Writing IC

Kit and Making Things
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The Works near me currently sells plain wooden pencils -with erasers on the end! - for a pound for a pack of ten. They are my back ups, and I always have a handful in my IC kit.

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I usually use non-logo pencils that I get off Ebay; I find it’s harder to find good enough pens in plain styles, but nobody has ever batted an eye at me using standard pens (in transparent or reasonably subdued shades, not bright modern prints or anything).

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Most of mine came with little plastic bits over the nibs, presumably to stop leaking or drying up before you want to use them. The ones that don’t work might just have that protective bit of clear plastic? It’s hard to spot so may be worth a check :slight_smile:

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yeah it was after, getting them checked and removing the plastic bit. My partner got them sort of working, but the ink is very stop start.

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I have just had the rosewood ones arrive from India, and I can report a similar thing; six of them work and four don’t. I found that a couple didn’t work but then started once they’d been sat around a bit; maybe the ink needed to warm up a bit.

They are absolutely gorgeous though, and the ones that don’t work are almost certainly going to get used for something. They feel really Freeborn, if we were going to splash out on something made of wood, make it pretty!

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That’s a shame :frowning: all of the ones I got work fine - I wouldn’t have promoted them so hard if they hadn’t! Maybe I just got a particularly good batch…

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They take standard refills though, right?
Do they at least hold the refills correctly so that if you buy good-quality refills you can use them?

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I don’t know how to get them out. I shall sacrifice one to the dark gods of investigation and get back to you.

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I’ve just found the one that I was given a while back. It unscrews and yes, takes a common type of refill.

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you have to trim them down in my experience.

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Bought a set, all working and look awesome. Also, really easy to unscrew and replace the pens. Whoever posted these first, great find.

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Some of the Civil Service maaaay also be using a quantity of these.

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