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cobalt impurity posted:Voila! Start writing something useful to society!
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2013 19:09 |
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 05:05 |
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2013 23:27 |
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edit: Obligatory Toast fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 6, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 03:15 |
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 05:44 |
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 06:48 |
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 22:17 |
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 23:02 |
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:I have this and it's the Hitler of pens. It's a complete piece of poo poo.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 01:15 |
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Brightman posted:
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 04:42 |
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Ah, I can't wait to get back home and try out my new Metro pen. My sister got me a bottle of Fuyugaki and I picked up a couple of preppy platinums from Kinokuniya when I was in LA yesterday. I want to try them out sooooo bad.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2013 19:53 |
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CannedMacabre posted:Also, on the note of cleaning, I came across a Koh-i-noor cleaning kit that I bought and forgot a long time ago.
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# ¿ May 9, 2013 07:52 |
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saphron posted:I've actually had this problem too and have been wondering whether my Metropolitan was a lemon. It's fussier about inks than I would have liked -- I tested it out twice with Terre de Feu, but it skips here and there. Even Noodler's Black takes a few scratches to start up (which was not the case with the Safari), but once it does it writes like a charm. It's still a great deal of a pen, of course...but this thread has me looking at the 580 now. This poo poo is a goddamn rabbit hole. Beautiful, strong color, but it stains like a motherfucker.
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# ¿ May 24, 2013 05:46 |
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Hell yeah, Goulet Nibs! VVV I've been writing my f's stylistically, and honestly? They work better if I actually attempt to be consistent. Obligatory Toast fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 29, 2013 |
# ¿ May 29, 2013 03:33 |
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angerbot posted:It's better than my handwriting
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# ¿ May 29, 2013 04:08 |
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angerbot posted:Oh Obligatory Toast, nothing is ever alright. You have to befjves, man.
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# ¿ May 29, 2013 04:26 |
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It's work appropriate and has a gentle greenish hue! Though I love Fuyu-gaki as well.
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# ¿ May 29, 2013 06:10 |
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Vitamins posted:Obligatory Toast, how is that Ahab you're using? I decided Noodler's Turquoise Eel is my favourite ink ever now and I've been curious about the Ahab for a while. I thought as long as I was gonna put an order in to the Goulets I'd take an opportunity to maybe get a new pen too It's nice, but the nib and feed can both be finicky as poo poo. There are threads online that show how you can basically mod it with a dremel tool. Getting the steel nib from GP basically turned something that was a novelty into something I will probably use a lot more. RustedChrome posted:It looks like a dark pink to me in that pic. Ugh, it's crimson you nerds.
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# ¿ May 30, 2013 05:20 |
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DurianGray posted:I just got back from Goulet warehouse. Got my Goulet #6 Fine nib and a bunch of samples that I'm excited to try. The Goulet nibs are really great. The Fine actually has a slightly wider line than I was expecting (about the same as an unflexed Noodler's Flex line is), but I'll admit that I don't have a whole lot of experience with different nib sizes. But right now, I do not feel like traveling an hour on i-95 south for any reason.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 06:24 |
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howe_sam posted:I just swapped out the flex nib in my Ahab for a Goulet non-flex, and even with a minimum of fiddling it's already a vast improvement over the flex nib, which I found to be balky and recalcitrant. Of course it probably also didn't help that I bent the tines on the flex nib after an unsuccessful attempt at tinkering, Yeah, the noodlers flex Ahab leaves a lot to be desired, but it has a maaaaaasive ink capacity compared to a lot of other pens. It does take a little fiddling with the Goulet nibs, but once you've got it set in the feed right, it writes nice and wet. I've had good luck with cutting into the feed a little deeper, too, since the ones that one straight out of the box with the ahabs seem a little shallow, even for the flex nib. Fwiw, cutting the feed a little wider also seems to help the flex nibs work a little better, but they're still pretty unwieldy most of the time.
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# ¿ May 18, 2015 19:45 |
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grack posted:It would've helped if you'd mentioned you wanted an italic nib for a Pilot. The nib + feed from the Plumix is fully interchangeable with the Metropolitan and a bunch of other Pilot pens. Fuckin' a, this is good to hear!
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 22:16 |
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Xun posted:Any recommendations for a red ink with good shading? Was looking at Rogue Hematite but I'm not sure I want to deal with the particles Fuckin' Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki or Momiji. Fuyu-gaki is more orange, but drat if it isn't beautiful.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 02:38 |
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enzeen posted:Should I shake my penis that a bad idea? Sometimes if I shake my pen it squirts ink. My ex enjoyed a good shake now and again, but I found you can buy better pens online that perform well right out of the box!
