Exiting news – Oblation Papers & Press are hosting Kirk Speer from Pen Realm for a nib grinding event. No affiliation with PDX Pen (other than I think they’re as much fans of our club as we are fans of them). No shipping your precious precious pen! (Almost) instant gratification! How much more awesome could […]
We avoided Mother’s Day and met on a special 3rd Sunday, experimenting with a combo in-person and hybrid meeting on zoom. We were probably half & half zoom and at the Lucky Lab, and (speaking as one who called in on zoom) there were definitely pens being passed around that those of us online could […]
Hello Fountain Pen Fans! Twelve of us met over Zoom on 10 April 2022 at 1:00PM, and went through Stuart’s best-known-methods (BKMs) of how he researches pricing for his vintage pens. He walked through a list of various favorite websites. We’re still working to get a clean copy of that list, but your fearless webmaster […]
We had our third Zoom meeting of the year on Sunday 13 March, which was lightly attended by 5 folks, so the planned topic of pricing vintage pens didn’t occur as planned, but we all had a good catch up regardless. The Lucky Lab room for the Pen Bazaar in November has been reserved, and […]
Seven members called into the zoom meeting before the Super Bowl to hear one member share his knowledge on vintage safety pens, which included show & tell of multiple models as well as disassembly of a Waterman 14. The ability to retract the nib and fill the pen, eyedropper-style, is quite ingenious. We saw the […]