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

[SNAK]

M800 Tortoise

http://kephost.com/images/2015/09/02/ce89c0ad2d6d779dc84ca085848c22a8.jpg

This is really nice Attila! Beautiful photo, and I love it. Balance of light and dark is perfect.

[SNAK]

Oh my! Oh my oh my . . .

Thanks Tas. I looked at the linked thread from your artwork from a few days ago. I have "followed" it right away. Thanks for introducing me to that thread, I had no idea such a thread dedicated to pen and ink art existed on FPN!

 

Oh.... That Nakaya.....

 

But meanwhile, when I'm not experimenting with my new Emerald of Chivor ink (you can see a stain or two on the paper), I'm writing letters with some semi-flex dip nibs. This is one of my new favorites. And love the Walnut ink on Tomoe River paper.

I love the colour of Walnut ink for my dip pens too. When I dissolved the powder (a long time ago) I didn't use distilled water or anything, and it has been in the jar for over two years dipped and topped up with water and then dipped again, without any biocide or anything in the jar, so I am surprised that it is still good and there is no sign of funky stuff in my jar after so long, but it keeps going and going!

 

Breathtaking pen! Especially with such a nib! Oblique music nib...Wow!

Great work with the converter too!

Thanks Attila, this is my current most favourite pen. It's tiny, but I like small pens so it's great for me. John has managed to thin the back of the nib to add flexibility to the three-tined nib and adjusted for max ink flow, so it is perfection for me. And the added ink capacity gives me so much joy!! The DIY job looks dodgy but it works so wonderfully.

 

@SNAK:

 

The nib, the pen, the ink, the photos: amazing!

 

I'm taking reading notes with two of my faves:

 

Pilot CH92, FM, Pilot Blue

Sailor PG, B, Sailor Oku-yama (with some bonus crazy sheen)

 

 

Thank you gylyf. Inspired by your Sailor pen collection and the nibs on them, I am going to investigate an architect nib on a Sailor pen. I have emailed nibs.com with some questions about architect grind. So thank you for your inspiring posts with your pens and handwriting.

 

I really like that blue ink.

How do you make it?

Is there a commercially available that resembles it most?

 

Thanks

Thank you Diderot. My blue ink mix is a result to of mixing inks that I didn't like very much, and then amending the colour with some highly saturated inks.

 

I don't really have a recipe, but I have this 50ml glass bottle that I use for my blue mix, and it started as Montblanc Royal Blue which I didn't like much because of its weak colour (to me) and the colour that fades very quickly in a closed notebook. So I added Diamine's Sargasso Sea (for intense dye load), then added a bit of Sapphire Blue to adjust the colour to a more cobalt blue. I use this blue mix ink a lot so when I go down about halfway in the bottle, I add more washable blue inks like Pelikan Royal Blue, Waterman Florida Blue, or Lamy Blue. Then I will top up with the high intensity Diamine blue inks again.

 

Sargasso Sea I use for extra dye concentration, Sapphire Blue for reddish blue colour, and sometimes Majestic Blue for greenish blue colour. I stick to these three from the one ink manufacturer (Diamine) to hopefully limit the crazy chemical soup to a controllable level. I also add a bit of surfactant to make the mix really wet and to let the ink colour pop on paper, lubricant if I feel like it, and a biocide sometimes for good measure (you could use dishwasher rinse aid or even regular dishwashing detergent as your surfactant, and glycerine as your lubricant).

 

As you can see my mix is really a bit of this and a bit of that, and I adjust it as I go so the only constant thing about it is that it is always super wet because that's how I like my ink. On normal paper it would bleed and feather I think, but I use Tomoe River paper predominantly for everything so it is not an issue for me. Of course the wetness is adjustable if I need the mix to be less wet. In that case I would add more of the Pelikan Royal Blue because that one isn't overly wet, or I might add some distilled water to cut the surfactant concentration down (but I never had to make the mix less wet yet).

 

I don't know what commercial ink it resembles, the three Diamine blue inks above that I use for colour adjustment maybe, depending on how much of each I use for the particular topup opportunity? I hope my rambling helps you somewhat.

[AAAndrew]

How are the feeds working?

[Lince]

my incomplete flock of birds.

 

What is that nib! it is obscene!! Nice collection by the way.

[Inky.Fingers]

lince. Thank you. It was introduced a few pages back..

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/293279-dont-just-tell-us-about-the-pen-youre-using-show-us-2015-ii/page-40

[Inky.Fingers]

How are the feeds working?

I haven,t the chance to fiddle with it further. Waiting for a pressure cooker so that the resin would not have any bubbles.

[gylyf]

 

[mhphoto]

Man, that artist nib...

Edited September 6, 2015 by mhphoto

[AAAndrew]

I agree, "Oh, man. That Artist's nib!"

 

That 3160 ain't too shabby neither.

[mehandiratta]

Man, that artist nib...

I love your hand.....

beautiful....

 

 

and yes i envy you .... your mabbie todd swan... amazing...

[Inky.Fingers]

?pict? Plz artist nib

[perfaddict]

[mhphoto]

?pict? Plz artist nib

Here's the artist nib next to one of my favorite (and most flexible) regular nibs.

[Diderot]

 

Thank you Diderot. My blue ink mix is a result to of mixing inks that I didn't like very much, and then amending the colour with some highly saturated inks.

