Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>This adds a whole new line to the LUG.... now how >about watches? LOL Actually, it's not new. Just hunt through the archives, searching "pens" and you should be buried under an avalanche of messages XTOLing the virtues of this, that, or the other fountain pen. The "pen thread" was one of our most [appropriate adjective here] OT threads. Guy >--- SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated >4/20/01 9:24:23 PM Eastern >> Daylight Time, >> durling@widomaker.com writes: >> >> << I think there is definately a correlation between >> liking things like >> fountain pens and enjoying the Leica. It may be >> the contrast with the >> plastic high-techiness of contemporary things that >> is so deeply satisfying. >> >> >> >> Yes, yes and yes. Try 1960s Ferrari autos and Omas >> fountain pens, the latter >> still made in Bologna the old-fashioned way. In >> 1926, Omas' founder invented >> the safe way to make celluloid barrels for fountain >> pens, by rendering >> nitrocellulose inert (otherwise flammable and >> potentially explosive). And >> unlike every other pen manufacturer, to maintain >> satisfactory quality Omas >> manufactures its own vegetal resin from cotton it >> has for years obtained from >> a single plantation in Latin America. Sounds like >> the old Ernst Leitz family >> philosophy. >> >> LaK 9 > > >____________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk >or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie