What Indian Pens Are You Using Today?

[mhguda]

I seem to remember those actually come apart easily (did that to mine by accident!) - if you screw off the section. Maybe you could then flush the cleaning solution through more forcefully from the end of the section. Or even (but that I have not done so not sure) pull out the nib and feed assembly to scrub?

Also, have you tried opening the gap between the tines, and also the gap between the feed and the nib?

Also, people here have suggested just soaking the section...

[akstorm]

I seem to remember those actually come apart easily (did that to mine by accident!) - if you screw off the section. Maybe you could then flush the cleaning solution through more forcefully from the end of the section. Or even (but that I have not done so not sure) pull out the nib and feed assembly to scrub?

Also, have you tried opening the gap between the tines, and also the gap between the feed and the nib?

Also, people here have suggested just soaking the section...

 

I actually took the whole pen apart and left it soaked in water overnight, still nothing, have not fiddled around with the nib yet and i looked at the nib through a loop it seems to be fine, i guess as the feed is ebonite i would try making it wetter by increasing the feed capillary a little bit with a blade, saw a video on youtube how to do that, but am scared to do that as the store i got the pen from do not stock them anymore and i really dont want to screw up my pen. But will give it a try.

[mhguda]

Did you see the Youtube video where they press down on the nib while writing (careful, don't overdo!) to open up both the gap between the tines and that between the nib and the feed? Take a look before you try this though, as too much pressure can break the nib...

There is also the shim between the tines, or pulling on the nib shoulders.

Lastly, I've found that a little polishing of the nib, on glass, is sometimes helpful. Wet it first, do a few strokes (as if forcibly writing) ,see how it behaves, repeat if necessary. I am not sure why this works, but I've had cases where it did. It will tend to broaden the pen's footprint a little though.

I would try all this before actually taking a blade to the feed, BTW. If you cut that feed too far, you will have a gusher on your pen and no way to reverse that!

And, one last thought hitting: maybe the gap between nib and feed is not too small but too large! in which case you would need to reduce it. This could be done by turning the nib & feed upside down and bearing down (gently) while writing.

HTH.

[nickapos]

Hello everyone, I have been using my ROMUS demonstrator piston filler for a couple of days now, with my chelpark turqoise blue ink (the worst flowing ink I have got)

 

It is a nice pen, especially for this ink, the only other pen I can use this ink with is my Konrad...

 

I guess that Indian made pen and inks go well together

Edited October 8, 2013 by nickapos

[akstorm]

Did you see the Youtube video where they press down on the nib while writing (careful, don't overdo!) to open up both the gap between the tines and that between the nib and the feed? Take a look before you try this though, as too much pressure can break the nib...

There is also the shim between the tines, or pulling on the nib shoulders.

Lastly, I've found that a little polishing of the nib, on glass, is sometimes helpful. Wet it first, do a few strokes (as if forcibly writing) ,see how it behaves, repeat if necessary. I am not sure why this works, but I've had cases where it did. It will tend to broaden the pen's footprint a little though.

I would try all this before actually taking a blade to the feed, BTW. If you cut that feed too far, you will have a gusher on your pen and no way to reverse that!

And, one last thought hitting: maybe the gap between nib and feed is not too small but too large! in which case you would need to reduce it. This could be done by turning the nib & feed upside down and bearing down (gently) while writing.

HTH.

Thank you, will try it out

[Aramchek]

Hello everyone, I have been using my ROMUS demonstrator piston filler for a couple of days now, with my chelpark turqoise blue ink (the worst flowing ink I have got)

 

It is a nice pen, especially for this ink, the only other pen I can use this ink with is my Konrad...

 

I guess that Indian made pen and inks go well together

I second that. I have tried inking several pens with Chelpark Green, and I can't offhand think of a single non-Indian pen I got it to work properly in, but it does work in most Indian pens. I seem to recall it's the same with the other Chelpark I have (which looked purple on the computer screen and pink when I actually got it. D'oh!) and the Camlin Black, but it's been a while since I tried them.

[a_m]

Hello everyone,

 

Relatively new to FPN, from india, currently in bangalore.

 

Today i was using the Rotomac Designmate DMF-801

 

Also I was using, the Camlin No. 47, which has been giving me flow issues and i really cant fix it.

 

 

 

That cap looks pretty. How does it write?

[akstorm]

 

 

 

That cap looks pretty. How does it write?

 

It writes very smooth with no scratch at all. And the nib grade is more like a western Fine medium

[kapilapshankar]

As weird as it may sound, I lost the red pen from yesterday. It seems to have vanished miraculously without leaving any traces behind .

 

Hari, Margo, Pelman - Thank you for the complements. Appreciate your kind words.

 

Margo - The Elegante is fairly new with the original Camlin nib. I think the subtle line variation might be due to my writing style - I occasionally write a few characters with a different slant before getting back to the default slant.

 

Cheers!

 

Kapil

[Aramchek]

I decided to drain the Camlin 2 (by pouring the ink into a Serwex 101 - one of the handy things with eyedroppers) and pulled out the ink and feed. Turned out there was a bunch of plastic fragments in the feed - no wonder it wrote so poorly! I'll try it again at some point. The 101, like most Serwex pens, writes quite well, while looking very, very cheap. I noticed after filling it that the barrel has been so poorly drilled (transparent barrel, like many Airmails) that on one side there is a very, very thin wall between where the ink is and where a lot of things I don't want to get a few mls of ink to end up! So, I expect the ink will end up in a third eyedropper soon. Or on my hands, papers and desk.

