What pen(s) are you using today?

[jandrew]

Franklin Christoph 20p / Nagahara needlepoint

[51ISH]

My 'MB' StarWalker  😈

 

🤣🤣🤣

 

Oh and I had two stub Plumix's arrive in the post that I've had a play with.

[Mercian]

3 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

In Chinese, the colloquial term for illegible scrawl is 鬼畫符, literally “ghosts drawing spell-imbued graphics”

This phrase pleases me. Greatly 👍

I shall try to formulate a near-equivalent in English.

 

Not least because it strikes me as being eminently appropriate as a description for my own impatiently-rushed griffonnage 😔

[amberleadavis]

10 hours ago, jandrew said:

Franklin Christoph 20p / Nagahara needlepoint

 

You should add this to the green pen thread.

[amberleadavis]

 

Montblanc 149 Italic Expressive and my beloved Evancio by Jim Hinze with a Franklin Christoph 1.9 Music Nib.

[51ISH]

4 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You should add this to the green pen thread.

 

+1

 

Beautiful...

[jandrew]

59 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You should add this to the green pen thread.

This pen was posted on page one of that thread

[amberleadavis]

42 minutes ago, jandrew said:

This pen was posted on page one of that thread

 

 

Cool! It is super pretty.

[essayfaire]

12 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Montblanc 149 Italic Expressive and my beloved Evancio by Jim Hinze with a Franklin Christoph 1.9 Music Nib.

ooooh!  I keep wondering how I'd feel about a Music nib! I like the BB Architect you cajoled me into buying!

[ParramattaPaul]

2 hours ago, essayfaire said:

ooooh!  I keep wondering how I'd feel about a Music nib! I like the BB Architect you cajoled me into buying!

That is why fountain pens will never 'die'. They allow a variety that appeals to inquisitive and creative personalities. 

[AmandaW]

8 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

They allow a variety that appeals to inquisitive and creative personalities.

 

And that includes finding ways to ways to photograph them.

 

The recently arrived Lorelei 667 EF is out to play again today, I'm enjoying writing with it, but also I wanted to try photographing it again, to see if I can better capture how pretty it is. One thing I like is being able to see the nib so clearly inside the cap, instead of an ugly cap liner it appears to seal with the machining of the cap's acrylic. And that's working since there's no sign of the ink level dropping between uses. Only time will tell for sure, of course but that will take months of summer here rather than weeks. It's still filled with Diamine Vivaldi.

 

Yes, a cheapish pen, but I'll stand up for it and stare down anyone who would be mean about it. Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

 

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, AmandaW said:

Yes, a cheapish pen, but I'll stand up for it and stare down anyone who would be mean about it. Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

 

I'm very glad to hear your recent acquisition pleases you so!

[amberleadavis]

15 hours ago, essayfaire said:

ooooh!  I keep wondering how I'd feel about a Music nib! I like the BB Architect you cajoled me into buying!

 

Oh yeah, for $35, you should acquire this nib.

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, AmandaW said:

 

And that includes finding ways to ways to photograph them.

 

The recently arrived Lorelei 667 EF is out to play again today, I'm enjoying writing with it, but also I wanted to try photographing it again, to see if I can better capture how pretty it is. One thing I like is being able to see the nib so clearly inside the cap, instead of an ugly cap liner it appears to seal with the machining of the cap's acrylic. And that's working since there's no sign of the ink level dropping between uses. Only time will tell for sure, of course but that will take months of summer here rather than weeks. It's still filled with Diamine Vivaldi.

 

Yes, a cheapish pen, but I'll stand up for it and stare down anyone who would be mean about it. Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

 

 

 

 

@Misfit this might be a pen you would enjoy.

[Mangrove Jack]

9 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Yes, a cheapish pen, but I'll stand up for it and stare down anyone who would be mean about it. Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

 

Exactly. One of my favourite pens is also one of my cheapest. I would say it is as close to "excellent" as one can get. 

[AmandaW]

50 minutes ago, Mangrove Jack said:

Exactly. One of my favourite pens is also one of my cheapest. I would say it is as close to "excellent" as one can get. 

 

OK, I have to ask... what's the pen?

[Mercian]

11 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

Indeed not 👍

Some of my favourite pens are/were sold as ‘affordable’/‘school’ pens.

[Mangrove Jack]

3 hours ago, AmandaW said:

 

OK, I have to ask... what's the pen?

 

A Noodler's ebonite "Sahara Ripple Konrad" with an Anderson Pens 2 tone F nib.

I smoothened the nib and heat set the ebonite feed to the nib. For me it is perfectly balanced, the grip section is just the right size (a tad wider than a Parker 51) with no taper, it's nib has just the right amount of smoothness/tooth, holds a lot of ink. It has never hard started, leaked or let me down in any way despite being in continuous use for over 8 years. It looks nice too. 😄

 

 

[essayfaire]

On 3/26/2023 at 1:17 PM, ParramattaPaul said:

They allow a variety that appeals to inquisitive and creative personalities. 

Hmmmm.  I think we're rationalizing now.

 

16 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Pens don't have to be expensive to be worth having.

Of course not!  And one can always make them more expensive by sending them off to nibmeisters for customization, which may be money well spent relative to a more expensive pen!

 

12 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

Oh yeah, for $35, you should acquire this nib.

From whom? Osprey?  It needs to not smell. If not Osprey, it needs to post(my Madison does post, quite nicely).

[amberleadavis]

6 hours ago, essayfaire said:

 

 

From whom? Osprey?  It needs to not smell. If not Osprey, it needs to post(my Madison does post, quite nicely).

 

 

No it is a Frankli-Christoph Music nib.