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Welp, i just bought my first vintage pen, a Doric on eBay for a not extravagant amount of money. This was probably a dumb decision, but I do so love faceted pens, and it's a pretty color.
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grack posted:Pelikan it is, then. Good pen, great nib.
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blowfish posted:Fountain pens must be shipped empty because chances are they'll leak when bumped around and subjected to plane cargo hold conditions. That would be news to the dude who sold me my vintage Doric, the dang thing was filled with some kind of blue ink. There was ink all over the place. On the whole though, neat pen and I would love a modern reinterpretation of it. Speaking of which, out of Noodlers, Diamine, DeAtramentis, Iro, and Sailor which is the best choice for use with a vintage pen? Or is it more a matter of doing a good job cleaning between fills and not letting ink sit in the pen for a long time?
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Heh, in his latest YouTube QA Brian Goulet gets salty about Japanese eBay and Amazon sellers who are undercutting him on price. Sorry for buying pens way cheaper than you can offer Brian.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:08
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Goulet also has one of the better designed web stores out there. And based on that Q&A I bought a bottle of Noodler's and hopped on that BOGO for the Jinhao x750s with number 5 nibs, so Brian's marketing works.mikeycp posted:What exactly are ink syringes for?
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NeurosisHead posted:Any of you guys have a favorite pen roll or other pen carrying case? The PenHabit guy (who was a year behind me in high school, small world) reviewed a couple NockCo products over the weekend. Their pen roll looks rather inelegant, but practical, while their three pen case seems pretty nice for that sort of case.
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Feb 9, 2016 15:27
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:
I have seven bottles of ink due to arrive from Massdrop in the next month, so you ain't lying. Hopefully that, plus the three bottles I have coming in from Penchalet, and what I already own...forty-three bottles of ink is enough right? 
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Feb 14, 2016 04:13
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grack posted:Or maybe some more R+K This reminds me that Solferino is a dope purple and I should use it in a pen soon.
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Feb 14, 2016 06:41
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Antietam is dope like that 
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Feb 17, 2016 18:51
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The Konrad is a piston filler right? Why not just use that?
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Feb 18, 2016 02:55
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:I'm having a hard time thinking of any European brands that make really great products. As far as pens go Lamy is the only one I can think of that is on the same level as the stuff made in Japan in terms of price, durability, and design. Pelikan? If nothing else their piston fillers are impeccable.
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Feb 23, 2016 04:12
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Get the purple, live a little.
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Feb 23, 2016 04:30
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RIP cool Bungbox bottles 
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Feb 25, 2016 04:37
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I have no need for another red ink, but I feel like I need to own that 
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^^^ Isn't there some trick you can do with a pencil eraser to tighten that insert, or am I thinking of a different pen? Nanami has Seven Seas Writers back in stock, and the one I ordered just showed up. It is pretty much the perfect A5 sized notebook, except that my preference is for white, not cream, paper since I think it makes colors pop more. Still, Emerald of Chivor is ridiculous, and R&K Solferino and DeAtramentis Aubergine are also displaying impressive sheen. I desperately need to empty a pen so I can try out Oku-Yama, that should be spectacular. Bung Box Hatsuyume Aofuji has been the lone disappointment so far, too pale a blue for cream colored paper.
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Mar 10, 2016 05:27
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Goons I'm in the market for a ~*fancy*~ pen to celebrate my quite frankly obscene annual bonus. Price is nominally no object but I'd rather not spend more than 500 or so. Currently leaning towards a 3776 Celluloid, so if anyone has any experience with one of those I'd love to get some feedback.
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atholbrose posted:A pen I'm glad to own, and a wonderful writer. That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
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Mar 11, 2016 15:17
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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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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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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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Noctis Horrendae posted:What are you fellas' thoughts on the Waterman Hémispherè? If you like slim, slightly overpriced, pens they're real good.
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Apr 14, 2016 04:19
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This doesn't change the fact that I think those Homo Sapiens Florentine Hills demonstrators are drop dead gorgeous, and I'd love to own one. No way in hell I'd pay full freight for it though.
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Apr 19, 2016 12:42
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How old is the Metro?
