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You may have just convinced me, finally, to go out and get my first broad nib.

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Fantastic!

Dream, take one step at a time and achieve. :)

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Used two 1950s Aurora 88s today, one an 88P. Wonderful pens as they always are.

 

By the by, when we were signing the Certificate of Occupancy my wife did not have her ballpoint with her so I handed over my 88 with Aurora Black. She looked at it quizzically for a moment. "Is this your fountain pen?" she asked.

 

She may be catching on that the number is even greater than I had might have happened to mention most recently.

My wife does not want to touch my pens lol

 

My kids love to write with fountain pens though. Passing the baton to the next generation..I am happy :)

 

Oh, by the way, I am not done yet...I have years to use the pens lol

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Not today's pens but yesterday's. I have just got back from doing a summer camp with 25 kids from the 6th grade at elementary school and the 1st grade at junior high. Japanese summer camps are usually based indoors with both outdoor and indoor activities, and one section I did was a ten to fifteen minute 'task' of getting the kids to write their names in 'calligraphy'.

 

For such a short time it went really well, and I'll write it up in the next couple of days on FPN somewhere, but just a quickie on the pens I (and they!) used: eight Pilot Parallels (two of each size loaded with various colours), Noodlers Ahab and Pilot Penmanship with B italic loaded with Iroshizuku Shinryoku, Noodlers Charlie and Creaper loaded with Pilot Blue and Black, Hero 5028 three sizes loaded with Pilot Black, Jinhao x750 with Noodlers untipped flex and Pilot Black, and my trusty Watermans 32 with a mix of Shinryoku and vintage Watermans Tropical Green. Also five colours of Kuretake Zig calligraphy felt pens including their rather splendid silver and gold. That's a pentastic 17 fountain pens and 5 broad nibbed felts...!

Hi, I'm Mat


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Today, I am using a Waterman JIF I finally flushed Tsuki-yo out of and filled it with Kana-cho Midnight, which has had a serious leaking problem in another JIF (both with syringe-filled cartridges and a Waterman converter), on the assumption that JIF is bad/defective. Hard to imagine the ink is the problem (no leaks in my M300); likewise, there was no leaking in the JIF with the Tsuki-yo.

 

For the moment, the color coming out still looks more like Tsuki-yo than Kana-cho but it's slowly getting darker and should be fully changed over in a day or so.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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So far today it's been:

1) the new-to-me Cross Verve, Golden Shimmer, B nib (which I picked up in a thrift shop last week) with diluted Cross Blue-Black;

2) Parker 51 Midnight Blue, F(?) nib with Lamy Pacifica Blue.

 

Starting to understand why the Verve was only on the market for 4 years -- even after scrubbing my hand with Ink Nix, I still have diluted Cross Blue-Black on my middle and index fingers, as well as some on my thumb....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Pelikan M200 Cafe Creme Fine (Noodler's Army)

Inked: Aurora Optima EF (Pelikan Tanzanite); Franklin Christoph Pocket 20 Needlepoint (Sailor Kiwa Guro); Sheaffers PFM I Reporter/Fine (Diamine Oxblood); Franklin Christoph 02 Medium Stub (Aurora Black); Platinum Plaisir Gunmetal EF (Platinum Brown); Platinum Preppy M (Platinum Blue-Black). Leaded: Palomino Blackwing 602; Lamy Scribble 0.7 (Pentel Ain Stein 2B); Uni Kuru Toga Roulette 0.5 (Uni Kuru Toga HB); Parker 51 Plum 0.9 (Pilot Neox HB)

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Ahh, I am still in the process of cleaning pens and setting aside ones for repairs. So far I have 8 that need repairs and and I cleaned 30. I still have another 80 more to go.

 

Today I used:

 

Cross Verve 18kt medium nib w/Pilot black ink. My poormans Edson. Still a superb pen.

 

Waterman Edson Sapphire Blue, Stub Nib using Waterman Florida Blue ink. One of my favorite pens.

 

Montblanc 149 custom ground broad italic stub. Filled with the very first release of the Noodler's FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown ink from around 2006 or 07. I can't remember.

 

Conklin Word Gauge made for Levenger (when they used to sell real pens and had pens made for them) I swapped the Conklin 14kt 2 tone nib and replaced it with a Stipula 14kt Rhodium plated 1.1 italic nib. I filled it with 2004 DC LE Tropical Blue.

 

I would upload pictures but I'm still trying to figure out the FPN interface. Totally different from what I was used to

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Pen for today is my Lamy 2000 with its Architect nib (F).

I run on Caffeine, Sarcasm and inappropriate thoughts.

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Mihailo, I really love my Lamy 2000 also! It was one of my later purchases. I never was really drawn to them for some reason. I bought mine used for under 100 bucks and I am so glad I did. It is such a smooth writer. For any pen collector, this pen is a must!

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Mabie Todd Swan SM 205/63 with medium flex.

Sailor Jentle Rikyu-Cha

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Dream, take one step at a time and achieve. :)

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Your handwriting is really nice! I'm envious!

Thank you!

It's the pen that does most of the work

Dream, take one step at a time and achieve. :)

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MB 149, F, MB Lavender Purple

Pelikan M200, Italic, MB Royal Blue

Pilot Custom 912, FA, MB Permanent Blue

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I inked up my Pelikan M400 Tortoise last night with Diamine Warm Brown. It's been a long time since I used this pen. :)

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Mabie Todd Swan SM 205/63 with medium flex.

Sailor Jentle Rikyu-Cha

 

Pen, ink, writing, and quote...all quite lovely.

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