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3 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

NICE!  Azure Blue is probably my favorite Vac color!

@PennyTheDog Happy Birthday!  I wanted to get a Studio (especially one of the blue ones) but when I went to the Lamy SoHo store in NYC (before they closed) I discovered it was a little too heavy for me.... :crybaby:

As for me, so far today it's been the F-nibbed sterling Ciselé 75, just refilled with Waterman Tender Purple.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thank you! It is a little heavy, but it feels nice. I bought it in fine, which I found a touch scratch feeling compared to what I’m used to… but I switched to a medium nib and now I love the writing experience 

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Well, I'd had hopes that my limit of what was "too heavy" had expanded a bit over the years.  But the Studio was just NOT meant to be.... :wallbash:  So I have to content myself with Safaris and al-Stars and my one LX (which I got when their old US distributor had a closeout sale and I ended up paying LESS for it than I did for a Safari!) although don't tend to use it much.  

I have NONE of the standard Safari or al-Star colors (the LX is the only "standard" color one I have) -- but the fact that they don't jack up the prices on their SE colors is really nice.

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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1 hour ago, PennyTheDog said:

It’s my 53rd birthday! Sitting at my dining room table using a Lamy Studio with red ink for grading, and a Kaweco Student with black ink for writing

 

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Happy Birthday!

 

Today’s pen, Q2 1945 P51 in Cedar Blue.  
 

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Nice!

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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2 hours ago, PennyTheDog said:

It’s my 53rd birthday! Sitting at my dining room table using a Lamy Studio with red ink for grading, and a Kaweco Student with black ink for writing

 

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Happy birthday!

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

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7 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

Beautiful pen and ink combination. 

 

The combo looks very... ceramic, doesn't it? :) 

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2 hours ago, PennyTheDog said:

It’s my 53rd birthday! Sitting at my dining room table using a Lamy Studio with red ink for grading, and a Kaweco Student with black ink for writing

 

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Great landscape young'un!* Happy birthday! 🥳

 

 

*I'm a whole year (and a half) older than you 😛

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40 minutes ago, rodia77 said:

with red ink for grading

 

Nobody should have to grade on their birthday! 🙂 Hope you have a happy one.

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7 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

Nobody should have to grade on their birthday!

 

Unfortunately yes, they do. Especially when their birthday is in the square middle of busy exams periods (like say, the end of spring semester) :( 

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10 minutes ago, lamarax said:

 

Unfortunately yes, they do. Especially when their birthday is in the square middle of busy exams periods (like say, the end of spring semester) :( 

 

I said "nobody should," protesting against the sheer injustice of the reality, however real it might be! My own birthday regularly falls on the weekend of the Big Annual Conference of my discipline's professional association, which generally meant spending my birthday in a hotel bar full of anxiously networking academics -- really, I'd rather grade a thousand angular velocity problem sets, and I'm a humanist -- until I decided to stop going. Anyway, my condolences...

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35 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

 

I said "nobody should," protesting against the sheer injustice of the reality, however real it might be! My own birthday regularly falls on the weekend of the Big Annual Conference of my discipline's professional association, which generally meant spending my birthday in a hotel bar full of anxiously networking academics -- really, I'd rather grade a thousand angular velocity problem sets, and I'm a humanist -- until I decided to stop going. Anyway, my condolences...

At least grading with a pen you like makes it a little nicer!

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1 hour ago, lamarax said:

 

Great landscape young'un!* Happy birthday! 🥳

 

 

*I'm a whole year (and a half) older than you 😛

Thanks! I don’t FEEL so young… 😭

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@PennyTheDog what do you lecture in? Looks like some kind of maths or physical science. That looks a lot like differentiation or integration. Glad I don’t have to do much of that. 
 

most of my P.M work is standard arithmetic thankfully.

 

best regards

 

mark

Mark from the Latin Marcus follower of mars, the god of war.

 

Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred. 
 

my current favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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10 minutes ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

@PennyTheDog what do you lecture in? Looks like some kind of maths or physical science. That looks a lot like differentiation or integration. Glad I don’t have to do much of that. 
 

most of my P.M work is standard arithmetic thankfully.

 

best regards

 

mark

I teach engineering at a community college, so the first two years of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. This is a sophomore-level dynamics class; mostly rigid body physics. It’s actually probably my favorite class I teach: lots of calculus and vectors, and some interesting stuff with rotating and accelerating coordinate systems.

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1 minute ago, PennyTheDog said:

I teach engineering at a community college, so the first two years of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. This is a sophomore-level dynamics class; mostly rigid body physics. It’s actually probably my favorite class I teach: lots of calculus and vectors, and some interesting stuff with rotating and accelerating coordinate systems.

Sorry forgive me sophomore? What’s the UK equivalent? Not done calculus much since 2nd / 3rd year uk BSci hons in geological sciences. The last lot of vector calls I did was even fur the back doing advanced subsidiary physics class. Maybe a little when we where doing geophysics as well.

Mark from the Latin Marcus follower of mars, the god of war.

 

Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred. 
 

my current favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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5 minutes ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

Sorry forgive me sophomore? What’s the UK equivalent? Not done calculus much since 2nd / 3rd year uk BSci hons in geological sciences. The last lot of vector calls I did was even fur the back doing advanced subsidiary physics class. Maybe a little when we where doing geophysics as well.

I guess it’s like a second year student at university in the UK. They’ve taken at least two semesters of calculus and at least at least one semester of calculus-based physics. As I’m sure you know, colleges in the US are very expensive! So some students do their first two years at cheaper community colleges before transferring to a university to finish their undergraduate degrees. I teach at one of those community colleges, so our students only do half of their engineering curriculum with us before they move on.

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4 hours ago, PennyTheDog said:

It’s my 53rd birthday! Sitting at my dining room table using a Lamy Studio with red ink for grading, and a Kaweco Student with black ink for writing

 

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I remember my 53rd...sort of. 

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Yeah that would be half way through a second year, when every mark counts.

Mark from the Latin Marcus follower of mars, the god of war.

 

Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred. 
 

my current favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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3 hours ago, InkyProf said:

Nobody should have to grade on their birthday! 🙂 Hope you have a happy one.

 

Wrong quote play in this post of yours. ;)

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

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Used my Pilot Cocoon at work today. Sadly this week my writing volume has been decreased.

Yes I confess, I am still using my Jotter

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