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I’ve been fascinated by the celluloid Nettunos with a button filling system for some time now,so that’s my suggestion. I have yet to see one in person.

I think that you are just expressing your own bias/preference here, and not an actual measurement of some sort of quality(ies) you label "poetic resonance and potential." I am unclear how a reference to gender with so many genderized articles and nouns would be an increase in anything except, well, references to gender and excess of personification. (and I am not referring to the sounds of words and phrases, that is a whole different matter). The answer to your question in the parentheses is easy to look up in a search, and has little to do with the gender of cognates or borrowings from other languages. And the word "boat," in English, likely derives not from the French, but alongside the French, from earlier Germanic roots and PIE.

I have not watched the video, possibly the answer to my question is contained therein. Any info yet on the ink capacity of either model (#6, #8)?

Old style Pelikans with medallions. M800 1980-1990 Blue/ Green/Blue Ocean/ Black/ Green I got one and rest followed

This is great advice from a pro. A "lightbulb moment" to pay attention to and follow. huge thanks. k

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Thanks for such a great job at showing one of my favorite inks! Honestly, I didn't take Diamine that seriously until I got this one, mainly because all their inks I had tried up to that point - some of their most popular ones - were oversaturated and unsubtle for my tastes. Not sure if it is a violet or a grey. It doesn't really matter - it's something in between - many of the best inks live in the margins. My writing with it tends to be noticeably more violet than yours, even with the Japanese Fs I tend to use, but perhaps it is because those pens tend to be dryish. Or maybe it could the paper and/or atmospheric differences. Or 'mojo'? Right and, moreover, Haydn had much stronger ties to London and, moreover2, neither Mozart nor Beethoven are in the same league as Haydn - not even close! (Yep, you read correctly. 😲) I suppose it's much better he be left out than some inappropriate color be associated with him. BTW, I would pick an earthy brown since he was the salt of the earth as both a person and composer. Actually, I think the color on the wall in this portrait of him would be a perfect fit.

Very few of my pens behave perfectly, part of the fun the way i see it.

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Maybe one should consider plan : D

i don't know either. at school, i had to battle Gerhart Hauptmann, and Heinrich von Kleist instead. as a result, I'd never consider to buy a pen wearing the name of one of these. back to the topic: on my way to the (deliberately chosen) black AL sport, I also bought (on an impulse) the piston sport ...

I suspect many a one confuses the spirit with the shape of the letters. You do not need any kind of nib to write any script. You may need a specific one to make it look calligraphic, but letter forms will work the same whether written with or without line variation. A nice thing of some italic methods is their stress on rhythm, which can make them somewhat easier if movement limited. No need to expend a lot on books either. I would suggest having first a look at Operina.com, they have a reasonable number of free books available on handwriting with easy to start methods. Plus the first published one that got the style rolling publicly, Arrighi's Operina. As for loops... that, too, depends on where one sets the bar for claiming 'italicity'. Soon after the first masters, new styles popped out extending serifs, adding ligatures and eventually loops. As for paper position... I find it similarly radicalized. For calligraphy, it may be better some or another approach, which I will not discuss. For plain handwriting, anything that makes you more comfortable will do. Looking at copy books through the ages, one can find masters suggesting all kinds of angles, even close to 90 degrees, specially where school tables had less space or masters were less rigid, more sensible and more accommodating with student needs. So, just try and see which one works better. Bottom line: for the OP. I guess that the most important is to find a style that suits your writing limitations, does not tire your hand, and then simply try to make it clear and consistent. Beautiful line variation shapes may come later if, and only if, you feel like them.

Really? The "draw" of analog is not to say or argue that the sound response or range or durability exceeds that of digital formats. It's simply a kind of preference, influenced by many factors and other aspects of mind and memory, for a certain kind of musical listening experience. Heck, I prefer live, where permanence and quality are often quite inferior. And some songs just have to be listened to in the truck, windows down, air and ocean noise rushing in, where the quality of the audio reproduction, I'm sure, is abysmal.

MB has vastly improved the quality of its inks since competition made them take notice Good for everyone concerned, great choice!!

Posted. According to Goulet’s site, the pen itself is 34g. I guess that does make it reasonable (maybe even pleasant) but I personally prefer the 2000 posted. Feels a little small to me unposted.

I am humbled by the amount of wisdom on this forum - thank you for your helpful responses. It is indeed a Around the World in 80 Days LeGrand, and that is only listed in F/M as @Mercian pointed out, so with this information in hand, I will go back to the store and explore my options. I find it so frustrating that a thing that costs so much has such a trial and error experience. They did tell me that once someone walks out with a pen, there is no exchange. Period. And they will not ink the pen before you buy it so you can write with it. (You can only try the floor samples). It is only after the purchase (point of no return) that you actually get to try out the nib that you purchased Frustrated.

All jokes aside, if you look at photos of the average ''vintage pen'' table holder at a pen show (and I'm including myself) we're getting on in years. If our hobby is to continue, it is essential to get younger collectors interested enough to buy, fix and resell these delightful little objects.

A shameless, most paltry, early, error ridden attempt at writing some kanji characters. Written on a small A6, cream-colored, Talens Art Creation sketchbook (140gsm/90lbs) with a Kuretake (factory) urushi brush pen and Noodler's Lexington Grey. The side watercolor sketch has nothing to do with it (it just happened to fit there at any odd idling moment). A Haiku from Matsuo Bashō: On the Stone Mountain, it is whiter than the stones: autumnal wind. Hope it may help keep the thread going.

