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Keetron posted:(bought a TWSBI 580 Rose Gold with an F nib) Ok, I also ordered a 580 clean plastic with an M nib and a small bottle of ink: Namiki Iroshizuku 15ml Ink - Autumn Leaves (momiji) Just figured they would go well together.
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Momoji is a lovely ink. All of the iroshizuku inks are, really.
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Sep 18, 2020 12:38
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I have a bottle of Murasaki Shikibu that I like well enough but it doesn't have the crazy shading of my other Iroshizukus.
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Sep 18, 2020 18:20
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So the Pilot Retro Pops are just Metropolitans, and haven't had any fall in quality?
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Sep 23, 2020 03:25
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Yeah, they're just metropolitans with special designs. Otherwise exactly the same. It's just a branding thing.
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Sep 23, 2020 03:59
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I wish you could get a Metro in retro pop colors but with a plain band. I'd like one of the red ones, but I'm not a fan of the band design. Closest thing is the "Cocoon" version but it's not the same red.
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I've been replaying the Trails games (the best jrpg series ever. play it) and now that I have a broken pen brain I keep noticing whenever there's a pen in the game. This is the screen for one of the main menu's options. That pen looks pretty detailed. Is it any pen in particular or just a generic looking (japanese) fountain pen? 
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Sep 24, 2020 21:35
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It looks like a mashup of Pilot and Platinum design elements, like an Izumo mixed with a Custom 743.
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Sep 24, 2020 21:46
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Heath posted:I wish you could get a Metro in retro pop colors but with a plain band. I'd like one of the red ones, but I'm not a fan of the band design. Closest thing is the "Cocoon" version but it's not the same red. Planeguy brought me back a couple Cocoons from Japan and I loves them. I also love my new Kaweco Fireblue. And my fixed TWSBI 580. And my Pilot Parallels. I don't think we're gonna do a Secret Santa this year unless someone else wants to run it. We had more than one deadbeat last year, which wrecked our otherwise perfect record. However, I'm wondering if anyone wants to do a Penpal exchange instead. Much lower stakes if anyone flakes out and you might make a new friend.
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Sep 24, 2020 21:46
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I'm down for a pen pal exchange.
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Sep 24, 2020 22:40
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Yeah I'll send a letter or card out. That's within my budget/energy.
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Sep 25, 2020 00:36
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Dammit Canada Post, deliver my pretty, shiny, expensive things! 
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Sep 25, 2020 03:47
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grack posted:Dammit Canada Post, deliver my pretty, shiny, expensive things! You got another Delta, didn't you
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Sep 25, 2020 05:43
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iospace posted:You got another Delta, didn't you Of course I did.
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Sep 25, 2020 06:09
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I take comfort in the fact that twenty years forward we’ll probably be fighting the rad ghouls for water and Grack is still gonna be finding deltas
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Sep 25, 2020 08:17
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The Iron Throne but it's Deltas
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Pixelante posted:Planeguy brought me back a couple Cocoons from Japan and I loves them. I also love my new Kaweco Fireblue. And my fixed TWSBI 580. And my Pilot Parallels. Yeah, it's a shame, and we weren't too many people to begin with. I thought COVID was affecting the mailing schledule, but now it's clear nothing was ever sent this way  . Well, I had fun shopping and my santee seemed happy, so whatever.
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Happy to send people stuff, and we do that regularly already over here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3400714 If you want (infrequent) letters/postcards and the option to send people things through snailmail *all year round*, this is the thread for you.
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Heath posted:The Iron Throne but it's Deltas Once I've gathered enough Deltas I'll be able to summon Chupaclops The Great Spider, Harbringer of the Apocalypse and Destroyer of Worlds. Having such a mighty beast as my ally with then make it much easier to get more Deltas. Also I realized that I never actually posted a picture of the Titanio  Pretty unique body material
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Sep 25, 2020 17:31
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Nice clip.
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Sep 25, 2020 17:37
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Yeah, I have no idea why Delta thought it was a good idea to put a bright, shiny chromed clip on a pen that otherwise has brushed titanium trim. Edit: Finally A Delta "Profili". Sterling silver engraved, faceted body, ruby-red celluloid trim, 14k rhodium-plated nib  So, so pretty grack fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sep 25, 2020 19:57
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If you're actually buying deltas so that you can bring an end to the world could you please hurry it up
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I thought the world was already doing that on it's own
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Sep 26, 2020 00:52
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Anyone have special insight into why my Sheaffer Imperial Touchdown is leaking where the cap goes on the section? It seems to fill fine, but whenever I take the cap off there's a ring of ink.
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Sep 27, 2020 01:43
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fanny packrat posted:Anyone have special insight into why my Sheaffer Imperial Touchdown is leaking where the cap goes on the section? It seems to fill fine, but whenever I take the cap off there's a ring of ink. Cracked section? After wiping off the ring of ink, use a wet paper towel and gently dab all around the section to see if you can pull any more ink out of the crack, which might not otherwise be visible.
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Sep 27, 2020 03:07
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I had a leaking pilot metro with similar symptomes and it turned out to be a cracked converter.
