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We’re pleased to say we’ve finally made time to photograph the actual thread taps which suit our Bock nib housings. So instead of a representative picture on our website, now what you see is what you get. Thread tabs for Nock nib housings   Thread taps to suit Bock nib housings ...

Left-handers hold their pens and cover the page differently to right-handers. A normal nib just doesn’t do the job for them because the way the tip is set up is wrong. Bock have tuned these nibs to suit left- handers specially for us, which now gives you the choice of left handed or right handed nibs when selling your fountain pens. In stock in both sizes 5 and 6 with a medium point, they are available to buy on our website ...

Our own long awaited ink converters for fountain pens are now in stock and available online. Ideal for custom “kitless” pens, you can also upgrade the converter supplied with any pen kit to further improve the overall quality of your pen and add a premium to it’s selling price, especially if you are upgrading the nib as well. They fit all “standard international” fountain pens, which includes just about every fountain pen kit currently available on the market. ...

New pen blanks now available from stock – including black walnut and padauk in fat sizes. We also have a small number of our popular wine cask blanks back in stock. www.beaufortink//pen-blanks/wood-pen-blanks/   Pen blanks from Beaufort Ink   ...

Taps to suit Bock nib housings in both size 5 and 6 are on the way, and available to pre-order right now on the website. Any tap (or taps) will get a pre-prder 10% discount, and if you buy a complete set of three in either size, you’ll get a pre-order discount of over 17.5% No voucher codes required – just a special pre-order deal which will run for the early birds until they arrive here, which will be soon we ...

After successful talks with possibly the world’s most prestigious nib manufacturers, we are delighted to announce that we are now agents for Bock fountain pen nibs in the UK. Bock’s nibs, which rank amongst the best in the world, have long been sought after by discerning pen makers but have always been difficult to obtain. Beaufort Ink has made them available online in different sizes for different pens, different point widths for different tastes, in polished steel, gold plate, ...

Our range of spare tubes for pen kits continues to grow, with tubes now available for around 30 different kits, including the Pristina and Roman Harvest. Tubes for the Zeta are also now back in stock and we also have a selection of pre-coloured black and white tubes for those that prefer not to have to bother with the spray can, plus 7mm and 27/64 tubes in 10 inch lengths for those who want to cut their own or need bespoke lengths for special projects. We realise that tubes for specific ...

Pen tubes and spares now available from Beaufort Ink We are pleased to announce the addition to our website of a large selection of tubes, mechanisms, springs and other and spares for a wide range of pen kits, including sierra types, cigars, bullets, slimlines, Omegas, Zetas, Jr Gents to name but a few. The list is already quite extensive, with more to be added shortly, and if there is anything you would like to see appear, just shout and we will see what can be ...

We are pleased to announce that Yunstone blanks are now in stock. Made from dyed crushed stone set in acrylic, we are not allowed to say they are the same as Trustone so lets just say they are very similar indeed without the whopping price tag. They can be worked on a normal woodturning lathe with standard tools, and finished in the same way as normal acrylic blanks. Priced at just £8.97 each, we have 6 colours in stock, with more on the way, and each blank comes with a free refill of ...

We’re delighted to introduce 2 new products to our website. We now have Gorilla Glue, which is probably the most popular polyurethane glue on the market amongst pen tuners. No big bottles here to go solid on the shelf. We’ve got it is handy sized 60ml bottles, so you can use it all before it goes off, meaning less wastage for you. We also have Gorilla 5 minute epoxy, in an easy to dispense, re-sealable syringe. With an open time of 5 minutes, and set enough to turn a pen after ...