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I gave a Lamy Joy as a gift about a year ago. The recipient just sent this picture... Is this an easy user repair? Or do I get it back for something more involved?

I wish I got a 51 for that price and here are the pictures of the flightee so according to the website it was produced from 61-69

I don't go to the reviews section often but I did this evening and saw fluegelfeder's review of the Kaweco Sport Piston. At first I thought it was a vintage one but quickly realized this is a new product. I checked with Cult, it's in stock so I ordered one. I guess that qualifies as impulsive.

Simple doodle sketches today with my pilot dip pen. Pilot inks.

Thank you @Dan Carmell! I wistfully recall how the Rotring 600 FPs (with gold nibs), then (2009-10) sold in boxes of 12 were unaffordable for me even with the lowest black market prices. Think this was the one in silver. Thank you @Anne-Sophie! Have seen plastic blue, black and red variants. Not sure whether all of those came in Gold/Rose Gold and Silver clips

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I have two Jinhao 992s which are fairly new, and it seems that one of them needs a bit more pressure to write clearly than the other. I'm fairly new to fountain pens (These two are my first pens), and I would like some insights on any factor that could affect these. Maybe it's the nib? This issue replicates itself in other papers as well. SPECIFICATIONS: Both pens are Jinhao 992s with a fine nib. Paper used in the photo is the Canson Watercolor Paper, 200gsm (Packaging does not specify any further)

Happy to see Pelikan release more special editions in large sizes. Feels like they have done lots in the M200-M600 sizes, along with 1-2 per year in M800, but this is a rare special M1000.

@RedPie Thanks... but awaiting your contribution! You don't need a Kuretake brush to get started, I use fountain pens for most of my Chinese writing and it is more than sufficient... I mean a lot of Chinese people just use a ballpoint or a pencil. If you want me to submit at a more frequent rate (I know in my OP I did say I was going to do one a day for at least 1000 characters but I think that was me being overly enthusiastic and ambitious at the start of projects; I'd have to do it, then also post it and all the associated things I'd have to do to post it), it would help if others, e.g. you, submit too! This is a judgment-free zone, so submit anything to get me, and others, more motivated. Poem thoughts: What do you think about when can't fall asleep? Original text: 靜夜思 牀前明月光 疑是地上霜 舉頭望明月 低頭思故鄉 李白

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Welcome to the community. A great place to learn about Pelikan pens is the blog The Pelikans Perch. Lots of information on there by a member here.

@penwarrior32 thank you so very much for the sketch of Kansas City. I truly appreciate it. You did a great job.

Yeah, I wore plastic pocket protectors for decades. I don't have a clue where I got them from. Tommy

@Misfit Thanks for welcoming me. Did a rough doodle sketch of kansas city on my TB sketch insert (kraft paper) dedicated to you. Hope that it's ok.

Another Parker Vector, from off eBay, from a seller I've bought from before. The seller made an offer that I couldn't refuse (basically dropping the original listed price in half! ). And I should have it in about a week and a half at most. Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I am not 100% certain for this cap. Usually you pull the inner cap and then the clip comes out. The inner cap typically is the part that secures a clip in this style. That is the set up for caps on older Swan pens and many others. See instruction on Z clips. With the streamlined shape of this cap, I am less certain.

@DlaurenSG Greetings from Pittsburgh! You would have fit right in at a Steel City Nibs meeting here a few years ago when we had an ink-swap night. Of course, FPN's own RonZ was just sitting there twitching all evening, because as a repair guy, he (understandably) mostly always wants to use the same ink for testing -- Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue (when he gets "wild and crazy" he'll use 4001 Brilliant Black... ). Me? My husband tells people that the pen collection was just the "gateway" to the real stash -- the ink collection.... But yeah, finding the right pairing of pen and ink is sometimes interesting. My first "expensive" pen was a 1990s era Pelikan M400 Brown Tortoise with an F nib; my husband was freaking out a little over the price -- but it was for a special occasion and I told him, "Oh -- this is WAY cheaper than a NEW M400 would be! And they don't make the Brown Tortoise any more...." Then what did Pelikan do a few years ago? Make a liar out of me by re-releasing the M400 in that color.... ). I was going to use it for drawing, but the original ink I put in it, Iroshizuku Yama-guri, was just WAY too wet for the pen. But when I put Noodler's Walnut (a very dry ink that I had originally tried in what I didn't realize at the time was a very dry writing pen) into it, the pen coaxed flow out of the ink, and the ink made the F nib less of a gusher (Edelstein Smoky Quartz works well in that pen too). Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Dear Mercian. +1 to all your points. It's about time and the quality arising from you and the pen... Best Jens

Dang! Nice score! Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

And I paid $4 (plus tax) for a 1st year “51” about 10 years ago at an antique store. Does that mean $4 is now my acceptable limit for a 1st Year “51”?

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Thank you for the welcoming.