Barry Schwartz

Monster Island Tea and Pen

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2025-11-15 17:52:05 UTC

I managed to attach a Parker 51-compatible pocket clip to a Parker 50 Falcon that had lost its.
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2025-05-30 15:33:02 UTC

It took over a year, and I started during my bout of COVID, when I didn't yet have adequate tools, but I have finished this rocker blotter. It is made of walnut woods, including the screw (although I do not know what KIND of walnut that dowel is—it was sold simply as "walnut"). Most of it is made from sappy black walnut scrap wood.
It is finished (except the screw, which is oiled) with one coat of a low viscosity epoxy, because the sappy black walnut was soft (squishy, really) without a hard finish.
People wonder where to get blotter paper in this day and age. Watercolor paper. Paper for watercolor painting. It is the same thing.
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2025-03-14 19:14:00 UTC

I recently bought a new old stock my favorite Esterbrook fountain pen nib, 9450 "extra-firm posting". That is, an accountant's or bookkeeping nib, such as for posting entries in a ledger or spreadsheet. It is a good nib for someone with a shaky hand, and is extra fine in the traditional American way, or the Japanese way, or the way Montblancs were made in the 1960s and 1970s for the Japanese market, and not the way supposed "extra fine" is made by Pelikan or JoWo or Bock.
It is a stainless steel nib tipped with hard metal of some kind, presumably a mix of platinum group metals. Screw-in by what was commonly called "standard thread" but really was just what Esterbrook made and some other manufacturers—at least Osmiroid—made their nibs compatible with. (Venus absorbed Esterbrook, so some Venus pens also.)
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