THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. I’m Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Last week, I restored this beautiful Sheaer Balance 350 and discovered it was completely rotten. This means it’s rotting with celluloid rot. So, I’ve decided to move on to something a bit more successful. If you’d like to see this particular rotten video, just click on the link. Since it has celluloid rot, we’ll keep it away from other cellul

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there and welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today’s pen, for resurrection, is this Parker 51 Aerometric from 1949. It has a gold-filled cap, a black body, and is, as I mentioned, an Aerometric filler. They started making these in 1948 when they retired the vacuumatic. And this one is from the 1948-4950 era. So, I'm excited to see how this one might write. THOUGHTS So, what are

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Ink Acquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Before you are the disassembled parts of a 1936-1942 Sheaffer Balance 500, along with some repair tools. This is a vacuum filler, and they’re notoriously difficult to fix. In comparison, repairing a Parker Vacumatic is a breeze. I’ve fixed one of these before, but that particular pen’s rear seal didn’t need fixing, and it still worked

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today, I’m showcasing a pen I’ve had for quite some time. However, I’ve been hesitant to use it because it has a specific issue that’s a bit daunting to address. I’ll share more about that when we get there. This pen is a circa 1938 Waterman 351/V, a vest-style pocket pen. Here’s a Pilot Metropolitan for scale, and you can see how high t

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. These two pens are practically identical, but they’re not. This is my 1945 Parker Vacumatic third-generation in Azure Blue Pearl, and this is another 1945 Parker Vacumatic third-generation in Azure Blue Pearl. They’re both major models, featuring the blue diamond split arrow clip and the large chevron cap band. One is gorgeous, like it’

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD Hello there. Welcome to my channel. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today, I have a truly fascinating pen to share with you. It’s a 1947 Parker 51, but it’s the Demi size. Parker introduced the P-51 in 1939, released it in 1941, and then, in 1947, they created a new version called the Demi. The only difference between the regular P-51 Vacumatic is that the cap is slightly shorter, and the barrel from the cap to

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there! Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I’m back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. This is part two of a project I started before my trip to Europe for the Dutch Pen Show. I began restoring this Conway Stewart 84 from the 1950s and took it to Utrecht with me for the show. I used it as a demonstrator for a workshop on restoring vintage fountain pens. I’ve already disassembled the pen, travelled with it, and now I’m rea

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today, I'm going to resurrect a very interesting fountain pen. I’ve done a few conversions, but this is my first time on a capillary filler. It’s a Circa 1960 Parker 61, and you can tell it’s a 61 by the arrow on the hood. When you remove the barrel, you’ll find a black cartridge. This isn’t a cartridge; it’s a capillary filler made of

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen resurrection Sunday video. This is a third-generation Parker Vacumatic in golden pearl celluloid. It is a junior model with the two cap rings and no blue diamond on the clip, and it has a rather nice gold nib. So, let's take a look at this Vacumatic and see what it needs to come back to the land of the living and the writing. So, what are my thoughts on this pen re

1950s Conway Stewart 58 SOLD ($200 US) THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with a very special fountain pen video. My friend Joost Appleboom is generously flying my wife, Winn and me to Amsterdam and putting us up in the Dutch Pen Show Hotel so I can deliver a workshop on vintage pen resurrection. You Inkquiring Minds have been asking me for a video on fountain pen resurrection basics, tools, and supplies for a whil

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Ink Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today, I’m tackling this Shearer balance from the late 1930s, and I’m using a beautiful vertically stacked green celluloid and green striped celluloid for the video. However, I’ll have to wait for parts. We’ll put that pen aside for now. So, I reached out and grabbed a trusty old vacuumatic. By old, I mean really old. This is the pe

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video. And yes, all the pens you see before you are Parkers. But don't despair if you're a Schaffer lover because I've got three beautiful Sheaffer pens coming up RSN. That's real soon now. This is the pen I’ve been eagerly waiting for. The most satisfying pen resurrections for me are those that are practically beyond repair, like doornail corp

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Thank you so much for joining me last Saturday for my “Doug’s birthday pen sale.” I was thrilled to see that all but one of those pens sold out! It wasn’t actually my birthday on Saturday; it was just the Saturday before. Today is my birthday, and I’ve saved a special fountain pen to showcase on Sunday’s broadcast. On my birthday, I’m e

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. What better day to resurrect a pen than Easter Sunday, the day of resurrection? Well, for this pen, it’s resurrection day. Regardless of your affiliations or denominations—whether you worship Parker, Sheaffer, or Waterman—this is one of my favourite pens to bring back to life. It’s a Parker 51 Vacumatic from 1946. While it was manufact

Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen resurrection Sunday video. The dead pen on the slab, poised for resurrection to the land of writing, is this 1941 Parker striped Duofold in a beautiful rose, grey, and black striped celluloid known as laid tone. This unique entry in the Parker catalogue marks a brief revival of the Duofold name after its retirement in 1935. Parker had briefly revived the Duofold in 1939 for about a year

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today's dead fountain pen on the slab, waiting to be resurrected to the land of the living and writing, is this circa 1947? I don't know exactly for sure yet, but circa 194647 Parker 51 Vacumatic. This has a black body and a gold-filled cap and clip. I think this is the classic look right here. Black and gold. I'd say this is my second-fa

Both of these pens have been SOLD! Hello there. Welcome to Inkquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video. Today, I’m going to do another double-header, just like last week. I’ll be restoring this pen and selling the one I’ve already restored. This is a 1950s Conway Stewart 58, which I affectionately call the Indiana Jones fountain pen. I didn’t sell it because it writes so beautifully, but I’m following Steven Brown’s advice about

THE PARKER VACUMATIC SPEEDLINE AND THE DQ HAVE BEEN SOLD Hello there. Welcome to my channel. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another Pen Resurrection Sunday video. Those who joined me this morning for my first Saturday live stream know I mentioned I’d start working on this pen today. Before we get to it, I’ll also work on a second one. This one’s been in the works for years. This is a Parker Duofold DQ from 1924. It’s an ebony pen with a 14-karat gold flexible nib. It’s

Hello there. Welcome to my channel. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen resurrection Sunday video. Today, I planned to restore this beautiful Conway Stewart 84 pen in crushed red celluloid. It’s a 1950s pen, but I’ve decided to save it for the Dutch pen show in Utrecht this June 6th and 7th. I’ll be attending and doing a couple of workshops called “Inquiring Minds Vintage Maintenance,” where I’ll discuss basic maintenance of vintage pens and restoration of lever a

THIS PEN HAS BEEN SOLD! Email me at inkquiringminds@gmail.com with your name and address if you wish to purchase this pen for $260 US + shipping. I'll get you a shipping quote and instructions on how to pay via PayPal. Hello there. Welcome to Ink Inquiring Minds. My name is Doug, and I'm back with another pen resurrection Sunday video. The very dead fountain pen on the slab today. Ready for resurrection to the land of the writing is this 1937 Parker Vacumatic Slender Lockdow