Edison: Built Like a Fine Custom Pen

Since its founding in 2006 by Brian Gray, the Edison Pen Company of Milan, Ohio, has worked directly with individual clients to create bespoke pens of the highest quality. While continuing to build custom pens, Edison has created a “production” line, which we are proud to offer to you. Brian crafts each of these pens with the same attention to detail as his custom line, yielding a more affordable pen with the same high quality as a custom-made pen.

You can learn more about Edison’s complete range of offerings at the Edison Pen Company site.

Our nibs are NOT like other dealers’ nibs! To make sure you get the nib size you want, read this.

Purchases of new pens usually happen in a matter of days. We do not put new purchases into the repair queue for nib adjustment or modification!

Ordering a custom nib is easy — read this pop-up “comic strip” to see just how easy it is! If you order a new pen with a customized nib, I will modify the nib (for an extra charge) and ship the pen immediately instead of putting it into my regular queue.

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Edison’s Herald flaunts a torpedo shape that’s tapered just enough that it’s not a boring cylinder with bullet ends. At 5¹³/₁₆" capped and 6¹/₂" posted, it’s a great size for most writers, and the shape makes for real comfort in the hand. This is also a surprisingly light pen, ideal for writing many pages at a sitting. The Herald comes in three great colors — including Crushed Shell, the beautiful color that everyone was calling “Crackedf Ice” a few years ago. It’s fitted with an excellent Edison steel or 18K gold nib and fills with International cartridges or the included standard Schmidt K5 converter. Click the magnifying glass for a zoomed image of this pen (more size info here).

Amber Tortoise Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Copper Flake Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Crushed Shell Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

The Collier is almost an ordinary cigar-shaped pen, but with just enough difference to be all its own design. Long and smoothly curvilinear in shape, it fits well into the hand. Brian says it’s a non-posting pen; 5¹⁵/₁₆" capped and 5³/₃₂" uncapped, it’s easily big enough to use very comfortably without posting. The Collier features three dramatic colors, with coördinated clips. It comes with an excellent Edison steel or 18K gold nib and fills with International cartridges or the included standard Schmidt K5 converter. Click the magnifying glass for a zoomed image of this pen (more size info here).

Antique Marble Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Persimmon Swirl Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Silver Marble Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Smooth and straightforward, the Hudson is a modern minimalist take on the classic flat-top styling of 80 years ago. With an elegantly streamlined barrel under a solid square-shouldered cap. At 6" capped and 6³/₄" posted, it’s a big pen, but it doesn’t feel huge in the hand. Available with an excellent Edison steel or 18K gold nib, the Hudson fills with International cartridges or the included standard Schmidt K5 converter. Click the magnifying glass for a zoomed image of this pen (more size info here).

Black Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Emerald Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Ruby Steel nib: $150.00 18K nib: $275.00

Because Edison pens have interchangeable nibs, some owners find it convenient to purchase extra nibs to fit their pens. If you have never tried installing or removing a nib, rest assured that you can do it. Check out our nib swapping instructions.

As with the pens we sell, unless otherwise requested at the time of sale, we tune each new nib at no extra charge before shipment. We install the nib in a pen body, fill the pen with Waterman Blue-Black ink, and write with it on paper from the same fountain pen friendly pads we sell, adjusting as necessary to bring it up to the RichardsPens.com “factory” standard for smoothness and flow. Our clients have named this procedure “Binderizing.” The result is an adjusted nib, not a customized one.

If you are unsure about stroke widths, please check our stroke width chart for illustrations of stroke sizes that our nibs produce. To do this, right-click the image at the right (Macintosh users control-click) to download the chart in PDF format (for Adobe Reader). The chart is designed to print on U.S. letter-size paper (8¹/2"×11"), and it should also print well on A4 paper. After you have printed the chart, find some fountain pen friendly paper and make strokes on it with your own pens for comparison.

— Steel, Two-Tone — To keep our prices as low as possible, steel nibs are not returnable. Broad Medium Fine Extra Fine   $25.00 — Steel, Unplated (Silver Color) — To keep our prices as low as possible, steel nibs are not returnable. Broad Medium Fine Extra Fine   $25.00 — 18K Gold, Unplated (Gold Color) — Broad Medium Fine        —       $150.00 — 18K Gold, Rhodium Plated (Silver Color) — Broad Medium Fine        —       $150.00

All Edison nib units are compatible with the standard Schmidt K5 piston converter.