Stub O' The Day

[AmandaW]

I made a guide sheet for italic practice - 5mm spacing with 5 degree slant lines - nice and dark so it can be seen through a plain sheet.

 

Can I add it be added to downloads? I'll attempt to put it here... italic_guides_5mm_5degrees.pdf

 

Kaweco Perkeo 1.5mm stub inked with Kaweco Black.

 

[AmandaW]

Lamy Joy 1.5mm with Cult Pens Deep Dark Brown. Another quote from Seneca. Is he right? Or is a shared trouble halved? And an opportunity for kindness as in my previous quote?

 

 

[essayfaire]

12 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Is he right?

I'm not sure - I often think that bemoaning troubles makes the troubled person lighter and less internally troubled though the outside problem remains unchanged. 

[Misfit]

I got three fountain pens for Christmas. Each have a 1.1mm nib. I also got myself a Monteverde Innova special edition when I was getting one for my brother for Christmas. 
 

 

[agaric]

[AmandaW]

More of Seneca's wisdom... today with a TWSBI Eco 1.1 inked with J.Herbin Lie de Thé.

 

[amberleadavis]

Today is a special pen from @FranklinChristoph and @DromgoolesHouston.  It is the Franklin Christoph Model 02 Whiskey River with a 1.1 Stub.

 

The FC steel nibs have been some of my favorites right out of the box. As of today, I have three FC steel nibs in rotation.  They are a great value. The Whiskey River material is a matte finish and much prettier in person, it has some purple, teal and gold mixed in the with the black. It is sort of a stealthy color.

 

[dms525]

54 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

Today is a special pen from @FranklinChristoph and @DromgoolesHouston.  It is the Franklin Christoph Model 02 Whiskey River with a 1.1 Stub.

 

The FC steel nibs have been some of my favorites right out of the box. As of today, I have three FC steel nibs in rotation.  They are a great value. The Whiskey River material is a matte finish and much prettier in person, it has some purple, teal and gold mixed in the with the black. It is sort of a stealthy color.

 

 

Nice!

 

The Model 02 is my F-C favorite of their models because of its ergonomics, and I agree about their nibs. Their Music nib is probably my number 1 favorite for practicing calligraphy. I generally have 2 or 3 pens with F-C Music nibs inked with different colors.

 

David

[amberleadavis]

@dms525

[dms525]

1 hour ago, amberleadavis said:

@dms525

 

❤️

[amberleadavis]

Today thanks to @tringle - Waterman 100 Year Pen with a Stub Nib.

 

 

[brokenclay]

 

Esterbrook J with a 9314 medium relief stub nib, filled with De Atramentis Oriental Red, an ink that I like better than I used to now that I realize that it is not red.

[tringle]

On 1/20/2022 at 3:29 AM, amberleadavis said:

Today thanks to @tringle - Waterman 100 Year Pen with a Stub Nib.

 

 

@amberleadavis I believe the pen suits you much more than me.  :0) 

[Misfit]

On 1/20/2022 at 7:59 AM, brokenclay said:

 

Esterbrook J with a 9314 medium relief stub nib, filled with De Atramentis Oriental Red, an ink that I like better than I used to now that I realize that it is not red.

Such lovely handwriting. 

[Misfit]

On 1/17/2022 at 6:50 PM, amberleadavis said:

Today is a special pen from @FranklinChristoph and @DromgoolesHouston.  It is the Franklin Christoph Model 02 Whiskey River with a 1.1 Stub.

 

The FC steel nibs have been some of my favorites right out of the box. As of today, I have three FC steel nibs in rotation.  They are a great value. The Whiskey River material is a matte finish and much prettier in person, it has some purple, teal and gold mixed in the with the black. It is sort of a stealthy color.

 

I really like the F-C Factory 1.1 CC nib. No extra charge for it when buying a pen, and it gives great line variations and character to writing. Great example in your photo of that.  😊

[AmandaW]

Never mind the pretty pens. The writing samples we're seeing in this thread are something to aspire to. Very encouraging.  And the pen as eye candy works too.

[amberleadavis]

On 1/23/2022 at 2:34 PM, Misfit said:

I really like the F-C Factory 1.1 CC nib. No extra charge for it when buying a pen, and it gives great line variations and character to writing. Great example in your photo of that.  😊

 

Today is a Franklin-Christroph Nagahara Steel Cursive Italic Nib in a Model 31 Italian Ice - the Italian Ice micro-fractures so it really looks like ice, but it lights up under UV light.

 

 

[Misfit]

I put a new cartridge in my Franklin-Christoph pocket 66 pen. It was a collaboration with The Pen Addict that I won in a drawing from The Well Appointed Desk blog. 
 

 

[amberleadavis]

@tringle

 

Technically, this isn't a stub, but it writes a little stubby and a little flexy.  I've wanted one of these since I first saw it in 1993.  It's a green Pelikan 800.

 

 

[Misfit]

@amberleadavis  what size is your Nagahara cursive italic nib?  I have the Masuyama cursive italic in B. If I were to buy another F-C pen, it would be interesting to get a Nagahara in the same size.