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@Misfit looking forward to see how you will put the kyoto insert to use.

The Spanish Inquisition,

Lovely watch for a lady with fine taste. Looks like a vintage Hamilton?

Welcome to the rabbit hole. Cheers mate

Impressive!!! Thanks mate. I am thinking of keeping the 90yrs SE 111532 too. Perhaps also the diamond classique ballpoint 105980. Now to start to sell to fund my FP purchases of: Visconti HS bronze age, MB 149, pelican M100 Black/ green, Sailor KOP, namiki vermillion. Hmmmmmmm which one first?

Thank you! I found the ST Dupont Violet on inkswatch, this is what they deem close:

villagers with torches,

, vigilantes with pitchforks,

Added 2 more pens to my inked stable. Kaweco sport double broad with Vinta Sirena and Jinhao Shark with FPR 1.0 and one of BPC ink-speriments. Does it count to refill an inked pen? Refilled my Lamy Safari Blackberry broad with Lamy Blackberry.

, a car chase,

Howdy from a fellow Texan. It’s a blessing and a curse to share a hobby with family. My teen and I penable each other. It gets dangerous to the wallet. On the other hand, I’ll never go through all this ink alone.

@Fo0zle I didn’t take it that way. I looked it up after your post. Should have done it before. 😉

Long story short version. Gifted my MIL a beautiful Monteverde fountain pen a couple of Christmases ago. My wife saw the Golden Beryl Pelikan M200 while we were buying the pen for her mother so I gifted that to her the same Xmas. That’s how I discovered what a joy a fountain pen is to write with, and this past Christmas my wife gifted me a Laban Formosa. Loved it, thought maybe we needed a few more. Anything both beautiful and functional is right up my alley. Remembered going into a great pen store in Houston a few times as a kid, recalled my father was their NCR rep. Ran a search for store in Houston and Dromgoole’s came up. That was it! Drove into Houston and down the rabbit hole we went. As with other things I collect I found I was drawn to older models. Found this site when researching a turn of this century Pelikan M400 with 2 chicks nib I purchased and again researching what I think is a circa 1970’s MB 146. Fantastic pens, both. Have certainly purchased more than our fair share of new pens as well, but there’s something satisfying about getting a great old tool and allowing it to continue writing its story. I’ve become a big fan of both Pilot and Pelikan but have others we love as well. Depending on perspective I’m either fortunate or cursed to have a wife who shares these hobbies with me. Fortunate from our perspective, cursed from that of our financial planners! Learned a ton from this site during previous research, seemed like a great group of folks, so here I am. Looking forward to learning more and contributing when I’m able.

I’ve bought too many Chinese pens in the last year at the intro price, so I’ve persuaded myself that I don’t have to have _every_ new pen first! But I agree that both of your grails are wonderful pens—and practically unavailable for most of us. That puts a $50+ purchase in perspective. But I’ll have the pleasure of watching everyone get their pens and react to them. Was there a 149 in white? I don’t know the early MBs well. I’m thinking I’ll get the white with a #6 and the orange Hemingway as the #8. I’m curious about the new #8 and how it will compare to the WS and Jinhao versions. BTW, 365Days Stationery Store on AliX is now offering it as well.

while avoiding raid

That watch is gorgeous! Today I used about 20 strange pens <f> from Amazon (I use the normally for ink testing). I am trying to find a twin/clone for ST Dupont Violet. This ink looks very different in a broad nib, but I had to start somewhere. I also used a Fountainpen Revolution Flex pen and a vintage BCHR Conklin Crescent Filler.

I also noticed that ring on the brown m1000, and agree with pix's assessment, and that it's gaudy. But I am so heartened to hear about them caring about our issue with the barrel transparency! I think I could live with the gaudy rings (though I haven't gotten any like that yet), but I can't live with the transparency becoming obsolete.

Not sure which Noodler’s inks you saw mentioned, but their regular Blue-Black ink gives me some incredibly nice shading, especially with a wider nib size. I also really like the shading from J Herbin’s Ambre de Birmanie

I'm careful about not soaking BHR pens in water, but BHR sections/feed/nibs do need to be cleaned and flushed. Even when they start out looking perfectly black, they always seem to discolor when I try to flush them, even after the slightest contact with water. Ideally, I'd put the sections briefly in the ultrasonic cleaner, but then discoloration seems guaranteed. Is there anything to be done about this problem? I know I can work on the section with micromesh, etc., to restore the color, but it would be nice to avoid the problem in the first place. Besides, sections do have to come into contact with ink, so they seem bound to discolor. Suggestions appreciated.

Just realized it looks like I was correcting your spelling. TBH I didn’t notice you had it misspelled 😆

I have a Norma 4 colour mechanical pencil however it seems that the blue is broken and won't slide up or down. I suspect the pencil rotates as well to extend lead but it seems jammed. Has anyone taken one apart before? Thanks for any help and direction