newsletter page on our site: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=nibnoise ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Long Island Is Coming Up Next Month! *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Long Island Show is a great place to reel in lots of New York-area vintage. Not too big and not too small, the show draws a good crowd of dealers and attendees, and it's getting better every year. A squad of highly qualified repairers will be in evidence in the persons of Mike Kennedy, Jim Baer, and Ron Zorn. I will be working on nibs, and Linda Kennedy nnd Joshua Lax will also be there. As always, Barbara will be making sure I keep my nose to the grindstone. PLEASE READ OUR NEWLY EDITED AND UPDATED "TABLE TALK" FAQ TO LEARN HOW WE OPERATE AT A SHOW: http://www.richardspens.com/?info=shows If you plan to come and haven't ever been to a show before, you might want to read my article on Your First Pen Show: http://www.richardspens.com/?shows=firstshow Come on out to Hempstead Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22, and visit the campus of Hofstra University. The show will be in the Multipurpose Room in the student center. For more information, visit the show's site: http://www.lipenshow.com/ We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. We hope to see you there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Broad Strokes *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The never-ending fascination of the Morrison Patriot continues to exist as one of my primary collecting foci. Another Patriot I had never seen before, a blue one from after World War II, came my way last week at the Baltimore show, and I've added it -- along with the ppstwar civilian- oriented Morison Monogram and some other updated information -- to my Patriot profile: http://www.richardspens.com/?prof=patriot If you've been looking for my profile of the Graphomatic Inkmaker and Colonel, you won't find it on my site. With the assistance of Daniel Kirchheimer, I've added a tremendous amount of information and updates/ corrections to it, and PEN WORLD Magazine will be publishing an abridged version of it soon. After the publication of that two-part series, the complete article will return to my site. To help you find reference articles on our site that have been edited recently, there is a handy heading right at the top of the reference index, listing the five most recently added or edited reference pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** The Pen Doctor *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Pen Doctor is a regular visitor to the Nashua Pen Spa, and every so often he puts a few prescriptions up in our site's reference section. Each month, I'll be reprinting one of his prescriptions here. -------- Q: I want to send my orange Parker Duofold out for restoration. Should I ask the repairman to use a silicone sac? As a sac material, silicone is actually not as good as latex. It does not stick as tightly when shellacked to the section; and because it’s not as elastic as latex, it does not work as well when filling the pen. Also, because it is gas permeable, you have to keep the pen nib upward when it’s not in use to prevent leaks. Silicone’s virtue is that it doesn't outgas sulfur compounds, and that’s why I use it in pens that are known for discoloration problems. A Jade Duofold, or a Pearl and Black one, would get silicone. An orange pen like yours (officially named Chinese Red or Lacquer Red, but what’s in a name?) would not get silicone because the material of which it’s made just doesn’t seem to discolor much at all. I would also use silicone in clear demonstrator pens because of its transparency. (I use modern exact-replacement PVC sacs to replace dead Parker Pli-Glass sacs.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Follow Us on the Internet with Facebook *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'd like to be liked on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NashuaPenSpa ======================================================================== 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 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.