Dolphinjon
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Howdy!
Thanks to some travel and then a really busy season at work, I haven't had much time to turn or to be on the forums. We have a new boss, and she wants to start doing a program with kids on journaling as that was a very important activity to the Shakers. She did something similar at another museum, and they used dip pens and India ink. They started it because they had tons of unused dip pens laying around.
So my question is, how hard is it to turn a dip pen? And what do you need? And more importantly, is there a place where I can just buy a whole bunch of dip pen holders so I don't have to make a large number of them? We are probably talking 40+ dip pens. oh! And nibs! Where do you find nibs for them? The main place I've found so far is Speedball Standard Point Dip Pen Nibs - BLICK art materials
I've made fountain pens (mainly Baron and Pressimo kits), but I'm figuring dip pens are different. As we are a non-profit, we are trying to keep the cost pretty minimal.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I tried searching the forums, but didn't come up with much that was helpful.
Thanks to some travel and then a really busy season at work, I haven't had much time to turn or to be on the forums. We have a new boss, and she wants to start doing a program with kids on journaling as that was a very important activity to the Shakers. She did something similar at another museum, and they used dip pens and India ink. They started it because they had tons of unused dip pens laying around.
So my question is, how hard is it to turn a dip pen? And what do you need? And more importantly, is there a place where I can just buy a whole bunch of dip pen holders so I don't have to make a large number of them? We are probably talking 40+ dip pens. oh! And nibs! Where do you find nibs for them? The main place I've found so far is Speedball Standard Point Dip Pen Nibs - BLICK art materials
I've made fountain pens (mainly Baron and Pressimo kits), but I'm figuring dip pens are different. As we are a non-profit, we are trying to keep the cost pretty minimal.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I tried searching the forums, but didn't come up with much that was helpful.