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On 10/21/2022 at 3:47 PM, Misfit said:

Photos please!  I’d love to

see the Urushi on the

over half-priced pen

 

OK. There you go.

No haiku written with it;

pen is not inked yet.

 

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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Fun idea, thanks, @Misfit, for starting, and all others, for sharing. 

 

Instruments:

(top) Sailor Special Nib with a 21k Naginata Togi nib, Medium tipped, inked with Akkerman's Business in the Front, Party in the Back.

 

(bottom) Platinum #3776 Century Bourgogne GT with a 14k nib, Coarse tipped, inked with Diamine Pumpkin. 

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One more, thanks for endulging me. Tried to write the syllables per line and by color, first the blue then then orange, which in hindsight is not a good approach. 

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5 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

OK. There you go.

No haiku written with it;

pen is not inked yet.

 

Urushi is not

what I expected it to 

be. Live and learn lots

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1 hour ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Fun idea, thanks, @Misfit, for starting, and all others, for sharing. 

I’m glad you found it. Interesting to try different pens. Maybe that would be useful when the thought changes, or some such thing. I need to be in bed. 

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Great drawing. BTW

 

(5) What have you done with

(7) the cat? It looks half dead. S-

(5) chroedinger's wifey.

 

:D

 

If you are to be ephemeral, leave a good scent.

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46 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Urushi is not

what I expected it to 

 

Urushi is a

lacquer; by metonymy,

its application.

 

Smoothly polishing

each layer after curing

is just one method.

 

Maki-e is a

different thing. Urushi

on top protects it.

 

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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15 hours ago, Paul-in-SF said:

Some randumb thoughts

 

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Had to laugh at the first one in particular, because the pen I just won (with the minimum bid :thumbup:) on eBay yesterday isn't going to get here for at least a MONTH.... :gaah:  (Not sure what the issue is -- I've never had this sort of problem with this particular seller before....)

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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:lticaptd:

Love it, jandrew!

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, jandrew said:

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Wow, this Kirk Speer nib looks like a Sailor Special Nib Naginata Concord: nib heavily turned downward, creating an EF or finer tip for normal writing, whereas in reverse the downward part becomes a very broad brush. (This is effectively a reverse Fude nib.) Excellent! 

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