 

Edit: typo

Edited October 9, 2013 by Aramchek

[a_m]

 

It writes very smooth with no scratch at all. And the nib grade is more like a western Fine medium

 

 

Thanks. Thats good. Usually I have found many Indian FPs even if they have good construction and shape, their nib quality in general is very poor. To the extent, even the Camlin Elegante - one (of the two I bought) came with scratchy nib !!! And that is beside the very foul plastic smell that does not go of easily!

 

So, I am always on look out for FPs with good nib and with resin / acrylic / metallic barrel

 

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Edited October 9, 2013 by a_m

[mhguda]

Aramchek -

Glad you got that sorted out. You'll see that once cleaned, that Camlin will write like a dream...

[Sasha Royale]

I am using a 25 rupee Reynolds eyedropper pen. The nib is scratchy and stiff as a nail. It is annoyingly LOUD. However, it has completed a skip-free, three-page letter to my cousin. My Esterbrook is not forty times better, nor is my TWSBI eighty times better. Delightful !

 

In a couple of weeks, I will trot out my Serwex 162.

Edited October 9, 2013 by Sasha Royale

[Aramchek]

So, in my last post, I said I might drain the Serwex 101 since it looked like the barrel was fragile due to production faults. Well, I did.

Next pen was the Oliver 90. It turned out to have several interesting features:

*A design that looks like a fancier version of the Parker Vectra

*A nib that doubles as a paper fibre extractor

*A leaky section

I've heard of green fingers before, but I don't think this is what they meant.

Still, I had a Camlin that I hadn't tried yet. Trusty ole Camlin which has never before failed me. Well, except for the Camlin 2 that came with pre-installed gunk. And the Elegante which had a worse nib than the cheaper Trinity. That ink spill with the Trinity was my fault though. So, I inked the Camlin 36 and started writing it, marvelling at how smooth the nib was for such a cheap pen. A few characters later I switched to staring at the large puddle of ink on the page. Presumably this model has to be filled more than 95% to not burp.

I've now inked the Guider Acrylic and I'm trying to decide if I dare try to actually write with it.

[a_m]

I am using a 25 rupee Reynolds eyedropper pen. The nib is scratchy and stiff as a nail. It is annoyingly LOUD. However, it has completed a skip-free, three-page letter to my cousin. My Esterbrook is not forty times better, nor is my TWSBI eighty times better. Delightful !

 

In a couple of weeks, I will trot out my Serwex 162.

 

Usually the cheaper Reynold FPs, I have found the nib to be made of iron ! (it sticks with the magnet)

[a_m]

So, in my last post, I said I might drain the Serwex 101 since it looked like the barrel was fragile due to production faults. Well, I did.

Next pen was the Oliver 90. It turned out to have several interesting features:

*A design that looks like a fancier version of the Parker Vectra

*A nib that doubles as a paper fibre extractor

*A leaky section

I've heard of green fingers before, but I don't think this is what they meant.

Still, I had a Camlin that I hadn't tried yet. Trusty ole Camlin which has never before failed me. Well, except for the Camlin 2 that came with pre-installed gunk. And the Elegante which had a worse nib than the cheaper Trinity. That ink spill with the Trinity was my fault though. So, I inked the Camlin 36 and started writing it, marvelling at how smooth the nib was for such a cheap pen. A few characters later I switched to staring at the large puddle of ink on the page. Presumably this model has to be filled more than 95% to not burp.

I've now inked the Guider Acrylic and I'm trying to decide if I dare try to actually write with it.

 

 

I have found most of the Indian (mass produced) FPs come with a "Fine" nib. However the Fine nib is of such variety that even if they do not extract fibre, there is a definite and annoying bleed through (Oliver, Wality, Camlin etc). In comparison, some of the good Fine nibbed FPs there is no bleed through and no fibre extraction. I have one of the Deccan Jr. Advocates Ebonite - the nib is Fine (or perhaps EF in line width), but so smooth that it would beat even the Lamy in terms of smoothness in writing experience.

 

As to EDs, yes you are right - that kind of thing usually defeats the very purpose of an ED FP. However, you can write with the Elegant used as ED with minimal of ink, and it wont burp out. Elegante is one of the few FP which I have found that it takes vigorous shaking for any ink to come out of it. The usual ED would just drop lots of ink with even slight jerks.

 

 

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[VillersCotterets]

A Serwex 362 fitted with buttery smooth Premium Medium nib from FP Revolution.

The clip on that pen is ugly, but oh so! pleasant to use. If only all clips where that good...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/uxgzs.gqocy/v/vspfiles/photos/Serwex362-Black-4.jpg?1366128247

[mhguda]

I'm using my blue Guider Acrylic, my Serwex MB, both from FPR, and my Wality 52 piston filler from fellow FPN member Mesu.

[rwilsonedn]

Just cleaned out a new Deccan Yematso after its first rotation. Great nib, very predictable feed, and wonderful balance, as well as being a very attractive pen. Deccan did it again. And by the way, despite this being a rather large ED, no flow irregularities until literally the last few lines before the pen was totally dry.

Love it!

ron

[VillersCotterets]

Just cleaned out a new Deccan Yematso after its first rotation. Great nib, very predictable feed, and wonderful balance, as well as being a very attractive pen. Deccan did it again. And by the way, despite this being a rather large ED, no flow irregularities until literally the last few lines before the pen was totally dry.

Love it!

ron

Like this one? http://jaisiri.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-deccan-yematso-deccan-pens-tribute.html