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I bought Petrol when it came out and loved it- unfortunately I am down to my last refill. I think it’s what started my interest. I think I may have the ingredients to mix one myself (KWZ Green 4(?), Oster Aussie Gold, Noodler 54th/ Mont Verde Capri Blue/ KWZ Baltic Memories), I may try a mix at some point
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I am a big fan of shin-kai as a blueblack.
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And the saga ends with me returning the duplicate pen and receiving this:
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# ? Jun 1, 2022 12:15 |
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Never open it, pass it down to your descendants as the time you accidentally fought a corporation and won without even trying
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# ? Jun 1, 2022 17:31 |
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Totally not in the spirit of the thread: The Récife Artis Traveller Monet edition was 50% off at my pen store. Totally in the spirit in the thread: I bought all four versions they had available, I'd figure they make awesome gifts (haha, who am i kidding)
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# ? Jun 7, 2022 07:57 |
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Has anyone heard anything from musubi? There haven't been any updates posted for awhile and I still want those notebook covers
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:01 |
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Oh my, there is a Dutch Pen Show on Sunday. Good thing I hate money. https://www.dutchpenshow.com/
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 07:47 |
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Wow nice thread here. Way to ruin national ballpoint pen day.
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tater_salad posted:Wow nice thread here. Way to ruin national ballpoint pen day.
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tater_salad posted:Wow nice thread here. Way to ruin national ballpoint pen day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIbMRLYw_o
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 15:27 |
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tater_salad posted:Wow nice thread here. Way to ruin national ballpoint pen day. Bold of you to assume we are not also ballpoint nerds
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 16:18 |
Uni Jetstream FTW.
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 16:59 |
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If I have to use a non-fountain pen it's rollerball all the way. Ballpoints have no place in my home
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 17:25 |
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For ballpoints I quite like the Zebra Sarasa 0.4mm (easily the finest writing pen I own, fountain or not) but my go-to is a Pilot Acroball. For rollerballs, the Pilot G2 or uni-ball Deluxe, especially the gold ones, which are very handsome
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 17:53 |
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Everett False posted:If I have to use a non-fountain pen it's rollerball all the way. Ballpoints have no place in my home This person gets it
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# ? Jun 11, 2022 03:09 |
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Is it the ink that makes a ballpoint, or is it the rotating ball at the end? (i.e. is a rollerball a subset of ballpoints)
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Pioneer42 posted:Is it the ink that makes a ballpoint, or is it the rotating ball at the end? (i.e. is a rollerball a subset of ballpoints) It's the ink AFAIK. Rollerball ink is water-based, while ballpoint is thicker oil-based. But I don't know for sure. Thanks for listening.
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madmatt112 posted:It's the ink AFAIK. Rollerball ink is water-based, while ballpoint is thicker oil-based. But I don't know for sure. Thanks for listening. This is correct
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Jfyi, PenBBS are back open.
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Kerbtree posted:Jfyi, PenBBS are back open. [url]Link| https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/PENBBSOfficialStore[/url]
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Professor Shark posted:After my disappointing experience with Air Corps Blue Black I decided to try and find a similar dark teal color. I'm pretty late to this but Sailor Yama-dori is my favorite teal ink - hell it's one of my favorites in general, it's gorgeous. It's similar to Lamy Petrol which was mentioned earlier, without the downside of being a limited release from 5 years ago. It might be a touch lighter than what you're looking for, but that's my rec. Here's a nice review for it from Mountain of Ink with some similarly-colored ink swabs for comparison: Sailor Shikiori Yama-dori
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The pen show was cool, rather cramped and busy and frantic. Only impulse bought two pens, a Narwhal Nautilus and a Voyager. Also some notebooks and a pen stand. Edit: Here some crappy pics Keetron fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Here's a pretty pen. It's celluloid and Italian. Very pretty
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# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:50 |
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hi there, I was wondering if anyone could help me with these. my uncle who used to run an antique auction house identified these as solid gold either mechanical pencils or fountain pens(can't remember which) from the 1800s. is there anyone here who might know someplace I could investigate further to find out origins, value, etc of this sort of thing? I realize this might be a little outside the scope of this thread, but I have no clue where to look beyond knowing generally what they are, and I can only assume they're worth something simply because they're made of gold, let alone very old gold antiques.
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You might try one of the various antique or writing utensil subreddits (r/fountainpens, r/mechanicalpencils, r/pens)
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Captain Invictus posted:hi there, I was wondering if anyone could help me with these. my uncle who used to run an antique auction house identified these as solid gold either mechanical pencils or fountain pens(can't remember which) from the 1800s. is there anyone here who might know someplace I could investigate further to find out origins, value, etc of this sort of thing? They look more like mechanical pencils or dip nib holders than fountain pens. For mechanical pencils you could maybe start looking here: https://leadheadpencils.blogspot.com/?m=0
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# ? Jun 18, 2022 09:25 |
If there's a jeweler near you, you may also be able to take them there to get a sense of the value of gold they contain at the very least.
