ah so what you're saying is that "frankenstein" is not the monster OR the doctor, but the doctor's pen. Finally that story makes sense to me. Thank you!
Same, same but a little different. I like ebonite so I asked Shawn Newton to modify one of his jumbo Nikko ebonite pens to accept an M1000 nib unit. Pelikans look alike (unless you spend a gob of dough on a limited edition). I now have a unique pen, with a top tier nib, while supporting an independent artist, for essentially the same price.
Not really Frankenpen, I guess, but I owned the Lamy Dialog, a pen that looked like the tool of a proctologist, felt in the hand like writing with a ball peen hammer, and had so much engineering in it that failure was as inevitable as the ink in it evaporating before the nib hit the paper. So, it broke, and I had by then also realised I like thin pens. So while the Dialog was a write-off, I bought a CP1 and switched that Dialog’s nice, functional, characterless-but-workhorsey gold nib in it. It’s a dull pen, looks like something hotel-branded they leave on a 10-page, hotel-branded notepad on your bedside. But I like it… I like it because of that. Not a Frankenpen, perhaps, but perhaps a meeting never intended, much like the meeting never simultaneously attended by the designers, engineeers and pen-users on the Dialog project.
If not a Frankenpen, then it’s double the design upgrade. I’m not a fan of my proctologist tool either, but that nib makes it worth the hassle, so I begrudgingly use it. When it doesn’t dry out that is!
ah so what you're saying is that "frankenstein" is not the monster OR the doctor, but the doctor's pen. Finally that story makes sense to me. Thank you!
You can’t write a story without the pen!
Same, same but a little different. I like ebonite so I asked Shawn Newton to modify one of his jumbo Nikko ebonite pens to accept an M1000 nib unit. Pelikans look alike (unless you spend a gob of dough on a limited edition). I now have a unique pen, with a top tier nib, while supporting an independent artist, for essentially the same price.
Unlocked the ultimate level and supported independent artists at the same time! Wooooo
I deeply identify with this post. I'm a Franken-pen maker of the highest order! Thanks for this rad post!
Thank you! May you make a Frankenpen so wild it comes to life!
Not really Frankenpen, I guess, but I owned the Lamy Dialog, a pen that looked like the tool of a proctologist, felt in the hand like writing with a ball peen hammer, and had so much engineering in it that failure was as inevitable as the ink in it evaporating before the nib hit the paper. So, it broke, and I had by then also realised I like thin pens. So while the Dialog was a write-off, I bought a CP1 and switched that Dialog’s nice, functional, characterless-but-workhorsey gold nib in it. It’s a dull pen, looks like something hotel-branded they leave on a 10-page, hotel-branded notepad on your bedside. But I like it… I like it because of that. Not a Frankenpen, perhaps, but perhaps a meeting never intended, much like the meeting never simultaneously attended by the designers, engineeers and pen-users on the Dialog project.
If not a Frankenpen, then it’s double the design upgrade. I’m not a fan of my proctologist tool either, but that nib makes it worth the hassle, so I begrudgingly use it. When it doesn’t dry out that is!