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

[pankaj]

Zaphod Beautiful collection you have there. I hope your office has great security system.

 

Troy How wonderful that you have your great aunt's pen! I wish I had a family heirloom like that. It would really mean a lot to me, if I had in my hand something that my relative held and used years prior. I just have to find a long lost relative who used fountain pens!

Yesss ... you got one SNAK

[the_gasman]

It all looks so....intelligent.

 

As opposed to what my meeting notes look like. Sigh. Even in my highest levels of college, my most esoteric writings never looked that cool. They were all about the use of hybrid creatures in depictions of virtue on 2nd-century Chinese tombs and some such blather.

 

Nice pens.

Are you saying that that DOESN'T sound intelligent !!!

I just do dot-to-dot at work ... all of a sudden I'm feeling sort of Neanderthal.

 

Cheers, David.

 

PS: I'd love to post some photos on this thread, too, but my images always end up looking dull and boring. I'm envious of some of the wonderful artistry in this thread — I have it pinned in my favourites.

[uemuraw]

Are you saying that that DOESN'T sound intelligent !!!

I just do dot-to-dot at work ... all of a sudden I'm feeling sort of Neanderthal.

 

Cheers, David.

 

PS: I'd love to post some photos on this thread, too, but my images always end up looking dull and boring. I'm envious of some of the wonderful artistry in this thread — I have it pinned in my favourites.

We all have something to contribute. For instance, as a Neanderthal, you could come to America and help all our Homo Erectus citizens connect dots. And now, I'm curious to see a picture of pen and ink from FPN's best beloved proto-human.

[cambookpro]

 

 

 

Good luck with your studies, cambookpro and Attila, I spent all my academic life in the humanities field so all the maths and symbols are completely alien to me. But they look good. And that's what matters right?

 

When I used to have to mark post grad students' essays they were all printed from computers thankfully, but if they had been handwritten and if someone had beautiful handwriting, I would have certainly given them extra super duper bonus points just for that. You would get brownie points for beautiful ink choice and handwriting, if I were your lecturer.

 

Thank you

 

I much prefer studying English myself, but sometimes I grit my teeth and bear all the numbers and symbols! At least a nice pen and ink makes it somewhat enjoyable.

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Zaphod Beautiful collection you have there. I hope your office has great security system.

 

I do not actually keep all those pens there all the time and never over the weekend.

[cybaea]

 

• Pelikan Style Silver - broad - J Herbin Bleu Nuit
• TWSBI Diamond 580 - 1.1mm - C Roberson & Co Classical Transparent Penman Ink (CTPI) Moss Green
• TWSBI Diamond 580 - 1.1mm - Diamine Violet
• Conway Stewart Churchill 'Excalibur' - Italic Fine - Montblanc Meisterstuck 90 Years Anniversary Grey
• Pelikan M800 Tortoiseshell - Richard Binder (RB) custom italic - Caran d'Ache Chromatics Infinite Grey
• Pelikan M200 Demonstrator - Richard Binder (RB) XF/XXF duo point full flex - Diamine Havasu Turquoise
• Lamy Vista - Steel EF - Noodler's Fox

[Sharkpie]

My newest! It's hard to see in this cell phone picture, but the shading with this Ink & broad nib is amazing.

Edited May 30, 2015 by Sharkpie

[Cyber6]

Sailor Sapporo Mini

KWZI Honey

 

[saskia_madding]

I still miss that pen sometimes! Remember to please sell it back to me if you decide to part with it!

[line]

That ink is gorgeous!

[da vinci]

line, pankaj, AAAndrew, unclepoop, Attila and da vinci, thanks for your comments.

 

pankaj The 1.5mm nib on my Safari is a factory italic nib, one of the bunch of nib sizes I got for my Safari when I started with this fountain pen hobby. I think it is available as spare nib at most shops that sell Safari's.

 

da vinci The orange "note book" is actually just a notebook cover that takes A5 size notebooks or notepads. This cover has two slots that can take notebooks (that open sideways) and notepads (that open upwards) so I find it handy, but mostly I use it for my writing pads for letter writing. At the moment I have my homemade Tomoe River pad, Bung Box special "Bumpy" notepad, and Clairefontaine Triomphe pad in it.

