Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! - 2016

[Niagara Falls]

For the next weeks:

 

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[perfaddict]

 

Montblanc Heritage 1912 medium nib/Montblanc Permanent Blue ink

[Coop]

Finally, we have some weather here in the south of the Netherlands that vaguely resembles winter...

 

So why not use song lyrics with a winter theme today...

 

 

Pen: Twisconti 580AL (Twsbi 580AL with Visconti steel F-nib)

Ink: SBRE Brown

[TeaHive]

Today's pens are a Romillo Essential #9, an Eboya Kyouka, and a Shawn Newton with a custom handmade (flexy!) nib. Please excuse my terrible handwriting! I ran out of room on the writing sample but the ink in the Shawn Newton pen is Sailor Shigure, a dark purple with wonderful flow.

 

 

Lookin' good on the flex! I don't know why you would say, "excuse my terrible handwriting." All lovely pens.

 

 

For the next weeks:

 

 

Very classy! Do enjoy!

 

 

Montblanc Heritage 1912 medium nib/Montblanc Permanent Blue ink

 

My first time seeing this model. The flat, all-white top looks quite unique!

 

Finally, we have some weather here in the south of the Netherlands that vaguely resembles winter...

 

So why not use song lyrics with a winter theme today...

 

 

Pen: Twisconti 580AL (Twsbi 580AL with Visconti steel F-nib)

Ink: SBRE Brown

 

Thanks for sharing your pen, and the song! I took a listen to it on YouTube, and feel inspired to do some epic writing.

[TeaHive]

Day 17 of The Year of the Doodle.

 

TWSBI 580AL Silver with a Pilot EF nib

Diamine Grey

 

 

 

[perfaddict]

My first time seeing this model. The flat, all-white top looks quite unique!

 

 

 

Top is slightly domed. I just love the design of the pen and the retraction/filling mechanism.

Edited January 19, 2016 by perfaddict

[HalloweenHJB]

Today, with the cold (finally!!), an icy cool pen, with an icy cool ink color (in spite of its name): The Xezo Maestro in Abalone, with Waterman's South Seas Ink.

 

A winter poem from a Belgian children's reader...

 

 

The pen:

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2016 by HalloweenHJB

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Wow! Beautiful!

[HalloweenHJB]

Wow! Beautiful!

 

Actually, I think I was mistaken earlier. The pen that wrote the poem in Dutch is finished in mother-of-pearl, while the green abalone shell pen is here:

 

[Humanities]

I apologize for the crappy photo!!! This was my fifth attempt with my iPad!

 

I am pretty much a fountain pen newbie; since December I have been writing daily with the above pen, a Mont Blanc Slim Line. It was purchased by my brother for me as a Christmas gift or college graduation gift eons ago. When I first received the pen, I recall having enjoyed the sound of putting the cap on it, a little too much, and I broke something there in, but happily, a wonderful pen shop steps away from the old Filenes Basement (the original one, in the heart of downtown Boston), Bromfield Pens, fixed it. I recall that the repairman spoke lovingly and reverently about my pen, and since then I have taken much better care of it! Basically, basically it was hidden away in my jewelry box untouched for almost three decades! Oh the ups and downs this old friend has missed, tucked away. As I near my 50th birthday this summer, I am truly enjoying writing, journaling, with a passion that stems in large part from the enjoyment of this pen, But also, I am also enjoying a bounty of hard earned life experience upon which to reflect!

[Humanities]

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I love that "Apache Sunset"! What a beautiful range of written expression you have shared!! Many thanks, I'm inspired to go purchase ink asap!

[TeaHive]

 

 

Top is slightly domed. I just love the design of the pen and the retraction/filling mechanism.

 

Whoa! It looked flat in the first picture. I love optic tricks like that.

[papen]

The talent and the tools you folks exhibit is just Awesome!

 

Checking in here makes my day - well done.

[line]

 

Actually, I think I was mistaken earlier. The pen that wrote the poem in Dutch is finished in mother-of-pearl, while the green abalone shell pen is here:

 

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Double wow! They both are gorgeous, the abalone one even "wow'er" than the one made from mother of pearl! :-)

[Inky.Fingers]

Don't ask me how it writes. It is a dip pen nibbed (needle point to BBBBBBBBBBBBBB). Really!

 

[AAAndrew]

I was practicing a word and used several different pens.

 

Top one is a W. L. Mason #42. (made in France)

Moving down,

M.V. No. 5 Ground Points (made by Turner & Harrison)
Turner & Harrison 211
(left) J.L. Isaacs & Co. No. 58 Silver Plated (right) Spencerian Forty Falcon No. 40

 

[Inky.Fingers]

[RMN]

@HalloweenHJB

 

What a nice verse. And two very beautiful pens, the MOP and the Abalone.

 

 

D.ick

[Humanities]

I was practicing a word and used several different pens.

 

Top one is a W. L. Mason #42. (made in France)

Moving down,

M.V. No. 5 Ground Points (made by Turner & Harrison)

Turner & Harrison 211

(left) J.L. Isaacs & Co. No. 58 Silver Plated (right) Spencerian Forty Falcon No. 40

 

 

Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the word: My brother, an Economist, used to sail a boat named "Equilibrium"! The French have a few terms that come to mind, (and rats, my auto-spell thing keeps rewriting them to say something else! "EQUILIBRE"; BALANCEMENT..... On a different note, how does one learn to write so beautifully? Is there a book that you might recommend? Or a home-method?! Many thanks for your shared insight!

[AAAndrew]

Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the word: My brother, an Economist, used to sail a boat named "Equilibrium"! The French have a few terms that come to mind, (and rats, my auto-spell thing keeps rewriting them to say something else! "EQUILIBRE"; BALANCEMENT..... On a different note, how does one learn to write so beautifully? Is there a book that you might recommend? Or a home-method?! Many thanks for your shared insight!

 

Spell check is a blessing and a curse.

 

I began with Dr. Vitolo's iPad eBook on Copperplate and then began to form my own hand based loosely on roundhand (the less formal version of Copperplate taught by Vitolo). https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/script-in-copperplate-style/id547108521?mt=1

 

Use guide sheets and practice one of the main scripts to learn how the pens feel before making a hand your own.

 

I started last July not knowing a thing. I still have a long way to go, but it is fun.