Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! - 2015-Ii

[SNAK]

Another 1920's horror inspired sketch, done with my new favourite pen the TWSBI Diamond 580 AL blue (EF nib), loaded with De Atramentis achieve ink Black, drawn in a Sennelier sketchbook

Absolutely loved your artwork!!! I admire the very fine details you could put in with the EF nib, as well as the movement and drama in the drawing.

 

I am now feasting my eyes on your gallery and blog too. Would love to see more of your sketches here. Please and Thank you!

[SNAK]

A little tribute to the most successful writing device mankind ever invented.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000)

Ptero, it's a lovely rendition of light and shadow!

 

I am enjoying my wood pencils again lately too, after playing around with mechanical and clutch pencils for a while, I am having my zen moments when I hand sharpen the wood pencils with a knife. Little pleasures and all that.

[SNAK]

[edited to add] Just one added item. I'm sure these are from the 1890's. I just found a reference for an independent Leon Isaac's Co in 1889, but by 1905 they were being made by Turner and Harrison. And by 1910 a different font was used. So, I'd say sometime in the 1890's, up through the "aughts".

It's amazing that you have hunted down the actual nibs and the info about them from 120 years ago... Wow.

 

SNAK: In this particular case, I didn't care about the old nib in the Estie collar. So I just yank and wiggle it out of the collar using a plier, only the nib. I didn't try to take the collar out of the feed. But using a section block may not work because the collar is very thin and most likely is narrower than the nib. If I were to do it again (and I probably will) I'd try gripping the collar with a rubber-wrapped plier and try to tap the feed out slowly just enough that you can pull the nib off.

 

Soaking in water before definitely helped.

Thanks for the tips. I've been looking at some NOS Estie and Osmiroid nib units and it appears that Osmiroid units have slightly thicker plastic used for the collar so I may pick one of them as a sacrificial experiment and attempt a Franken project over the holidays. Soaking in water tip, definitely noted. Thanks.

 

 

Today I am using Japanese Beauty....

Pen: Pilot Capless (Black with Gold Trim)

Ink : Sailor Jentle Oku-Yama

Paper : JK Cedar - 100 gsm

I lovet the black and gold combination. I only have Capless pens with white gold or chrome plate furnishing so that is a lovely classical look. And amazing gold sheen on that Okuyama!!

 

Sheaffer Crest Tuckaway, late 1940s

I have an unexplainable love for black barrel and gold cap pens. I always have.

I like Tuckies for their little tiny knub of a clasp, reminds me of a docked Boxer's tail (our Sophie's tail isn't docked as it's illegal here).

Your Tucky is gorgeous and so is your writing!

 

 

Oh my eyes, my eyes!! The image is burnt onto my retina again.

 

My wife is a nurse who works nights, and we have one car and one motorcycle. What this means is that when she works during the week, rather than the weekend, I walk my daughter to school. Her school is only about a mile and a half away, so it's no big deal, but it gives us a little bit of time to entertain ourselves. We generally make up stories, my daughter will give me the premise and I will flesh out the details. If she wants the story to go in a different direction, she just stops me and says, "No, this is what happens." or something of that nature. I am working on putting her favorite story to paper to give to her as a Christmas present.

 

When I get stuck on a part or start to get distracted I write little weird quotes (writing for children is more complex than writing for adults. You have to keep them engaged, without speaking down to them, and still make the story interesting for the adult reader). Lately I have been using a Pilot Plumix for those in between writings. I like the pen, but let me just say that this pen looks EXACTLY like a flat worm! It made me imagine how Hunter S. Thompson might react to the sight of the pen, and resulted in a series of Fear and Loathing quotes.

 

 

Pen: Pilot Plumix

Ink" Pilot Black

Paper: Piccadilly Notebook

 

I didn't know what flatworms were, so I had to google it. But yeah, you are right, the pen looks like them.

Or, maybe those other deep sea creatures that have neon lights come up in the darkness to attract plankton. (I think I've seen them on Nat Geo Wild channel, but also could be my imagination).

 

I loved reading about how you create stories with your daughter together. How old is she?

My younger son just had his preschool graduation and will be starting big boy school next year... They grow up too quickly for my liking.

[jabberwock11]

She is 6 and in first grade. We've been coming up with stories for a couple of years, but they just started becoming workable fairly recently. Before now it was mostly just random weirdness that devolved into even more random weirdness. Now we have stories about ants helping their friends find food, machines that get her dressed and take her to school (so that she can sleep in), and a lot of story lines devolving into her being the princess of the world...with ninjas and pirates. She likes ninjas and pirates.

