I got this pen today

[Doc Dan]

I haven't had a chance to take pictures. I just got a TWSBI Diamond 580 White Rose Gold II with a 1.1 Stub Nib. It is a beautiful pen. It writes like a warm pen on smooth ice. It simply glides across the paper. 

[RedPie]

1 minute ago, Doc Dan said:

I haven't had a chance to take pictures. I just got a TWSBI White Rose Gold II with a 1.1 Stub Nib. It is a beautiful pen. It writes like a warm pen on smooth ice. It simply glides across the paper. 

Nice how you explain how it writes.... It is a good looking pen!

[Doc Dan]

11 minutes ago, RedPie said:

Nice how you explain how it writes.... It is a good looking pen!

Thanks. It is good looking. I already had the Diamond 580 Smoke Rose Gold II stub nib, so this is its companion and I knew I'd love it.

[Misfit]

9 hours ago, AmandaW said:

My first lever fill pen. Now what? How do I figure out if it works? Or leaks?

 

Maybe try filling the pen with water?

[Bo Bo Olson]

If I remember correctly, from last week when I filled my 1925 Gothic style Waterman.....7-10 times moving the lever to 90 degrees and back down to flat will fill your sac pen.

 

I grew up in the sac pen era...though we had a Family Snorkel*** and a school fountain pen from 4th grade on for me, ...and I can remember when the first cartridges came in....and they were expensive then too....Bottle ink is so much more affordable.

 

Back @ 1965 I remember being so happy when the Bic's came in, in no one could steal it if you kept the cap in your mouth., and you didn't have to keep track of who you owed cartridges too.

 

There were no free ball point pens and even Playmate, a cheap one would be stolen.....even black Skillcraft  BP.s

 

If I had been rich enough as a worker's kid, I'd gotten my first and yearly fountain pen and Jotter engraved with my name and still have them. Instead of having them stolen yearly.

 

So as long as you mark down the name of the original owner of a used pen, you could hope for a return, from lost and found.

 

***In the One Man, One Pen era, when the government was pushing free Slilcraft ball point pens for government/military workers..

[AmandaW]

6 hours ago, Misfit said:

Maybe try filling the pen with water?

The feed is very clogged with blue ink... soaking and soaking and soaking... still coming out, but it already has a new sac! 

 

I am still keen to get an Esterbrook J as Bo Bo suggested. The shipping from the US is almost as much as the pen.

 

 

[SLinkster]

On 11/3/2023 at 7:02 PM, Misfit said:

Well, the guess at the width of the music nib is likely larger with a wet ink.

 

Late to the party here. The (current) F-C 1.9mm Christoph (music) stub is a polished steel #6 JoWo nib. I ordered one that arrived today. I'm going to clean out my Newton Majestic and swap in the F-C tomorrow.

 

@Misfit, what ink(s) have you tried with your Christoph nib? 

[Misfit]

@SLinkster I’ll check and see if I kept a log of what inks I’ve used with it.  

[SLinkster]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

@SLinkster I’ll check and see if I kept a log of what inks I’ve used with it.  

I've just written through a converter of KWZ Walk Over Vistula, to test both the ink and the nib. The ink is one of the wetter ones I have, and the nib certainly lays down a lot of ink. I can't say with great conviction that it's a wet writer. I'll clean it today and try it with a Monteverde ITF.

[A Smug Dill]

 

Alas, my photos don't show the grey-black colour of the shiny clips, cap rings, and nibs properly. See https://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/star_wars_fountainpen.html

[Misfit]

On 12/26/2023 at 4:43 AM, SLinkster said:

I've just written through a converter of KWZ Walk Over Vistula, to test both the ink and the nib. The ink is one of the wetter ones I have, and the nib certainly lays down a lot of ink. I can't say with great conviction that it's a wet writer. I'll clean it today and try it with a Monteverde ITF.

I used a KWZ ink also, an exclusive with Galen Leathers called Sapphire. And an orange ink, either J Herbin Orange Indien or Kaweco Sunrise Orange. 

[cat74]

A few pens over the holidays!

Parker 45 insignia was engraved....but!! same initials as me, my son, my cousin, my dad and his cousin, grand dads and great grand dads!!! So it's all good!!

Also an Orange and Teal Parker 45 and a made in Canada Esterbrook J with 9128 nib (after a good clean..couldnt tell what nib it was before!)  really just wanted it for made in Canada

 

[ruby.monkey]

I just received a vacumatic-filling Junlai 629, which is a Wing Sung 629 with the filling mechanism off the 601 (Junlai I believe being the company currently using the Wing Sung name). Very nice pen, smooth fine nib with a touch of feedback - just what one would expect of a Wing Sung 629, really. One point to note is that the blind cap has a left-handed thread, presumably so that it can use the same barrel thread as its piston-filling siblings; however said blind cap is marked to open as if it were a normal right-hand thread, so further investigation is in order in case I have a couple of parts stuck together. In fact I tried to compare it to its piston-filling twin (note that I've been ill over the Christmas period and my already-underachieving brain is failing even further); and as the ink ran over my fingers I realised that a) the piston-filler is indeed a piston-filler, and b) that's not a blind cap.

 

Fun times.