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Dad Hominem posted:Cracked section? After wiping off the ring of ink, use a wet paper towel and gently dab all around the section to see if you can pull any more ink out of the crack, which might not otherwise be visible. So I took the pen apart yesterday and inspected everything for cracks or other opportunities for ink to leak out. Couldn't find anything. When I was putting it back together I noticed that there was ink in the threads of the section. I cleaned that up pretty well, flushed the Bay State Blue out until it was running clear, then refilled with Skrip Red. Today I took the cap off and... more blue ink. I just spent another 15 minutes cleaning the section threads, barrel threads, and the inside of the cap. All blue ink, not a bit of red in sight. I think I probably screwed something up the first time I filled it with BSB and ever since there's been ink trapped in the threads that gets pulled up with capillary action and forced out of the seam where the barrel and section meet. Hopefully this is the end of it!
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I have a platinum 3776 that has a hairline crack in its section on the outside which will trap ink when doing a convertor bottle fill via the nib if you dip it deep, it takes forever to clear out the ink from that crack.
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fanny packrat posted:So I took the pen apart yesterday and inspected everything for cracks or other opportunities for ink to leak out. Couldn't find anything. When I was putting it back together I noticed that there was ink in the threads of the section. I cleaned that up pretty well, flushed the Bay State Blue out until it was running clear, then refilled with Skrip Red. Today I took the cap off and... more blue ink. I just spent another 15 minutes cleaning the section threads, barrel threads, and the inside of the cap. All blue ink, not a bit of red in sight. I think I probably screwed something up the first time I filled it with BSB and ever since there's been ink trapped in the threads that gets pulled up with capillary action and forced out of the seam where the barrel and section meet. Hopefully this is the end of it! Two points 1. Don't use BSB in anything you care about, especially if it has a sac. 2. If you're going to use BSB in a pen, only use BSB in that pen. It reacts poorly with other inks and can create literal jellied lumps in the feed and reservoir. It's also incredibly difficult to fully clean.
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grack posted:1. Don't use BSB That's my take on it
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Sep 28, 2020 20:08
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Is Baystate Purple the same deal is Baystate Blue? I got a bottle in a gift exchange a couple years ago and haven't used it yet.
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Heath posted:That's my take on it From everything I have read, I see many reasons to avoid noodlers to begin with. Nice detail is that my local show, that is very well assorted, does not carry noodlers ink.
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Keetron posted:From everything I have read, I see many reasons to avoid noodlers to begin with. Nice detail is that my local show, that is very well assorted, does not carry noodlers ink.  54th Mass is the best
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Keetron posted:From everything I have read, I see many reasons to avoid noodlers to begin with. Nice detail is that my local show, that is very well assorted, does not carry noodlers ink. I'm pretty happy with Apache Sunset and Lexington Grey but the Vancouver Pen Shop won't touch Noodler's. The lady who runs the place gave me one hell of a death stare for even asking. "It clogs pens." "Okay." "It. Clogs. Pens."
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Keetron posted:From everything I have read, I see many reasons to avoid noodlers to begin with. Nice detail is that my local show, that is very well assorted, does not carry noodlers ink. Noodler's should be thoroughly researched, because they can be either fantastic or terrible and there is 0 consistency between two different colors. My best inks and my worst inks are both Noodler's. I use a ton of Bad Belted Kingfisher (easily my best utilitarian ink) and Heart of Darkness (my second best) and I have a couple of bottles that are so bad that I just dumped them (American Aristocracy.) Good Noodler's that I've tried: BBK HoD Tokyo Gift (love this one) Apache Sunset Navajo Turquoise Nightshade (although mine got mold in it, but it writes well) Golden Brown Ottoman Azure (wonderful blue) Habanero Bad: American Aristocracy Uhhh whatever else I've dumped out and forgotten about Neutral: Blue Ghost (it works! It's cool! But it's very limited usefulness unless you're an artist or writing code letters) Black Swan in English Roses (beautiful, but it dries out in the nib and gets gummy, works well if diluted) Borealis Black (the blackest black, but it has almost a dusty quality to it, not quite as smooth as HoD but it's like Sharpie black)
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Heath posted:Noodler's should be thoroughly researched, because they can be either fantastic or terrible and there is 0 consistency between two different colors. Sometimes even a single color will be inconsistent: Color Change for Black Swan in Australian Roses
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I've never had a problem with BSB, but i also only use it in C/C pens that I can easily clean. It's a really vibrant, if a little flat, blue that writes well when you have it in a pen. Which isn't something I can say for Organics Studio's big sheeners, like that Santiago's Sea. The sheen is amazing, but given the way it tends to dry on the nib makes it almost not worth the trouble. I guess the moral is stick with kon-peki.
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Pixelante posted:Is Baystate Purple the same deal is Baystate Blue? I got a bottle in a gift exchange a couple years ago and haven't used it yet. All the Baystate colours should be treated with equal caution.
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Kon-Peki is just wonderful. I will put my skin on the line and say I absolutely despise Organics Studios inks. I have their royal blue and it is the messiest, fussiest ink I've ever used. Pages I wrote with years ago still smudge. No matter how much I wipe off my desk, even though it looks completely clean, even though I haven't used this ink since 2017, I still will get random blue spots on pages, on my arm, anywhere. I will wipe the desk down with a wet cloth and find nothing, sit down, and have blue on me. I do not understand it. It's so pretty, but it's so, so, so bad for actually using. It dries to rock solid in the nib in a heartbeat but never actually fixes to paper. Heath fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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