Pen/Ink/Paper Trios

[Penguincollector]

  Last night, I was testing out some paper from Florence. It’s interesting paper, felt thick . I forgot to photograph the pens, but they have all been seen before. The dot grid paper is from China, known as Daolin fine writing paper.
 

[USG]

On 3/28/2024 at 10:22 AM, Penguincollector said:

  Last night, I was testing out some paper from Florence. It’s interesting paper, felt thick . I forgot to photograph the pens, but they have all been seen before. The dot grid paper is from China, known as Daolin fine writing paper.
 

 

Very nice job PGC 👍😀

 

Today:

Kakimori Dip Pen

Diamine Jack Frost

Iroful Notebook

 

After looking at all the photos of this dip pen nib, I had to laugh when I open the box and saw how small it was.... LOL

 

 

[Penguincollector]

 

  Today I used a Sanrio notepad, Pilot Prera 色 爱 CM nib, Diamine Moon Dust with a drop of White Lightning.

[Penguincollector]

   Tonight I was in a blue black mood. The paper is marked Rhodia, the pen is a Cross Century II with a Fine steel nib, and the ink is Cross Blue Black (old, probably Pelikan).
 

[Misfit]

On 2/22/2024 at 11:03 PM, Penguincollector said:

  Today’s trio is a Mead Steno Pad from 1986, a Sheaffer TRZ, and Parker Quink Permanent Red. Judging from what else is in here, this must’ve been the notebook next to the kitchen phone (harvest gold, with the loooong curly cord) when I was about 10. I wonder how I ended up with it. 

This! I’ve never known what to do about that center line either. So I often use a Field Notes steno pad to either make Pro-Con lists, or shopping comparisons. 
 

Maybe one day I’ll try writing straight across, and see how that goes. 

[Penguincollector]

7 hours ago, Misfit said:

Maybe one day I’ll try writing straight across, and see how that goes

    I was going to try that, but I automatically started to use the center line as a margin. Next time.  Using it to make comparative or coordinating lists does sound like a good use of the format. I have also considered learning shorthand. One of these books does have some of my mom’s shorthand notes in it, I think she was trying to recall what she knew. 

[Penguincollector]

I wrote this last night and was so tired I forgot to post it. 

[Penguincollector]

Posting before bed, details in writing:

[USG]

I've been lax in taking photos...

10 Pens

10 Inks

1 paper : Cosmo Snow

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[USG]

I'm so not doing what you are, I hope it's OK....

 

Pen:  JInhao 9019 'M'

Ink:  Diluted Sailor Shikiori Yonaga Diluted, Wearingeul Glitter

Paper:  Tomoe River S

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[Penguincollector]

It’s all ok, @USG. I’m in the middle of rearranging my hobby room and have not been able to contribute to this thread at all. I’m hoping that at least my desk will be set up by tonight so I can write on my new paper finds.

  
  That shimmering Sailor Shikiori Yonaga is stunning!

[USG]

3 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

It’s all ok, @USG. I’m in the middle of rearranging my hobby room and have not been able to contribute to this thread at all. I’m hoping that at least my desk will be set up by tonight so I can write on my new paper finds.

  
  That shimmering Sailor Shikiori Yonaga is stunning!

 

It looks like you've done your share in keeping up with this thread.😀👍  I've been delinquent in posting too but I don't have any good excuses. 🤓 

 

I have the same dilute Yonaga with Wearingeul Glitter on Cosmo Snow, so I'll post that for comparison.  From what I can see both papers show this combo about the same.

 

So far I like the dilute Bilberry/Glitter combo the best and the Ama-Iro/Glitter combo next. 😀

 

Another thing I note is that the glitter comes off the ink after it dries and gets on the paper.

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The Silver Shoes Glitter has just the slightest off white cast to it, so when mixed with the dark blue ink, it shimmers green.  To accentuate the green shimmer I've darkened the pic.

 

[Penguincollector]

  I have heard of shimmer not adhering to the paper before with just regular shimmer inks, some people use fixative spray or hairspray to keep it on the page, but that’s usually for something that is going on display. 

