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

[AAAndrew]

Received in the mail today a TWISBI Micarta v2 that has a wonderful medium butter stub from the inimitable Pendleton Brown.

I had had my eye on this pen for a while. It fits my aesthetic with it's pseudo industrial, pseudo organic kind of material. It already has a variation in colors and textures (fuzzy threads), and then add to it, a wonderfully smooth stub that's had a special rainbow treatment, and now it's a killer pen.

I filled it with Sailor Jentle Epinard and I call it my Spinach in Browned Butter. So far it is the only pen that can rival my Parker 51 stub for writing pleasure. And I love the look and feel of it. This is a pen that will acquire patina. Partially because of the material, but also because I will use it so much.

And the nib is so cool. Rough, smooth, shiny, burnt, multi-hued. It fits, so well.

Might as well just assume that this is what I'm using for the foreseeable future.

[KaB]

 

Received in the mail today a TWISBI Micarta v2 that has a wonderful medium butter stub from the inimitable Pendleton Brown.

I filled it with Sailor Jentle Epinard and I call it my Spinach in Browned Butter.

 

 

[amberleadavis]

 

Received in the mail today a TWISBI Micarta v2 that has a wonderful medium butter stub from the inimitable Pendleton Brown.

I had had my eye on this pen for a while. It fits my aesthetic with it's pseudo industrial, pseudo organic kind of material. It already has a variation in colors and textures (fuzzy threads), and then add to it, a wonderfully smooth stub that's had a special rainbow treatment, and now it's a killer pen.

I filled it with Sailor Jentle Epinard and I call it my Spinach in Browned Butter. So far it is the only pen that can rival my Parker 51 stub for writing pleasure. And I love the look and feel of it. This is a pen that will acquire patina. Partially because of the material, but also because I will use it so much.

And the nib is so cool. Rough, smooth, shiny, burnt, multi-hued. It fits, so well.

Might as well just assume that this is what I'm using for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

WOW -- Okay, I admit, I'd just use various inks named Blue Steel, Steel Blue etal. She's a beauty.

[Finalist]

Wow! That PB TWSBI Micarta is awesome. Do the slits on the nib add flex or a touch of softness?

[Green Ink]

Noodler's Ahab with Diamine Twilight! Lyrics to one of my favorite songs by Gregory Alan Isakov.

 

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Great handwriting and avatar!

[Callique]

Sorry about the spelling.

 

(Tachikawa G nib + Speedball holder, FPR Guru with EMF mod and EF grind)

 

 

 

Great calligraphy Disillusion! And that gold effect is super.

 

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People say "as boring as watching paint dry"… but what about watching ink dry? Not boring at all!

 

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Edited July 15, 2014 by Callique

[Callique]

 

Received in the mail today a TWISBI Micarta v2 that has a wonderful medium butter stub from the inimitable Pendleton Brown.

I had had my eye on this pen for a while. It fits my aesthetic with it's pseudo industrial, pseudo organic kind of material. It already has a variation in colors and textures (fuzzy threads), and then add to it, a wonderfully smooth stub that's had a special rainbow treatment, and now it's a killer pen.

I filled it with Sailor Jentle Epinard and I call it my Spinach in Browned Butter. So far it is the only pen that can rival my Parker 51 stub for writing pleasure. And I love the look and feel of it. This is a pen that will acquire patina. Partially because of the material, but also because I will use it so much.

And the nib is so cool. Rough, smooth, shiny, burnt, multi-hued. It fits, so well.

Might as well just assume that this is what I'm using for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

What a cool looking nib! I didn't know nibs could be coloured like that. I also really like your ink colour.

So can you buy any nib and have it sent to Pendleton Brown for transformation?

[Callique]

 

 

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[AAAndrew]

the nib does have some flex to it. I am new to flexing, so I didn't try to show it, but I can easily make it do some flexing. The coloration is done by removing some of the gold and touching the nib with heat (a torch probably). I love the look of the roughened nib with the rough-looking (but actually quite smooth) micarta material.