[JohnMarra]

A little tribute to the most successful writing device mankind ever invented.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000)

That, my friend, is an awesome sketch. Almost 'photo-like' in quality. I love all your sketches, but this one is brilliant in its subtlety.

[Cryptos]

Not just the sketch, but the lighting used to take the photograph seems to perfectly complement the shading in the drawing. (Assuming it is lighting and Ptero hasn't shaded the whole of the paper!)

[ThyPenMaker]

@Jabberwock - thanks for the Fear and Loathing reference, one of the 10 greatest books I've ever read and the cause of the greatest mystery in my life.

After returning from Vietnam, I was travelling by greyhound bus to my next duty station in Fort Hood Texas from Huntsville, Ala. I was as clean cut as a soldier could get, but apparently the disguise wasn't fooling one guy, who took a good look at me and gave me Fear and Loathing, I never saw him again, but I've thanked him a thousand times. It's almost enough to hang out in bus stations. But not quite.

[hollydonut]

 

Today I am using Japanese Beauty....

Pen: Pilot Capless (Black with Gold Trim)

Ink : Sailor Jentle Oku-Yama

Paper : JK Cedar - 100 gsm

 

 

That is a beautifull pen and handwriting, i wish i can write like that

[SNAK]

As promised, this is my current heavy use pen. It writes a springy Fine line and lets me go on for pages and pages.

 

 

 

 

Pen: Montblanc 142 (Green Striated) with springy Fine nib

Ink: J. Herbin Vert Empire (this bottle is greener than my older bottle which was a small size with pen rest, and that one was more grey green in colour. Formula change? Old ink?)

Paper: L!FE Letter Writing Paper (White)

[Highbinder]

@SNAK - Lovely lovely pen!

[eliweisz]

As promised, this is my current heavy use pen. It writes a springy Fine line and lets me go on for pages and pages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pen: Montblanc 142 (Green Striated) with springy Fine nib

Ink: J. Herbin Vert Empire (this bottle is greener than my older bottle which was a small size with pen rest, and that one was more grey green in colour. Formula change? Old ink?)

Paper: L!FE Letter Writing Paper (White)

Great little pen! And I'm happy to know you love Tuckies. More pictures of my little Crest will follow, and in the meanwhile some other pens would like to say hello:

[Vipersdad]

Today I am using Japanese Beauty....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pen: Pilot Capless (Black with Gold Trim)

Ink : Sailor Jentle Oku-Yama

Paper : JK Cedar - 100 gsm

I love the Oku-Yama. I use it in my Conklin Mark Twain Zebra. I also like the bottle and use it with my vintage dip pens. The dish inside gives me a perfect dip.

[LWJ2]

A merry Christmas and happy new year to all here — Leon

 

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For those interested, the typefaces are, in order from the top:

Mistral; Trajan Pro; Arno Pro Italic Display; Optima Demi-bold; Fraktur BT; Arno Pro Semi-bold Display; and Harlow Solid Italic.

 

This is the front of our Christmas card this year, and was done with Corel's CorelDraw X4 graphic programme.

 

[LWJ2]

Life's been busy here in the megalopolis of Roanoke. Here are some recent acquisitions and some oldies but goodies. The paper is Hammermill 24# bond, with 3/8# ruling. (approx 80g/sm)

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And the pens:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/lwj2/5626446/375669/375669_original.jpg

[amberleadavis]

Beautiful pens and great ink choices.

[Professor Plume]

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Speaking of Sheaffer : here is the Levenger Sea collection. The Meditteranean and the Adriatic look almost identical in this picture ( photographer incompetence ) but they are each a lovely, diaphanous blue and purple, respectively.

[Inky.Fingers]

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[Eduardo]

From left to right: Parker 51 Mk III, Parker 41

 

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[AAAndrew]

 

 

Spencerian No. 28 Congressional Stub nib

Esterbrook 127 holder

Diamine Autumn Oak ink which looks great when it's caught in the cruciform vent hole and the light shines through. Also works great with dip pens right out of the bottle.

[uemuraw]

@Jabberwock - thanks for the Fear and Loathing reference, one of the 10 greatest books I've ever read and the cause of the greatest mystery in my life.

After returning from Vietnam, I was travelling by greyhound bus to my next duty station in Fort Hood Texas from Huntsville, Ala. I was as clean cut as a soldier could get, but apparently the disguise wasn't fooling one guy, who took a good look at me and gave me Fear and Loathing, I never saw him again, but I've thanked him a thousand times. It's almost enough to hang out in bus stations. But not quite.

I probably pass by that Greyhound station daily. Want me to tackle the guy for you?