THIS PEN IS SOLD
Hello there welcome to my channel my name is Doug and I'm back with another pen Resurrection Sunday video.
Usually, I start these Resurrection videos with a triage of the pen that's on the slab for today. But I know that this pen requires some special nib attention. So before I even look at what else the pen needs I'm going to take a look at this nib and do a dip test and see what I'm in for on this one to see whether I can actually complete this one in my timeline.
This is the second quarter of 1936 Parker Vacumatic in Golden Pearl. It's a Debutant. The first one in this series I did last week was this 1940 Parker Vacumatic in Burgundy Pearl and it is a debutant size as well.
Here is my favorite vintage pen. This is a generation 3 Vacuumatic in Azure Pearl. This is a normal size Vacumatic so you can see what the difference is between a regular size and the debutant size.
This pen sold even before the video went live to the public because members get early bird views of the pen Resurrection videos. One of my members saw the pen and fell in love with it. This is going out tomorrow morning to the new owner. It is a beautiful beautiful pen, writes wonderfully and I'm hoping to have the same results with this one.
Even though the Vacumatic diaphragm is intact and the translucency is excellent on this so we can actually see the diaphragm in there, my concern is with the nib. I'm not sure that I can see this on camera maybe you can I don't know whether you can see that or not but the nib is a bit sprung.
The way I like to describe this is through diagrams. If this is looking end on to the tip of a normal nib, both sides of the nib need to align. This one kind of looks like this right now because the nib has been bent outwards. It is not just split apart but opened up from top to bottom. We have to rotate these nib tines back in again and then get them closed.
That's what I have to do to this nib. I thought before I even try to repair this pen I'd do a dip test to see whether it writes. Sometimes a nib might look horrible but it writes just fine. I don't expect that here because of the way that nib is shaped. Let's find out what we're dealing with.
THOUGHTS
So what do I think about this pen Resurrection?
I was going to title this one "It was the best of tines, it was the worst of tines", but I don't think I would be able to get over the collective groan that came up from all of you. I refrain from saying it, forget I said that.
I had high hopes for this little Debutant in this gorgeous Golden Pearl Celluloid. Look at that - just beautiful. But it's 89 years old and you never know what's going to happen with an 89-year-old.
I'm not sure whether my mentioning that it might break caused it to break or not. Certainly, it wouldn't take the bending. I felt that the tipping material might be pretty brittle.
The good news is that this pen now writes like a dream. It writes the first time, every time, and it's just as smooth as glass.
So this beautiful pen will hopefully will find its way into the hand of someone who will appreciate it, and for whom it will fit a little bit better than it does in my hand.
And that just leaves it for me to say thank you for watching.
And that's all she wrote!
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