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Handcrafted in Washington from North American box elder wood, The Gentleman fountain pen is aptly named: It’s handsomely appointed and sure to have a commanding presence in any room. The body features carefully selected elder wood that’s polished to perfection and complemented by colorful resin in your choice of hue Read More
This seems to amount to a kit pen (cheap, mass produced, generic) with some wood turning work put in. This would probably be a good deal at $50-80 depending on the pen. but the asking price of $129/$109 is hilarious considering they cant even put in the effort to get the nibs custom engraved.
The "original" price of $325 is plain stupid and likely not what anyone has ever paid for this item.
RustedhamAgreed.
They have a regatta sport up for 59 dollars right now, thats brand name and features carbon fiber bands, worth the price it's up for and then some.
The wood looks quite nice, and I can appreciate the craftsmanship involved. Yet... a non-gold nib does not do it justice. Yes, I would pay more for a better nib. It is about the writing, after all.
I will look more seriously if they come back with that option.
alfredekI actually have a celluloid Chinese pen that is quite good. It only cost me $30, but the nib is shockingly good for that price. It will also fit a standard gold nib, but I cannot find any that are not $300 (would love if someone had a good gold nib source). Not everything from China is bad, but at $130, one would expect that it would be made in the US/EU/Japan, or have a gold nib.
alfredekActually the fitting, clips and plating are produced in Taiwan. The nib is German made. The wood comes
from North American and we color the wood, turn the bodies and do the assembly in Washington. The free inks are bottled in Indiana and the free leather. pen slip is made in New York.
Sorry this is a top quality item and it's not made in china.
It's shocking that a pen at this price has no gold nib and instead chooses to go with rhodium plated trim. Some of my $50 pens have the same bi-colour German stainless steel nib.
To give folks a sense of the work that goes into these, Jim sent over some photos.
Here's what a Maple burl end cap looks like, with a semi-finished pen blank on top.
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...and here is the stage in between raw burl and round blank, after the resin is poured into moulds: [img:Lanier_EndCaps.hcq.jpg]
I could prolly take a kit worth $20 and some wood blanks for $50 and turn a pen just like this, without it costing $300. The markup is blatantly ludicrous.
Sgt_RootbeerYou could buy enough materials to make your own pen, including the lathe, mandrill, turning tool, pen hardware, sandpaper, and polish.
I love the woodwork of the pens, and I think the resin/burl wood combo looks amazing, but at the price point of $300, you're paying more for the woodwork than the pen and writing ability.
I think this guy should look into fitting gold nibs on these pens. You can buy gold nibs to put on these pens. Then transferring the cost to the consumer, the pen would cost something like $350, $400 dollars, which is a more reasonable price for what you're getting.
$299.99 and still just stainless steel nib...Come on......
Wanted to get a F Midnight Raven but +25+60=85 so a total of 385 is just too much for me...Any chance of getting a better discount?Or a solid gold nib option?
Hi,
Thanks for taking notice in my opinion and relay it to the manufacturer!
$205 is a price point that I can accept plated gold nib.
However if I still want the Midnight Raven the price goes to 300 again....(including F nib)...And it requires 8 participants.....Which I am not sure it will happen....
In the end I am willing to give it a try but I am not sure there will be 7 more people feeling the same because of the price and how this drop begins.And yes I am feeling cheated for having to pay $25 for a F nib....For a $300 pen.........