{"id":5100,"date":"2011-09-01T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2015-09-07T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:30:44","slug":"ask-my-pen-it-governs-mei-govern-not-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5100","title":{"rendered":"<q style=\"font-style: italic ;\">Ask my pen; it governs me,&mdash;I govern not it.<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"?p=5069\">I was looking for a holder for the Esterbrook N&#186; 356 nibs that I got<\/a>, I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dippens.net\/2.html\">dip pens being produced by Steven P. Engen of Cottonwood, <abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"Arizona\">AZ<\/abbr><\/a>.  While these <em>could<\/em> hold a N&#186; 356 nib, they're not particularly well suited for that particular purpose.<\/p> <p>None-the-less, I was especially attracted by this pen made of African blackwood and alabaster (here with an Esterbrook N&#186; 048 nib): <div style=\"padding-top: 1em ; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ; text-align: center ;\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensblackalab_761x547.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensblackalab_450x325.jpg\" alt=\"[image of a dippen whose holder is made of blackwood and alabaster]\" width=450\" height=\"325\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 0 ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensblackalab_b_450x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=450\" height=\"339\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> <span style=\" font-size: xx-small ;\">Images copyright &copy; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dippens.net\/\">DipPens.net<\/a>; used with kind permission thereof.<\/span><\/div> It arrived yester-day and was as nice as it had looked in its pictures.  I then ordered this pen made of olivewood and ironwood: <div style=\"padding-top: 1em ; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ; text-align: center ;\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensoliveiron_779x580.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensoliveiron_450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=450\" height=\"337\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 0 ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dippensoliveiron_b_450x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=450\" height=\"339\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> <span style=\" font-size: xx-small ;\">Images copyright &copy; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dippens.net\/\">DipPens.net<\/a>; used with kind permission thereof.<\/span><\/div><\/p> Honestly, I'm not sure how much I'll use them for writing (now-a-days, my every-day pen is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamy.com\/eng\/b2c\/cp_1\/056\">Lamy cp 1 black fountain pen<\/a>), but I figured that I'd later think back with regret if I failed to get these two pens.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I was looking for a holder for the Esterbrook N&#186; 356 nibs that I got, I ran across dip pens being produced by Steven P. 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