Cadel flourishing and lettering.

[Lozzic]

...I am curious what writing implements do you use for your Calligraphy etc? Do you use fountain pens or dip pens, what ink?

I use dip nibs that I've put into fountain pens so I get more ink per dip due to the feed. The nib I used for these letters was an Esterbrook Penesco 505. I use fountain pen ink.

 

Interesting, I didn't know you could put dip pen nibs in to a fountain pen. I knew that there was a fountain pen especially for this though, the Ackerman Pump pen. I take it the Esterbrook 505 is a vintage dip nib? What sort of fountain pen do you put them in?

 

[jbb]

As far as I know the pens I rig up do not work as well as the Ackerman Pump -- which is supposed to give you full-on ink flow from the sac. I have taken a variety of no-name vintage fountain pens and been able to fit my favorite dip nibs onto their feeds. It's all a matter of fit... if you can get the dip nib to fit well enough you can make your own "dip-less" dip pen. I even get a bit of ink flow from the sac but mostly I am still dipping into my inkwell... just much less often.

 

The Esterbrook Penesco 505 is indeed a vintage nib. I also like Esterbrook 761 and 556. Which pens, nibs and inks are you using?

[Lozzic]

As far as I know the pens I rig up do not work as well as the Ackerman Pump -- which is supposed to give you full-on ink flow from the sac. I have taken a variety of no-name vintage fountain pens and been able to fit my favorite dip nibs onto their feeds. It's all a matter of fit... if you can get the dip nib to fit well enough you can make your own "dip-less" dip pen. I even get a bit of ink flow from the sac but mostly I am still dipping into my inkwell... just much less often.

 

The Esterbrook Penesco 505 is indeed a vintage nib. I also like Esterbrook 761 and 556. Which pens, nibs and inks are you using?

 

Interesting, I would like to try something like that at some stage.

 

As for what I use it depends how I feel lol, there is not as much variation for broad nibs though as pointed nibs. Nearly all my nibs are modern as well apart from two vintage Hunt 22B nibs which I like but I use sparingly because they are vintage, sounds stupid I know but that's me lol. I also have a few of the new Hunt 22B but they just don't seem to compare. I usually use Leonhardt EF Principal nibs if I am doing pointed pen stuff and I use one of my two Oblique holders if I am doing actual script as opposed to flourishing where I use a normal straight holder. I have quite a lot of pointed nibs I don't use much, as I said though sometimes my feeling changes and I will go off a nib and on to another. I have not been using that stuff much lately though, I have been doing mostly broad pen stuff.

As for broad nibs they are all modern, just the usual collection of William Mitchell and some Leonhardt, I have one Brause but that is for larger writing. Oh and I have a set of Scroll nibs which I like to use sometimes.

the ink I use depends on the pen, for broad pens I tend to use Historical Roberson penman's ink, a pigmented ink which only contains historical ingredients, they can look washed out to the modern eye but I like them. For pointed pen I use Ziller ink.

 

For the L and flourishes at the top of the other page of this topic however, I used a Manuscript calligraphy Fountain pen with some cartridges I found in the drawer lol

[jbb]

I've never heard of Historical Roberson penman inks before. The colors look pretty http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/penman3.htm

 

Cadels: I'm going to work on a good "D" so I can start all my letters.

 

Lozzic, Are you at all interested in snail mailing? If you are then send me a PM -- it's totally okay if you're not.

 

[Lozzic]

I've never heard of Historical Roberson penman inks before. The colors look pretty http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/penman3.htm

 

Cadels: I'm going to work on a good "D" so I can start all my letters.

 

Lozzic, Are you at all interested in snail mailing? If you are then send me a PM -- it's totally okay if you're not.

 

I have sent you a PM.

 

That link is the normal penman ink, I was referring to the historical selection on the other page of that site http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/penman4.htm

[masch_roth]

<!--quoteo(post=555731:date=Mar 24 2008, 01:46 PM:name=tipstricks)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tipstricks @ Mar 24 2008, 01:46 PM) 555731[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There are a lot of well made flourishing in your example, Lozzic! Specially the firsts "hg", and "p" on second row. I also find perfect your "fraktur" word. Many, many compliments!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

 

Thank you for your compliment, yes I like that p on the second row also.

 

 

Here is something I just cooked up an hour ago, it's OK, was meant to be an L but I think it is a little unbalanced. Sorry about the scan through of the opposite side of the page. What do you think?

 

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That one's amazing! Haven't you done an A like that? haha i'm getting a tattoo and an A like that would be lovely!