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Just Received My First Twsbi (Turquoise Diamond 580Al)!

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I've been lusting after my husband's TWSBIs for a while (he has a Diamond 580 and a Mini) and he bought me my own, woohooo!!! It's a lovely turquoise TWSBI Diamond 580AL, and I lovelovelove it. Above: my first doodle with it, inked up with Iroshizuku Syo-Ro! I used a water brush for the smeary bits.

 

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Very nice! I have the silver one myself, but kinda wish I had waited until this one came out. :)

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very nice. I have the 580 Al in pink and green. And the mini blue. I generally find the twsbi a little heavy, in fact i bought the mini blue and it was really lighter. But this torquoise is very nice, i think i'll buy first or then.

Which nib did you choose? i have the m nib on 580 and 1,1 on mini, very nice the 1,1

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Got the turquoise one when it came out. Haven't inked it yet. Is it sad that I have a bunch of pens that have not seen ink as of yet? They're just lying there waiting. I do pull out the drawer daily to gaze fondly upon them though :D

 

In response to pinkladywriter - I really love the weight of the TWSBI. I've always preferred a larger barreled, heavier pen so the TWSBI really does it for me. I'm also super jelly that you got a green one. I have that on my "must-have" list along with the black/rose gold pen. Unlikely I'll ever see one of those :(

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I have the Pink. I hesitated to get one because I was worried about the weight (especially posted) but then got to try a 580 AL a couple of months ago at a pen club meeting. Had gone into Birmingham Pens to take a look at the Pacific Al-Stars but the color didn't wow me (it wasn't bad, just not as good as I had hoped. So then I took a peek around the counter to see what else Nick had and discovered he had the Pink in a couple of different nib widths in stock and it was All Over .

Yup. Went in to buy a $37 US pen, came out with a $60 pen instead; really liking the B nib -- even more than the B nib on the M400 Stresemann I got last spring. I've been running De Atramentis Sky Blue in the pen (because Nick had also just gotten a shipment of De Atramentis inks in, so I dip tested several of those and ended up with three colors, including the Sky Blue.

No hope for me at ALL....

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TSherbs: Thank you!

 

Moonshae: I think my husband has a silver one as well. And thanks!

 

pinkladywriter: My husband gave me a F and M nibs. Now I'm thinking of getting a 1.1 as well!

 

yeepers: I have several uninked pens as well (mostly Lamy Safaris) and a LOT of inks to try out!

 

mitto: Thank you!

 

Ruth: So many of your posts make me want to buy more ink! Or pens! :-D

 

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this is such a beautiful pen.. i'm still waiting for my twsbi eco clear to arrive, which i ordered before i knew the diamond would be available in this color.

 

which nib did you use for your illustration? (lovely, btw.)

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