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I acquired some pheasant tailfeathers, which are also a bit small in diameter.

Been meaning to make pens, just haven't gotten to it yet.

QUESTION: How hot was your sand?

Nice little project, and nice writing, BTW.

I may not have been much help, but I DID bump your thread up to the top.

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"goose and swan" LOL! :)

 

This is SO cool, thanks! Have you tried writing in cursive with it?

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Thank you for the lovely review!

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Wait-- you wrote-and beautifully--with out spending hundreds of dollars on a pen??? Is this allowed on this forum??

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Great, thank you. We need to remember this next time someone is asking advice for a sub 5$ dollar pen...

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"goose and swan" LOL! :)

 

This is SO cool, thanks! Have you tried writing in cursive with it?

 

http://i38.tinypic.com/152yeeg.jpg

 

(I rotated the quill as I wrote using the edge of it for the hairlines and the broad cut for the thick bits. I have never got so much ink on my fingers in my life!)

 

There's a few more sentences here: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=130238 in that script.

 

The script I used in the review is my normal everyday handwriting though, albeit filtered through a broad cut nib here which gives contrast and shade.

 

I acquired some pheasant tailfeathers, which are also a bit small in diameter.

Been meaning to make pens, just haven't gotten to it yet.

QUESTION: How hot was your sand?

Nice little project, and nice writing, BTW.

 

Thanks for the review. We have a mug full of goose feathers waiting to be tempered. I, also, and curious as to the sand temperature and how long you left them.

 

I heated the sand at gas mark 6 for twenty minutes, then took it out and put the feathers into it and left them till the sand and the tin was cool to the touch.

 

Thanks for the comments everyone.

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Hi Friends, Thanks for a fantastic post Columba,I got inspired to do this..

 

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii313/Ashish_031/Quill%20Pictures/Picture4121.jpg

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enjoy

 

regards

 

Ashish

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I think dropped feathers are quite clean, dusty in my country perhaps, nothing a couple of smart taps on the shaft won't cure. Moroever dropped feathers here are sun sterilised for upto a week, at 38 - 40 degrees celsius! for a bacteria free feather, dip it in alcohol, once that evaporates the feather remains the same. I've tried it (not with this one but more delicate down feathers) without harming the feather.

 

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Ashish

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Who woulda thunk that you can get the most responsive nib on the planet for free off of the ground and with a little bit of effort have the nib of your fondest desires. I love quills. Now if only I can figure out a way to insert a quill into a piston filler fountain pen body and get a good ink flow then I may just become the happiest man alive.

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Thank you for that review! For the grip question: I wonder if the grip of these days was the same as now. I explain: an older collegue of mine told me that he was teached to write with its pen hold between the index and the middle finger, and not, as today, betewwn the index and the thumb. This would explain why the early 20th century pens are so silm (there is a discussion somewhere on fpn about that).

I tried that kind of grip and I must say that if it feels stange, it also remarquably confortable, esp. with slim pens (Waterman 52 1/2v, Preface...), putting less stress on the various articulations.

 

Thank you again!

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