I found the link for it on Amazon Japan where I bought it from. I know there's lots of Japanese gobbledygook on the page, but at least it shows more photos. I couldn't get the translation thing to translate the whole page.

 

 

Edited to add the link.

Thank you SNAK, most helpful

[Keyless Works]

Stylo Art Karuizawa

 

 

[amberleadavis]

 

 

• Pelikan Style Silver - broad - J Herbin Bleu Nuit
• TWSBI Diamond 580 - 1.1mm - C Roberson & Co Classical Transparent Penman Ink (CTPI) Moss Green
• TWSBI Diamond 580 - 1.1mm - Diamine Violet
• Conway Stewart Churchill 'Excalibur' - Italic Fine - Montblanc Meisterstuck 90 Years Anniversary Grey
• Pelikan M800 Tortoiseshell - Richard Binder (RB) custom italic - Caran d'Ache Chromatics Infinite Grey
• Pelikan M200 Demonstrator - Richard Binder (RB) XF/XXF duo point full flex - Diamine Havasu Turquoise
• Lamy Vista - Steel EF - Noodler's Fox

 

 

 

Nice

[masterguns]

Crappy picture, but you get the idea

 

 

[SNAK]

Stylo Art Karuizawa

 

 

Very beautiful colour of that Cassia ink. It might have to go into my "don't need it, but want it anyway" list. I love purple inks.

Is the buffalo horn barrel nice and warm to the touch? I have a few pieces of rather large hair accessories and they warm up to body temperature really nicely I find. I can imagine the pen feeling lovely in the hand.

[SNAK]

Crappy picture, but you get the idea

 

Pens.jpg

Nice pens you showed us. I see you prefer F/M nibs.

 

Speaking of which, does anyone know what the difference is between the K and C on the gold nibs?

I have some nibs that say 14CT (English Mabie Todd), 14KT (vintage Waterman Canada) 14C (modern and vintage Pelikan, and vintage MB), 18K (modern MB), 14K (modern Japanese), 14K (vintage Wahl Eversharp), etc. Why are they written differently when they all mean the same thing? I didn't pay attention to it much before, but after I saw masterguns' description of his nibs I checked my pens that are inked up on the desk here and realised how varied they are. Why?

Edited May 31, 2015 by SNAK

[amberleadavis]

Karas Kustom Violet

in handmade Notebook from fellow FPNer, GatzBCN.

[masterguns]

Nice pens you showed us. I see you prefer F/M nibs.

 

Speaking of which, does anyone know what the difference is between the K and C on the gold nibs?

I have some nibs that say 14CT (English Mabie Todd), 14KT (vintage Waterman Canada) 14C (modern and vintage Pelikan, and vintage MB), 18K (modern MB), 14K (modern Japanese), 14K (vintage Wahl Eversharp), etc. Why are they written differently when they all mean the same thing? I didn't pay attention to it much before, but after I saw masterguns' description of his nibs I checked my pens that are inked up on the desk here and realised how varied they are. Why?

 

 

 

Thanks SNAK. For everyday type of writing, I do tend to prefer fine and medium. I do have a few stubs and one broad nib, just to keep things interesting.

 

Have a look at this thread (see post 12), which seems to make sense to me. Depending on the market for which a company was making pens, the spelling of carat/karat may have influenced which spelling was used. Granted, that thread is in the mb subforum, so it might not apply across the board. Like you, I have some of each. I will say that my my two 14C nibs are both German, so this explanation makes at least some sense to me.

[SNAK]

Thanks masterguns, I read all 4 pages of the thread you linked. It actually confuses me more! I have German pens that use C and American pens that use K, and many of the pens I have are 60+ years old so I don't know whether the old/new will change the C/K difference.

 

I am totally confused. So I decided not to look at the C's and the K's because if I start thinking about them, I go . Thankfully, not looking at the C/K is quite easy because they are so tiny on the nibs anyway.

Edited May 31, 2015 by SNAK

[SNAK]

 

 

 

Pen: Waterman's 51V Red Ripple (with factory stub nib)

Ink: Sailor Kobe #32 Tamon Purple Grey

Paper: Tomoe River (White)