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2015 01:11 |
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grack posted:Ooh, I think may have bought a Parker 45 while out of my mind on migraine meds. Oh man do I know that feeling.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 01:25 |
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I already bought two new Pilot Metros and I'm just waiting for them in the mail. (Which is taking for loving ever, considering I live two loving hours away from Goulet's warehouse)
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 02:55 |
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It's still cheaper and less-headachey to have it sent to me, considering how much I'll spend in gas, how long I'll be in traffic, and when I would actually have time to go.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 03:03 |
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unicorn dreams posted:I like the suggestion about getting sample sizes. Also just read that you can convert the Preppys into eyedrop pens and do without the cartridges?! That sounds scary but adventurous. Preppies are great for eye-dropper conversions because they're cheap as gently caress and hold a loooooot of ink. You can practice on blending ink colors easily using them, and if it fucks up the nib - who gives a gently caress? You spent like 3 bucks on it. The only thing that can super suck is that the barrel is cheap plastic and can crack easily. But, you can buy a pack of them, some gasket o-rings for like, a buck at your local hardware store, some silicone grease, and you will be sitting pretty. Goulet is p. amazing, but I'm biased because they're technically local to me so my shipping time is super quick, and they always send you a tootsie pop. They'll also write a little thank you note on the invoice with a sample ink and they'll tell you what it is, so it gives you a good idea what some colors look like without having to buy. They also sell fountain-pen friendly notebooks and have a blog that reviews a lot of stuff.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2015 01:20 |
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gently caress it, I'm getting a vanishing point for christmas. Sucks I have to wait two drat weeks for it.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 02:12 |
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Soricidus posted:sucks to be you, with your friend/family/significant other who's willing to buy you expensive presents My mom got it for me after I have been spending more than a year helping her to recover from 4+ surgeries on her hip. And I'll probably help her recover when she has to go under for knee replacement surgery. Seriously, count your blessings with each stroke of that pen, man.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 09:54 |
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Soricidus posted:you sound like a good person with a cool mom and I hope things go well Thanks man. I'm looking forward to 2016.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 18:19 |
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I got to unbox my pilot vanishing point tonight and a nice bottle of diamine purple pizazz... Which I proceeded to dump on myself. Luckily that poo poo is water soluble. And skin stains comes off with caustic potash!
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2015 01:58 |
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GoodBee posted:Kon-peki is the only bottle of ink I've bought. Everything else has been samples. I'm at the point where this may be my next buy from the iroshizuku line, but tsukiyo is just as good. And I have a lot of blues. Might buy momiji next, though.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 22:56 |
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Mikl posted:I can vouch fot that too. I have three bottles: Fuyu-syogun, Fuyu-gaki and Chiku-rin. All three are very very good, although Fuyu-gaki is not what I was expecting (it's advertised as vermillion, but it's pretty much orange - still a great colour though). It's more of a scarlet, really. A fuckin' nice scarlet
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2016 03:57 |
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:How much do you all actually write? I'm working on a novel and I write all of my summaries and notes by hand.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 20:28 |
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:I want a bottle of that stuff just as a piece of memorabilia
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2016 23:15 |
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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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Heath posted:What is the best green ink that isn't sparkly?
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2016 01:29 |
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Klades posted:Try a dip pen. Apparently the Zebra G nibs will fit into an Ahab with some fiddling. So I ordered a 10 pack, myself.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 21:58 |
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Heath posted:If the steel nibbed version is comparable at all to the Metro then I'm fine with that. It's better - it has a softer feel, anyways
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 20:28 |
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So I somehow lost one of my pens. Fine, it was an ahab, so no big deal - EXCEPT IT HAD THE STUPID TITANIUM BOCK NIB IN IT. So I'm basically missing a pen with a $60 loving nib in it.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 14:56 |
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 05:05 |
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So question does anybody here own a karas pen? I got one from Goulet yesterday and it's a great pen... except the converter is an absolute piece of poo poo. If it doesn't fit JUST loving SO into the nib housing it will hemorrhage ink. My lamy has a similar style converter but doesn't act like a piece of trash, so I'm wondering if this is a common problem? I'm gonna contact Goulet about it anyways, but I'm wondering if a new converter will solve the problem outright.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 18:52 |