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As seen in the meme thread of all places, have some hi-res pen porn. http://i.imgur.com/xDSolNh.mp4
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I just got in some cheap rear end Chinese pens from Amazon. I don't even remember what I ordered. I'm about to ink them up. Hope they don't leak everywhere! I've got a Bay State Blue sample I want to use but I'm not sure any of these three pens won't just explode ink everywhere. I ordered some more ink samples from Goulet today also. I'm not a huge fan of the Lamy Red I bought but it's kind of growing on me. I decided I want green in my Lamy Safari, a purple in one Metro, Kon-Peki in my other Metro, a dark red in one pen, then I've got three more pens to play with. Do I have a problem?
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Mar 25, 2016 00:28
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Powered Descent posted:As seen in the meme thread of all places, have some hi-res pen porn. Mm yesssss GoodBee posted:I just got in some cheap rear end Chinese pens from Amazon. I don't even remember what I ordered. I'm about to ink them up. Hope they don't leak everywhere! I've got a Bay State Blue sample I want to use but I'm not sure any of these three pens won't just explode ink everywhere. If you do then I do, and I do NOT have a loving problem it's everybody else that has a problem. Btw, my bro got me Yama budo for my birthday and it's the purple I never knew I needed in my life
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Mar 25, 2016 00:32
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Obligatory Toast posted:Btw, my bro got me Yama budo for my birthday and it's the purple I never knew I needed in my life Hmm. Not in my sample pack. I may need to remedy this in the future. I just noticed one of the purple samples was an iron gall. What's up with those? Safe in a Metro or should I just save it for my dip pen? I know there's something to watch out for with iron galls, I just never paid attention.
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Mar 25, 2016 00:49
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GoodBee posted:Hmm. Not in my sample pack. I may need to remedy this in the future. R&K iron galls typically are fine, provided you don't let it sit for a month without writing so it can eat up the plastic. Some other boutique brands make iron gall inks that are significantly more acidic and will fairly quickly trash plastic feeds.
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Mar 25, 2016 00:53
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Powered Descent posted:As seen in the meme thread of all places, have some hi-res pen porn. As a left-handed person, 
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Mar 25, 2016 22:55
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NeurosisHead posted:R&K iron galls typically are fine, provided you don't let it sit for a month without writing so it can eat up the plastic. Some other boutique brands make iron gall inks that are significantly more acidic and will fairly quickly trash plastic feeds. Will eat steel nibs if left alone for months, what with it being somewhat acidic. Just had it happen to a Pilot Prera with R&K Scabiosa I forgot about for half a year.
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Mar 25, 2016 23:00
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I really want a twsbi 580AL in blue but they ain't available anywhere. Make more you bastards.
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Mar 28, 2016 17:01
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:I really want a twsbi 580AL in blue but they ain't available anywhere. Make more you bastards. That's a bummer, I love my orange one. Haven't had any of the TWSBI problems with it, either.
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Mar 28, 2016 17:04
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Holy cow. I just saw a picture of a Visconti Divina in the silver stacked celluloid from the Wall Street. (Here's the full article, with other pictures of pens from Baselworld.) Oh, man, is it pretty. I just bought a Wall Street not two weeks ago -- right now, it's off with Mike Masuyama for adjustments -- but now I want this one too. Sigh. Just when I was thinking, well, there's nothing out there I'm really lusting after any more.
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Mar 28, 2016 21:03
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Are you having a custom grind done or did the nib show up in that bad shape?
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Mar 29, 2016 00:52
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Welp, my bottle of Borealis Black is finally starting to run low. It's the only ink I have. Time to go order a dozen samples from Goulet!
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Mar 29, 2016 02:30
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Remember to always be Yama-Budoing
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Mar 29, 2016 02:37
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I emptied my 4.5oz bottle of heart of darkness! Into an empty iroshizuku bottle, but still, that's progress.
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Mar 29, 2016 02:38
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grack posted:Are you having a custom grind done or did the nib show up in that bad shape? It's one of the original Wall Streets, with a gold nib, and the feed just can't keep up with writing for any length of time. I bought it at my local pen store (Appointments in Cincinnati), and they sent it off to Mike for an inspection after I discovered the issue. Hopefully he can adjust the feed, tune the nib, and return it to me as a gorgeous writer; it was very, very nice when I was dip-testing it at the store, so I know what it should be like. I've had my eye on it for years, and am happy to have taken the plunge, even if I'm in for a bit of delayed satisfaction. There's a reason I shop at Appointments whenever I can; their customer service is second to none. And that's good, because I have had rotten luck with 3 of the last 4 big pens I bought. 2 of them are perfect now, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the third. (And then I have to stop with the expensive pens until next year. No, seriously. No, really, I'm going to take a break.)
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Mar 29, 2016 03:45
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atholbrose posted:It's one of the original Wall Streets, with a gold nib, and the feed just can't keep up with writing for any length of time. Just my opinion but I would be tremendously pissed if I dropped that much money on a fountain pen and it failed the very basic test of "being a functional pen".
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Mar 29, 2016 06:05
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grack posted:Just my opinion but I would be tremendously pissed if I dropped that much money on a fountain pen and it failed the very basic test of "being a functional pen".
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Mar 29, 2016 07:11
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atholbrose posted:I took it back to the retailer where I bought it, and they're making it right, on their dime, so I'm not really upset. Yeah, okay, I'm disappointed, but based on another pen I had adjusted by Mike, it's going to be dreamy when it gets back to me. I bought one of the other pens with issues there as well, a Graf von Faber-Castell Intuition, and that was fixed with an in-store nib swap and a little bit of polishing; and while I had major problems with an Omas Ogiva bought from nibs.com (ink leaking behind the piston seal, piston freezes in two separate bodies), they treated me right through the whole process, and I really like the celluloid 3776 I eventually exchanged it for. I really, really like the aesthetics of some of the pens I can't justify spending money on. But they are plagued with their own chronic QC issues around writing quality. Sure, TWSBI might use lovely plastic in their $50 pen, but for $2 and 3 days of shipping time they'll send you a new part - if they charge at all. With the luxury brands you spend >$600 on a pen, and then spend another what, $50-ish to have it tuned by a third party to get it even functional? That's endlessly frustrating. They are fuckin' pretty though.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:53
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Yeah I can't justify to myself buying a pen that's like $200+ that doesn't write at least as well as a $15 Metro out of the box. Getting a vintage pen that needs restoration or a cheap Chinese or Indian pen that I expect to tinker with is different, if it's brand new and high priced it should work.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:38
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Does the average rich person who buys a really high-end pen even use them or are they more like decor anyway? Seems like if they were actually getting put to use there would be more static from the consumers about having quality control issues for something so expensive.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:47
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I can't even imagine using one of those gaudy, diamond encrusted, gently caress-off expensive monstrosities. They look so uncomfortable to hold.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:58
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NeurosisHead posted:I really, really like the aesthetics of some of the pens I can't justify spending money on. But they are plagued with their own chronic QC issues around writing quality. Sure, TWSBI might use lovely plastic in their $50 pen, but for $2 and 3 days of shipping time they'll send you a new part - if they charge at all. With the luxury brands you spend >$600 on a pen, and then spend another what, $50-ish to have it tuned by a third party to get it even functional? That's endlessly frustrating. Maybe it's Visconti's new brand strategy: Really pretty pens that don't actually write. grack fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 19:24
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My two $7 Chinese pens I got from Amazon are really dreamy to write with so far. I haven't used either for very long (holiday plus I forgot all my pens at home today) so it remains to be seen how they hold up. The $2-and-some-change one seems like complete garbage though. It may have had some water in it from rinsing it out first. I just got some ink samples from Goulet today so I'm going to need to use up my ink so I can change colors.
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Mar 30, 2016 00:22
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Everything Burrito posted:Does the average rich person who buys a really high-end pen even use them or are they more like decor anyway? Seems like if they were actually getting put to use there would be more static from the consumers about having quality control issues for something so expensive. At the local pen meets I see two crowds. One crowd is obsessed with handwriting and writing in general, and spends on everything from cheap calligraphy nib holders to two-thousand-dollar Sailor pens with exotic hand-ground nibs. Most of the high-end pens in this crowd will be Japanese, and those tend to have very few QC issues. The other crowd is basically housewives and bankers sitting in the middle of the room jerking each other off over gold-bodied, diamond-encrusted garbage. Nobody knows if there's QC issues on these mostly-European babies because half of them have never been inked up.
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Mar 30, 2016 05:22
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Am I weird for finding the Parker Vector — the same cheap poo poo fountain pen I was using in high school — to be a really nice writer? It glides on pretty much any paper, when even the Pilot Metro will feel scratchy.
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Mar 30, 2016 09:19
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Guys my screw lathe should be here by the middle of next week. What style of pen should I try to make first?
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Mar 30, 2016 17:48
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DigitalRaven posted:Am I weird for finding the Parker Vector — the same cheap poo poo fountain pen I was using in high school — to be a really nice writer? It glides on pretty much any paper, when even the Pilot Metro will feel scratchy. Not at all. One of the smoothest out of box nibs I own is a Pelikan Happy Pen, and it cost me $12 including a 6 pack of cartridges. The cheap stuff can really surprise you.
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Mar 30, 2016 19:48
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grack posted:Not at all. One of the smoothest out of box nibs I own is a Pelikan Happy Pen, and it cost me $12 including a 6 pack of cartridges. The cheap stuff can really surprise you. I've still got an eyedropper Preppy that came with a big bottle of Noodler's years ago that writes like a dream.
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Mar 30, 2016 20:21
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On the other hand sometimes a pen is cheap because the company clearly hired someone's drunk cousin to do quality control. Got a Schmidt Intrinsic in today and the nib was staggeringly awful. So bad, in fact, that I gave up adjusting it and just replaced the nib with a spare.
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Mar 30, 2016 23:58
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I bet it's the difference between "let's build the cheapest pen possible no matter how poo poo" and "given our high quality standards and advanced tooling what's the best way to make pen production cheaper and more automated for a user grade pen without diamonds and gold clips and poo poo"
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Mar 31, 2016 09:54
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My celluloid 3776 showed up today   I haven't inked it up yet, and probably won't until my order of Bung Box shows up, and I think the cap is a little too big in proportion to the barrel, but that material 
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Apr 1, 2016 21:31
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Nice GI bleed marbling there.
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Apr 2, 2016 09:52
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Well that's an exceptionally unpleasant description Also, finally went and bought a Pilot Metro and the nib shows up in basically unusable shape. A first for a Pilot pen for me.
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Apr 2, 2016 17:50
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Finally bought a Pilot Metropolitan and it's by far the cheapest nice pen (or the nicest cheap pen) I've ever owned.
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Apr 7, 2016 00:19
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I threw away my $2 Chinese pen the other day. It was unusable and not worth any more effort than tossing it in the trash. I still like my $7 dollar pens. They've got little hoods (?) over the nibs so I don't get ink on my fingers. I sometimes get that from my Metros. I quit using my Noodler's entirely. I love my Safari but I've decided that green ink goes there so I don't use it as much at work.
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Apr 7, 2016 00:31
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I ordered a bunch of blue ink samplers and they arrived today!  Had to clean out my Metro to use them. First one up is Noodler's Liberty's Elysium, which is very pretty. I also picked up J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir, Diamine Blue Velvet and De Atramentis Indigo Blue thanks to this thread's recommendations, plus a sample of Noodler's 54th Massachusetts. Fun times! 
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Apr 7, 2016 01:04
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Solumin posted:J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir I really liked this one.
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Apr 7, 2016 01:33
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GoodBee posted:I threw away my $2 Chinese pen the other day. It was unusable and not worth any more effort than tossing it in the trash. If the problem was nib-related, next time stuff a real nib in it and try it that way before you chuck it.
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Apr 7, 2016 03:21
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Remora posted:If the problem was nib-related, next time stuff a real nib in it and try it that way before you chuck it. Wouldn't a real nib be more expensive than the pen? Plus it seemed like it had a weird bend in it near the end and it wasn't anything special looking.
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GoodBee posted:Wouldn't a real nib be more expensive than the pen? Plus it seemed like it had a weird bend in it near the end and it wasn't anything special looking. Think of the pen as a $2 nib holder with a free feed. Edit: I mean if the pen sucked to hold, that's different, but if it just sucked to write with on account of the nib...
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