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Paid a visit to Taipei's TY Lee and Pen Studio recently, followed up by a hop over to Kobe Nagasawa, and Osaka's Morita pen store. I also managed to meet up with the very kind mchenart (he with the awesome Hakase pen report) and a number of other lovely Taiwan pen enthusiasts in Taipei and admire a large number of beautiful collections.

 

So I picked up some inks -

  • Bungbox (88 and Valentine's Chocolate Brown) and Oriental ink were gifts,
  • Taiwanese handmade ink "Ancient Forest" by Inkwall and Platinum Black were purchased in Taipei,
  • and the other Sailor inks (1 Morita Wine Red, 6 Kobe inks) from Japan

http://i.imgur.com/jSmWKrO.jpg

 

Also picked up some pens -

  • Morita Pro Gear 21K F
  • Nagasawa Skeleton Black Profit, Music nib
  • Nagasawa #43 "Gakuen-toshi Fresh Green" ink Pro Gear Sapporo/Slim, 14K F
  • Nagasawa #25 Tarumi Apricot ink Pro Gear Sapooro/Slim, 14K EF
  • and a Nagasawa Port Blue Pro-color in the background. Steel EF

http://i.imgur.com/M7ypT2A.jpg

 

Cap band detail - also visible are the slightly shimmery bodies on the green, orange and blue bodies.

http://i.imgur.com/R9tKBfm.jpg

 

 

Cap end detail - Nagasawa pens have Sailor ink jars on the finials instead of anchors

http://i.imgur.com/Y36dOPY.jpg

 

Port Blue Pro-color nib

http://i.imgur.com/z1Q1VEX.jpg

 

Morita 21K F nib

http://i.imgur.com/EajoPv5.jpg

 

Nagasawa Skeleton Black Proske Nib - The company uses the cockrel weathervane from local historical buildling as its logo.

http://i.imgur.com/4yAAS1P.jpg

 

Body profile - the lines at the back end of the pen actually depict what I believe to be the Kobe city skyline.

http://i.imgur.com/t6ubScP.jpg

 

Campus green nib - I love how they use the old Sailor nib border design

http://i.imgur.com/kqShMHL.jpg

 

Tarumi Apricot nib

http://i.imgur.com/8ge83PE.jpg

 

Faint "pen-style" engraving above the cap band

http://i.imgur.com/oTgGiYp.jpg

 

Every converter is colour-matched. I don't think I've seen the shiny black converter in many places. Perhaps the black lustre pens have them as well.

http://i.imgur.com/2zS7wWA.jpg

 

Other Japan purchases - Paper

http://i.imgur.com/wHmTw5x.jpg

 

Didn't forget the Platinum President from TY Lee (such a friendly man!)

http://i.imgur.com/CXynZVJ.jpg

 

Writing and ink samples

http://i.imgur.com/HZqo0iV.jpg

 

And how my pen wrap looked for all of a few days before I passed on the campus green Pro Gear Sapporo to a friend who had requested it.

http://i.imgur.com/WfbHwCA.jpg

 

 

There are a few extra shots in the full album here. Thanks for looking!

 

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Now I know who took the last remaining bottle of wine red. :)

Congratulations. :)

When did you visit the morita pen shop? Dates?

I was there around 10th of June.

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WOW... just WOW.... Green with envy here.... :lol: :lol:

 

Amazing Haul !!!.... CONGRATS!!!! ;)

 

 

C.

Thank you!

 

Now I know who took the last remaining bottle of wine red. :)

Congratulations. :)

When did you visit the morita pen shop? Dates?

I was there around 10th of June.

Haha, I was there early July.

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Thank you!

 

Haha, I was there early July.

 

Nice. Sorrry that you weren't able to get Shade green. I left only one bottle of wine red. :P

 

http://i.imgur.com/nPwUEJQ.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/g9oFMwv.jpg

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Awesome collection...

I love blue color pen the most...

 

Congrats on your catch....

Would you care to tell me about more of music nib... how is that one...

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Nice. Sorrry that you weren't able to get Shade green. I left only one bottle of wine red. :P

 

Thank you for letting me get one.

 

Great haul!

On behalf of all of us in Japan, thank you for supporting our economy.

No problem, back to saving up for next March!

 

Those hedgehog and owl lettersets are so cute! How well do they take writing with FPs?

I saw them on sale in a Nagasawa store, so I'm fairly confident about their performance. I actually bought a few different types of paper there, so I might make a post about it later!

 

Awesome collection...

I love blue color pen the most...

 

Congrats on your catch....

Would you care to tell me about more of music nib... how is that one...

It's a very stubby stub. You can see it in the first entry of the writing sample. Very smooth, not crisp italic at all, but has noticeable line variation. The Pilot 78G B stub has more line variation, but is untipped.

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Amazing!! Great purchase!!!!

" A single dream is more powerful that thousand realities.! J.R.R.T.

Sapere aude! :happy:

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