I got this pen today

[cat74]

I quite like my Sailor 1911 L and my full size Pro Gear...so when the chance came for 2 Pro Gear bodies with no nibs for $20 each arose I took it.

Soooo....attempt 1 worked!!...I trimmed a Jinhao nib and now I have I guess a Jinhao 82 large??? Will maybe try with a Jowo nib for my black and gold??

As a bonus I don't have to worry if I forget my pen at the office...although I really like the demonstrator body...might have to take the 21k nib from my real Pro Gear as a straight section swap would look odd....back with the clear body...a little reluctant to pull the nib though...no idea why when I'm happy to do so on other pens!!

[inkstainedruth]

On 11/27/2024 at 9:43 PM, Misfit said:

@inkstainedruth you probably know this, but the nib and feed are easy to remove and swap with the lower price Pilot pens. 

No, I actually didn't!  Thanks for the info.  Of course, I like the nibs on my two Metropolitans as is, but I'll keep that in mind if I ever get another one.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

On 11/27/2024 at 2:06 PM, lamarax said:

 

uıoɹǝH ʞɔɐſ inks can do a lot to one's perception, innit? 🙃

 

(I'm actually an overwriter, that's why line variation is inverted in that sample. Can do "normal" stub and italic though)
 

 

 

Kudos to Montegrappa for sobering up 😉

 

(maybe the Grappa has finally dried up 😆)

 

[edit] look at what can happen when Grappa's freely flowing during your design brainstorm meetings:

 

That's not only an insult to aesthetics, but a spit in the face of society and the human construct as a whole (+VAT). And no, I'm not buying the 'art' argument.

And I thought that their Pirates of the Caribbean" pen (with the skull wearing a pirate hat as the cap finial was tacky.... 

This one?  I plugged the price into a currency exchange website and it costs roughly what my parents got when they sold the house I grew up in after my dad retired... in 1987!    

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lamarax]

16 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I plugged the price into a currency exchange website and it costs roughly what my parents got when they sold the house I grew up in after my dad retired... in 1987!  

 

Mind you, the price quoted is without VAT. Adding my country's rate of 24%, that would be... $169,234.02 in today's exchange numbers. 😂

[inkstainedruth]

 That's almost as much as my husband and I paid for our current house -- and we paid less for it than our house in Massachusetts sold for (which meant we could *afford* to have the house rewired and the kitchen and the 3rd floor bathroom redone...) right after we bought it....

And to think I paid a whole whopping $15 US for the sterling Ciselé Parker 75 set (FP/BP) at an estate sale a week ago -- in the original box with a converter and two spare cartridges of Super Quink Permanent Blue (although those may need to be reconstituted) and a nice little wrap case.  Oh plus about $7 for a jewelry polishing cloth at a hobby store because the pens were so badly tarnished....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth