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Verdugo posted:I can confirm, I swap nibs all the time in my Metro. Feed and nib are friction fit, they pull right out, just like the Plumix/Pluminix. I clean mine religiously between refills. Thanks for this post! I just ordered one for my girlfriend since she has been having to use rollerballs ever since she dropped my TWSBI (with a Mike-It-Work nib  )I'm far too nice to her. 
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DJT518T posted:That is a Parker Vector with a cartridge converter. I've not seen one in matte black with gold highlights before. Where yours says 'X' on the nib mine says 'M' which is the thickness. Vitamins posted:Yup, the X just stands for Extra Fine. Thanks for the info. Now I need to find some ink so I can finally use it.
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Verdugo posted:I can confirm, I swap nibs all the time in my Metro. Feed and nib are friction fit, they pull right out, just like the Plumix/Pluminix. I clean mine religiously between refills. Do you think it could be converted to an eyedropper? I bought one, because that face is so cute. I own a pilot metro, and the free pen that came with the gigundo bottle of noodler's heart of darkness.
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dino. posted:Do you think it could be converted to an eyedropper? I bought one, because that face is so cute. I own a pilot metro, and the free pen that came with the gigundo bottle of noodler's heart of darkness. The bottom of the pen has two vent holes, so not out of the box. I sadly was liberated of my Kakuno's smiley face nib as my wife stole it for *her* metro. :S
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I now have a Waterman 52 full size in black, with a ring top! It flexes from XF to BBBB (or thereabouts), it is going to be craaaazy to write with. I also had someone put an Eversharp nib into a TWSBI Vac-700, grind the feed, and smooth the vintage nib so that it writes with some semiflex, comparable to a Pilot Falcon nib. I'll see if I can come up with some samples later!
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Verdugo posted:The bottom of the pen has two vent holes, so not out of the box. EDIT: Just bought Dragon's Napalm from Goulet Pens. Also got Bernake Blue, as it's fast drying, and my left handed self won't smear all over creation. Picked up a Pilot Plumix, and a Rhodia notebook. What's happening to me. T_T dino. fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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dino. posted:Damnit. Ah well. I have the syringes with which to refill the cartridges. I'm kind of waffling on my next ink purchase. I don't want to get more black, because 4 oz of black ink is probably enough to last a lifetime. I don't want to get blue, because black is good enough for Serious Business. I'm kind of edging towards the Noodler's Dragon Napalm (or however you say that), because that orange is almost red (which is my favourite colour). For such a happy pen, I'm thinking that a happy ink would be a Very Cool Thing. De Atramentis Ocher Yellow is my new favorite Non Blue / Black ink. Got it in a sample pack from Goulet and it's pretty cool. In the Kakuno post the sample from the Metro that I wrote with is that color.
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So I jumped into the deep end and got my first fountain pen, from a local fountain pen store, if you can believe that. I'm so in love with my Vanishing Point that I don't even know how to describe it. It's so much nicer to write with than the cheap and cheerful ballpoints I've been lugging around since forever. So, thanks fountain pen thread. Thanks for costing me 164 dollars (pen+ink+couple of nice notebooks) and making my handwriting nicer.
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Getting hooked on fountain pens thanks to this thread has done nothing for my handwriting but the 'ooohs' when you haul out a fountain pen are very satisfying, even when it's only a $20 metro. That and I get to pick pretty colours to write in other than the standard pen blue/black/red.
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Speaking of the 'ooohs'... I've had to argue with a couple clients of mine that my Hero 200 is not, in fact, a Parker 75. It's a surprisingly belligerent argument, albeit good-spirited as far as arguments go. They don't seem to understand that if I had a real Parker 75, that I wouldn't dare to use it in everyday life.
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My handwriting has gotten much better with fountain pens, but it still looks like butt. I think what improvement I've seen is mostly because the pen flows more smoothly so I pay a little more attention to how I'm writing. Then I get to watch my newly refined handwriting feather all over the cheap-rear end Staples legal pad I use.
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For some reason the best reason?, I just find myself wanting Parker pens. Probably because I wrote with one when I was 10 and memories~ I think I am going to buy a Parker Vector or two. Being left-handed what are some faster drying inks that goons can recommend me? Also once I get a new job I'm so going to get a Parker 75. Thanks thread I'm diving in already.
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Totally TWISTED posted:
For basic blue and black, try Noodler's Bernanke inks. For other colors, I'm not sure. Did anyone get one of the new TWSBI 580s? I think the black and gold looks awesome, but Goulet is mostly sold out now.
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Meldonox posted:My handwriting has gotten much better with fountain pens, but it still looks like butt. I think what improvement I've seen is mostly because the pen flows more smoothly so I pay a little more attention to how I'm writing. I read somewhere that if you want to continue improving your handwriting, the solution is to buy more pens? Has anyone heard differently?
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Solkanar512 posted:I read somewhere that if you want to continue improving your handwriting, the solution is to buy more pens? Has anyone heard differently? I believe you're also supposed to experiment with different inks and many different fancy paper choices as well.
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Argh, I finally pulled the trigger on two Kaweco pens. Let's see how underrated old unknown German pens are (they also have the advantage of costing next to nothing on ebay around here).
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Dropped the dough on a bottle each of Noodler's Zhivago, Pilot Iroshizuku Take-sumi, and Diamine Eclipse in my never ending search for a black ink with a subtle tinge of another colour so I can push the limits of my work's requirement I write in black ink. The Zhivago sampler I tried gave me exceptionally well behaved ink with the perfectly subtle hint of green that most people didn't even notice, Eclipse looks to do much the same but with a subtle purple sheen on black, and the Take-sumi is my fall-back if I get told to stop farting around and just use black, because the charcoal tone gives it a more grey-black appearance.
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Kill Dozed posted:For basic blue and black, try Noodler's Bernanke inks. For other colors, I'm not sure. As someone who majored in Econ I (un?)ironically love this. Thanks.
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I recently inked up my pilot vanishing point in fine with pilot iroshizuku blue (the name I can't remember) after switching to pilot hi-techpoint 0.5 rollerball pens for convenience. My goodness it's still the best writer I have in my rotation which includes a Namiki Falcon and a montblanc 145 Chopin. Amazing value for the quality of nib you get. If only the ink capacity were better, then it would be my everyday pen without worry of running out of ink midday. Or I could just buy another one.
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kim jong-illin posted:Dropped the dough on a bottle each of Noodler's Zhivago, Pilot Iroshizuku Take-sumi, and Diamine Eclipse in my never ending search for a black ink with a subtle tinge of another colour so I can push the limits of my work's requirement I write in black ink. The Zhivago sampler I tried gave me exceptionally well behaved ink with the perfectly subtle hint of green that most people didn't even notice, Eclipse looks to do much the same but with a subtle purple sheen on black, and the Take-sumi is my fall-back if I get told to stop farting around and just use black, because the charcoal tone gives it a more grey-black appearance. I enjoy Noodler's Lexington Grey for an interesting near-black. Has a bit of shading and it nib creeps something terrible in my Lamy but I absolutely adore it.
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kim jong-illin posted:Dropped the dough on a bottle each of Noodler's Zhivago, Pilot Iroshizuku Take-sumi, and Diamine Eclipse in my never ending search for a black ink with a subtle tinge of another colour so I can push the limits of my work's requirement I write in black ink. The Zhivago sampler I tried gave me exceptionally well behaved ink with the perfectly subtle hint of green that most people didn't even notice, Eclipse looks to do much the same but with a subtle purple sheen on black, and the Take-sumi is my fall-back if I get told to stop farting around and just use black, because the charcoal tone gives it a more grey-black appearance. I bought my dad a bottle of Zhivago for his birthday, and have been using it for him since he decided he doesn't want to deal with bottled ink... it replaced Air Corp Blue Black as my everyday ink pretty much immediately because I love how rich it feels.
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This may be a stupid question, but I keep seeing cartridges & converters listed by capacity in ml - does anyone know roughly how many pages / words you get per ml of ink?
