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  2. Tender Typhoon

    Black Inks (20 + 1)

    Twenty black inks used with different pens. Vinta Romblon and Picasso used medium nibs. Baoke MS212 and Hero 9002 had EF nibs. The rest had F nibs. The list is around half of my black ink collection. Canhdieu is the + 1 in the title. This ink is remarkable because it has a long drying time: around 30 seconds on 80gsm paper and over 3 minutes on 100gsm paper. It's the only ink where I notice smudges on the page after writing. Canhdieu Registrar's looks bluish initially and turns darker but still a bit bluish after a few days. I have around 40 inked pens at the moment. Around 30 of them are filled with black ink, but the ones not found here have dried up. They never clog, so I'm not worried (I never allow a carbon/pigment ink to dry up). The palest of the lot is Platinum followed by Hero 234A (a carbon ink). Cross and Pelikan (new) are also quite pale. The vintage Pelikan (1980s) is one of the darkest. Picasso and Oaso are made by the same company and are quite dark. Picasso didn't clog the Parker 45, but it took 2 days of flushing and soaking to clean it off the pen (Parker 45 can be disassembled so I was surprised it took that long). Vinta black onyx aka Romblon is fastidious with nibs. It has hard starts with EF and F nibs but flows smoothly with a medium nib. It's quite viscous.
  3. carola

    Adding To The Flock

    That was very thoughtful of you. 😄
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  5. Misfit

    AI has come for calligraphy

    I put a sentence in, then had it write John Doe. John was printed. Doe had connecting lines. They shouldn’t call it calligraphy, because it’s writing.
  6. I’m using the Retro 51/Fahrney’s Cherry Blossom 2023 FDR Museum pen with a 1.1mm stub nib filled with De Atramentis Franklin D. Roosevelt ink or Tungsten Purple.
  7. DLCJr

    Lamy Safari Cap Problem

    AceNinja... what a great instructional video! Extremely well done. Thanks for sharing.
  8. Tonight, I cleaned out my metropolitan that had diamine green black and now has pilot iroshizuku tsuki-yo, and my preppy that had the same diamine but now has sailor souboku.
  9. TheRobotCow

    Blue Pen Club- Show Me Your Blue Pens!

    Here’s my 2 that i always carry with me to work. Lamy Safari & Twsbi Eco-T. The safari currently has pilot iroshizuku kon-peki and the twsbi has the 2024 lamy dark lilac.
  10. TheRobotCow

    It's Only Been 12 Years...

    I’ve just recently also got back into using my fountain pens after a few years. Here’s to enjoying using your pens and inks!
  11. Twotracker2

    Hello from a newbie

    Welcome to the scriptorium. Be sure to buy every pen and ink our friends here recommend. They are wise.
  12. shane27

    What pen(s) are you using today?

    Really enjoying this Wing Sung 630 with the transparent barrel. Inked with Tsuki-yo.
  13. TheRobotCow

    Hello from a newbie

    Fountain pens definitely make taking notes a lot more enjoyable!
  14. VacNut

    What is on your bench?

    Link to another example.
  15. Manny C

    Pleased Customer of Tokyo Pen Shop Quill

    @Linger do you mind me asking you how much you paid for the Custom 845 including shipping, buying from them?
  16. Tashi_Tsering

    What pen(s) are you using today?

    Montblanc 145. This pen started my small collection of MBs
  17. Doc Dan

    Fake Lamy Studio

    Sellers of fakes have some connections in China.
  18. I use this pen every day on various papers. Here it is on Thin Kokuyo 52gsm
  19. Mew

    Visit to Hakase and orders

    All 3 of them are 142mm uncapped
  20. I-am-not-really-here

    The Never-Ending Story In Three Word Segments...

    special garden brownies
  21. VacNut

    What is on your bench?

    A little something different. Instead of a pen, the actual “bench”. A vintage swan pen repair kit in the original wooden box. The tools are sized to fit inside the box. I know that Parker sold repair kits for prospective pen technicians. I don’t know if Swan sold these as kits or if they were distributed to certified technicians. There is a wooden knock-out block, a small brass anvil and concave plaque to straighten nibs, a sack scraper, a feed punch, tweezers, a short blade/cutter, brush, and rubber tire pads. I don’t know the purpose of the spring loaded clamp and the wooden block with a semi-abrasive pad. Perhaps it is for smoothing out the nibs? The kit came from a closed repair shop in the UK. The tools are sized to the width, length, and height of the box. I may add a small hammer, scissors, and perhaps a small glass burner with heat shield to complete the kit. I am guessing they would have been part of the kit. I would be glad to hear from people more familiar with the kit. I see that there have been several listed.
  22. VacNut

    Vintage Swan Pen Repair Kit

    Vintage Swan repair kit with original tools. Very cool to see the vintage tools.
  23. Look what you have !!! 👍😀 Nice Mini Review 😀👍 I didn't know about Castell Gulf blue ink. Great bottle. btw.. It says "Document ink".. does that mean water proof? Hey Eagle Eyes !!!! 🐧 Heart shaped breather holes... 4 clicks to enlarge and it was clear... LOL You'll have to tell me about that Muji paper. Nice review also.👍😀
  24. platorepublic

    The quest for the perfect blue ink

    Personally, I really like Iroshizuku Ama-iro and Sailor Souten. If I had to choose between the two, probably the Souten.
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    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
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