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  2. Manny C

    Pleased Customer of Tokyo Pen Shop Quill

    @Linger do you mind me asking you how much you paid for the Custom 845 including shipping, buying from them?
  3. Tashi_Tsering

    What pen(s) are you using today?

    Montblanc 145. This pen started my small collection of MBs
  4. Doc Dan

    Fake Lamy Studio

    Sellers of fakes have some connections in China.
  5. I use this pen every day on various papers. Here it is on Thin Kokuyo 52gsm
  6. Mew

    Visit to Hakase and orders

    All 3 of them are 142mm uncapped
  7. I-am-not-really-here

    The Never-Ending Story In Three Word Segments...

    special garden brownies
  8. VacNut

    What is on your bench?

    A little something different. Instead of a pen, the actual “bench”. A vintage swan pen repair kit in the original wooden box. The tools are sized to fit inside the box. I know that Parker sold repair kits for prospective pen technicians. I don’t know if Swan sold these as kits or if they were distributed to certified technicians. There is a wooden knock-out block, a small brass anvil and concave plaque to straighten nibs, a sack scraper, a feed punch, tweezers, a short blade/cutter, brush, and rubber tire pads. I don’t know the purpose of the spring loaded clamp and the wooden block with a semi-abrasive pad. Perhaps it is for smoothing out the nibs? The kit came from a closed repair shop in the UK. The tools are sized to the width, length, and height of the box. I may add a small hammer, scissors, and perhaps a small glass burner with heat shield to complete the kit. I am guessing they would have been part of the kit. I would be glad to hear from people more familiar with the kit. I see that there have been several listed.
  9. VacNut

    Vintage Swan Pen Repair Kit

    Vintage Swan repair kit with original tools. Very cool to see the vintage tools.
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  11. Look what you have !!! 👍😀 Nice Mini Review 😀👍 I didn't know about Castell Gulf blue ink. Great bottle. btw.. It says "Document ink".. does that mean water proof? Hey Eagle Eyes !!!! 🐧 Heart shaped breather holes... 4 clicks to enlarge and it was clear... LOL You'll have to tell me about that Muji paper. Nice review also.👍😀
  12. platorepublic

    The quest for the perfect blue ink

    Personally, I really like Iroshizuku Ama-iro and Sailor Souten. If I had to choose between the two, probably the Souten.
  13. platorepublic

    AI has come for calligraphy

    It does a terrible job with hanzi, e.g. inputting 煮豆持作羹 gives nothing that resembles the original text.
  14. A Smug Dill

    Jinhao 777

    Hmmm, I just ordered fifty-two of the Jinhao 777 pens, so I damn well hope they're good and don't break easily! In which case, model 777 would use 3.4mm-bore ink cartridges, whereas model 599 would use 2.6mm-bore.
  15. AmandaW

    Blue Pen Club- Show Me Your Blue Pens!

    Top to bottom: Faber Castell School pen, Sheaffer No Nonsense dark blue and transparent blue, TWSBI Eco Dark Sapphire (filled with Quink Blue).
  16. AmandaW

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    Top to bottom: Faber Castell School pen, Sheaffer No Nonsense dark blue and transparent blue, TWSBI Eco Dark Sapphire (filled with Quink Blue).
  17. platorepublic

    Preserving Your Fountain Pen Ink Collection: Tips and Concerns

    When I mentioned the concern about inks "going bad," I was referring to potential changes in consistency, color, or performance over time that might render them less suitable for writing or even potentially harmful to fountain pens. While it's heartening to hear that your older inks have remained usable, it's also worth acknowledging that not all inks may age as gracefully, for example modern inks that may have been formulated with planned obsolescence in mind, to ensure consumers keep on replacing old inks with new ones. They may perhaps use less concentrated/less effective biocide on purpose or to adhere to everchanging manufacturing standards. Your mention of iron gall inks changing color but remaining usable is a valuable insight. It highlights the resilience of certain types of ink formulations and underscores the importance of understanding how different ink compositions may react over time. Ultimately, the goal of discussing ink preservation is to share knowledge and best practices to ensure that fountain pen enthusiasts can continue to enjoy their collections for years to come. Your firsthand experience with vintage inks adds a valuable perspective to this conversation, and I'm sure many members, myself included, would appreciate further insights or advice you might have on preserving and caring for fountain pen inks.
  18. AmandaW

    What pen(s) are you using today?

    Today, brand new and just inked, a TWSBI Eco Dark Sapphire with an extra fine nib and Quink Blue. It writes OK, but extra fine, it isn't.
  19. lestrade

    Dismantling A Waterman L'etalon Section...

    Like Dr. X, I want to thank you, Ernst, for the encouragement to fix my Etalon that I bought in 1991 in Toulouse. It has been sitting unused for many many years due to a leak in the nib barrel. I hope to have the same success that you have had since this is (was) the nicest writing pen I ever owned. L
  20. Medal Unbleached Flour
  21. Runnin_Ute

    Crane Paper acquired, reopening

    Not certain, but my guess would be "Crane Co" was a shell company that was merged into the original business. I have heard of such things happening.
  22. A good place to start is Stephen Hull's book. Fountain Pens for the Million, The History of Conway Stewart 1905-2005.
  23. Namiki50

    Visit to Hakase and orders

    I order my Amboyna Burl Urushi LE 30, it's so beautiful. May I ask how long is the dimensions of this pen. I choised 134mm wiyhout cap.
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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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