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  2. pen lady

    Is it Plum?

    I've found that the best light (other than direct sunlight) to identify "Plum" is an LED flashlight. Doesn't even have to be expensive, the dollar-store ones work just fine.
  3. columela

    Leonardo Photo Thread

    Hi Just presenting my modest group of Leonardos. Wonderful writers all of them. Cheers
  4. Azulado

    Pelikan quality

    While it is true that the previous owners of the company made stupid decisions to cut costs, I believe that exaggerated claims are being made about the current state of the company. The fine writing division is only a small part of the Pelikan Group's business and it is not easy to separate its results from those of the other divisions. I think Hameln inspires much more confidence than PICB. In any case, the company has been part of the Malaysian group for more than 20 years and has continued to produce good pens during that time. Everything is changeable, managers can be successful with a company for a while and then things go wrong. In the case of pens, the market shrinks. Sailor has problems and has expressed that changes in writing habits are leading to fewer and fewer pen users. To stem the crisis, they are now launching a pen with a section that is ergonomically adaptable to the user. I recently bought an M200 blue pastel and I can't see any decline in the quality of the product. I also have an M150 from the 80's. We have to remember that this forum is very limited in terms of information. I can't recall ever reading anything from someone who has worked in the industry. You can learn a lot from the few documentaries about pen companies, I remember one by Waldmann and one by Otto Hutt. It is also interesting to hear the CEO of Kaweco. But that is the exception. It is all conjecture based on very limited information. It seems certain that the nibs of the M1000 are inconsistent. It's a very strange problem, why aren't there problems with the other nibs? On the other hand, these are very silly problems, nib delianeation and baby's bottom. It's impossible that the technical department doesn't know what's going on, why haven't they taken action? It's very strange because I doubt very much that there is no manual check. Such quality control works for all other models.
  5. Am waiting for the new Kaweco Sport Piston filler :-)
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  7. Misfit

    Little Rock Pen Show

    @PAKMAN I recognize those notebooks. I got the Scandinavia version from philosophersguild.com along with the Paleontology version, and Alice in Wonderland. I have been ordering them for awhile, so I have the Canadian passport version too. I hope all who attended had a great time.
  8. I have a Truepoint on the way, as well as a couple of dozen Esterbrook 048 Falcon nibs.
  9. I’m waiting on a TWSBI Diamond Mini AL silver with 1.1mm stub nib. There will be three ink samples coming with it. I could use the sample of Kaweco Midnight Blue. Otherwise, I’m not sure yet what ink to put in it.
  10. A TWSBI Diamond Mini AL in silver with a 1.1mm stub nib. I’ve been thinking about that pen once I decided against the clear version, and the grape version. I liked a photo of lined paper reflecting on the silver grip. It’s now ordered using my Pen Chalet ink drop rewards.
  11. What a great looking pen! Very nice, have fun writing with it.
  12. A Smug Dill

    What pen(s) are you using today?

    There are at least two products which fits the description: the MUJI Polycarbonate fountain pen, and the Kokuyo Pernapep fountain pen. The latter has a lower retail price, at least in the Japanese domestic market. See for yourself, and I'm sure you'll recognise them for what they are: https://mujiaustralia.com/products/polycarbonate-fountain-pen-ink-cartridges-4-pack
  13. Mercian

    Pelikan quality

    This would depend on the exact wording of the contract for the ‘official’ distribution/repair service in the country in question. Without seeing that contract - which in the UK at least would be covered by the Official Secrets Act as a ‘Commercial Secret’ - we cannot say for certain what terms and conditions it specifies, and/or how it splits costs/responsibilities between the manufacturer and the repairer. One might expect that, for any repairs to pens that are still under warranty, Pelikan would contract to provide the repair-contract holder with all the necessary parts at no cost to the repairer. One might also expect that Pelikan would also agree to provide parts to the repairer for out-of-warranty repairs at a favourable price. But they wouldn’t have to. Indeed, one could imagine a situation in which the Executives employed by Pelikan chose to adopt a very aggressive attitude during contract negotiations, and told the repair company something such as ‘How dare you claim that we don’t make a high-quality product! Obviously the purchaser has broken the pen! You will undertake to buy all replacement parts at retail prices! To ask for anything else would be an insult to this company!’. If that were the case, one might also imagine that the repair company might then simply refuse to perform any repairs on out-of-warranty pens. But then, of course, that scenario is merely my own flight-of-fancy….
  14. columela

    Stipula Etruria Photo Thread

    Let me show you my first Stipula, the Etruria 991. Beautiful Celluloid and silver, the nib is also a joy to write with. Cheers
  15. Yes. Not as good a deal as yours, of course.
  16. RedPie

    Little Rock Pen Show

    Looks like a great time! Perfect!
  17. Stompie

    What pens for what purpose and why.

    I have a wide variety of pens inked at any one time but I am trying to cut down on that number. Depending on my mood is what makes my choice of pen to use be it in Journaling, note taking or writing letters. At hand I also have about 10 dip pens that I like to use, also, according to my mood. I find dip pens far more conducive to mellow moods when I am writing and of course inks are freely available in my study for them. Lately what I have been doing is taking note of inks I have not used for some time together with pens that have also not been in rotation. Once a month I try to ink up 5 pens, getting them out of storage boxes and then ink them up with inks that have not been used for a while. As my main stash of pens empties out, I clean them and put them away going more and more for the 5 newbies I then have in rotation with different inks. I am hoping to get down to only 5 in rotation at any one time but we will have to see how that works out. I might keep certain additional pens on the side for specific tasks, Ie. addressing envelopes or highlights in note takin so those would be like my Pilot Parallel pens.
  18. Shipped and sold by Amazon Germany?
  19. lapis

    Chromatography of some Turquoise inks

    Thanks! I've always been fascinated by chromology.... Turquoise seems (to me) to be a relatively "discrete/innocent" color as there is "practically" -- well, "almost" -- only one color to be seen... however slightly different they are. Many dyes are available with a bluish/indigo-ish hue. That can't be said for a lot of others, even black, where several different dyes can be unraveled.
  20. Carrau

    Ultrasonic damage

    I wonder if there may have been a surface defect that was enlarged gradually with repeated US treatments, and permitted cavitation bubbles generated to get under the surface of the barrel material, expanding to create the blister?
  21. Bo Bo Olson

    Dip feed

    An oblique nib holder .... for right handers....keeps a tine from dragging. Left handers don't have that problem.
  22. Today. A black Lamy CP1 with a fine nib and a 0.7 mechanical pencil to match. 🖤
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    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
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