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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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1 hour ago, Misfit said:

Excellent choices. Do you have a favorite from these three?

 

Not really. They were the colours on clearance/discounted offer from Milligram (except the Honey, … long story) available to me; I could (and ‘had to’) order them online to secure the units, but there had to be collected from a store physically and then only if the store already had the surplus/clearance stock, without possibility of transferring to another store in the retail ‘network’.

 

I know my wife would like the Smooth Sage, so that's Valentine's Day sorted.

 

I personally love orange as a colour, but the mustardy yellow (which I don't mind) Honey is not sufficiently orange, in-your-face, daunting and taunting. But I wanted one with a gold-plated nib (and cap finial/button), to host what I'll get Chris Lim to custom-grind. The Mellow Blue will host the needlepoint nib ground by Chris Lim I tested and offered to buy off him, and the Honey will host his ‘pencil’ nib grind I'm going to ask him to turn a ‘spare’ gold-plated M nib into. The Twin nib will most likely stay in the black Kaweco Sport in which it came. That ‘frees’ me to sell the black Kaweco Sport piston-filler as new-in-box; and that accounts for all my recent acquisition of Kaweco Sport pens.

 

My wife may or may not end up asking Chris to grind the M nib on her Kaweco Sport to his ‘artist’ grind.

 

In the meantime, I have just enough short rotary-driven piston converters to ‘adapt’ for use in our Kaweco Sport pens. Right now I'm testing one implementation for leaks and ink evaporation; so far so good.

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9 hours ago, Misfit said:

Platinum has a BB nib? I wonder if it can be swapped to the lower cost Platinum pens like the Plaisir.

 

Sorry, I just meant the blue-black ink!

Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn børk! børk! børk!

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Misfit Museum Piece

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@rodia77 that makes sense. I don’t think I’ve seen a nib beyond M for Platinum, though I haven’t made the effort to research their nib range. 

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A Smug Dill Museum Piece

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1 hour ago, Misfit said:

… I haven’t made the effort to research their nib range. 

 

https://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/about-fountain-pen/387/

 

(UEF, EF, F, SF, M, B, C)

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Mail call today had the Lamy AL-star Pine and the Lamy Safari Steel Black.

 

The pine is a great color.

 

Lamy Pine & Srteel Blue.JPG

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Misfit Museum Piece

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9 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

https://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/about-fountain-pen/387/

 

(UEF, EF, F, SF, M, B, C)

That was quick. Thank you for making the effort. Now to click on the link. 
 

Edit: I can’t explain it, because I have a 3776. I momentarily spaced out that it was Platinum’s pen. Mine has a B nib. From looking, it’s the higher end pens with the nib range. 

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53 minutes ago, Misfit said:

From looking, it’s the higher end pens with the nib range.

 

Only the ‘standard’ (or, in the context of those sub-brands, entry-level) models in the #3776 Century and President lines offer Coarse (i.e. broader than Broad) and Ultra Extra Fine nibs as options. The Izumo, and the higher-end (e.g. the Celluloid, Sterling Silver, and Kanazawa gold leaf) #3776 Century pen models don't.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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My Year of the Horse, Wajima maki-e TWSBI ECO from Bungubox arrived today from Japan, two days after I ordered it! I inked it with Colorverse's Red Horse and am really enjoying using my new pen. It's beautifully made and was carefully packaged. The paper is from a Montblanc notebook.

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Looking to buy a Delta Chatterley Stantuffo Fusion Star Cage.

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23 minutes ago, Misfit said:

@Ceramicist very beautiful pen, congratulations! That was incredibly quick shipping. 

 

21 minutes ago, boilermaker1975 said:

@Ceramicist 👍

Thanks, friends! It was incredibly quick international shipping, considering it takes something over a week to travel an hour away via the USPS. 

Looking to buy a Delta Chatterley Stantuffo Fusion Star Cage.

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I didn’t expect to buy a second Magna within a week but I just couldn’t pass this up at a great price today at the CA Pen Show. image.thumb.jpg.b2cf9350ddeec647a8b177240a09e729.jpg

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3 hours ago, boilermaker1975 said:

@JasonR 👍

 

I love Onotos. Everyone I have is a great pen.

@boilermaker1975 - I can’t agree more.  I had another vintage Onoto nib tuned up today at the show and I’ll restore another that’s been on the bench waiting for parts - maybe this weekend.    I’m getting my Onoto Scholar nib reground from an M to a stub on Sunday so I’ll have only Onotos on my desk next week I think.  

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8 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

My Year of the Horse, Wajima maki-e TWSBI ECO from Bungubox arrived today from Japan, two days after I ordered it! I inked it with Colorverse's Red Horse and am really enjoying using my new pen. It's beautifully made and was carefully packaged. The paper is from a Montblanc notebook.

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Interesting version of the Twsbi Eco at a good price. Congratulations  for your new pen.

 

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2 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

@JasonR Beautiful pen and flex. Congratulations!

 

Thank you @Ceramicist - This is one I've been looking for at a reasonable price for the last 4-5 months, so I'm happy to have it in hand!  Wrote a few pages with it last night and it's nicely balanced.

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@Ceramicist I like this horse, it has so much character. For some reason it reminds me a little of merry-go-rounds, in a good way! Congratulations on your new pen, and here's to a great Year of the Horse!!

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2 hours ago, JasonR said:

Thank you @Ceramicist - This is one I've been looking for at a reasonable price for the last 4-5 months, so I'm happy to have it in hand!  Wrote a few pages with it last night and it's nicely balanced.

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2 hours ago, Scribs said:

@Ceramicist I like this horse, it has so much character. For some reason it reminds me a little of merry-go-rounds, in a good way! Congratulations on your new pen, and here's to a great Year of the Horse!!

Thank you! I agree, it reminds me of a merry-go-round horse as well. It has a playfulness and fantasy element to it. Yes, here's to a Year of the Horse filled with abundant good health, happiness and love! 🐎

Looking to buy a Delta Chatterley Stantuffo Fusion Star Cage.

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