Visconti Opera Master

July 10, 2010

This is where everyone should try the shape first... I hold the pens at the top of the grip section so I have no troubles really... but GP seems to hold the pen 1 inch from the plunger/piston cap

P:S. do you use your twitter account often ????

Me? Yeah, I post to Twitter quite a lot.

@SalinasJA if you hear from me

July 10, 2010

I have one of these beauties and it really is all that and a bag of chips. I just had my medium stubbed at the Raleigh show and it's the only thing I could have done to make this pen more ideal for my use.

As for cleaning, I've put some seriously saturated inks in mine and they flush cleanly from the highly polished interior of the barrel. However, with this clear demo, I do see that I have some residual coloring on the works. It doesn't bother me, but thought I'd pass along my experience.

Medium stubbed? WOW that sounds just fine!!! do you have a writing sample?

September 12, 2010

After 2 months of use (with a whole bunch of other pens, of course), I finally managed to use up the full load of ink. Cleaning the pen out wasn't a whole lot more difficult or different to cleaning out a piston filler, especially if you happen to have one of Visconti's very nifty travelling ink pots. It's really just a matter of filling with water, flushing, filling, flushing, etc. with a few rounds of vigorous flicking (with some tissue wrapped around the nib and well away from anything you're likely to hit) in between. How many fill-flush-flick cycles it takes really depends on how pedantic you are about getting every last hint of ink out of the barrel and what ink was in there.

In light of this, I'm going to stand by my original 10/10 score for the filling system.

Oh, also, while it's quite easy to get a complete fill, I've found it much more pleasant to have a half fill because I enjoy seeing the ink swishing around inside.

Yuki