$25 at Five Below nets perfect pens for learning nib tuning

[Sailor Kenshin]

16 hours ago, Misfit said:

Where did you shop? And what type of multi pen is your Pilot?

 

Got the Bics off Amazon, and the refills.  

 

The Pilot was a gift, and I like it better for its bigger, more comfy grip.  It has three inks, blue, black, red.  I THINK it's an .05mm tip.  

 

Though I must say, the Bic has a cute little loop on it.

[Misfit]

Ah, yes there are many more Pilot pens than I think there are. I use the Pilot Hi-Tec-C customizable multi pens. They include the tab mechanism with the refill.  I also have customizable multi pens by Uni Style Fit, Pentel i+, and Zebra Sarasa Select (Prefill before that).  Yep, another rabbit hole for me. 

[Misfit]

I thought the Five Star Stand N Store pencil pouch was going to arrive far away on the 22nd. I felt bummed. Not that I got out to the other Five Below yet. Today though, a small box was on the porch. It’s the pouch. I’m thinking I might switch it to the van because the van has a gray interior, and the new pouch has gray trim. 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Always match your acessories to your car.  👍🏻

[Misfit]

I finally got to Five Below in another suburb, Blue Springs. I thought I’d only find one set of the fountain pens I wanted, but they had both. Now each pouch will have three fountain pens, and one Bic multi pen. If the caps in the brown set are blue, I might swap caps with the other set. Turns out the gray trimmed pouch looks better in my car. 
 

Edit here: after checking each package, I’ll be leaving the caps as they came. 
 

[Misfit]

While at Five Below, I also got three rolls of Mentos candy cane flavor, and two Christmas Tic Tacs in Naughty (black like coal, but cherry flavored) and Nice which are candy cane flavored, and are white with a candy cane image on them. Mmm, so cute. I got some of those two years ago when they came in the larger package, and were simply candy cane flavored in packaging. Photo later.  
 

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Edited November 20, 2022 by Misfit
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[Misfit]

The Mentos have holiday images on them. I’ve seen holly, a candy cane and this one. Fun!

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Nice!  If your calligraphy pens write as well as mine, you'll be pleased to have 'em.

[inkstainedruth]

On 10/23/2022 at 9:49 PM, essayfaire said:

There's a fude...

The Jinhao Shark pens are available with a fude nib?  Do tell!  (Just catching up on this thread...).

I'm always a sucker for silly and fun pens (which is why I like my Parker Vectors so much, and the more expensive Sheaffer Stars Wars Yoda pen -- sadly, I was NOT able to get myself a BB-8 or an R2D2 pen...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth 

 

[Penguincollector]

15 hours ago, Misfit said:

I finally got to Five Below in another suburb, Blue Springs. I thought I’d only find one set of the fountain pens I wanted, but they had both. Now each pouch will have three fountain pens, and one Bic multi pen. If the caps in the brown set are blue, I might swap caps with the other set. Turns out the gray trimmed pouch looks better in my car. 
 

Edit here: after checking each package, I’ll be leaving the caps as they came. 
 

My local Kroger owned grocer had a composition book and another notebook in a similar pattern, as did another store in my area (Bi-Mart, for those of you that have one, has $2 blank books with Indian made paper). The light in my hobby room  gives the pictures a yellow tinge.

[essayfaire]

10 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

The Jinhao Shark pens are available with a fude nib?

Yes.  Fun!

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector That notebook would be a good pairing with the Lamy Safari copies of pens I got in the photo posted on this page. 
 

There are no Kroger stores here. However, I’ve been seeing Kroger ads recently on TV.  They show a listing of stores in the Kroger family. Those are either not close to me, or across the state line in Kansas. I’ve never heard of Bi-Mart. I live in the Kansas City, Missouri metro area. 

[Penguincollector]

I think BiMart is local to my region, but Kroger is a giant conglomerate that buys grocery chains everywhere. I’ve seen them on both coasts for sure. Ours is Fred Meyer. If I see them, I ‘ll pick up an extra and send it your way.

[Misfit]

That is so sweet of you to say @Penguincollector

 

We used to have Super Food Barns which I think were Kroger owned. That was decades ago. 

[Tony1951]

On 10/22/2022 at 1:33 AM, amberleadavis said:

Huge bleed through.

 Looks like that is a matter of very porous paper.... Might be wrong, but looks that way to me.

 

I'm amused by your temperatures Amber. -2 C here this morning. Northern UK, One mile south of Hadrian's Wall (built in 122 across northern Britain).

 

 

[Misfit]

@Tony1951 Thank you for sharing the photo of Hadrian’s Wall. 

[Tony1951]

On 11/21/2022 at 10:02 AM, Misfit said:

@Tony1951 Thank you for sharing the photo of Hadrian’s Wall. 

You're welcome - though it may be  a thread diversion.

[inkstainedruth]

My parents once took a three week tour through the Midlands and the north of England, including going to Hadrian's Wall.  The photo reminded me of my mom's story about telling the tour guide "We bring good weather with us!" and him NOT believing her and having to apologize to her later (in the whole trip they maybe had two days of rain, and one of those was a day of just going from point A to point B with no sightseeing happening... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

One of my pens from the photo above doesn’t seem to accept the ink cartridges. The other three did. The cartridges are a bit longer than short international ones, and are a bit awkward for me to attach. Yet three of them had the click sound of attachment. 

[Sailor Kenshin]

On 11/22/2022 at 5:23 PM, Misfit said:

One of my pens from the photo above doesn’t seem to accept the ink cartridges. The other three did. The cartridges are a bit longer than short international ones, and are a bit awkward for me to attach. Yet three of them had the click sound of attachment. 

I need to check my 5Below 'calligraphy' set to see which carts they take.  The sets I got take either Jinhao/Gullor (longish, skinnyish, ALWAYS tough to pierce; I use a thumbtack), or the shorter, thicker Zebra/Hero-type that are allegedly refillable if you poke out the bottom.  Have a happy Thanksgiving.