[USG]

13 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I have heard of shimmer not adhering to the paper before with just regular shimmer inks, some people use fixative spray or hairspray to keep it on the page, but that’s usually for something that is going on display. 

Makes sense....👍

[USG]

Waterman Boucheron (M)

Diamine Sargasso Sea

Cosmo Snow

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[USG]

Pen:  Jinhao X159 (M)

Ink:  Diamine Winter Miracle, very dark blue-violet, looks black, sheens green gold

Paper:  Cosmo Snow

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[Bo Bo Olson]

Pens 19, written and printed, inks what ever was in them.

Paper the discontinued Neusiedled Japan Post. Three reams.

I just now received three reams of that paper, some one had stocked up on it and died, so it was put in Ebay...small articles

I had three days of impossible to get in, before I erased much of my self and reentered.

I beat another fine poster here by the skin of my teeth..

...........comments.......

for 80g paper good.

Of the 19 pens, only the fat, wet P50...one body-nib pen, showed some woolly line.

My two OB MB's were too wet to shade.

Asa-gao & ajisai did not shade

Diamine Ancient Copper did, better printed.

On the whole inks I expected to shade did....have no idea what is in my pens...with 30 inked....

The glitter ink, had to be tilted.

Writes fairly smooth...my new Mondi 120g is smoother, but this is 80g. Shades better than the Mondi 120.

........................

I had been looking for some shading paper to put in my printer so my editing would shade and give interest.

I found that paper.....with no hopes of getting more of this paper, that last ream will stay in the reserves.

 

 

[Lithium466]

Ajisai can shade but you need the right pen. I think I disliked that ink for that in pretty much all the pens I tried it in.

I don't remember what size your Lamy Z55 is but I think I remember Ajisai shading with my Z55 EF.

As for paper, did you try Iroful?

[Bo Bo Olson]

My Z55 is a B, but that is in my Studio, so didn't get any Japanese ink in it.

I had my Lamy Persona CI B, and a Dupont M, in that Ajisai ink.

 

That Dupont had been used once before. It was on certain papers wetter than expected.

And for Asa-go I used a way too wet, what I then thought an OM MB Noblesse, very late '80's or start of the 90's, (first use), and now think an OB.................My 48-70 MB's are @ the same era Pelikan width. My @ '90 146 is also f in width, not all that wet, which was part of the reason that '90OB really surprised me by being wet.

 

Only a few of my MBs (a couple '50-70 era second tier, are actually nib size marked)..so most of my MB's are eyeball widths....a very slow collection...7-8 that took me some 15 years to get that many.

The Waterman '90's Mann 200 is a Waterman F which is as wide as my two Pelikan 200 EF's.  It's not a bad blue, but no shading.

.........

Lately I tried to make MB Orange a bit more lively by mixing, and ran through the other two Orange inks; some 6 pens....and did a 7 pen gray test....one of the reasons I have ever so many pens inked....30.

 

I really like my 'pre'91 W.Germany Orange. Pelikan back then must have had 20 or more 4001 inks. I picked up some at a flea market...and that couple had ever so many of those W.Germany 4001 inks, I was sure to run into them again. I didn't....ever. But I was in search of a good €20 pen at the flea market...I do regret not being into ink then.

The gray was good, the silver gray better. Still have 1 ea, of both left.

I gave away a pink, lilac, rose or lavender packs for Amber to distribute.

 

I did add a couple new papers, last week, Mondi 120g...which is a nice smooth paper (better than the Mondi 100g), but not really a shading paper. Heavy shading inks do shade, but light shader's not.

Today I got the three reams of the discontinued 80g Neusiedler Japan Post, which shades shading inks, some better, some mild. Only one of the inks in a real wet  ball tipped P-50 (the one where the barrel becomes the nib) had a slight tad of woolly line...so is a good to very good paper.

 

Writing is 1/3 nib width/flex, 1/3 paper, and 1/3 ink, in that order.

 

If one buys a good to better box or ream of paper with every three inks one buys, one will soon have a paper collection. the thinks one learns....late.

 

I do have some 40 papers.....some had promise that died, others are, good, not better...........and a few better ones.

