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Sheaffer Snorkel, (EF/F) a slender one with gray body and silver and gold cap.

Using Waterman Serenity Blue ink.

Bought it at a flea market for $15.00, with a working pencil and original tan clam shell box.

Had it restored at the Commonwealth Pen Show by Jim Baer of Monomoy Vintage Pen

A grey day is really a silver one that needs Your polish!

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10 hours ago, USG said:

That's quite an arsenal of Stylos you have there PGC... 😀👍


  Thanks! Had to put some notebook paper through its paces.

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 30 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

Parker Duofold Lady needlepoint, MB Cool Grey

MontBlanc 1441 F, Monteverde Brown Sugar 

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Topgunbai NOS (New Old Stock)

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13 hours ago, nm4 said:

You inspired me to ink up my Pilot 912 with FA nib and FNF ebonite feed.

 

The Pilot 912 FA was my best flexible nib pen before I entered the world of nib work, fountain pen hacking, and Frankenpens. It still is a good flexible nib pen even by my current standard.

 

If you want good flex today, you would have to either manage to get a decent vintage pen or engage in some sort of hacking, whether it's DIY or the work of a nib meister. This even includes the case of Pilot 912 FA, where the default feed is somewhat problematic.

 

I find it really, really sad that there isn't a single readily available fountain pen that provides satisfactory flex without any hassle (some say Magna Carta MAG 600/650 may be a counterexample, but I haven't tried one myself - bleep, I should have done that at the 2024 Commonwealth Pen Show). The art of making gold nibs that are both highly flexible and capable of producing very fine hairlines has been pretty much lost, not because it's rocket science, but simply because things have changed and there is no longer a strong demand for flexible nib pens.

 

I value the beauty of writing with high performance flex, and I am doing my best to keep vintage-dip-pen-like flexible nib pens alive. They shouldn't be things of the past, and I will carry them well into the future.

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5 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Sheaffer Snorkel, (EF/F) a slender one with gray body and silver and gold cap.

Using Waterman Serenity Blue ink.

Bought it at a flea market for $15.00, with a working pencil and original tan clam shell box.

Had it restored at the Commonwealth Pen Show by Jim Baer of Monomoy Vintage Pen

That's a very good price (before restoration) for a Snorkel!  

Today, so far, it's been a couple of Parkers for me: one of the recent acquision blue Vectors, M nib, still with Birmingham Muskrat; and one of the black T6 date coder 51 Vacs, (F?) nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson 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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57 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

That's a very good price (before restoration) for a Snorkel!  

Today, so far, it's been a couple of Parkers for me: one of the recent acquision blue Vectors, M nib, still with Birmingham Muskrat; and one of the black T6 date coder 51 Vacs, (F?) nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thank you Ruth.

Jim did a nice job of restoring it to full working order. And it writes quite well for an EF/F.

A grey day is really a silver one that needs Your polish!

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21 hours ago, Misfit said:

Today’s pen is the Levenger True Writer Kyoto the second with an Opus 88 B nib. I cleaned it out, then filled it from a sample of Robert Oster African Gold ink. 

 

That's a very pretty pen...😀👍  Lot's of colors...

Is African Gold a shimmer ink?

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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Misfit Museum Piece

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1 hour ago, USG said:

 

That's a very pretty pen...😀👍  Lot's of colors...

Is African Gold a shimmer ink?

It is a very attractive pen. No, there is no shimmer in the African Gold ink. 
 

I’ll try to write something, and post a photo of how the ink looks.  

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8 minutes ago, Misfit said:

It is a very attractive pen. No, there is no shimmer in the African Gold ink. 
 

I’ll try to write something, and post a photo of how the ink looks.  

 

Looking forward to it... no pressure, take your time, hurry up, choice is yours, don't be late.....😁

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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19 hours ago, USG said:

 

Looking forward to it... no pressure, take your time, hurry up, choice is yours, don't be late.....😁

As promised…

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7 hours ago, Misfit said:

As promised…

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Very Nice MzFit 😀👍  Sure is gold....   👍😀

A lot of my pens start off darker until the ink in the feed is all used up and after about 5 or so lines, the ink lightens up to what ever color it has settled in to in the main part of the pen.  I was writing with Diamine Asa Blue before and I like the rich dark 'feed ink' color better than the lighter out of the bottle color...

 

 

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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Asvine V126, Mont Blanc Royal Blue, but I want an Onoto Scholar.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

 

Albert Einstein

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1 hour ago, Andy1883 said:

Asvine V126, Mont Blanc Royal Blue, but I want an Onoto Scholar.

Get a Scholar. You will love it.

 

(I have three of them.)

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