 

You can send nibs to Mr. Brown, or he also sells some pens with this or other treatments. He sells these micartas (until they run out as it was just announced that they're no longer being made) with his "Pendleton Point Bad Boy with Angel Wings Hot-Tip Semi-Flex~Italic Elegant Butter~line Stub"; the "Frosted" version (also comes "Non-frosted). With choice of fine, medium and broad stubs. This is a medium stub.

 

Pendleton Brown has a growing reputation 'round these parts, and now I understand why. The nib not only looks really cool, but it writes very well. It is smooth without being overly glassy, shaped with a nice compromise between stub and italic, and the nice bit of flex is cool. And he's adjusted it to be a nice wet writer without being sloppy. It even works terrifically on my cotton paper (shown).

 

Man, now I want one in broad italic. The medium is great for daily writing. The broad would be for fun.

 

And I guess I should also give a shout out to the Epinard ink. I bought this recently as this is also retiring, but hadn't put it in anything yet. As soon as I bought the pen, I knew where it needed to go. It looks perfect with the brown of the pen body, the rough rainbow nib and the dark, saturated olive ink. It just makes you want to write.

[Finalist]

I'm used to seeing your microscope writing and It's the first time than I see you writing with flex nib. It's pretty good.

 

A little flex mimicry that I've been working on. I bet I watched those youtube videos a hundred times easily.

 

Namiki Falcon with John M's Spencerian grind on APICA with Tsuki-yo.

[Sinistral1]

I'd like to see a photo of the entire pen that is a TWISBI Micarta - the material the pen is made of looks interesting, maybe a more affordable pen than the Visconti Homo Sapiens lava pen that I think Thier should think about regifting - to me!!

[AAAndrew]

The micarta material is different. It looks rough, but is smooth. It feels like something in between plastic and wood. It looks like it will patina, yet it's quite hard and sturdy. I've also read of at least one account of using it as an eyedropper, though many seem to think it will absorb ink and get stained.

 

I really like it. The threads come a little bit fuzzy from when they were cut, but that wears off. And speaking of threads, there are a ton of them. It takes about 3-4 turns to get the cap off, and the section is threaded with about 10 turns. Which is another reason why it makes me think of an eyedropper.

 

Maybe not this one, but if I get another, I'd be tempted to try.

 

 

and closer

 

 

It's a big pen, bigger than I normally like, but I like this one. It's made me possibly reconsider a few big pens I'm looking to sell. (blue Conklin Endura OS and a Delta 365). It's not quite as large as those pens, so I think I'll sell them anyway. But not my Spinach in Brown Butter!

[Sinistral1]

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Waterman 512 loaded with Kingdom Note (Sailor) Tanna Japonesis. I stopped flexing because ink was running out!

[darkizz_89]

Well...

[carretera18]

[Montblanc 244G with Albert Einstein ink]

 

[Montblanc 145 obb nib and Noodler's Nightshade ink]

[dcpritch]

Well...

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Wow, that's a handsome collection of items!

[dcpritch]

... it looks like it will patina, yet it's quite hard and sturdy.

 

Great description - you've really told what the pen is like.

 

I've had one since they first came out (with a Pendleton Brown stub nib, to boot!) and carried it everywhere from Yankees games, Cottesloe Beach, boardroom meetings, wilderness canoe trips, and lots in between. It does develop a patina with use, works all the time, never looks out of place, doesn't hold enough ink in the converter, and is one of my standby travel pens. I'm leaving later this week for a two week trip (to celebrate with my wife our 30th anniversary) and it will be coming along - again.

[dcpritch]

 

A little flex mimicry that I've been working on.

 

Finalist, you are doing some amazing things with that Falcon!

[zoniguana]

[EBUCKTHORN]

Here's a quick primer on Micarta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micarta