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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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Today I am using a Lamy Al-Star filled with 4001 Dark Green.  The pen started as a scratchy EF, my nib work smoothed it out but now it is more like a fine.

 

 

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9 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

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That's a beautiful pen and sample. Thank you.

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15 hours ago, jmccarty3 said:

 

Not all coughing is due to an infectious transmissible disease. <snip> I don't believe that this sort of discussion has any place on FPN, <snip>. Can we please limit our discussion to fountain pens? Thanks!

I know, that's why my flow chart had to do with etiquette and not illness.  Etiquette is about making other people feel comfortable, which I apparently failed to do by posting my flow chart. I will be more careful, even with multiple pens in use, in the future.

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So far today it's been the pink Parker Vector, F nib, with Van Dieman's Moonflower (a very nice well-behaved medium cobalt blue).

Ruth Morisson aka inkstainedruth

"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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58 minutes ago, USG said:

Do you think they will make steel #8 nibs?

 

My best guess is Leonardo will continue to use JoWo steel nibs. They are offering some pens with #8 nibs. They look to me like they are JoWo gold nibs, but I thought JoWo stopped making #8 nibs, so I am confused. As far as I know, Leonardo is not now making #8 nibs in-house. That may change in time, of course.

 

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Today is a new (well, written with once before) Pilot Fermo, dark green, with Montblanc Lavender Purple ink. I had kept it in a pen drawer for about 6 weeks, as a sort of test about drying out. The test was too extreme, not only was the nib dry but some amount of the ink in the converter had dried out. I forced some ink up to through the feed so it is writing now. Also the converter seems to be stuck in place, probably with dried ink, so when it does write dry I'll have to soak it a bit to get the converter out and clean it up. I will then fill it again and give it a more reasonable test (two weeks instead of six). That is my usual time between uses of pens in rotation, so if it passes that test I will be reasonably satisfied. (Also I see that the ink was an oldish sample, so it may have already evaporated and thickened some. I'll try a different ink as well.)

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Modern blue Esterbrook and M800 blue stripe Pelikan

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I just finished writing out my Christmas cards with my 1980s Montblanc 149. First time writing them out by hand and definitely not the last!

"Live like you were dying" ~Tim McGraw.  Truer words have never been spoken, and you'll never know that until you've had to fight for your life.

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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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Franklin Christoph 20

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I always love how your pens are positioned in such a way they are integrated with the drawings.

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