I got this pen today

[InkyProf]

7 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

Beautiful. The simplicity and subtlety of the final result belie the complexity of the process it took to achieve. In the middle of Bernard Lyn’s book and it’s fascinating. As an aside, the link in your later post didn’t work for me. Had to search “Ban-ei” on the site to find the page.

Thank you, @Cjtamu, fixed the link. I’m glad for the book recommendation too, as I’d like to learn more! (For someone as book-centered as I am, it’s strange that all my fountain pen education has been online, apart from repair manuals.)

[Cjtamu]

1 hour ago, InkyProf said:

Thank you, @Cjtamu, fixed the link. I’m glad for the book recommendation too, as I’d like to learn more! (For someone as book-centered as I am, it’s strange that all my fountain pen education has been online, apart from repair manuals.)

You’re welcome. I got my copy from nibs dot com and I think they had a few left. If you can’t find one let me know and I’ll loan you mine when I’m done.

 

P. S. The Danitrio are wonderful pens. Just sayin’ 😉

[InkyProf]

Just now, Cjtamu said:

You’re welcome. I got my copy from nibs dot com and I think they had a few left. If you can’t find one let me know and I’ll loan you mine when I’m done.

 

P. S. The Danitrio are wonderful pens. Just sayin’ 😉

 

Thanks! Danitrio (and Namiki) are at a price point beyond anything I've seriously contemplated (and approaching an order of magnitude beyond this Ban-Ei). I think I'm nearing the end of my first big wave of enthusiastic and exploratory collection-building, though, so maybe I will slow to the point where that seems like a reasonable thing to do for a special occasion... although among the various categories of stuff I collect, the only things that have ever crossed the four-digit threshold are hanging on the wall. If I ever get there, though, I'll blame thank you! 🙂

[InkyProf]

38 minutes ago, Cjtamu said:

I got my copy from nibs dot com

 

FYI (or, actually, for others' information), they seem to be sold out now (and rebranded as nibs dash usa dot com?). But if there's one thing I know how to do, it's how find hard-to-find books...

[Cjtamu]

15 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

 

Thanks! Danitrio (and Namiki) are at a price point beyond anything I've seriously contemplated (and approaching an order of magnitude beyond this Ban-Ei). I think I'm nearing the end of my first big wave of enthusiastic and exploratory collection-building, though, so maybe I will slow to the point where that seems like a reasonable thing to do for a special occasion... although among the various categories of stuff I collect, the only things that have ever crossed the four-digit threshold are hanging on the wall. If I ever get there, though, I'll blame thank you! 🙂

I’m fortunate to live about 90 minutes away from Dromgoole’s and they generally have a great selection of secondary market pens. Will let you know next time I see a nice urushi/maki-e. Might get you under that four figures. Appear to have similar tastes so I’ll not mention the Tarkay water color or the signed Dali lithograph or other art hanging on the walls LOL. Keep meaning to post here I recently re-read Sinclair Lewis’, “It Can’t Happen Here”. Flat scary.

[InkyProf]

5 minutes ago, Cjtamu said:

I’m fortunate to live about 90 minutes away from Dromgoole’s and they generally have a great selection of secondary market pens. Will let you know next time I see a nice urushi/maki-e.

 

Thanks!

[Cjtamu]

11 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

 

FYI (or, actually, for others' information), they seem to be sold out now (and rebranded as nibs dash usa dot com?). But if there's one thing I know how to do, it's how find hard-to-find books...

Might send you PM at some point if OK with you. Had two copies of my great great and great grandfathers’ book. Destroyed when a pipe burst while I was gone for 10 days. Shut off valve failed. Spent years acquiring them but the rare book dealer I used in Houston area is gone.

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, Cjtamu said:

Might send you PM at some point if OK with you.

 

Beat you to it. Burst pipes are among my top 10 nightmares, as you can imagine... sorry for your loss.

[inkstainedruth]

2 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

Might send you PM at some point if OK with you. Had two copies of my great great and great grandfathers’ book. Destroyed when a pipe burst while I was gone for 10 days. Shut off valve failed. Spent years acquiring them but the rare book dealer I used in Houston area is gone.

YIKES!  We just had to replace all the copper pipes in our house recently because the local water company apparently changed their formulation for sanitizing the water (and the new formulation EATS copper).  And got a pinhole leak in a wall between the living room and and front hallway.  And had to replace ALL the copper pipes in the house as a precaution (while we're STILL paying off the new driveway and "gotcha" retaining wall -- and the wall DOUBLED the price).  The only good part about the new pipes is that the plastic ones seem to be color coded for hot and cold....  But of course the irony is that we just got a thing in the mail the other day wanting to know if we want to put a "historic" plaque on our house (the oldest part is from the 1880s, with an addition closing off the back corner next to the driveway in the 1930s....  At OUR expense, of course.... 😡  

Now I'll grant that if it was the big mansion around the corner?  Yeah, I (maybe) could see coughing up the money for that on that house.  But ours?  Not so much....  Especially since we're on our 3rd roof and 3rd furnace in 25+ years (and had to remodel the kitchen and the 3rd floor bathroom and redo ALL the wiring in the house when we bought it -- and the REALLY scary part was that the guy who had been living there, taking care of his dad before his dad died, CLAIMED to be an electrician  and apparently ALSO told the people in the borough tax office that he didn't understand why everyone who came to look at the house thought the kitchen needed work -- "when all it needed was Facelifters!"  And when they told ME that's what the guy said?  I said, "Oh no -- it needed WAY more than that...."  (The stove was originally on an interior wall and the hood didn't vent to ANYTHING as far as we could tell; and as for "Facelifters"?  The original cabinets were particle board and the drawers were glued and stapled together (I ripped one apart with my bare hands!).  Now?  The kitchen is FUNCTIONAL and has been for a quarter of a century, thank you VERY much....  Although we may have to replace the dishwasher since it doesn't seem to work now.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InkyProf]

2 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

We just had to replace all the copper pipes in our house recently because the local water company apparently changed their formulation for sanitizing the water (and the new formulation EATS copper).