 

I don't really have a recipe, but I have this 50ml glass bottle that I use for my blue mix, and it started as Montblanc Royal Blue which I didn't like much because of its weak colour (to me) and the colour that fades very quickly in a closed notebook. So I added Diamine's Sargasso Sea (for intense dye load), then added a bit of Sapphire Blue to adjust the colour to a more cobalt blue. I use this blue mix ink a lot so when I go down about halfway in the bottle, I add more washable blue inks like Pelikan Royal Blue, Waterman Florida Blue, or Lamy Blue. Then I will top up with the high intensity Diamine blue inks again.

 

Sargasso Sea I use for extra dye concentration, Sapphire Blue for reddish blue colour, and sometimes Majestic Blue for greenish blue colour. I stick to these three from the one ink manufacturer (Diamine) to hopefully limit the crazy chemical soup to a controllable level. I also add a bit of surfactant to make the mix really wet and to let the ink colour pop on paper, lubricant if I feel like it, and a biocide sometimes for good measure (you could use dishwasher rinse aid or even regular dishwashing detergent as your surfactant, and glycerine as your lubricant).

 

As you can see my mix is really a bit of this and a bit of that, and I adjust it as I go so the only constant thing about it is that it is always super wet because that's how I like my ink. On normal paper it would bleed and feather I think, but I use Tomoe River paper predominantly for everything so it is not an issue for me. Of course the wetness is adjustable if I need the mix to be less wet. In that case I would add more of the Pelikan Royal Blue because that one isn't overly wet, or I might add some distilled water to cut the surfactant concentration down (but I never had to make the mix less wet yet).

 

I don't know what commercial ink it resembles, the three Diamine blue inks above that I use for colour adjustment maybe, depending on how much of each I use for the particular topup opportunity? I hope my rambling helps you somewhat.

 

Has it been helpful? Well, let's see now, a bit of this, a bit of that but not too much of the other :)

 

However, it really was rather entertaining and I really enjoyed reading it.

Thank you very much.

 

There was an attractive blue mix that was in the "old" section, but I cannot seem to find it.

It was by dcpritch, also using Diamine ink. I think it was a 1:1 mix of Asa blue and Sapphire blue.

[BobGast]

Man it appears that I really have a lot to learn. I know next to nothing about fountain pens although I do want to learn about them but don't really have a clue other than to just buy a few and use them. I am writing with a Pilot Metropolitan with a Pilot Namiki Black cartridge. I have some ink on order but it has not arrived yet. I'd take a picture but don't even know how to do that in this forum yet. I just joined and you all know what a Pilot Metropolitan is all about anyway, I am certain. And you all have so much better penmanship than I.

Edited September 7, 2015 by BobGast

[gylyf]

Man it appears that I really have a lot to learn. I know next to nothing about fountain pens although I do want to learn about them but don't really have a clue other than to just buy a few and use them. I am writing with a Pilot Metropolitan with a Pilot Namiki Black cartridge. I have some ink on order but it has not arrived yet. I'd take a picture but don't even know how to do that in this forum yet. I just joined and you all know what a Pilot Metropolitan is all about anyway, I am certain. And you all have so much better penmanship than I.

Welcome, Bob! You'll be amazed at how quickly you get the hang of things, especially if you spend a little time perusing the different topics on FPN.

 

As far as pictures are concerned, there are different ways of going about it, but the easiest is probably to upload them directly to the forum: when you go to reply to a post, click on 'More Reply Options' and you'll have the option of attaching pictures to your post. Hope that helps!

Edited September 8, 2015 by gylyf

[amberleadavis]

Well, I wrote this a while ago, and I have been fighting with my phone / computer for getting the pictures of the pens uploaded.

 

Sorry.

 

[akafridi3]

I have been busy with my other "interests" lately but it is always so nice to come back and look through all these pages full of beautiful pens and handwriting by everyone. This thread gives me such joy that it is not decent!

 

 

 

This pen has been my favourite ever since I first picked it up, and it almost feels like an extension of my hand. I love it because it is so small, light, and the nib is perfectly suited to my hand. The only and the biggest problem was its ink capacity (or lack thereof). With the standard Platinum converter that comes in Nakaya pens, I can write exactly 6 pages in my A5 notebook and that means I can go through a converter fill in about half an hour. I don't like the soft milky kind of plastic of the Platinum cartridge and refilling it with syringe involves a trip to the sink to wash the syringe afterwards so that was getting pretty annoying.

 

So I decided to do something about it, and did my usual MacGyver DIY job on it. Now the ink capacity is a bit over doubled, and it could be more if only my pen was longer and could accommodate a longer bit of sac added in. Also because it is now a kind of a bulb filler converter, I don't need the syringe and that eliminates trips to the sink for me which is great. I am very happy with the result, and now my little pen is perfect!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pen: Nakaya Mini Decapod (Akatame Nuri) with Flexible Oblique Music nib (by Mr. Mottishaw)

Ink: My Blue ink mix

Paper: Tomoe River (White)

I really like the creative way you were able to increase the ink capacity!

[Cryptos]

Sorry, horrible photos and handwriting again. Must keep practising!

 

 

[cybaea]

Pelikan M1000 Raden Starlight with a Richard Binder custom stub and Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst ink.