Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using *show* Us!, 2017

[Diderot]

Thank you, I‘m also using still this parker:

 

Amazing; truly impressive.

[hachikomustang]

Latest additions to my little collection, Pilot Vanishing Point (Carbonesque Green), along with a new 6 pen wrap.

beatiful pen wrap

[perfaddict]

[Tas]

 

 

 

Ooo, how are you finding the Aion?

I'm loving mine

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Are you also interested in the pens I do not really currently use, but use for my Inktober portraits?

[pictogramax]

Yes, we are, those are beautiful portraits of pens.

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Yes, we are, those are beautiful portraits of pens.

Thank you. Then I‘ll post my current portraits here as well

[perfaddict]

 

 

Ooo, how are you finding the Aion?

I'm loving mine

 

 

Love at first use. So comfortable to hold, with such a smooth nib. Once again, Lamy has stepped elegantly to the plate.

[Tas]

 

 

Love at first use. So comfortable to hold, with such a smooth nib. Once again, Lamy has stepped elegantly to the plate.

 

Glad to hear it.

 

(I filled mine up with Akkerman #10 after seeing your post)

 

[AAAndrew]

I finally acquired some pre-prepped (i.e dried and cut) quills. The seller cut his own idea of a nib on the quill which was basically a long taper. These didn't work so well for me so I started experimenting with cutting my own. (he also drills a hole in the nib with the idea that somehow it holds more ink, it doesn't)

The process has been most illuminating. One lesson which should have been obvious to me, but wasn't until I started this, is that each quill is unique. These feathers are the results of natural processes so some quills are thicker, some thinner, some stiffer, some softer. The trick is to take advantage of the positive qualities, compensate for the negative, and then find what kind of cut works best for you.

I've basically got three different quills at this point. The first is the pretty standard small "stub" type of cut. This seems to lay down a line most like the old letters I've seen. It's fast, smooth and durable. I suspect this was the type of cut most often used for everyday writing.

The second was my first attempt at making a sharper, more flexible point. It's definitely finer, and slightly flexible, but also more difficult to control, especially ink flow. This could be the nature of the ink I'm using, which is standard iron gall ink. Perhaps a thicker ink would work better.

The third was when I found a softer quill and decided to push limits. It's much sharper and so lays down a very fine line. It also flexes tremendously. I call this my Spencerian cut because it has such a contrast between thick and thin. This is much better at getting closer to squared off tops than the less flexible second type. (would most likely be better in the hands of someone better at this skill than I)

Anyway, I just thought I'd share. These are the pens I'm using most today as I can't seem to stop playing around with them every 30 minutes or so while I"m supposed to be working. (it's Friday, amiright?) I'm still just cutting the nibs with a big old box cutter. I need to get a finer, and sharper x-acto or pen knife to make them more elegant. But even this playing around has given me confidence to keep going.

Next steps are learning how to dry the quills myself and prep them from step 1, and then play around with an ideal shape for my writing.

Andrew

[Helen350]

Fosfor Pen - Maharaja. B. Nib. Iroshizuku Kon-Peki

[friedrichwild]

This was my first vintage flexible fountain pen.

the ink is Pelikan 4001 black.

[KaB]

This was my first vintage flexible fountain pen.

the ink is Pelikan 4001 black.

 

Beautiful pen, beautiful writing!

[KaB]

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

 

Stealth pen, whatever, lol

[friedrichwild]

 

Beautiful pen, beautiful writing!

thank you very much KaB!

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Maybe that is the predecessor to the TWSBI ECO???

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Maybe that is the predecessor to the TWSBI ECO???

 

Oh my goodness I just had the strangest dejavu. I had a (fountain) pen very similar to this one in high school, but since I only ever used Pelikan cartridges until a year ago, and this one is a piston filler... I don't know, maybe it was a copy? Suggestions please?

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Oh my goodness I just had the strangest dejavu. I had a (fountain) pen very similar to this one in high school, but since I only ever used Pelikan cartridges until a year ago, and this one is a piston filler... I don't know, maybe it was a copy? Suggestions please?

 

The Level has the proprietary squeeze ink bottle.

 

Yes, I still have these two unopened

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

The Level has the proprietary squeeze ink bottle.

 

Yes, I still have these two unopened

I REMEMBER THAT WACKY INK BOTTLE!!

 

Oh my god, I have so many flashbacks right now. I think I used one of these for... I don't know, maybe a year or a semester during high school, in tandem with a Pelikano. I think I finished a bottle and then since I couldn't find another bottle in any store, I lost the pen to the uncharted depths of my drawers.

 

This is awesome, thank you so much! What a walk down memory lane that bottle is. You made my day. : )