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Hello. I'm new. Only have a Kaweco skyline sport in black at the mo. Interested in sailing photography running and journalling.

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Welcome, your collection will grow wildly in a very short time!

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I should probably give a little of my fountain pen history. Much of it will make you either tut or make your hair curl. Its not good. Sorry.

 

At one point I had my dads old platinum (I think it was a platinum). It was plastic with a lever on the side. The nib tines were pointing all directions so, I took a pair of nail clippers to them and a nail file and by some miracle created an absolutely brilliant italic nib. I don't recommend you try this. It worked fine (except for occasionally letting go of all its ink) for many years but eventually snapped in half in the middle of the barrel. Gutted.

 

My other pen was a nice sheaffer which I received as a work leaving gift. I used it everyday for years. I didn't use fountain pen ink. Instead I ran it on an ancient bottle of stamp pad ink that I found in a cupboard in work. Must have been fifty years old. Yes I know, blasphemy,but I have learned the error of my ways. Come on, it was better than making ink from soot. Anyway I didn't like that pen. Didn't like the section. Didn't like the cap which always fell off leading to its early demise. It flew across the office landing in its nib with me still holding the cap. The nail clipper repair didn't seem to work for some reason.

 

Since those dark days (three months ago) I have purchased the Kaweco skyline sport as a sort of stop gap pen whilst I decided on a decent pen. The nib skipped etc but I managed to fix it by washing it and sanding it with sandpaper from a puncture repair kit. Everything on the cheap here... Anyway works really good now but the tiny scratches on the plastic really annoy me especially as I try to take good care of it. Well the barrel anyway.

 

I'm using diamine ink.

 

I've never paid more than 17.99 on a pen which is why I'm spending so much time researching and asking questions here. Probably driving some of you up the wall.

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Welcome!

Turning a nib into an italic is a common save. Well done.

Soot, or carbon, is a useful permanent ink.

Look for a pen club near you. Pen people like to show and tell, so you could see and hold some of the pens that interest you.

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Welcome! Haven't been to Wales in many years- but I'd bet there is some great pen-antiquing to be had!

Cool. Where did you go in Wales?

 

I haven't started looking for old pens yet. I'll have to keep and eye out.

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