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On 3/7/2021 at 10:47 PM, dms525 said:

Getting more playful ...

 

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Wow!  What pen/nib did you use for this!  Or was it two different pens for the quote (i.e., something with a super broad nib and something with a fine or EF one)?

I'm rather fond of Uncial, myself.  Prefer it WAY more than italic or various forms of blackletter....

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Wow!  What pen/nib did you use for this!  Or was it two different pens for the quote (i.e., something with a super broad nib and something with a fine or EF one)?

I'm rather fond of Uncial, myself.  Prefer it WAY more than italic or various forms of blackletter....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

That was done with a Pilot Parallel pen. I am pretty sure I used the 3.8mm nib. You can do wild stuff with the corner of the PP nib, like the hairlines. 

 

Uncial has a gazillion variations. Of course it was the most used style of writing in much of the Western world for 500 years, particularly for religious texts.

 

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Thanks -- good to know.  I keep looking at Parallels, because they're not horribly expensive.  But a friend of mine from the amateur choir I'm in found them to make too broad a line, and she didn't like the ink that comes with them (particularly on Pergamentata, a kind of vegetal parchment -- she was picking my brain a couple of months about FPs but hasn't been to choir recently (she's a high school music teacher and has been dealing with the school's wind ensemble).  When she comes back, I'm going to re-ink my stub nib Metropolitan with Namiki Black to see if that works better than the special ink for the Parallels for her (she's considering recommending Pilot Plumix pens to calligraphy newbies because they're inexpensive, but I have no experience with those either, and figured that while more expensive, the metal bodied Metropolitans might be a little sturdier over the long run.

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7 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks -- good to know.  I keep looking at Parallels, because they're not horribly expensive.  But a friend of mine from the amateur choir I'm in found them to make too broad a line, and she didn't like the ink that comes with them (particularly on Pergamentata, a kind of vegetal parchment -- she was picking my brain a couple of months about FPs but hasn't been to choir recently (she's a high school music teacher and has been dealing with the school's wind ensemble).  When she comes back, I'm going to re-ink my stub nib Metropolitan with Namiki Black to see if that works better than the special ink for the Parallels for her (she's considering recommending Pilot Plumix pens to calligraphy newbies because they're inexpensive, but I have no experience with those either, and figured that while more expensive, the metal bodied Metropolitans might be a little sturdier over the long run.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

My professional calligrapher friends use Higgins Eternal in PP's. (Not India ink!) I use whatever.

 

Plumix pens use the same nibs as Metropolitans and 78G's. My issue with them for beginners is they are too narrow for optimal learning. My personal favorite is the Franklin-Christoph "music nibs." 1.9mm nominally, but write a bit broader than that.

 

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