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DWL · ***

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

Titivillus · Seasoned

DWL wrote:

Thats sort of what I was thinking? Absorbs sweat huh? mmmHHmmm

I wonder if after it's been used & soaked up plenty of sweat, will it start to smell like a locker room & like Scott said, would it be contagion factory? What did they do/add to the material to kill the critters something like that can breed.

Then there is the cynical� devil's advocate thought that they are not making a pen to be used but making the idea of a pen with no care for usability.�� It�might just be�designed to be a collector's piece to be stored away with the other�unused pens.
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DWL · ***

I sincerely hope that's not the case here. Visconti is a grand old company that makes superb pens. If this is a case of 'phone it in' then I'm sorry for them and the place they have fallen to.

As a fledgling manufacturer, the biggest insult I can think of (to me at any rate) would be for someone to park a pen I worked my ass off getting made for them, in a dark cabinet somewhere. I'm making these to last a 100 years and be used the entire time. Pens are made to write, not to sit collecting dust hoping the price will increase.

titivillus · Seasoned

DWL wrote:

I sincerely hope that's not the case here. Visconti is a grand old company that makes superb pens. If this is a case of 'phone it in' then I'm sorry for them and the place they have fallen to.

Visconti isn't all that old and to say they make superb pens is hyperbole!� They are another manufacturer who uses limited numbers and slight changes to make as much money for the meast amount of cost possible.� The homo pen is made of crushed Lava rock and resin so it is a smooth surface indistinguishable from many other resins out there.� All of their selling hype is just the rattling of the stick in a slop bucket.

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DWL · ***

I've had those exact same thoughts.

The universe is a bizarre place.

titivillus · Seasoned

I'd rather see some pens that work really well than the confectionary pieces out ther now.

DWL · ***

Agreed, it should be function first, then aesthetics.

This may sound cheap/funny, but I am working on a model that uses a sheaffer school pen section/front end. I've always loved the way they write. In my experience thy are dead on reliable pens, just too small & cheap looking. I think they are coming along well so far.

titivillus · Seasoned

Any good reliable pen out in the market would be a benefit to all.

watch_art · Seasoned

DWL wrote:

Agreed, it should be function first, then aesthetics.

This may sound cheap/funny, but I am working on a model that uses a sheaffer school pen section/front end. I've always loved the way they write. In my experience thy are dead on reliable pens, just too small & cheap looking. I think they are coming along well so far.

i wanna see what you're doing.� sounds cool.� any links?

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DWL · ***

Look for The Savage Pen Co thread in the custom pens forum. It's on page 2 near the top. Look for the fireball icon on the left. The prototypes are done, final design approvals for 3 models are done, I just need a few grand for more materials & to pay my machinist before I can go into full production.

titivillus · Seasoned

any idea of a timeline?

DWL · ***

Right now I'm stalled because of cash flow. If I can get one more person to join the Founders Club I'll be in production a couple of days after that. I would have been there already, but the 5 that agreed to join backed out when it came time to send the cash. It's pretty frustrating.