 

Jeez, I'm not sure I'd want to drink, cook with, or bathe in anything strong enough to damage copper. And, anyway, that seems... ill-advised on the part of the water company, given the quantity of copper pipe still in use, unless the water company is in cahoots with the plumbers, or the manufacturers of PEX.

[Cjtamu]

Thanks for the condolences. It was a mess. House had already sold. I was nearly moved out. Freeze was coming so I shut the water to house off because I was going to be gone for more than a week. Hope to never repeat.

[inkstainedruth]

53 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

 

Jeez, I'm not sure I'd want to drink, cook with, or bathe in anything strong enough to damage copper. And, anyway, that seems... ill-advised on the part of the water company, given the quantity of copper pipe still in use, unless the water company is in cahoots with the plumbers, or the manufacturers of PEX.

I don't know the reason for the change.  I *want* to say (in the company's defense) that they were more concerned with sanitation, and/or couldn't get the same sterilization chemicals.  OTOH, the water bills have tripled since we bought the house (we're now paying roughly the same amount per MONTH than we originally did QUARTERLY...).  

The irony is that we live just up the hill from the Pittsburgh city line, and NEVER had this sort of issues when we lived inside the city limits, many years ago.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mark from Yorkshire]

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[Scribs]

My Parker 51 arrived today! I am surprised at how dark the plum is. It's so dark it almost passes for black, especially the grip section. Being new the nib is on the stiff side, despite being 18k gold. Not wanting to waste free ink I plonked the black cartridge in. I have no experience with Quink Black, and I can only assume it is one very dry ink, or the pen is very economical with its flow. I can see why the Queen used it for crosswords! I look forward to trying my usual inks, and will likely the blue cartridge age in the bottom of a drawer. All in all I am very happy with the unusually fine line I'm getting with this particular F nib.

 

ETA: Thanks @InkyProf for the info on your new pen. Have you decided on an ink yet? I'll be keeping my eye open to find out how ir writes . . .

[Mark from Yorkshire]

I’m guessing it’s a brand new modern P51. Please let me know how you get on with a converter. Also I find blacks seem to dry up quicker than other colours. 

[Scribs]

1 minute ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

I’m guessing it’s a brand new modern P51. Please let me know how you get on with a converter. Also I find blacks seem to dry up quicker than other colours. 

 

Yes, it's a brand new modern P51. The piston's a little stiff, but otherwise no complaints. I've not noticed this much dryness with my other blacks, and I've tried several (Aurora, Montblanc Mystery Black, Edelstein Onyx, Pilot Black, Montblanc Permanent Black -- which I do not recommend, and it is dry -- Leonardo Black, Platinum Black, Sailor Black, and I've a bottle of Lamy Obsidian yet to be opened).

[InkyProf]

2 hours ago, Scribs said:

My Parker 51 arrived today! I am surprised at how dark the plum is. It's so dark it almost passes for black, especially the grip section. Being new the nib is on the stiff side, despite being 18k gold. Not wanting to waste free ink I plonked the black cartridge in. I have no experience with Quink Black, and I can only assume it is one very dry ink, or the pen is very economical with its flow. I can see why the Queen used it for crosswords! I look forward to trying my usual inks, and will likely the blue cartridge age in the bottom of a drawer. All in all I am very happy with the unusually fine line I'm getting with this particular F nib.

 

ETA: Thanks @InkyProf for the info on your new pen. Have you decided on an ink yet? I'll be keeping my eye open to find out how ir writes . . .

 

Not sure, but thinking about a deep red-brown to echo tamenuri, or possibly Iroshizuku Syun-Gyo (a red-black). I'll try to remember to tag you when I decide. Congratulations on your 51!

[Cjtamu]

This arrived today from Japan, so let the games begin. Platinum Amazonas. Was advertised as the PSN-15000 crocodile. Was also advertised as a 14K nib and that’s obviously incorrect. Compared to some pictures I’ve seen of the light brown toad PAM-8000 this pen appears lighter in color, but is similar in color to the one shown in Lambrou’s book. Has anyone seen a picture of the crocodile pen or seen one in person? Have reached out to the seller to see where the info came from. Either way it’s a unique pen in very good condition and I’m happy to have it. Fine nib writes very well with iroshizuku shin-Kai. If anything it’s a hair wet and might warrant a slightly drier ink.

[jchch1950]

Very rare and beautiful pen.

[InkyProf]

That's really beautiful, and I haven't generally been drawn to croc/etc. pens! Two questions -- what is the composition of the nib, 18k? I can't quite read the engraving in the picture. And, maybe a dumb question, but is there a general name for decorative inlays on the hood like that (or like the P61 arrow, or like the comparable inlays on some 60s-70s pocket pens)?