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May 17, 2016 23:08
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So my birthday is coming up, and that made me do a rash thing. For as much crap as Visconti gets, so far I'm really enjoying the pen. The nib, a medium, is maybe the smoothest i've ever used, and I mean come on, look how gorgeous it is.
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May 21, 2016 14:49
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grack posted:Hey, when Visconti gets it right the pens write beautifully, no argument there. Yeah, that came across as maybe a little argumentative, which I didn't intend. I was trying for more yay, I got a good Visconti nib.
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May 22, 2016 00:39
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Holy cats, I just got in a bottle of Bung Box Saphhire and  This is what a blue should be.
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Jun 2, 2016 19:02
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Bung Box retails at Vanness for over forty bucks a bottle, so that drop is a decent deal compared to that. I think the bottles are cheaper if you buy direct from Bung Box via Amazon, but they also ding you on the shipping.
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Jun 2, 2016 19:49
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You could always unscrew the nib unit and really flush out the guts of the pen that way.
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Jun 6, 2016 02:23
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Yeah, it's a screw-in nib unit on the large Homo Sapiens (and maybe the small one too). Technically it requires a special tool, there's a dude selling CNC'ed knock-offs on eBay for ten bucks, but I've been able to just unscrew the nib in my Blue Crystal just using my fingers like any Pelikan. Brian Goulet did a quick how to in one of his Q&A's a month or so ago.
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Jun 6, 2016 05:20
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Sailor Oku-Yama is dope, especially when you use it with a broad enough nub to get some sheen going. R&K Solferino is a really nice, bright purple. I've been playing around with a sample of Noodler's Habanero, it's a more orangey Apache Sunset, which makes it a little easier to read. And then Emerald of Chivor, the base color isn't all that outrageous, but everything else about the ink is bananas.
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CrimsonSaber posted:Because plastic just *screams* quality. It's not plastic, it's  Precious Resin
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Paper plays a big role too. You want something that doesn't absorb all that much ink.
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grack posted:Also I bought a Pilot 845. Seriously, it just jumped in to my Amazon cart and I couldn't get it to leave. drat you, pretty pen! drat you! Now there's a fancy pen, shame that I think ball clips look doofy. Still though, fancy. After owning my Home Sapiens Crystal Swirls for about two months now I can say that holy crap this pen holds a lot of ink. Which is good because the nib is delightfully smooth and wet. I enjoy it so much I picked up a Florentine Hills on the cheap. Unfortunately lost the Visconti nib roulette with that one, up strokes are super dry and it's nowhere near as wet overall as the Crystal Swirls. Despite that I'm saving up for a London Fog, I'm just a sucker for those swirls. 
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Jul 19, 2016 20:06
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Looks like a Metro to me.
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Jul 20, 2016 02:29
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Yep, you can fit one of Pilot's small converters in a Parallel.
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The barrel of the parallel tapers too much to fit a Con-70, if you really want the extra capacity eyedropper the sucker.
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I pretty routinely bring my nicest pens into work because that's where I do most of my writing, and I feel fairly secure in doing it because I work in a fairly secure portion of the building and I trust my coworkers. However, all the nice pens come home with me every night. I do keep a couple Jinhaos, a Lamy Vista and a Metro in the pen cup at my desk
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Just an FYI, the Vac 700 is a pretty wide pen, so you can't get the nib all the way down to the bottom of a sample vial. That might hurt your ability to get a good fill depending on how much ink is in the vial. Of course you can always unscrew the nib unit and fill the pen via a syringe
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I love everything about the Lamy 2000, except for the fact that my hand tends to slide up the section and that makes it cramp up. Other than that, great pen.
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Yep, that Hawa'ii is a pretty pen. Though I'm still trying to figure out why they'd also offer it as a lever filler. Setting aside some of its, uh, "quirks", I don't think I've ever held a more comfortable pen than the Homo Sapiens Bronze Age. It's my new black ink, long writing session pen. I should have enough pennies saved up next month for a London Fog to complete my set, love the ink capacity on those crystal Homo Sapiens I also recently picked up a bottle of Akkerman Shocking Blue, and holy poo poo that is a gorgeous ink
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