Pilot/Namiki Metal Falcon

[Apotheosis]

mrphyig, I hope you dont mind me sharing some pictures of the metal falcon in this thread to share with everyone

 

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Its a wonderful FP with a springy nib and I would recommend this to anyone interested in trying it out !

regards and happy holidays !

Leo

 

Thanks for the beautiful pictures, Leo. I remember you helped get my old Falcon sold to make the metal one happen; I'm still grateful.

 

What I'd love to see, if you've got one handy, is a picture of your flex writing on Rhodia or Clairefontaine---you do this really cool thing with your shading that makes a very smooth vertical gradient. Y'know, if'n you're doing requests and stuff.

 

Mr. Masuyama hasn't finished with my Falcon yet. I miss it a lot.

 

Hi mrphyig,

Thanks for the kind words, anything to help a fellow member.

Unfortunately I cant seem to find any Rhodia or Clairefontaine's anywhere in the book stores here ..they seem to stock up exclusively on Moleskine for some reason.

I'll see what I can do with writing samples when I can, its no problem.

Rgds

Leo

PS : As soon as Masuyama returns yours, post a writing sample here what dontcha

Edited December 30, 2010 by Apotheosis

[ThirdeYe]

I have not tried the Noodler's flex pen, but I feel that this is definitely usable for every day writing. If you feel like being fancy and flexing, that's your option, but if you just want to write nice clean lines with little variation, you can do that too. I think that you'd be fine, but see if you can't find one somewhere around you (that might be hard), or solicit more opinions from board members (that should be easy).

 

Thanks.

 

I don't know anyone that has one, but there is a pen shop about 20 minutes away that I could check out.

 

One thing I did notice (mrphyig) is that with a flex pen the paper becomes MUCH more important. All of that ink seeps through regular paper, even high quality paper, but stays exactly where I put it on clairefontaine.

I've noticed that on my wetter pens. It bleeds and feathers like crazy on 20lb copy paper or standard notebook paper, but in my Rhodia it stays nicely in place and looks as it should.

[mrphyig]

PS : As soon as Masuyama returns yours, post a writing sample here what dontcha

 

Shall assuredly do. I think this is currently the only evidence on FPN of my disfigured scratching with the Falcon; I'll do another one when I get it back.