Why Restoration?

Fountain pens need to be restored occasionally. The rubber bladder or ink sac on the inside will deteriorate, but typically has a 10-year life. High-quality 14-carat gold nibs can be accidentally bent as the pen is dropped, or the iridium tips at the very can be broken off. Or the surface of the tips can simply be worn out through heavy use so that the pen no longer writes smoothly.

The Fountain Pen Shop specializes in the repair and restoration old fountain pens for both appearance and performance. In most cases, we can make vintage pens look and write like new, enhancing their value as collectibles. We do most of the work in-house, including all parts replacements and cosmetic work. We have sources of remanufactured parts for most fountain pens, including vintage pens. We only vend out the rebuilding of nibs to specialized companies.

There are more variables and fewer available parts with ball-point pens, so that we can only restore ball-point pens in some of the cases.

How business is done.

The customer sends us the pen with a note telling us what the problem is. We then quote an estimate. If the customer accepts our estimate, we do the work. Otherwise we ship the pen back at our expense, in which case the customer is only out his packing and shipping charges.

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