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I've been very happy with my Safari F but I've been wanting a second pen so I can leave one at work instead of carting it back and forth. Not that carrying a pen is a big deal, but forgetting it at one place or the other, IS. So using my Bing Rewards amazon money, I've ordered my second fountain pen. Bing Rewards is where microsoft basically pays you to use their search engine. I highly recommend it...use my link and I'll get a nice bonus too: http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards?PUBL=REFERAFRIEND&CREA=TWITTER&rrid=_4bf2adac-1735-f446-eb42-025a772748e4 Hope that's ok to post.

 

Anyway, I have been hemming and hawing about what to get for about a month now, and I finally decided on a TWSBI mini, and then about another two weeks deciding on a nib...I went with the F. I'm sooooooo excited, order info says I should have it by friday. Crossing my fingers that the holiday doesn't mess that up. Now I have to decide on what color to buy a big bottle of ink in so by the time I have enough points I'll have made up my mind, lol! I'm still using my first set of Goulette samples. I may have to order a stub nib just so I go through the stuff faster and have an excuse to buy more. lol

 

 

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setriode Rare

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It is an excellent pen. I have two. You will need a stub and/or a broad nib to send to Mr Pendelton for him to work into a butterline stub.

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Congratulations on choosing the TWSBI. I've been wanting one myself and had planned to purchase on this Thanksgiving. I'm partial to the white/rose gold version BUT decided to hold off until I can make a better choice vs the regular mini and the 580. OH! The choices...

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I really really wanted the white/rose too. But I didn't see stub nibs as an option for the pen, or separately purchasable...so I went with the classic, so that later when I buy more nibs they'll match the pen. Plus I wish the piston parts on it were either rose gold or white, or even clear, instead of the black.

 

I went with the mini because it will be more pocketable, and because it posts...and the piston nob isn't turnable when it's posted. An un-posted cap is eventually a lost cap in my experience.

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I am a fan of the rose gold as well. Not a fan of nib selection, especially given the

premium you pay for rg over regular.....

Wish at least a 1.1 was available.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Great selection. I adore my TWSBI mini with a stub nib. i was complimented on my penmanship when i filled a doctor's form recently. The assistant said: "Hmm. I like this!"

 

i said, what the ink color? ( had used Diamine Claret)

 

No, the way you write!--

 

Of course, the way i wrote was due to the stub in the mini which is 1.1mm if i am correct; just the perfect size to perform beautifully. The diamine Claret helped also. T's a very pleasing to the eye color.

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Enjoy! I've ben using mine for over a year now, as sidekick for my Duofolds. It's a wonderful little pen.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

 

 

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You won't be disappointed. TWSBI makes great pens.

"Never Say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting,"

 

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I have a Twsbi Mini with a fine nib. When I got it, it write pretty dry and occasionally has startup issue. Not to be discouraging here. After it starts writing, it's usually very smooth and nice. Good thing about it is, if you're not satisfied with how it writes, you can send it to Twsbi and let them work on the nib. I'm planning to send it in after the Thanksgiving break.

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A lot of people on here really like TWSBIs (although I haven't tried one myself).

But I'm a bit curious about the Bing Rewards stuff:

"Bing Rewards is where microsoft basically pays you to use their search engine. I highly recommend it..."

Are you recommending Microsoft? Or Bing Rewards? :lol:

Because I've run across the Bing map app on some websites, and frankly found it (as a Mac user) to be relatively suckful.... :glare: And so has my husband, the UNIX/Linex weenie. (As in, I don't think that they're gonna be breathing down Google's neck anytime soon....)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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First of all, I'm not saying you have to LIKE bing, just do wrote searches until you've recieved all your daily points and then cash them in for money when you have enough. I'm not sure its worth the time it takes, but any little bit helps, IMO.

 

Anyway, I got my mini! Yay. Loaded it up with Diamine Sherwood Green...Writes great, love the F, glad I didn't get an EF. The only real critisism I have is HOLY FINGERPRINTS!! I'm used to using a Charcoal Safari, which doesn't print. But that's not the pens fault, it's beautiful. I thought I'd leave my safari at work, but find instead that i carry both and take advantage of having two different colors of ink to hand.

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Glad you are pleased with your TWSBI Minit, Nonstickron.

 

I really enjoy mine, too. It has been my EDC pocket pen since I received it back in the spring; I purchased it from Pendleton Brown so it has one of his lovely butter~line stub italic grinds on it (it was a stock broad nib.)

 

Another TWSBI is in my future, I am sure. I like the white and RG Mini, but I am going to try to hold out until they produce the wooden bodied fountain pen they started talking about on their Facebook page in March. With TWSBI's track record of having a major delay between announcement of a new model and its actual production, I know I still have many months of waiting ahead of me. Luckily, my Mini will satisfy my TWSBI needs until that time.

 

Holly

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My Mini is perpetually inked, usually with samples as it's so easy to syringe-fill. Lovely little pen.

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This is my dedicated pen to Baystate Blue ink. So far no issues with the pen. It works well with routine bleach cleaning every two weeks.

Rob Maguire (Plse call me "M or Mags" like my friends do...)I use a Tablet, Apple Pencil and a fountain pen. Targas, Sailor, MB, Visconti, Aurora, vintage Parkers, all wonderful.

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