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I bought three different LAMY Safaris - Medium, Fine, and Extra Fine. All using LAMY cartridges - I can’t tell a difference looking at the lines I’m writing. The charts show a clear difference between EF and F and my own writing I can’t see any difference between EF and M. I have to be using the pens wrong, right? I’ve hundred times checked the nibs, they’re clearly labeled. What am I missing? E: these are my first real pens, I’m asking to understand what’s going on and in no way criticizing the pens. Same Great Paste fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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Modern Lamy nib QC is notoriously spotty. The ink/s you use can affect perceived nib width, however it's much more likely that your observations based on marked nib width are correct. Here is a diagram made by Lamy themselves regarding factory tolerances: https://www.lamy.com/en/lamy-nib-guide/ (scroll down a teensy bit) EF looking like M is a bit outside their specifications but ehhh it's Lamy, things happen. Their F looking broader than M (or M finer than F) is almost a meme these days. That being said, Lamy's aesthetics are top notch. If only their nibs were as good as they used to be.
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Same Great Paste posted:I bought three different LAMY Safaris - Medium, Fine, and Extra Fine. All using LAMY cartridges - I can’t tell a difference looking at the lines I’m writing. The charts show a clear difference between EF and F and my own writing I can’t see any difference between EF and M. I have to be using the pens wrong, right? I’ve hundred times checked the nibs, they’re clearly labeled. What am I missing? If the paper you're using is too absorbent (eg cheap notebook paper) it might end up making all your lines look equally thick. You can see if the same thing happens after you change paper. Maybe try writing on some old receipts?
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Thanks for the quick answers! Tried a waxy paper - the medium is definitely thicker than the fine - and yes I had been comparing on notebook paper. The Extra Fine still looks identical to the Medium though. That’s really disappointing. I bought these partly to understand which size Lamy 2000 I’d want. Gross.
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Same Great Paste posted:Thanks for the quick answers! Tried a waxy paper - the medium is definitely thicker than the fine - and yes I had been comparing on notebook paper. The Extra Fine still looks identical to the Medium though. That’s really disappointing. I bought these partly to understand which size Lamy 2000 I’d want. Gross. The 2000 uses a completely different nib, so it wouldn't be much of a comparison.
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I vaguely remember my Fine nib 2000 being slightly broader than either of my Fine nib Safaris but that's basically meaningless too because the Safaris also weren't really close in line width. The 2000 wrote closer to a lot of the Ms I have. I really wish Lamy didn't use a weird proprietary nib shape/size because I like the aesthetics of a lot of their pens but honestly have kind of hated writing with any of them, the 2000 wasn't bad but just not what I wanted.
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Same Great Paste posted:Thanks for the quick answers! Tried a waxy paper - the medium is definitely thicker than the fine - and yes I had been comparing on notebook paper. The Extra Fine still looks identical to the Medium though. That’s really disappointing. I bought these partly to understand which size Lamy 2000 I’d want. Gross. It won't help. The 2000 uses a different nib than literally every other Lamy currently on the market and they're not comparable. The quick and dirty answer is buy one nib size finer than you want when you buy a 2000.
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Same Great Paste posted:Thanks for the quick answers! Tried a waxy paper - the medium is definitely thicker than the fine - and yes I had been comparing on notebook paper. The Extra Fine still looks identical to the Medium though. That’s really disappointing. I bought these partly to understand which size Lamy 2000 I’d want. Gross. eep, this all hurt to read Same Great Paste, if you are open to trying Asian nibs instead, i can send you some of my "learner's" pens? make the whole thing feel like less of a wash, hopefully, and maybe get you thinking of other brands. realistically i'm never gonna use them now that i have found my favorites, so they were always destined to be given away. for free! in other news, i think i found my grail pen i didn't know anyone made bat-themed pens!!!! they are my absolute favorite animal and hell, i dress as a vampire every Halloween, I Have to own this pen one day Ramie fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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Make sure you pair it with an appropriately blood like ink?
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catgirlgenius posted:Same Great Paste, if you are open to trying Asian nibs instead, i can send you some of my "learner's" pens? make the whole thing feel like less of a wash, hopefully, and maybe get you thinking of other brands. realistically i'm never gonna use them now that i have found my favorites, so they were always destined to be given away. for free! This is very thoughtful Thank You! I must decline, though. Even with the unexpected sizes the Safaris are going to be more than I need for a while. Also that bat pen is awesome.
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Xun posted:Make sure you pair it with an appropriately blood like ink? Van Dieman's Vampire Bat! https://www.vandiemansink.com.au/collections/night/products/van-diemans-night-vampire-bat-fountain-pen-ink i found it while looking for an entirely different ink, seems like a close match to Sailor Ume, which i already have a sample of. hoping that one turns out bloody enough! on that subject, Van Dieman seems like a neat brand. i'm also looking at Monarca, that Nopal ink... there's so many kinds of ink! just yesterday i found out Platinum makes Sepia pigmented ink, i'll probably switch to that for my watercolor needs
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Yo so two weeks ago I got a Wonder Pens order and I am loving my fancy new Kaweco Iridescent Pearl Sport. It writes so nice and smoothly and the pearl effect looks great! I'm just using the supplied cartridge for now but once that's used up I'm going to try cleaning it out and refilling it with something else. I also got some samples of Shin-Ryoku and Chiku-Rin which I'm excited to try out, as well as Diamine Red Dragon, Honey Burst, and Terracotta (I thought my GF might want to try matching ink to her terracotta red Lamy Safari). I'm trying out the Honey Burst and not gonna lie I'm finding it to be an awfully dry ink.
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I've been running Noodler's Heart of Darkness in a Pilot Metropolitan, and I've noticed there's almost always a sticky, gummy feeling to the barrel. I can kinda wipe it off but it comes back really quickly. Am I right in assuming that's something about the Bulletproof-ness of the HoD creeping onto the grip?
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