Forgive Me. For I Have Sinned. :(

[Smurf-JJ-81]

I have recently rejoined this glorious community, an absence that had gone on for far too long!

 

3 years maybe 4 I thought I had wandered around in the limbo of life without FPN, but no, tis nearer 5,6 or even 7!

 

For this I may be condemned and have to write with the cursed pen of biro for the remainder of my days but please forgive an old fool.

 

Hopefully that was bought hook line and sinker.

 

I have just been looking through some really old posts as I couldn't remember my old username, and I came across this old post under my old name grandpasmurf, and it made me smile somewhat:

In the last 18 years of using fountain pens I have always filled through the nib, my trusty old vector has never had the converter removed and has never been washed out or 'flushed' as it has always had parker blue black in it and nothing else, now that i am older i have found a 'wiser' move, only ever use one ink in a pen, dont chop and change - if i want to try a new ink then it gives me a perfectly good excuse to buy another pen - think of all the hours of fun scouring pen shops and ebay looking for that specific pen at a given price, and the elation that follows the success, not to mention the fun of developing my little system

 

black body gold trim - black
black body chrome trim - blue black
flighter gold trim - purple
flighter chrome trim - royal blue
rolled gold - turquoise
satin steel flighter, chrome trim - florida blue

oooo just ordered some burgandy ink, off to ebay for a parker 88 in a fetching blue/burgundy decor

 

The system is still one I go by, it's really easy, see an interesting colour ink e.g Cocoa Shimmer, and then get a pen to suit it (A Thuya Parker Classic in that case!)

 

Incidentally I never got a Burgundy Parker 88, Instead I found a lovely Sheaffer Targa in Imperial Red Laque!

 

If anyone else has any little systems when it comes to pens, why not share?

[mitto]

Welcome back. Sharing we would be. Why not you share with us your Turga in Imperial Red Laque along with a writing sample?

 

Be happy with your pens.

[Inky.Fingers]

It's true then..We are a bunch of old men!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Welcome back.....I will let you into a little secrete..............we are living in the Golden Age of Inks....so it's not one ink only for one pen color.............unless you hit the numbers big time.

 

A picture of your Targra would do old eyes well.

Scribbles not needed, unless you can read your own handwriting.

[parker51man]

Welcome back, there's an alleged saying" A man with 2 watches never know the correct time" It is the same with ink and multiple pens. When you have sorted that out, then the nib choice raises it's ugly head

[A Smug Dill]

The system is still one I go by, it's really easy, see an interesting colour ink e.g Cocoa Shimmer, and then get a pen to suit it (A Thuya Parker Classic in that case!)

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If anyone else has any little systems when it comes to pens, why not share?

It's not really a (complete) system per se, but for 'fun' inks that I would like to keep handy (in practice, more for my fiancée's use than mine, since she actually writes colourful journals), I bought a whole bunch of Platinum Plaisir pens over time -- eleven out of the twelve available colours -- to hold:

Platinum Plaisir pen to ink assignments

Pen colour	Ink colour
#3 Ice White	Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun (old man winter)
#21 Pink	Iroshizuku kosumosu (autumn cherry blossom)
#25 Nova Orange	Iroshizuku fuyu-gaki (winter persimmon)
#28 Violet	Iroshizuku ajisai (hydrangea)
#41 Green	Iroshizuku shin-ryoku (deep green)
#47 Bali Citrus	Iroshizuku ina-ho (rice ear)
#56 Blue	Iroshizuku tsuyu-kusa (Asiatic dayflower)
#57 Frosty Blue	Iroshizuku ama-iro (sky blue)
#68 Yellow	Iroshizuku kiri-same (misty rain, or autumn showers)
#70 Red	Iroshizuku momoji (auburn leaves)
#98 Gunmetal	Platinum Carbon Black

I also have a nineteen Wing Sung 3008 pens inked up with different shimmer inks at the moment. Not that one cannot simply see the ink and shimmer colour through the clear piston-filler pen body, but I also completely disassembled each and every one of them, and reassembled them with some mixing and matching, so that each one is unique in the collection and have some semblance of encoding which ink is in which:

Wing Sung 3008 pen to ink assignments

Cap colour	Trim	Collar colour	Piston knob colour	Ink	Ink colour	Shimmer
clear	gold	blue	blue	Diamine Shimmering Seas	dark blue	gold
clear	gold	gold1	gold1	Diamine Golden Sands	yellow	gold
clear	gold	gold1	gold2	Diamine Inferno Orange	orange	gold
clear	silver	blue	blue	Diamine Starlit Sea	blue	silver
clear	silver	green	blue	Diamine Starlit Sea Peacock Flare	teal	silver
green	gold	blue	blue	J.Herbin Emeraude de Chivor	teal	gold
pink	gold	pink	pink	J.Herbin Rouge Hematite	red	gold

and so on.

 

Then there is also this kind of compulsive colour-matching:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331106-dont-just-tell-us-about-the-pen-youre-using-show-us-2018-2019/?p=4151825

 

I also do it with some of my better pens, for example Leonardo Momento Zero Hawaii pen with Iroshizuku kon-peki, Aurora 88 Sigaro Blu pen with KWZI Azure #2, Diplomat Aero in orange with Diamine Deep Dark Orange, and Pilot Custom Kaede with Diamine Cherry Sunburst.

 

Then there's name-matching, for example Platinum #3776 Century kanazawa-haku 'Ascending Dragon' pen with Diamine Red Dragon.

 

Trying to 'sensibly' match (over) a hundred different inks to a hundred pens is getting to be quite taxing!

