That's honestly a pretty creative reuse of something that'd otherwise be forgotten about and thrown away. Have you considered writing down each of their names? Might be interesting to see what became of them.
This gives me an idea. I kept a lot of paperwork from my days in school, but I don't really have any attachments to them. Instead of throwing them away, perhaps I should repurpose them for an art project of some kind.
Sounds like an exciting evening! My drinking was not so exciting. I didn't finish it. This morning I decided to finish the glass of "water" I left out. It was such a shock I sprayed it everywhere.
I think that Wahl with the roller clip jammed into the cap to replace the original clip was a part of one of my junk lots that I sold recently. It was nibless, so the seller must have put that tempoint nib on it He also complained about the lot and made me refund him 50 dollars. Unlike him, I mentioned the f-- up clip.
The downward beak bend was often used during the period to add rigidity and reduce the flex slightly, you can find this tip shape on a metric ass ton of waterman safety pens
Also the older the pen, being true iridium, it tends to be more porous as opposed to later styles adopted that were less porous and capable of wetting the nib tip with a better quality “iridium”
Iirc, the bought the Boston pen company for the designs and body manufacturing capabilities and they bought tempoint so they could have in house nib production capability.
Your observation about most pen collectors is something I totally agree with - it's like they completely miss the point of why these pens are important, namely how they write and how they were designed, not just that they're rare or weird. That said, not caring about the details of what makes a great pen great just seems to be missing an important part of the story of the pen and why it's important. It's just like the liner notes on a record album. If the music sucks you don't care who played the drums. If the music is incredibly good you want to know and you seek that information to know more of the inspired story behind what made it happen.
Supposedly Wahl's Tempoint pens were based on designs they had acquired from the Tempoint Pen Company at about the same time they acquired most of the Boston Pen Company in 1918. The few Tempoint nibs I have don't seem to be less flexible or less interesting than Wahl's later Wahl imprinted nibs, but I'm looking forward to seeing seeing what you discover in the course of this video.
I believe that the Greek key pattern on the cap band is the Greek Border pattern because that's what Wahl called that pattern on their All Metal Pens and their chased hard rubber pens in the 1920s.
Creation is a fact. The cell is amazing and I recommend learning about it. The molecules which make up the cell did not happen by accident. The lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and nucleotides did not serendipitously form a living cell. The chemistry is complex and exact according to a designed code. You speak of nonsense when denying the reality of Creation. The Creator being revealed by the Holy Bible is, not an accident. JESUS died for you!
Creation happened. We don’t know the details yet, but we are getting closer to understanding them. If we use the scientific method of observation and experimentation and peer review we get closer still. If you want to use science to discover the facts then follow the rules of science. If you want to discover the truth of the Bible, science can help there too. You’ll find that there were earlier versions of the flood myth that the writers of the Bible “plagiarized” from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
@@PiersStudio there is evidence of the flood all over the earth and from many cultures. There is no scientific method to verify how God created everything. One cannot experiment on that. We can see evidence of design. Furthermore, there are many aspects of creation such as the cosmos, biology, etc which point to a creator. Have you ever heard of the Laws of Information? : Every piece of information must has a sender." Please forgive me for not saying hiw muchbi admire your art. As a calligrapher, I think I will try your fascinating technique. I have never seen it before.
@@PiersStudio have you ever heard of James Tour. He is a chemist and has written over 600 scientific papers. He challenges people to prove evolution. No one has. It didn't happen.
@@tammyc4430 Today we see evolution occur almost before our very eyes: Some populations, like those of microbes and some insects, evolve over relatively short time periods and can observed directly. modern-day examples of evolution include the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria and pesticide- resistant insects. the mosquito population evolved resistance to the pesticide.
My like affair with Platinum Carbon ink has withered recently. It's not worth the trouble. I'm going back to good old dependable Indian ink and just dipping when I draw.
What mirror-like thing? The only thing that comes even remotely close is the bottom of the "bag" (box) but it's a brushed metal with glue on it, not a useful mirror. Most curious.
@@PiersStudio the mirror isn't actually in the case or shown in the video, though - at least I didn't see it anywhere in the video. I can certainly see that it would be attached to that area where the glue is, of course.
I used modern pens for about five years before I came to vintage. I had that Platinum carbon ink and a nice Platinum pen that I used it with. I still have that pen. It’s one of the few modern pens I’ve kept.
That carbon black would be good if they made a water soluble version. It’s too aggressive to be in pens continuously for a long time. Even modern Platinum pens that were designed for it will get clogged eventually unless you rinse them out periodically with a little ammonia and water mixture.
Yeah I could have told you that it would have clogged your pens cause you dont like to clean your pens you just leave them for ever to do whatever but if you clean your pens once in a while they dont clog as badly with carbon black :)
do you have a platinum preppy if now Ill buy you one to put the carbon black in ink and you can draw with it it is very stiff but it drys with the pen almost instantly like 1 to 2 minutes and if you're outside in sun it may take less so but I've known people who do plainair who take their preppy do a sketch and 3 minutes later they are painting on it so :)
The biggest problem for me with Platinum Carbon black is it doesnt belong in a demonstrator unless you are gonna deep clean it after you put black in the pen its gonna stay black till you take it apart get all the carbon particles out and put it back together but you dont have that problem with waterman black of pretty much any other black that I know of most just wash out easy peasy but platinum carbon black takes a special kind of cleaning to get it all the way out
