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DWL · ***

DEAD PAN Blank Stare..Your Kidding me right?..........

Titivillus · Seasoned

I love the following hyperbole:

The high vacuum power filler charging system is made of titanium, the only material resistant to ink aggressiveness.

yes ink will eat through everything else but titanium�

Highbinder · Seasoned

"Virtually unbreakable: It has a high degree of resilience"

I'd have thought it'd be quite brittle?

TBH the marketing ploy I love best is Montblancs' 'precious resin' hehehehhe

jar · Seasoned

I'm not sure I understand what it is you good folk are reacting to?

DWL · ***

jar wrote:

I'm not sure I understand what it is you good folk are reacting to?

The Savage Pen company:

Our beginnings as human beings go back to two great achievements, the creation of the first tools-- axes and simple blades made of stone, obsidian and flint--and the first art--handprints and paintings on cave walls, animals carved from bone, and marks and symbols that would later become writing. We call these times beyond history "savage" or "primitive," but when we hold a beautifully carved stone tool we know we are touching elegance and our deepest roots.

Now Savage Pens re connects us to the roots of writing, art and the beginning of man. Lovingly made with the same materials our earliest pen crafting ancestors used. Created at the highest standards of the pen-maker's art using the best of modern technology, With each of these unique hand-made pens we hope to join you to the past and future of humanity.

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Visconti

HOM0-SAPIENS
FORGED IN THE VULCANO

More than five thousand years ago Homo-sapiens marked the dawn of human history and the invention of writing thus began. The same age discovers metallurgy, allowing the mastery of metals which signified the beginning of human evolution all the way to the invention of the wheel. The first great civilizations arose on the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates river banks and soon began the development of sciences like algebra, geometry, astronomy and engineering.

Visconti conceived the Homo-sapiens range of writing instruments for real writers, for those to whom the fountain pen continues to represent an essential travelling companion, a daily friend to share the same civilization that writing helped create.

The pen is made from a material that is as antique as the world around us: lava from the Etna volcano. Lava has many characteristics that make it very unique in the manufacturing of writing instruments. Visconti has successfully produced a material containing over 50% pure basaltic lava, catalysed together with resin in a formula that is patented and obviously kept secret. The extraordinary characteristics of basaltic lava practically transform it into a material perfectly fit to writing instruments.

Titivillus · Seasoned

Highbinder wrote:

"Virtually unbreakable: It has a high degree of resilience"

I'd have thought it'd be quite brittle?

TBH the marketing ploy I love best is Montblancs' 'precious resin' hehehehhe

There are lies, bald face lies and advertisements.

I always wonder about a company that would put out such print. �If the quality of their lies is so high I expect the quality of the product to be very low.

jar · Seasoned

Still not sure what folk are upset about.

Titivillus · Seasoned

jar wrote:

Still not sure what folk are upset about.

Viscounti�is putting out a fountain pen series that seems to have the same selling points as Savage pens at pretty much the same time that Dennis is starting up his.

I'm calling it irony more than being upset.

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DWL · ***

It's nothing but one of those really strange coincidences that pop up in life from time to time. I'm not upset at all, because we are each making pens that bear no resemblance to one another. I just thought it was really ironic that I saw that after i posted the company release statement.

jar · Seasoned

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I understand. I agree it is an interesting coincidence.

DWL · ***

I'm just gonna go with the 'great minds think alike' thing and move along....lol

georges zaslavsky · Experienced

i would like to see how well resists the visconti in question after a very bad treatment.

DWL · ***

indeed. I'd like to put it through some stress tests myself & see how it fares.

Highbinder · Seasoned

Marketing is marketing is marketing. The pens will speak for themselves.

DWL · ***

Exactly right.

Titivillus · Seasoned

I hope to be able to handle one of these lava pens on Saturday. Will give a report on that when I get home.

DWL · ***

love to hear all about it. I wonder, if you took a hammer with you, would the sales rep mind a little stress test...lol

Titivillus · Seasoned

DWL wrote:

love to hear all about it. I wonder, if you took a hammer with you, would the sales rep mind a little stress test...lol

�I will ask what type of ink Visconti uses that only titanium is able to withstand!

Frank · Admin

Titivillus wrote:

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DWL wrote:

love to hear all about it. I wonder, if you took a hammer with you, would the sales rep mind a little stress test...lol

�I will ask what type of ink Visconti uses that only titanium is able to withstand!

Hopefully I'll be there to see that!!

Frank

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-- Edited by Frank on Thursday 21st of January 2010 05:50:30 PM

InkaFX · Seasoned

50% lava, absorbs sweat???
That's a selling point???
Brings to mind microscopic critters living in the material, nice way to spread contagions to those that share this pen.
Having just survived the H1N1 flu, I'm not so sure I'd want a pen or anything that can be a home to infectious disease [uuugh...].

I've lost count how many times I've come up with great ideas, even putting them to paper, only to see someone else use that same idea and sell it.
It's always been a coincidence since I didn't share those ideas, but sure is odd the timing as if the Universe gives out ideas and leaves it up to those that can afford to produce them, run with and market them to make a buck.