Visconti pennino tubolare e snorkel filler
Inviato: sabato 8 dicembre 2012, 2:11
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Mi sembra interessante ve lo copio, é in inglese.
Se qualcuno si offre per tradurlo.....
I can see that the tubular nib and mosquito filler have motivated long posts and huge discussion around it.
I can see many different opinion on that that I fully respect either they are in favour or criticize my "inventions".
As I already wrote I was inspired from both Parker and Sheaffer nibs although they DISAPPEARED from production since many years.
Years ago I have re-invented PD nibs giving to our pens a different feeling , flex, soft , spring you choose your favourite word.
In my 35 years experience the PD nib is one of the most flexhible nibs, close to the Omas superflex (an excellent nib) but probably our nib has a better memory and higher value 23 kts versus 14kts.
Said this and red about old tubular nibs, I have studied if it was possible to improve such technology and start to produce our own nibs.
Both Parker and Sheaffer nibs were not studied for reducing air drying since their feeds were not too much different from other pens and widely in touch with air.
Visconti tubular is , probably , ( i do not pretend to know all ) , the first nib SEALED against drying, thanks to its incredible precise nib wrapping.
I wanted it stiff for some reasons, one is to make it different from our PD nibs, one is because for people used to BP is easier to use than a flex nib.
In writing there are many differet taste, this nib wants to satisfy an easy approach to FP, a different shape appoints it as a UNIQUE design nib, this is enough to sell more pens and often to sell pens to people who will never buy one.
In our shop in Florence we have often sold these pens even in a set of two, mostly because of the nib shape.
Mosquito filler : I already wrote that this was a gift to our customers since we introduced while the pen was already in catalogs. The use and need of this device I leave to you: I like it , is cool, not easy to use the first time,but is surprising is easier to use of any guess and the nib remain clean.
Unfortunatly it can be used only with a tubular nib.
I have in project a nice evolution, unexpensive, to be used in many pens.
If you think a tubular nib in chromium at 1/3 the price of a PD is too expensive I answer you that to buy gold or PD in a nib shape is far a bad business.
If in future we will be able to buy a PD tube with the same precision of a Chromium, we ,probably , will make it in PD. I think the value of a pen has to be considering all features and in this case the double reservoir has an high inpact on price. Just compare a WS regular versus the double reservoir to judge the cost of the double reservoir.
Some of you wants to know if chromium 18 is a marketing gimmic.
The story of pens is full of marketing words since the celluloid names and all strange names STILL used from many brands to define common materials to something unique, so if this is the case it will be nothing wrong.
The answer is that the material is different.
I have seen steel 18/10 destroyed from ink in many plungers of the Voyagers until we have been able to replace them with Titanium.
The steel formula of Chromium 18 is the most stainless steel ever made and the name is nice, so why not!
Chromium is considered essential against corrosion, ask Harley people !
After the experience in nibs manufacturing and seen the very high production cost of the tubular nib is easy for me to guess why Parker and Sheaffer have stopped to produce their tubular nibs !
Mi sembra interessante ve lo copio, é in inglese.
Se qualcuno si offre per tradurlo.....
I can see that the tubular nib and mosquito filler have motivated long posts and huge discussion around it.
I can see many different opinion on that that I fully respect either they are in favour or criticize my "inventions".
As I already wrote I was inspired from both Parker and Sheaffer nibs although they DISAPPEARED from production since many years.
Years ago I have re-invented PD nibs giving to our pens a different feeling , flex, soft , spring you choose your favourite word.
In my 35 years experience the PD nib is one of the most flexhible nibs, close to the Omas superflex (an excellent nib) but probably our nib has a better memory and higher value 23 kts versus 14kts.
Said this and red about old tubular nibs, I have studied if it was possible to improve such technology and start to produce our own nibs.
Both Parker and Sheaffer nibs were not studied for reducing air drying since their feeds were not too much different from other pens and widely in touch with air.
Visconti tubular is , probably , ( i do not pretend to know all ) , the first nib SEALED against drying, thanks to its incredible precise nib wrapping.
I wanted it stiff for some reasons, one is to make it different from our PD nibs, one is because for people used to BP is easier to use than a flex nib.
In writing there are many differet taste, this nib wants to satisfy an easy approach to FP, a different shape appoints it as a UNIQUE design nib, this is enough to sell more pens and often to sell pens to people who will never buy one.
In our shop in Florence we have often sold these pens even in a set of two, mostly because of the nib shape.
Mosquito filler : I already wrote that this was a gift to our customers since we introduced while the pen was already in catalogs. The use and need of this device I leave to you: I like it , is cool, not easy to use the first time,but is surprising is easier to use of any guess and the nib remain clean.
Unfortunatly it can be used only with a tubular nib.
I have in project a nice evolution, unexpensive, to be used in many pens.
If you think a tubular nib in chromium at 1/3 the price of a PD is too expensive I answer you that to buy gold or PD in a nib shape is far a bad business.
If in future we will be able to buy a PD tube with the same precision of a Chromium, we ,probably , will make it in PD. I think the value of a pen has to be considering all features and in this case the double reservoir has an high inpact on price. Just compare a WS regular versus the double reservoir to judge the cost of the double reservoir.
Some of you wants to know if chromium 18 is a marketing gimmic.
The story of pens is full of marketing words since the celluloid names and all strange names STILL used from many brands to define common materials to something unique, so if this is the case it will be nothing wrong.
The answer is that the material is different.
I have seen steel 18/10 destroyed from ink in many plungers of the Voyagers until we have been able to replace them with Titanium.
The steel formula of Chromium 18 is the most stainless steel ever made and the name is nice, so why not!
Chromium is considered essential against corrosion, ask Harley people !
After the experience in nibs manufacturing and seen the very high production cost of the tubular nib is easy for me to guess why Parker and Sheaffer have stopped to produce their tubular nibs !
ndt), non facile da usare per la prima volta, comunque soprendentemente più semplice di quanto si possa pensare e il pennino rimane pulito.
