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Hello FPN mebers!

Well, my brother recently made me this strange little writing instrument. It's a dip pen alright but it has nothing to do with feathers or metal nibs. Instead, it's made of 100% bamboo. When I first heard of the idea I thought it would be somewhat of a joke. The sort of thing that "kind of" worked sometimes. Boy was I wrong! These bamboo dip pens are amazing! They work way better than a feather pen or even a steel nibbed dip pen (at least the cheap ones I've used). the results were so amazing that I just had to do a post one them. You can see the whole thing with pictures at my Blog!

Here's a few teaser photos!!!

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777

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Looks very enticing...........but do they come with a silver overlay? Just kidding! And now I need to find one of these...............grrrr! :clap1:

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Looks very enticing...........but do they come with a silver overlay? Just kidding! And now I need to find one of these...............grrrr! :clap1:

 

 

I'm actually thinking of maybe selling a few of these on FPN. I'll have to see what happens, but if I can get enough people to commit to buying one, I may do a small production run!

 

Damn you!

 

Now I have to buy a bamboo plant...

 

 

Sorry... Wait, no, I'm not sorry at all!! Mwah hah hah!!!

 

<Darth Vader> I have you now </Darth Vader>.

 

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The Chinese restaurant I frequent has a few nice bamboo plants, pruners will be with me next visit.

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Hi 777.

 

I doubt the Aussie Customs and Quarantine will let Bamboo through from outside Oz. I wonder if some Aussie could cut some??? :notworthy1:

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The Chinese restaurant I frequent has a few nice bamboo plants, pruners will be with me next visit.

 

haha! Now that's a way to get a bamboo piece! I'll be posting a how-to tutorial for making one of these really soon on my Blog! Keep a watch for it!

 

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777

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It's the capillary action of all the tubules in the bamboo that make it work. Hell of a PITA if you need to change colors though...

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You can buy these in art supply stores.

 

It was Van Gogh's favorite drawing instrument.

 

If you soak the "nib" in water for 20-30 min. before dipping in ink it will open the pores and hold more ink!

 

Have fun--"walnut" ink is nice in these--gives good shading.

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It's the capillary action of all the tubules in the bamboo that make it work. Hell of a PITA if you need to change colors though...

 

I've actually experienced the opposite. It took me just a few seconds to wash the "nib" off. That could just be my pen though...

 

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You can buy these in art supply stores.

 

It was Van Gogh's favorite drawing instrument.

 

If you soak the "nib" in water for 20-30 min. before dipping in ink it will open the pores and hold more ink!

 

Have fun--"walnut" ink is nice in these--gives good shading.

 

Van Gogh?!? Really? That really cool! Now I like it more than ever.

 

I'll have to try that water soaking idea. Thank for the tip!

 

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