Edited February 11, 2019 by A Smug Dill

[senzen]

Welcome back! I don't have a system, but eventually realized it was more about inks than pens for me, and so it turned into a quest for which pens can bring out the best in them. A system would have made it quicker and less haphazard. I did learn a useful hack along the way to make pens write less wet to make certain inks look better, but choosing a specific nib when purchasing the pen would have made it unnecessary. With approximately 26 inks and pens, it took a while but I can now ogle at them and smile.

[Smurf-JJ-81]

It's not really a (complete) system per se, but for 'fun' inks that I would like to keep handy (in practice, more for my fiancée's use than mine, since she actually writes colourful journals), I bought a whole bunch of Platinum Plaisir pens over time -- eleven out of the twelve available colours -- to hold:

Platinum Plaisir pen to ink assignments

Pen colour	Ink colour
#3 Ice White	Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun (old man winter)
#21 Pink	Iroshizuku kosumosu (autumn cherry blossom)
#25 Nova Orange	Iroshizuku fuyu-gaki (winter persimmon)
#28 Violet	Iroshizuku ajisai (hydrangea)
#41 Green	Iroshizuku shin-ryoku (deep green)
#47 Bali Citrus	Iroshizuku ina-ho (rice ear)
#56 Blue	Iroshizuku tsuyu-kusa (Asiatic dayflower)
#57 Frosty Blue	Iroshizuku ama-iro (sky blue)
#68 Yellow	Iroshizuku kiri-same (misty rain, or autumn showers)
#70 Red	Iroshizuku momoji (auburn leaves)
#98 Gunmetal	Platinum Carbon Black

I also have a nineteen Wing Sung 3008 pens inked up with different shimmer inks at the moment. Not that one cannot simply see the ink and shimmer colour through the clear piston-filler pen body, but I also completely disassembled each and every one of them, and reassembled them with some mixing and matching, so that each one is unique in the collection and have some semblance of encoding which ink is in which:

Wing Sung 3008 pen to ink assignments

Cap colour	Trim	Collar colour	Piston knob colour	Ink	Ink colour	Shimmer
clear	gold	blue	blue	Diamine Shimmering Seas	dark blue	gold
clear	gold	gold1	gold1	Diamine Golden Sands	yellow	gold
clear	gold	gold1	gold2	Diamine Inferno Orange	orange	gold
clear	silver	blue	blue	Diamine Starlit Sea	blue	silver
clear	silver	green	blue	Diamine Starlit Sea	teal	silver
green	gold	blue	blue	J.Herbin Emeraude de Chivor	teal	gold
pink	gold	pink	pink	J.Herbin Rouge Hematite	red	gold

and so on.

 

Then there is also this kind of compulsive colour-matching:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331106-dont-just-tell-us-about-the-pen-youre-using-show-us-2018-2019/?p=4151825

 

I also do it with some of my better pens, for example Leonardo Momento Zero Hawaii pen with Iroshizuku kon-peki, Aurora 88 Sigaro Blu pen with KWZI Azure #2, Diplomat Aero in orange with Diamine Deep Dark Orange, and Pilot Custom Kaede with Diamine Cherry Sunburst.

 

Then there's name-matching, for example Platinum #3776 Century kanazawa-haku 'Ascending Dragon' pen with Diamine Red Dragon.

 

Trying to 'sensibly' match (over) a hundred different inks to a hundred pens is getting to be quite taxing!

 

 

Your commitment is admirable, I love the fact that there is a whole spreadsheet dedicated to the task!

[Smurf-JJ-81]

Welcome back, there's an alleged saying" A man with 2 watches never know the correct time" It is the same with ink and multiple pens. When you have sorted that out, then the nib choice raises it's ugly head

 

Don't get me started on watches

[A Smug Dill]

Your commitment is admirable, I love the fact that there is a whole spreadsheet dedicated to the task!

 

 

Thanks. It's actually a workbook with multiple cross-referenced spreadsheets (or 'tabs'), full of formulae and conditional formatting.

[Bibliophage]

 

Don't get me started on watches

Why not? First pens, then safety razors, then watches....

 

You're good with watches - just don't buy more than one that works. The others can just look pretty.

[chravagni]

Welcome back, there's an alleged saying" A man with 2 watches never know the correct time"

The time to buy another! And another fp. And so on 😀

[LewBleu]

It's true then..We are a bunch of old men!

 

 

And darned-tootin' proud I've made it to the age I am!

[Restored]

"Perhaps your hands would remember their old strength better if they grasped your pen."

[Smurf-JJ-81]

 

 

Thanks. It's actually a workbook with multiple cross-referenced spreadsheets (or 'tabs'), full of formulae and conditional formatting.

 

Nice, I think I'd have thrown in a pivot table just for good measure!

 

[Smurf-JJ-81]

Why not? First pens, then safety razors, then watches....

 

You're good with watches - just don't buy more than one that works. The others can just look pretty.

A safety razor collection, I don't have one of those yet Could get a bit messy trying to shave with a nice old Duofold though....

[Smurf-JJ-81]

"Perhaps your hands would remember their old strength better if they grasped your pen."

This is true, I may have to do a little work out!

[Bibliophage]

A safety razor collection, I don't have one of those yet Could get a bit messy trying to shave with a nice old Duofold though....

I could see that. You might have to just try a Wear-Ever razor sharp knife.

[BaronWulfraed]

A safety razor collection, I don't have one of those yet Could get a bit messy trying to shave with a nice old Duofold though....

 

Have the nib ground to a /very/ sharp formal italic -- should be wide enough to cut two or three hairs at a time.

[Inky.Fingers]

For your penance, do buy three Montblanc FPs, three Aurora FPs and 3 Namiki Limited Edition FP.