 |
RE-TIPPING |
Before |
After |
|
 |
Although these two pictures do not show the nib before work began, they show the progress of the repair. This Waterman Ideal 14K Music nib had one tine partly broken off, shortening the tip. We had to shorten the other tines and make it into a wider music point. The process involved a splint and spacers in order to keep all three tines in allignment. Then a piece of iridium wire was welded to the tines. This restored nib is now a very broad and wet writer. |
 |
|
|||||||||||||
Before |
After |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||
Before |
After |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
|
Before |
After | ||||||||||||
|  |
 |
| ||||||||||
| Above: This is a customer's Senior Parker Lucky Curve nib from a circa 1925 jade pen. The customer informed us that it had been dropped on its tip. The crossed tines presented several challenges: they had to be straightened and realigned, and good ink flow had to be reestablished. | ||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
| Above: This Montblanc 146 nib suffered collision with something firmer than itself. We don't know how it happened but partly because it is an eighteen karat nib it straightened without fatigue to the metal. The feed was slightly deformed and had to be returned to proper alignment under the nib. | ||||||||||||
| Before |
After | ||
 |
This Sailor 21K gold nib went through the wash with the cap off. In the left image, notice how the tines are lightly hammered through repeated and consistent blows. 21K gold is soft and pliable, and more easily returned to its correct shape than nibs with lower gold content. After straightening, this Medium-Fine size Sailor nib is ready for smooth sailing again. |  | |
| Before |
After |
Before |
After |
  |
  | ||
| Above: Straightening
of the body and the tines of the nib. |
Above: We straightened this super flex nib after the tine got caught on rough paper. | ||
| | |||
| CRACK
REPAIRS | ||||
| Before | ||||
| This Moore's Maniflex
nib was cracked all the way through the imprint and into the tail. | ||||
| After | ||||
|
| ||||
| Before | After | |||
 |
 |
Through the whole crack repair, and straightening process,
we were able to save the original tipping on this Waterman's Patrician nib. Note
the typical Waterman's bevel on each side of the tipping. |
 |
 |
| | ||||
| RE-TIP | ||||
| Before |
The iridium
was missing from one tine of this Grieshaber #6. We've
tipped it to a medium, duplicating the original grind. | After |
 |  |
| Before |
After | ||
 |
 | ||
| Before |
After | ||
|
TINE REBUILD We were asked to rebuild the tines on this Azura. Although fragile, this pen can write again. |
 |
| |
| | |||
| SMALLEST
NIB WE'VE EVER WORKED ON... | |||
| Before |
After | ||
 |  |
This is one of the smallest nibs we've ever worked on. (That's a real penny next to it.) The Zero size Montblanc Simplo was worth working on. | |
| |||
|
|
|||
