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End of the line for US Sheaffer pens
Sigh:
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html john cline ii, who really didn't want to post this... |
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SAD NEWS INDEED !
"john cline ii" wrote in message news:1gqWe.7219$XO6.4835@trnddc03... Sigh: http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html john cline ii, who really didn't want to post this... |
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:39:57 GMT, "john cline ii"
wrote: Sigh: http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html From the article: "Between five and 10 of the company's 120 employees will be laid off by the end of 2005, although Kwong [of Bic Corp.] said that number may change due to the seasonality of Sheaffer's business. 'That's our guess–timate,' she added." Now, I realize this is a little OT for this newsgroup, but I cannot *believe* this Kwong woman is actually so crude as to use the unutterably twee "guesstimate" (a useless portmanteau if ever there was one) when talking about terminating people's livelihoods! Did she think she was being cute or something? These manager types disgust me. E. |
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Noodler's Ink was in part founded because of that great company leaving US
ink production (it had the largest facilities in the country at the time). That made yours truly both depressed and angry...because apparently their costs INCREASED as a result. I also discovered one could make inks previously unthought of as long as one believed ink was a technology/growth story instead of being mired in the belief that it was going to suffer inevitable death and decline! So, you are not alone in being "disgusted". As for nib manufacturing in the US, it is a far more complex issue and I am sadly more open to their point of view than I once was: http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlersink/index.html "Edo" wrote in message ... On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:39:57 GMT, "john cline ii" wrote: Sigh: http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html From the article: "Between five and 10 of the company's 120 employees will be laid off by the end of 2005, although Kwong [of Bic Corp.] said that number may change due to the seasonality of Sheaffer's business. 'That's our guess-timate,' she added." Now, I realize this is a little OT for this newsgroup, but I cannot *believe* this Kwong woman is actually so crude as to use the unutterably twee "guesstimate" (a useless portmanteau if ever there was one) when talking about terminating people's livelihoods! Did she think she was being cute or something? These manager types disgust me. E. |
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"john cline ii" writes: http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html Well, if you want to buy fountain pen that is really made in the USA, then you'd better buy it from Bexley. -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Pahat enteet hiljaisuuden kaiken täyttää. Niin tuskaisen läsnä joka hetki, vaikka pään pois kääntää. Vaikka sulkisi silmät kuva säilyy, eikä mee minnekään, muttei silti tule luo, vaan tuijottaa tuijottamistaan." Apulanta |
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& Where does Bexley get their nibs?
If the Japanese nib producers get pushed to the wall as well...I fear the world will be down to only a handful in an oligopoly...or worse - an outright monopoly. It seems to be what the market wants in the end, because many have tried to offer it alternatives. "Juhapekka Tolvanen" wrote in message ... "john cline ii" writes: http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln16_0915.html Well, if you want to buy fountain pen that is really made in the USA, then you'd better buy it from Bexley. -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Pahat enteet hiljaisuuden kaiken täyttää. Niin tuskaisen läsnä joka hetki, vaikka pään pois kääntää. Vaikka sulkisi silmät kuva säilyy, eikä mee minnekään, muttei silti tule luo, vaan tuijottaa tuijottamistaan." Apulanta |
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:42:08 GMT, Noodler wrote:
& Where does Bexley get their nibs? Bexley, like most small manufacturers, gets most of their nibs from the German nib manufacturer Bock. I know there have been QC issues in the past and that on some Bexleys the nibs are from other, also German, nib manufacturers. (sources: conversation Howard Levy at a pen show, Pen World article a few years back) JF -- j o n f a b i a n | f a b i a n 'a t' p a n i x 'd o t' c o m looked good on paper | architecture & criticism |
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