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

[essayfaire]

1 hour ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I guess I'm not frustrated because my expectations were very low for what I paid 

I'm not too frustrated because I bought them out of curiosity, but then when they weren't bad at first...

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

It's really weird, on the ones that were fine nibs with different colors, orange never wanted to write correctly. On the italic nibs, some nibs just never wrote correctly. My concern is that these will turn off new users.

I think that orange ink is really dry and pens don’t like it. The Chinese orange inks have given me trouble every time in both 3.4 mm and 2.6 mm cartridges and the shimmer CX-##   bottles. Even the glass dip pen balked. I haven’t tried all the italic nibs yet, just the 2.9 & 1.1, but so far no issues. 

[amberleadavis]

Since I bought them to live in the car, I am not upset, but I'm getting there.

[Misfit]

I’ve always had good experiences with the Zebra fountain pen that is stocked at Walgreen’s.  The earlier ones had what I’ll call a regular looking nib. Then Zebra had to change it to hooded. It still writes every time, even with long intervals between writing. 
 

I should note it stays in my purse. 

[amberleadavis]

For me, the Pilot Varsity is the perfect travelling pen.

[essayfaire]

1 hour ago, amberleadavis said:

For me, the Pilot Varsity is the perfect travelling pen.

ˆYes

[Anne-Sophie]

On 11/6/2022 at 6:48 AM, Sailor Kenshin said:

Sure, why not?  They're fun and inexpensive!   Ooo, and Bic has a multi-pen!?  Must investigate, thanks.

 

That Bic multi pen has been all over Europe since the 1970's. It is refillable and very comfortable to use, certainly a lot more than the Bic crystals, the thin barreled ones. it has 2 lower barrel colors: blue and orange and is refillable. It it called original, because it has the original colors, It can be found at numerous outlets, do a search for your area,  and it is also refillable, refills might be harder to come by.

 

In the late 90's early 2000's Bic introduced 2 fun color 4 colors Bic, called fashion colors, with a lime barrel and other pastel colors (pink and teal) and there may be limited edition, which I wanted but could never find. It is now, at Target, and other popular outfits.

The fun colors that replace: blue, black, red and green are called fashion and are pin, purple, teal and lime.

[Misfit]

I was going to use a shim on my troublesome pen. But darn it all, I do not remember where I put the shims and grab material I got from Pen Chalet. They aren’t in with the sac and j-bars. Grrr, I thought I put them there.  

[Sailor Kenshin]

11 hours ago, Misfit said:

I was going to use a shim on my troublesome pen. But darn it all, I do not remember where I put the shims and grab material I got from Pen Chalet. They aren’t in with the sac and j-bars. Grrr, I thought I put them there.  

I've used pieces of film stock when I couldn't find a shim.

[Misfit]

9 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I've used pieces of film stock when I couldn't find a shim.

Someone once recommended that to me. Unfortunately any film negatives are in the basement. I’m not sure if I’m ready to use that many steps after injuring my hip on the 12th. I’m getting close, but don’t want to undo the healing. 

[Sailor Kenshin]

28 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Someone once recommended that to me. Unfortunately any film negatives are in the basement. I’m not sure if I’m ready to use that many steps after injuring my hip on the 12th. I’m getting close, but don’t want to undo the healing. 

No, no—-don't go in the basement!  💝

[amberleadavis]

22 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

No, no—-don't go in the basement!  💝

 

Especially if you have ever seen a horror movie!

[inkstainedruth]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth