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MrRogers


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As far as I can tell, with the exception of filling systems, fountain pens have not changed much.  I know that we have tried different feeds, filler tubes, lucky curves, etc.  But what could we have if we applied modern technology to fountain pens?

I am thinking of some of the kick ass hand crafted four tine music nibs that are available.  What if these types of nibs were precision made by highly calibrated equipment?  Once you go down that road, you can go anywhere.  What do you envision?

I also thought about a feedless fountain pen.  A pen some sort of iridium tipped nib, but no feed.  The ink would travel through tiny channels in the nib material.  The channels would be small enough that surface tension keeps the ink in the pen, but large enough to allow for capillary flow.

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jonro


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Wearever did that 70 years ago, or at least something similar. The framed Wearever has tiny channels in the frame that bring ink to the nib. Those pens still had a feed, but they also had these channels. Some type of feed may be necessary to buffer the flow of ink.

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Bo Bo Olson


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One gets a wrong impression of how precise the old old times could make things. Venier sights made in the 1870's are not made better or more accurate with today's "modern" machinery. Vinier sights were made to the 1,000ths of an inch. In the rifles that shot like a mortar a turn of the precise stem of the sight, would drop the path of the bullet 3.6 inches at 1,000 yards. With "iron" sights the good shots put their shots inside of 12-15 inches at a 1,000 yards.
How ever because of the path of the bullet one could miss a man standing at 250 yards, if the sights were set for 300, the bullet would go over his head. If the sights were set for 200 yards, the bullet would land at his feet. It was not the fault of the rifle or the sights, but of black powder.

Lincoln, the noted engineer, who started out inventing and making precision hand clippers for the barber trade 1870 was a hi-tec man of his day. By the time he started making cars after walking out of Cadalac because they were doing for his eyes sloppy work, he had measuring blocks to calibrate tooling that was 1-10,000 of an inch.
Which was why Lincoln was the best car in the world from the time it came out until the 1950's.
The Gangsters drove only Lincolns, because no other car could catch them. Lincoln had to make special Cop cars to catch them.


Today a Laser cuts almost as good as a flint knife. There is a famous US eye doctor who operates only with a flint knife.

Today, Peter Block in Germany is making nibs, and I'm sure he has the best machinery the world can find to do so. He is the biggest factory in the world for that.

If Plikan or Omas could make a better nib, than what was made before they would.

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