I do have a hungry printer.....that eats papers that are only adequate.

 

Three or four years ago, any 90g paper I bought for some €6-7, shaded.........then suddenly I was having to hope for shading on 100g and being disappointed.

120 is the next step.....after I run through two of the Neusiedler Japan Post papers.

 

[USG]

19 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Ajisai can shade but you need the right pen. I think I disliked that ink for that in pretty much all the pens I tried it in.

I don't remember what size your Lamy Z55 is but I think I remember Ajisai shading with my Z55 EF.

As for paper, did you try Iroful?

 

Hi LTM, how have you been?   😀

I have Ajisai in 3 pens, Waterman Liaison (M), Pilot 742 FA and Leonardo Furore (M) and I don't recall seeing any shading.  My experience is that because Ajisai is a very wet ink, the ink flow precludes shading. 

 

But wait, I'll try them again now.

 

Much to my chagrin, I just wrote with all three pens.  There was no shading but the Pilot 742 FA feathered on my most recent Cosmo Snow paper, like it wasn't really Cosmo Snow paper.  I took a  screen shot on Google Translate to see what the Japanese lettering said, and it claims to be Cosmo Snow paper so I don't know.  I turned it over and the other side seems better, so maybe it was a bad sheet.

 

I tried it on Iroful and Tomoe River S and no feathering.  I would hate to think there's a problem with the new Cosmo paper. 😱

 

 

16 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

My Z55 is a B, but that is in my Studio, so didn't get any Japanese ink in it.

I had my Lamy Persona CI B, and a Dupont M, in that Ajisai ink.

 

That Dupont had been used once before. It was on certain papers wetter than expected.

And for Asa-go I used a way too wet, what I then thought an OM MB Noblesse, very late '80's or start of the 90's, (first use), and now think an OB.................My 48-70 MB's are @ the same era Pelikan width. My @ '90 146 is also f in width, not all that wet, which was part of the reason that '90OB really surprised me by being wet.

 

Only a few of my MBs (a couple '50-70 era second tier, are actually nib size marked)..so most of my MB's are eyeball widths....a very slow collection...7-8 that took me some 15 years to get that many.

The Waterman '90's Mann 200 is a Waterman F which is as wide as my two Pelikan 200 EF's.  It's not a bad blue, but no shading.

.........

Lately I tried to make MB Orange a bit more lively by mixing, and ran through the other two Orange inks; some 6 pens....and did a 7 pen gray test....one of the reasons I have ever so many pens inked....30.

 

I really like my 'pre'91 W.Germany Orange. Pelikan back then must have had 20 or more 4001 inks. I picked up some at a flea market...and that couple had ever so many of those W.Germany 4001 inks, I was sure to run into them again. I didn't....ever. But I was in search of a good €20 pen at the flea market...I do regret not being into ink then.

The gray was good, the silver gray better. Still have 1 ea, of both left.

I gave away a pink, lilac, rose or lavender packs for Amber to distribute.

 

I did add a couple new papers, last week, Mondi 120g...which is a nice smooth paper (better than the Mondi 100g), but not really a shading paper. Heavy shading inks do shade, but light shader's not.

Today I got the three reams of the discontinued 80g Neusiedler Japan Post, which shades shading inks, some better, some mild. Only one of the inks in a real wet  ball tipped P-50 (the one where the barrel becomes the nib) had a slight tad of woolly line...so is a good to very good paper.

 

Writing is 1/3 nib width/flex, 1/3 paper, and 1/3 ink, in that order.

 

If one buys a good to better box or ream of paper with every three inks one buys, one will soon have a paper collection. the thinks one learns....late.

 

I do have some 40 papers.....some had promise that died, others are, good, not better...........and a few better ones.

I do have a hungry printer.....that eats papers that are only adequate.

 

Three or four years ago, any 90g paper I bought for some €6-7, shaded.........then suddenly I was having to hope for shading on 100g and being disappointed.

120 is the next step.....after I run through two of the Neusiedler Japan Post papers.

 

 

Hey BBO

It was unclear which inks you got to shade and which papers they shaded on?