What pen(s) are you using today?

[Helen350]

Jinhao 777 - F. nib.  Ink:  Mixture of blue food coloring & Chesterfield Cobalt

 

 

[ruby.monkey]

Sheaffer Stylist 404 and a PenBBS 487, both with fine nibs.

[jandrew]

Pilot CH912/PO

[AmandaW]

Pilot Elite Teal/Green F with Pilot Blue for my journal this morning.

 

There's a Lamy Charcoal fine with Lamy Petrol hanging around for other writing.

 

And a newly arrived Sailor Profit Casual in red with a Zoom nib that will get some sketchbook time - I forgot to order a converter for it, so just popped in one of the black cartridges that came with it. Initial impression is that it's a very juicy writer with plenty of variation at different angles.

[AoKiu]

[tommym]

On 1/8/2023 at 3:59 PM, dms525 said:

 

I took advantage of the last group buy for a Range Samuri. Mine is a plain blue ebonite. I did opt for one that takes a #8 Bock nib. I had a 14Kt B Bock nib ground to a cursive italic by Pablo Carrasco waiting for it. 

 

The Samurai is a very oversized pen, as I'm sure you appreciate. Because of the ebonite, it is rather light however, and I find its ergonomics to be outstanding. It is a very comfortable pen to use. Here's a photo of it with a Pelikan M800 and a MontBlanc 146 for comparison:

 

 

Let us know how you like your Samuri with a #6 nib.

 

Happy writing!

 

David

 

David, 

 

Would it be possible to post an image of the Samurai and 146 with the caps removed? I'd like to see the size of the Sections relative to each other. I've been thinking about ordering a Samurai in the future and going the dedicated eyedropper route as all my Ranga's are the 3-in-1 design and I'm overdue for a change. Is the #8 nib a press-fit nib assembly or is it still a screw-in assembly with a housing? Ebonite feed?

 

Thanks,

 

Tommy

[dms525]

On 7/24/2023 at 10:18 AM, tommym said:

 

David, 

 

Would it be possible to post an image of the Samurai and 146 with the caps removed? I'd like to see the size of the Sections relative to each other. I've been thinking about ordering a Samurai in the future and going the dedicated eyedropper route as all my Ranga's are the 3-in-1 design and I'm overdue for a change. Is the #8 nib a press-fit nib assembly or is it still a screw-in assembly with a housing? Ebonite feed?

 

Thanks,

 

Tommy

 

Can do.

 

 

The nib is screw-in. I think it is an ebonite feed but suggest you check with fpnibs dot com which is where I purchased the nib.

 

Hope this helps.

 

David

[Mark from Yorkshire]

A new to me Parker 25 med nib from Oxfam Online

[tommym]

1 hour ago, dms525 said:

 

Can do.

 

 

The nib is screw-in. I think it is an ebonite feed but suggest you check with fpnibs dot com which is where I purchased the nib.

 

Hope this helps.

 

David

 

Thanks so much, David.

 

Though it's a more oversized pen, the section on the Samurai appears to be more comfortable to hold.  I'd most likely have to go with a #6 nib, though, as I am sensitive to the distance between my fingertips and the paper.

 

According to that website, your #8 comes with an ebonite feed. 

 

Tommy

 

 

[Doug C]

I'm using a Lamy 2000, a Lamy Accent, 2 Pen 7 pocket pens, and a Mad Science Company fp.

[kazoolaw]

MB 139 and YoL Grand Barley addressing and writing thank you notes.

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Scholar.

[PAKMAN]

Visconti Voyager 30

[Helen350]

Sheaffer B.S.A. 5509 Desk Set - Touchdown Pen - M. nib.  Ink: Diamine Oxblood

 

[Misfit]

I’m using a Pilot Kakuno, white barrel and light purple cap filled with Colorverse Opportunity. It’s the teeny tiny bottle. I originally gave the pen to my Mom, but she hardly used it. I had to soak it, and soak it to get the black ink out. 

[miig]

Messed up the print for this photo

 

Two very different pens: M800 F in Pelican Green with Herbin Perle Noire and FPR Jaipur with the 14 Ultraflex-Nib and Iroshizuku Momiji.

 

The FPR is a somewhat messy and impractical pen, but I really like that nib. My main complaint about is that the feed is so voluminous, it is very easy to touch things and get ink everywhere. For example, the inside of the cap when closing it. But I still adore it, very nice flexperience.

 

[USG]

Did I make any progress with my ink test?  LINK

Well a little.  In my first round of tests I used Sanzen Tomoe River 52gsm but now I've decided to use Cosmo Snow paper because it brings out the most of what an ink has to offer.

[NOT EVERY INK WILL DO THIS]

This is Monteverde Fire Opal on Sanzen 52gsm Tomoe River - Sailor 1911 (M)

 

This is Monteverde Fire Opal on Cosmo Snow - Same pen

More defined shading and a silver sheen.

 

 I took these guys out for a spin....

[inkstainedruth]

This morning it was the Vac Red Shadow Wave, F nib, newly refilled with Waterman Mysterious Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen was a Traveler's Co Brass fine with the cartridge that came with it. They call this fine? Japanese fine? It's putting down so much ink I have to wait to close my journal cos it makes inky dots on the opposite page.. And there's no way it will work as the pen intended to live in the loops of a Hobonichi cover and write in it's Stalogy 365... yeah, tested it, bleeds right on through. OK I don't hate it, cos it is smooth and wet, it will find a use, but Hobo pen it is not.

 

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Traveler's Co Brass fine with the cartridge that came with it. They call this fine? Japanese fine? …‹snip›… tested it, bleeds right on through.

 

It has a German F nib made by Schmidt. In my experience, the gold-plated nibs of that type and width grade write finely, but not so the polished steel ones (although, until I got my TRC Brass fountain pen, I only have a polished steel EF one, which was dreadfully broad, that came fitted on a Kaco Edge). The F nib on my new TRC Brass fountain pen isn't that bad, better than the EF one; but a Japanese Fine nib it isn't. Right now I have a gold-plated F nib (unit) ‘donated’ by a Kaco Edge (which doesn't seal very well as a pen), and it performs better, although I'm getting… not exactly hard-starts, but some hesitancy with the first stroke, using an ink cartridge refilled with Lamy Benitoite. Also, I unscrewed the cap finial on the TRC pen to apply some silicone grease on the thread and O-ring; and now the lanyard loop doesn't align perfectly with the clip (which sits in a notch, so can't just be reoriented), indicating there's a little bit of give out-of-the-box. It seems to have improved the cap seal effectiveness, though, so… whatever.

 

I do recall reading in multiple reviews and comments from users that the ink in the cartridge supplied by TRC is baaad as far as performance goes.

 

Do you want me to send you one of my surplus Kaco Edge pens, so you can test the nib and harvest it for your TRC pen if it works better?