I ordered an ambitious jowo compatible nib unit and it was stuck inside the pens grip section and it got deformed when I tried to remove it please instruct me on what to do to remove the nib unit

I’m minded to agree with most of what you wrote there (especially your final sentence, which is unquestionably true), but ‘mind’ in English seems to me to be a more versatile/slippery/mutable beast than those French words. It can function as a distinct noun, but also as different verbs, and it is the root of at least one other one. Another example of English being confusingly ambiguous! E.g.s ‘esprit’ reminds me more of ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ for more-direct equivalents, and ‘compréhension’ has of course been stolen by entered English as ‘comprehension’ (in my mind’s eye, I see English lurking in dark alleyways for other languages to pass by, so that it can knock them out and then rifle through their pockets for shiny new words). Then again I, sadly, am hardly a great linguist - I am shamingly monoglottal 😔 - so perhaps you shouldn’t pay me any mind. Also, thank you for correcting my spelling of ‘cerveau’ - I have, for years, stupidly mixed it up with ‘cerebellum’ 🤪 I’ve never minded being gently reminded of my errors, and I appreciate being alerted to holes in my learning. As they say on the London Underground, ‘mind the gap!’ 😉 My silly word-games aside, I do also acknowledge that English is also incapable of expressing some subtleties that other languages are better-equipped to illustrate. E.g. its general lack of grammatical ‘gender’ means that it is deficient in comparison to ‘gendered’ languages when it comes to poetic capacity. Taking French for comparison again, ‘la Mer’ has much more poetic resonance and potential than does ‘the Sea’. (And why do we English tend to refer any individual boat as ‘she’, when in French it would be ‘le bateau’?)

Patent numbers 410661 and 424210 should be fine, but I got a "no references" result for these patent numbers. I do not know why. Is it possible that the patents are invalid for some reason... The form on this website allows you to search for Japanese patents by entering only the patent number. https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/s0100 Japanese is a language that omits the subject, and in conversation this is increasingly evident. This time the author of the blog explains it in the form of a conversation between Holmes and Watson, so I think the translation software has lost track of who is who. It is difficult even for me, a Japanese person, to understand the correct operation of the CON-70(N) by watching the video produced by Pilot without knowing how the converter works. I think Pilot should have explained clearly how the CON-70 mechanism works and the problems that can be caused by mishandling, using an animation etc. The threads on pilot converters, especially CON-70, are often confusing discussions. It is beneficial to the community to have more English- speaker "nerds" who have the ability to calm down the discussion. 😁

Where do you hear such things? Some US retailers may be selling their nibs, but they manufacture and sell out of India only. Just google their website and you can order from there, or you can message them on their contact info provided on their site.

Hi @Silly Party Candidate, and welcome to FPN! It might help people to give you better ink recommendations if you reveal what make/model of ‘vintage’ pen you have, and especially if you reveal what type of nib is on it (‘EF’? ‘OB’?). But here’s one from me anyway 😉 If you are after a purple ink with some water resistance, I would recommend Rohrer & Klingner ‘Scabiosa’. Its water-resistance comes from it being a (light-) iron-gall ink. Some people are wary of iron-gall inks, but they were commonly in-use in the era of ‘vintage pens’, and so should not present any challenges to your pen, as long as you never let the ink dry-out in the pen, and remember to flush the pen with plain water every three months or so. One corollary of Scabiosa being an iron-gall ink is that it tends to feel ‘dry’ under a lot of pens’ nibs but, if your ‘vintage’ pen has an ebonite feed, and writes ‘wet’, Scabiosa should be a good match for it. That said, although R&K’s iron-gall blue-black ‘Salix’ works really nicely in my vintage Parker “51”s, I found that Scabiosa felt painfully ‘dry’ from my first “51”, so I actually had to dump the ink out of that pen. Another consequence of the ink being iron-gall is that its colour changes as the iron-salts ‘cure’ on the page. It dries to a dusky purple-grey colour. Nothing else looks quite like it. And it gives you really beautiful shading 😊 I recommend that you search through the… …and search for reviews of Scabiosa (and also of any other ink that gets suggested to you here). I recommend that you read several reviews of any ink, in order to get the best idea of its colour, its behaviour on different papers, from different nib-widths, and from different pens. I wish you good luck, and hope that you have fun on your quest Slàinte, M. P.S. I’d vote for you! 😉 Edit to add: Another place to look for inks that you might like the look of is… If you see an ink in that thread that piques your interest, look at reviews of it to find out whether its properties look like they’d suit you. And of course you could always ask whether people have used that ink safely, happily, or with joy in [your pen] 🙂

In general, purple inks (and red inks) tend to stain pen parts, although Skrips purple may a better option from the staining standpoint. https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/305572-purple-sheaffer-skrip/ I think it will be challenging to find a water resistant purple ink from the manufacturers generally considered safe for vintage pens. JHerbin Amethyste de L’Oural has been reviewed as having some water resistance, and is made by a manufacturer often considered “safe” for vintage pens. It is, however, a “glitter” ink, which many avoid using in any pen. A potential way around this is to allow the glitter to settle to the bottom, then either decant to another bottle, or draw ink only from the upper portion of the bottle.