Nathan

Does Nathan Tardif still do repairs and sell vintage pens? I dealt
with him years ago but haven't been in touch recently.

Anyone have his particulars?

Thx.

The man nicknamed "Noodler" on this board is Nathan. He has been
spending significant time developing ink formulas and his own pen
designs - I don't know whether he's been keeping up the repair &
vintage business as well.

I'm here - the old e-mail got swamped soon after Frank's death by both spam
and repair questions (I spent 5 days, 18 to 20 hours each...trying to reply
to all e-mails - and got burnt out with e-mail). Frank did a LOT that many
of us never saw. He was a pure dynamo. Can you imagine answering as many
e-mails as he did for that many years for love of the hobby? He did plug
his book, sure....but it was in part to answer a lot of those e-mails before
they could be generated I think!

Interestingly, I found out that the "big/major nib retippers" are now
charging their "preferred" customers 1985 nib retip rates. As I have no
fear of a 6 month backlog (perhaps as bad as 2 months, but never 6!) due to
my refusal to accept paypal or credit cards, negligible nib advertising, and
amateur nib web sites (there is just steak...no sizzle - on purpose!) - as
well as the lack of a secretary and thus very slow e-mail
correspondence....I've already lowered the cost of a basic nib retip to $20.
That's all the way down to 1979. The new rate is only being published
ONCE - right here in this newsgroup. Why risk a backlog?

Oh - and if the nib gods devine to match my prices again "behind closed
doors"...would somebody look through the keyhole for me next time? :-)


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Does Nathan Tardif still do repairs and sell vintage pens? I dealt
with him years ago but haven't been in touch recently.

Anyone have his particulars?

Thx.