My Broken Namiki Emperor

[georges zaslavsky]

excellent thread and thanks for the heads up

Edited October 13, 2013 by georges zaslavsky

[shuuemura]

It's been a while since I last posted on this topic, but Pilot finally finished the repair and sent my pen back to me. To be fair, this time they paid for shipping both ways and the repair makes the pen look as good as new.

 

The other pen I had them examine at the same time was a Yukari Royale which wrote very dryly with Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo. In fact, it would stop writing after half a page of scribbling. After a lot of testing, they found nothing wrong with the feed or the nib, but then they were using regular Pilot Blue for testing. I tried Pilot Blue in the pen and that solved the writing issue. Go figure!

 

 

 

 

[hari317]

wonderful!

[raging.dragon]

I'm glad the story has a happy ending!

[tieno]

Buy the way how do you clean the pen in the first place ?

I also like the pen to look shiny, for the moment the best way I have found is toscrub it with my fingers. Do you have another solution?

Thank you for your help

étienne

[Algester]

microfibre cloths should be enough to keep the Urushi glossy

[shuuemura]

microfibre cloths should be enough to keep the Urushi glossy

 

This. Usually I don't really bother because the urushi's going to have my finger prints all over it during use.

[rebcabin]

It's been a while since I last posted on this topic, but Pilot finally finished the repair and sent my pen back to me. To be fair, this time they paid for shipping both ways and the repair makes the pen look as good as new.

 

The other pen I had them examine at the same time was a Yukari Royale which wrote very dryly with Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo. In fact, it would stop writing after half a page of scribbling. After a lot of testing, they found nothing wrong with the feed or the nib, but then they were using regular Pilot Blue for testing. I tried Pilot Blue in the pen and that solved the writing issue. Go figure!

 

I have noticed a LOT of variation in performance of Emperors, especially broad-points, just by changing the ink, even just within the Iroshizuku line. See here https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/276282-pilot-iroshizuku-fuyu-gaki/ for six different Iroshizuku inks in two nib sizes. Perhaps with the amount of ink that these pens can put out, they really accentuate the intrinsic qualities of the inks. I tried some Herbin and de Atramentis inks in the Emps, and the variation was even more huge, like everything else with these pens ... huge.