I got this pen today

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the info!  

I really think that piston fillers are becoming my favorite fill system.  Well, except for TWSBIs, which I think have a design flaw (in that the piston doesn't extend all the way to the back of the feed, so it's really easy to get air bubbles blocking ink flow).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

  I was given two pens today out of the blue- a green Pen BBS, and a vintage lever filler Osmoroid. I won a raffle for a Jinhao 9019. 

[Penguincollector]

On 9/9/2023 at 9:03 PM, Misfit said:

@USG

Here is the TWSBI Eco Indigo in action. I’d say this ink is neither wet nor dry. Though when I used it on Mnemosyne paper, it did feel dry. 
 

 

 

This second photo shows the pen color better. 

  Oh, that blue with the bronze is amazing together! 

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector I agree. I was thinking I was finally done buying Ecos. I resisted all the recent green ones, which I don’t have in an Eco. But that Indigo and bronze, even the nib is. So attractive. 

[Radius Solis]

Two Faber Castell Ambition Metal Fountain Pens arrived today.

 

I already have 3 Ambition but OpArt resin pens , only reason I got two more but stainless steel this time was Amazon offering a great discount ( less than $19 each ) and most surprising part is both of them came with piston converter which wasn't the case when I bought more expensive OpArt ones. 

[Surlyprof]

On 9/10/2023 at 9:41 AM, inkstainedruth said:

I really think that piston fillers are becoming my favorite fill system.  Well, except for TWSBIs, which I think have a design flaw (in that the piston doesn't extend all the way to the back of the feed, so it's really easy to get air bubbles blocking ink flow)

This is good to know.  I’ve been on the fence about buying a grape TWSBI mini after trying one at the SF show.  I may have to think twice.  Does it become a consistently nagging issue?  

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector I agree. I was thinking I was finally done buying Ecos. I resisted all the recent green ones, which I don’t have in an Eco. But that Indigo and bronze, even the nib is. So attractive. 

  I’ve resisted TWSBI altogether, but this one I keep putting in and taking out of carts.  The dark blue and matching nib is what did it.

[Misfit]

3 hours ago, Surlyprof said:

This is good to know.  I’ve been on the fence about buying a grape TWSBI mini after trying one at the SF show.  I may have to think twice.  Does it become a consistently nagging issue?  

I have quite a few TWSBI pens in the Eco, the Diamond 580, and the Diamond Mini. They behave well, write after neglect. If you read the insert, it says after filling, expel 2 drops of ink. Something like that. I always do that. 
 

I watched a video of Brian Goulet getting the piston further back. I don’t want to take apart my TWSBI pens, so I’ve been able to ignore any gap. They hold quite a bit of ink. I really like my Diamond Minis. I have three, and was considering the clear one. 

[Arkanabar]

I've been on the fence about a Vac Mini for years and years.  I don't know if I'll ever pull the trigger.

 

Since I don't count a pen as "got" until I actually ink it up, I'll mention a red Prera Iro-Ai with a CM nib that just got filled with Noodler's Midway Blue, which is a very happy ink color, IMHO.

[A Smug Dill]

 

I already have another Jinhao 82 Mini in Army Green, and the double-up in this order was my mistake; I'd meant to order the Iron Grey instead. I guess I'll be giving this one away (but not at the Pelikan Hubs event come Friday).

 

The Peacock Blue one turned out to be much prettier, or at least interesting looking, than I expected (and I only ordered it for completeness… and to trigger an AliExpress seller discount that required a minimum spend level). Jinhao's marketing photos all seemed to show only the plain side of it, but “in the flesh” it seems to have that thing typical of Pelikan M20x pens, where the chatoyance in the acrylic is only seen from some angles but not all around the pen barrel. (I love it that way, not the least because it really pistons some people off when they order a pen online sight unseen, for the convenience and/or low prices, and receive one that's comparable to everyone else's but is more subdued than they expected from seeing one or more two-dimensional photos Pelikan and retailers care to show; and they don't get to choose how to orient the chatoyant aspect in relation to the nib slit, once/even if they're aware that's the way the acrylic is.) Not surprisingly, my wife has already elected to take it (and “or” the Seaweed Green) off me.

 

The Haibao Blue (or sky blue) one I ordered from a different seller has yet to arrive.

[Misfit]

@A Smug Dill Those are attractive pens. I like the seaweed one. 

[Misfit]

The Papa and Mama Kakuno pens arrived today.  The seller included a sticker, and a ball point pen. Both Kakuno pens have M nibs. 
 

[inkstainedruth]

No pix yet (I literally got home from this year's Pelikan Hub about 15 minutes or so ago).  But at the Hub, besides the swag from Pelikan (a bottle of Edelstein Rose Quartz), there was swag from Endless Pens, and everyone got a freebie NOS Pelikan c/c pen (old style Pelikano?); the one I picked is teal with a pink end and clip, and came with a cartridge of what I assume is 4001 Black).  Additionally, someone was getting rid of some pens and ink, and I got a Sailor Lecoule (not sure what the color is called, but it's a slate blue/grey with multicolor sparkles in the resin).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[cat74]

My first Parker Vacumatic...a JR? not sure what year..later though

A lovely silver layered one...no fixes needed..ready to write!

 

[A Smug Dill]

On 9/20/2023 at 6:44 PM, Misfit said:

I like the seaweed one.

 

The one I have had doesn't look like that any more:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/372446-jinhao-82-mini/page/3/#comment-4630455

[Misfit]

I got a pen today. Forgot to get a photo, so it will have to be tomorrow. 

[Misfit]

Well, these are from today.  Three Pilot Prera Iro-Ai, and a collaboration of Kaweco and Galen Leather. 
 

[Misfit]

This Kaweco Bordeaux Sport arrived today. The cartridge is stuck in the barrel.  Any suggestions on how to get the cartridge out?

 

[DrPlush]

7 minutes ago, Misfit said:

This Kaweco Bordeaux Sport arrived today. The cartridge is stuck in the barrel.  Any suggestions on how to get the cartridge out?

 

When I had this problem, the pen shop told me to semi-forcefully whack the open end of the barrel down on a soft surface like a notebook. It worked well.

[inkstainedruth]

There was a thread I was just reading from someone who had the same thing happen with some pen they had.  People were suggesting things like paperclips and  I said maybe tweezers would work 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth