Materials in Fountain Pens and other links

Materials for FPs

What Material is Best for Flex Nibs?

Nib Corrosion Example Photos

Parker Sonnet "Clones" from China.
Also look at this newer article on Counterfeit Sonnets by Bill Riepl on StylophilesOnline.com

x-ray photo of section and nib of a Parker 51 Special

x-ray photo of Vanishing point trapdoor mechanism (new and old designs)

Scanning Electron Microscopy of a 14K Warranted nib (c. 20-30s)

A very brief primer on celluloid plastics

Hard Rubber: The strange story of rubber (from Goodyear Co. web site) The making of hard rubber

Casein: Its Preparation and Technical Utilisation By Robert Scherer, Charles Salter, 1911

You dont have to spend a lot of dollars to have fun with fountain pens!

General Douglas MacArthur's Duofold

Charles Keeran the founder of Eversharp.

Eistein's pen

Photos

Taper in nibs