What Twsbi You Are Using Today?

[mehandiratta]

On 1/1/2025 at 7:12 PM, Charlesrl said:

Received my TWSBI Diamond 580ALR on Monday. Love the pen!

 

 

looks nice...

[Doc Dan]

On 1/10/2025 at 7:10 PM, mehandiratta said:

 

 

looks nice...

Nice. I don't have the AR, but I do have the Smoke rose gold and the White rose gold. Both have stub nibs. These are two of my favorite writers. Love them. 

[Misfit]

I’m using a TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Silver with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Levenger Smokey ink.

[Misfit]

I’m using a TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Grape with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Wearinguel F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby ink. 

[Doc Dan]

On 2/12/2025 at 11:05 AM, Misfit said:

I’m using a TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Grape with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Wearinguel F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby ink. 

That sounds nice. I was tempted by that pen and more particularly because I could get it in a stub. How is the ink with that nib?

[Misfit]

@Doc Dan They seem to get along nicely. I’ll see if I have a writing sample to post. 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Sad TWSBI story.

 

Filled my F-nib Eco with Sailor Suki Gokoro.  Finally it was time to empty it, but the piston stuck.  And a massive ink stain in the barrel would not budge.  
 

We took it apart, and I had to manually clean the barrel and piston head.  Now waiting to lube and reassemble.

 

I'd be wary now of those Sailor inks that go down one color and dry to another.

[taimdala]

Here is the TWSBI in my EDC: the Persian Green Eco EF with a Needlepoint grind by Kirk Speer. Filled 1/3 full with Diamone Onyx Black, it is my go-to for writing tiny in black ink. Yay, Needlepoint!

 

 

 

[Misfit]

@taimdala I have the Persian Green with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Lamy Crystal Topaz. Where did you get the pen pouch?

[taimdala]

On 10/23/2025 at 8:51 PM, Misfit said:

@taimdala I have the Persian Green with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Lamy Crystal Topaz. Where did you get the pen pouch?

Oh gosh ... Where did I get that pouch? 

 

 Mike Matteson of Inkdependence attended a mini-pen show in September (last month) at Crazy Alan's Emporium, Chapel Hill, NC. It's my local. His wife sourced the fabric from Japan and designed/sewed the pen pouch herself.

 

The fabric is a simple 1 over 1 weave, but it's got a beefy heft to it. It's also cottony soft and the design is ink-printed on it. I love it and have carried it to work with me for several weeks. I'm already noticing with some regret some minute signs of wear-- no tear or loss of printed ink or anything, but the black is a teense faded. 

 

Or maybe it's just picked up dust from the warehouse environs I work in.

 

Hmmmm....I may be wrong about the vendor of that pen pouch. I'm not seeing it at Matteson's website, the start of which is here:

https://www.inkdependence.com/

 

Correction: It was Kirk Speer! 

And it was Kirk's wife who made them. 

(Sorry, gentlemen. I didn't mean to mix you up...)

 

Find the pouches, here:

https://www.penrealm.com/product/japanese-cloth-pen-pouch-4-pen-slots/

 

ETA: Mike Matteson was at the mini show at the table next to Kirk Speer. And I had bought some stainless steel flossing shims from him, too. 

 

TBH, I bought a lot that day, so it's all a bit blurry...

[taimdala]

And about those pen pouches: I strongly suspect I may start collecting them! They sit at the intersection of my fountain pen addiction and my fabric addiction. 

 

God help me...

[Misfit]

Thank you @taimdala for the links. I appreciate it. 

[Misfit]

Evidenctly the White Eco wanted to be used again, because I thought of it before falling asleep the other night. I filled it with Visconti Turquoise ink last night. And now it’s my pen of the day, even though I’m posting this after midnight. 

[AmandaW]

I was drawing with a Cement Grey Eco F filled with Noodler's Lexington Grey. 🤍