[SLinkster]

My yellow Levenger True Writer arrived. So far I've soaked out black, blue, blue-black, red, green, more red, purple, more blue. I have the business parts - still welded together with petrified ink - in the ultrasonic cleaner.

 

The pen is missing the cap ring, which I knew from the listing photo. Fortunately the collar, feed and broad nib look in good shape. 

[Surlyprof]

On 12/28/2023 at 3:14 PM, A Smug Dill said:

 

Alas, my photos don't show the grey-black colour of the shiny clips, cap rings, and nibs properly. See https://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/star_wars_fountainpen.html

Those are fun.  Didn’t know Platinum did a Star Wars collection.  I’m surprised the villains didn’t have ruthenium hardware!  Were these for the Japanese market?  Seeing pens that may only be available in Japan has me pretty excited about our upcoming trip.  Are there any particularly good sites that you like for researching what might be available in Japan but not oversees?  I’d love to do some pre-trip reconnaissance.  

[antares1966]

Amazing birthday gift from my wife...Pilot Custom 743 in the US exclusive verdigris, comes with the 70 ml Pilot Blue bottle, she also bought a bottle of Iroshizuku Syo-ro, bulb syringe and regular syringe for pen filling/maintenance, bottle of pen flush, and a small hodgepodge of assorted ink samples.  

[Misfit]

6 hours ago, SLinkster said:

My yellow Levenger True Writer arrived. So far I've soaked out black, blue, blue-black, red, green, more red, purple, more blue. I have the business parts - still welded together with petrified ink - in the ultrasonic cleaner.

 

The pen is missing the cap ring, which I knew from the listing photo. Fortunately the collar, feed and broad nib look in good shape. 

I feel this. The ink in the cap of the True Writer transparent Amethyst I bought with B nib only had two colors, purple and blue. It took a lot of soaking and time in the ultrasonic cleaner to get most of the ink out of the cap. The rest of the pen cleaned up more quickly. 
 

I finally put ink in it, decided I wanted a different ink, so emptied that, and added from a sample. Happy with that ink. I need to see if I can take a good “after” photo.  I too bought the pen knowing it could have ink between the cap and cap liner. I think it was only in the cap liner, and pen below the cap liner. 

[A Smug Dill]

6 hours ago, Surlyprof said:

I’m surprised the villains didn’t have ruthenium hardware!

 

They do.

 

6 hours ago, Surlyprof said:

Were these for the Japanese market?

 

Yes.

 

Both points were addressed directly in Platinum's marketing collateral, to which I linked earlier, for the limited edition series.

 

6 hours ago, Surlyprof said:

Are there any particularly good sites that you like for researching what might be available in Japan but not oversees?

 

Even if there will certainly for false matches, I'd still start with Google for that: https://www.google.com/search?q="日本"+囯內+-"海外" "限定"+"万年筆"+-"世界限定" 

[inkstainedruth]

A friend of mine gave me a set of six cheap Chinese c/c pens that are fountain pens at one end and highlighter pens at the other end.  

Not finding a brand name on the box.  Just says: "Distributed by 1616 Holdings, Inc." (address in Philadelphia, PA), and "Made in Ningbo, China".  FP ends seem to be F-ish in size (there's no markings of any sort on the nibs (which appear to be stainless steel), feeds, or barrels (the barrels, sections, caps and clips seem to be some sort of cheap plastic -- at least one highlighter end cap doesn't seem to want to come off -- but the caps for the highlighter tip ends seem to have a wire spring in them above where the felt tip is).

Have no idea whether I can find replacement cartridges, or a converter that will fit (I think the idea is that you can use each pen with either the nib or the felt tip, but not both at the same time).  

Someone else was posting recently about getting something similar, but couldn't find the specific thread/post.  I am of course amused by the concept (and the person who gave them to me is the same person who gave me the mint condition Pelikan M200 with the Bayer logo on the barrel a few years ago as a gag gift -- not realizing that was probably a $100 US pen (she got it from someone on Freecycle).  

I may try to contact the US distributor and see if replacement cartridges or converters are available which will fit (I'm a little nervous about just sticking a cartridge in a pen before being able to flush the nib out first -- or how hard it would be to swap out the highlighter inks for regular FP inks; I have a few bottles of various Noodler's highlighter/white board inks, for instance, but hate cleaning and refilling cartridges.  Looks as if the company has some connection with the Five Below stores, so I may wander into the one near me sometime next week and see if they can give me information as well.

Or not....  Just tried to look the company up and was getting NO useful information as to contacts; only that it was a "foreign" company, that there was some sort of lawsuit in California over toxic chemicals from some product contaminating the water....   But since they appear to be in the same building as the Five Below World Headquarters, and the set is on the Five Below website (with the SKU #  -- there is no useful info on the box) I just contact THEM and we'll see if I get a straight answer (I gave them the email address I use for spam, just in case, and my cell phone # -- so I can block them if that becomes necessary).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Yeah, the back of the box is ripped trying to get the package open....  I figured that since I needed to take photos of the front and back of the box to send off to Five Below, I'd post them here as well....

[AmandaW]

Arrived today from the other side of the planet: a Levenger True Writer Pinkly with a medium nib. It's travelling companion is a True Writer Starry Night mechanical pencil.