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Been heavily hemorrhaging with

  • Conid Kingsize Titanium F stub with a mix of Herbin Perle Noire and Edelstein Moonstone
  • Karas Pen Co Vertex Kingfisher F that writes B with Noodler's Proctor's Ledge

Both waay too much ink and volume :rolleyes: I need a NaNoWriMo or take up drawing...

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So far today it's been the Dark Lilac Safari, F nib, with Diamine Pelham Blue. Finally got a chance to try the sample I had, and I think I may just have (finally) found the replacement for MB Leo Tolstoy LE when I run out of that. Of course I'm going to have to do a side by side at some point (and maybe even a side by side by side -- adding in Robert Oster Carbon Fire in a pen that wasn't as dry as the 1.1 stub nibbed Vibrant Pink al-Star....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Conklin: Glider in Red Stripe Lever Fill Ink Vue w/a Sweet Nib c.1940's

 

Fred

 

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

 

Winston Churchill Radio Broadcast 9 Feb, 1941

Address to F.D.R.

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Namo Collectors Item

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Working with my Lamys today - happiness is just silly sometimes.

 

2K steel with a EF 18k gold nib, Pelikan violet

Vintage 2K with a B 18K gold nib, Iroshizuku Tsuky Yo

Lamy 27m with an EF nib, Noodler's Air Corp blue/black.

 

 

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free 70 pages graphic novel. Enjoy!

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I have just received a Delike brass pen (the version that looks like a pumped up Kaweco Liliput) and I am favourably surprised by how nice it is.

My recent purchases of Chinese pens have been rather disappointing in terms of pen defects and quirky nibs. This time I seem to have been lucky or Delike has got this pen just right.

The size is comfortable, even uncapped. The fact it is slightly bigger than the Liliput is a serious plus, and makes it different. The fact the design is the same bothers me slightly, but the advantage is so evident it is a desirable feature.

Quality of manufacture is good too. The brass is well machined, the threads are not too sharp (they seem sharper on my Liliput actually).

It's not a light pen, but you do expect to feel some weight with a brass pen.

The nib writes surprisingly well! Its an EF which fortunately for me - as I prefer broader nibs - is not so EF. It writes a fine to medium line, and I have slightly tuned it to my liking making it slightly wetter (it was a bit too dry for me) and slightly smoother with a few runs on micromesh.

I've just filled it with Diamine Midnight and I'm happier that I would have expected when I ordered it.

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I had a nice combination with me today and all saw playing time.

1. Early '50's Conway Stewart 84

2. 1950's Autopoint mechanical penicl

3. Mid '70's Parker Jotter with a black gel refill

"Respect science, respect nature, respect all people (s),"

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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I don't know if this counts as 'using' a pen, but I just opened up the 8-pack of Pilot Petit1 fountain pens I received from Amazon, inked up the black one with the cartridge that came with it, and scribbled half a page with it. In spite of the ‹F› marking on the nib, it writes more broadly (and smoothly and wetly) compared to, say, a steel Fine-nibbed Pilot MR Metropolitan. Off to my wife the whole lot goes, since she doesn't seem to mind broader lines on the page (up to a 'Japanese Medium').

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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So far today it's been the Dark Lilac Safari, F nib, with Diamine Guitar Series Pelham Blue (definitely need to get myself a full bottle of this!); and the Pilot Decimo, Grey, F nib, with Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa. But after lunch I'm probably going to play around with filling a couple of pens because I bought ink yesterday at Bromfield Pen Shop and Bob Slate Stationers.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Add the Sailor Pro Gear Slim Purple Cosmos, zoom nib, with Kyo-no-oto Sakuranezumi. Trying what to think of the color now that I've bought the ink....

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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late '40's Sheaffer Crest/conical nib

New old Parker Jotter circa '75

'40's Rocket Autopoint pencil

"Respect science, respect nature, respect all people (s),"

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Jinhao 159 - Silver/Gold - M. nib. Ink: Thornton's Oxblood

TWSBI Eco (Yellow) - M. nib. Ink: Diamine Sargasso Sea

Jinhao Mako Shark - Green - M. nib Ink: Diamine Sherwood Green

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The pen I'm using today is a Pilot Metropolitan with a stub nib, it's running a cartridge of Pilot Mixable Black.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

A Smug Dill

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Sheesh, in the scanned image above you can hardly even tell which part of the text is written with each pen and each ink!

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I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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I took this Stypen Up out on a whim yesterday and popped a Monteverde Blue cartridge into it that probably would never have been used otherwise. I've seen some discussion before on whether this pen properly meets the definition of a "safety pen", but it does have a retractable nib. It still needs to be capped to keep it from drying out, but there's a little extra bit of safety from getting ink on your fingers when uncapping it, not that that's ever really been an issue for me.

 

Just another cheap pen that writes adequately, and has a little added gimmick.

 

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"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

 

- Benjamin Franklin

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