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IPD_Mr

IPD_Mr

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Having a blast at the show. There are only a handful of turners here. Richard Kleinhenz has a wonderful display. He does some very nice work and offers a large selection. Barry Gross is also here and as always he has a great set-up as well as a couple new concepts that I had not seen before. His ship wreck coin pens were pretty sharp. He also had a Majestic made from Spalted Curly Mango that was to die for. The grain was so nice it looked like something that Charles hand picked. Richard Binder was busy as ever during the whole day "Binderizing" nibs for people while they waited. Linda had her Pelikan medium oblique ground and shaped to a cursive italic. It is amazing to watch Richard at work. He has a great sense of humor and his wife Barbara is a very classy lady. We have a nib smoothing class in the morning that Richard instructs. This alone should be worth the drive and the time away from home. Brian Edison has a large and impressive booth. I last saw his set up at the 2009 DC show and he has come a long way. His designs and materials put him in a class all his own. There did not seem to be a lot of buying going on except for a few booths. The Binders were busy the whole show and hardly got a chance for any lunch. We made a couple of good buys including a small horde or vintage clips. :biggrin: We also got a great deal on a blue Parker vaccumatic that I have already grown quite fond of. Now if Linda will let me keep it. :rolleyes:
 
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There were a lot of things to look at. I got some old Parker clips from the Lotts and some gold-colored clips from Robert Bader.

Did you get a chance to look at the steampunk pens from the Gisi's? They were over-the-top fantastic pens. Retail was about $3700 each.
 
Rick - Take a look at the DC Pen Show Website and Ohio. They have some photo archives. You might get to see a couple of the turner booths in the photos. Other than that, it really is not too polite to photograph their booths.

Chris - We did see the Gisi pens along the left wall over by Edison Pen. They are just a little too over the top for my tastes. Kind of like the Stalone pen on the cover of Pen World. Not something I would ever consider writing with. Personally I have gone more to the vintage side of things, with the exception of Pelikans.

Richard's class was absolutely awesome. I learned more about nibs in his class than I have in the last year. I had Richard do a grind on my Pelikan and he did a smoothing on the Vaccumatic that I had picked up the day before.

Saturday night's pen auction was a blast. There were some really rare pieces sold with prices as low as $30 and into the thousands. Terry runs a really great show and the only disappointment all weekend was dinner Friday night, but we won't re-visit that.
 
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