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Semprini posted:This may be a stupid question, but I keep seeing cartridges & converters listed by capacity in ml - does anyone know roughly how many pages / words you get per ml of ink? That's a hard one to judge actually. A broader nib will put down more ink than a finer one of the same wetness, likewise a wet medium will put down more ink than a dry medium for example. This is probably one of those situations where anecdotal evidence is better than experimental evidence! I use Pilot Cartridges in my M90 which is reasonably wet. Each cartridge holds ~0.9ml, and I'll probably get about 18 A4 pages of notes out of a cartridge. With pages full from top to bottom with writing I'll get about 12 pages in my best approximation.
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Welsper posted:Are you using a CON-20 in it? Naturally. Why you ask?
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Thelonious Monk posted:Naturally. Why you ask? I thought you might be using a CON-50 by how fast you were running out of ink.
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Hey guys, heads up that Tomoe River paper is available at JetPens now. I'm glad there is finally an easy way to get this paper that has been almost impossible to find, even in Japan. For those not familiar with it: http://penaddict.com/blog/2013/6/3/tomoe-river-paper-review
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RustedChrome posted:Hey guys, heads up that Tomoe River paper is available at JetPens now. Oh man screwed over by shipping again. I hate paying more on shipping than the product is worth. Guess I'll wait and see if it'll eventually come to shops in Europe. Or convince myself I need a new pen too, I guess!
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I've been looking at Tomoe river paper, and I think it's nice, but couldn't the same results be gained by something like onion skin paper or bible paper? I know that there are onion skin types that work very well with pen ink, so that could be a viable option for people who are not residents of the United States to save on shipping. I've followed the link that RustedChrome posted, and then I found myself over here (http://hobonichilove.tumblr.com), a blog devoted to loving a daily planner that uses that Tomoe paper. It was pretty cool learning that Shigesato Itoi (creator of the video game Earthbound) has a hand in the creation of a daily planner, but the level of love (and I assume money too) devoted to a daily planner is funny to me. Someone please point out that I'm writing from a fancy pen thread. Edit: here's the onion skin paper that can be an alternative to Tomoe river paper. http://www.gourmetpens.com/2013/06/review-papermillstore-onion-skin-paper.html?m=1 EagerSleeper fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Hobonichi planners may be expensive, but look on the bright side ... even ordering from Japan, you won't be paying more for shipping than for the product! (Assuming you get one of the covers as well, that is.)
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Daily planners are a Thing here in Japan, bordering for some people on a religious text. At many stores, if you don't pre-order your Hobonichi well in advance you aren't going to get squat.
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Japan may love planners, but I saw some pretty inferior pens in this Hobonichi ad.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMQ0M_FSL8 Seriouspost: those planners are actually pretty neat.
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Yeah, this all came up on the exact day (yesterday) that I had planned on ordering my 2014 Rhodia Web Planner. Ordered a Hobonichi instead, we'll see how it goes. I've been using the Rhodia for 3 years now and absolutely love them, the Hobonichi looks similar in principle, I'm excited to try it out. It was right at $54 including shipping and a nice cover (not one of the crazy expensive ones, obviously) so that's not TOO bad I think.
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I have no use for a daily planner, really, but those Hobonichi Techos have a certain charm to them that's tough to deny if you're the kind of person who appreciates subtlety and good design (like, the sort of person who would discuss fancy pens on the Internet with strangers.) The ARTS&SCIENCE leather covers are straight-up beautiful, too. Too bad they're five times as expensive as the planners themselves.
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So I got a little too excited when the Dragon's Napalm came in. While filling the pen, I got ink on my fingers. What do I do?
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dino. posted:So I got a little too excited when the Dragon's Napalm came in. While filling the pen, I got ink on my fingers. What do I do? Well, it is wild berry flavored.
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dino. posted:So I got a little too excited when the Dragon's Napalm came in. While filling the pen, I got ink on my fingers. What do I do? Enjoy your awesomeness. Ink colored fingers are the best, especially not black ink.
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dino. posted:So I got a little too excited when the Dragon's Napalm came in. While filling the pen, I got ink on my fingers. What do I do? Tell your friends that you are an underground street fighter and that you have the literal blood of your enemies on your hands. Or a little rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab, that does the trick sometimes.
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