A friend sent me a surprise in the mail. It was a Frankensnork. There are at least five different Sheaffer Snorkels in this Sheaffer Snorkel, and it makes me smile every time I pick it up and write with it. (On the permutations of “Franken:” in my line of work, we’re used to cobbling together …
In the fountain pen community, they’re called frankenpens. Pieced from pens that otherwise would have rested in peace, frankenpens are the inevitable creations of mad people who wince at the thought of handling a ballpen. My first (and only) frankenpen is a Parker 61 put together from three Parker 61s. It has a turquoise section, …