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You could sell it and get one that better fits your needs?
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Please don't use actual pliers on a fountain pen, what you want to use are rubber coated spark plug pliers.
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Jun 14, 2016 20:23
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Kerbtree posted:Please don't use actual pliers on a fountain pen, what you want to use are rubber coated spark plug pliers. I got mine from harbor freight for like $5 or something. They're exactly what you need to grip the section and pull the barrel off of the tennon after you've heated the shellac enough to soften it with vintage pens.
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Jun 14, 2016 22:30
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The pen is behaving today. It must have realized I was pissed at it.
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My mother-in-law is in town and sprung an old pen her husband never used. It's a Recife piston filler. I gave it a detergent wash and filled it up. Some of the ink from the fill snuck in between the nib and the pen and sprung out on us, but it was otherwise holding ink fine. Too well, in fact. It write pretty stuff. The nib is thick! I have to put quite a bit of pressure on it to get it to flow. Any ideas?
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Jun 15, 2016 06:31
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The nib tines are too close together, they need to be spread out slightly.
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Jun 16, 2016 02:44
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anyone here have a midori camel notebook? I have a brown passport size, and I'd like to compliment it with a fullsize, but I'm not sure of the colour how is it?
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Jun 16, 2016 06:09
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Landsknecht posted:anyone here have a midori camel notebook? I have a brown passport size, and I'd like to compliment it with a fullsize, but I'm not sure of the colour Brown.
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Jun 17, 2016 22:53
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grack posted:The nib tines are too close together, they need to be spread out slightly. I spread them out a bit. What worked for me was pressing the nib on some paper and then sneaking a box cutter blade (clean, new) between the tines. I was able to then wedge it in there and give it a few minutes. I won't write with just the weight of the pen alone, but any additional pressure writes fine. It is a heavy pen with a fat, fancy nib so I count that a good run.
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Jun 18, 2016 01:43
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A fountain pen should write with no pressure at all.
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Jun 18, 2016 03:54
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grack posted:A fountain pen should write with no pressure at all. Heh one thing at a time. I am seeing how it holds up like this before I spread the tines any further.
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Jun 18, 2016 04:31
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So I was busy feeling smug about how none of my TWSBIs had any issues only to find that the cap broke on my Vac 700-- the metal threaded section snapped from the rest in my purse. Oh well, I got a response in under five minutes to my request for a fresh cap at least.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:02
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Got a bottle of Bay State Blue drat this is a pretty colour. Let's see how long it takes to eat a Dollar 717i
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Jun 19, 2016 05:03
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grack posted:Got a bottle of Bay State Blue
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Jun 19, 2016 06:02
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 Please excuse my terrible handwriting. My mother bought this pen from a local guy, intending to give it to me in a year as a graduation present, but she was too excited. Which is fine because now I can show off my new beautiful pen. Light enough to be a daily writer, too, and the nib's a #6 so when I inevitably swap it out I'm not hurting for options.
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Jun 19, 2016 14:57
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
contact information for this local guy please
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Jun 20, 2016 07:34
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So, I got hold of a VP with a factory stub in it at the weekend. Lovely bit of kit, I should wander off from the work-safe confines of Fine more often.
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Jun 20, 2016 12:03
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Bertrand Hustle posted:
There's a part of me that always wants to be snobby about kit pens, but with the right wood the brass comes out looking really sharp. The wood doesn't look lacquered; if you get a chance polish it regularly with beeswax and it'll start to take on some character where your hand touches it as well as staying protected.
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Jun 20, 2016 14:24
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The colour combo on the kit pen is really nice.
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Fountain pen master race
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I bought a pilot petit and I cannot get this thing to work. I took the cartridge out and removed the plastic stopper then reinserted it. Ink sort of flowed most of the way to the pen tip, and never comes out. How do I use this thing? I bought it because it was cheaper and wanted to try out a fountain pen. I can see ink most of the way out of the cartridge.
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Jun 23, 2016 00:49
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Try running the nib under water for a little bit and see if anything flows out, then start writing. Or wrap your nib in a paper towel to see if you can pull some of the ink into the nib that way.
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Jun 23, 2016 01:07
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I pulled the cartridge off and spilled ink all over me but most of it got into the pen, so it writes now. I'm not sure why but does the ink go from the cartridge into a secondary well, then into a column to the nib???
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Jun 23, 2016 01:12
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It looks a bit like they use the same sort of feed as the Varsities and V-n use. It's been ages since I've had a new varsity, but I did refill one ages ago and it look a while for the feed to get saturated well enough to write. Not that it really helps now, but putting it point-down (with the cap on, of course) in a cup or whatever for a half-hour ought to get it to work just fine. That's just kinda how it goes with an empty system and a new cartridge — ordinarily you'd fill the pen through the nib, so the feed wouldn't be dry, and if you've used the pen before, it'll also probably not be bone dry (unless you were switching colors and cleaned it out properly).
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Jun 23, 2016 01:22
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Ah ok well I'll clean it next cartridge and go from there maybe. The cap is half full of ink and the feed now.
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Jun 23, 2016 01:43
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The Pilot Petit 1 uses a wick feed system and it can take quite a while from when you first insert a cartridge to when it's ready to write.
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Kerbtree posted:So, I got hold of a VP with a factory stub in it at the weekend. Lovely bit of kit, I should wander off from the work-safe confines of Fine more often. Get a custom ground architech nib: http://imgur.com/a/9RtxC I used a medium nib. Pilot's stub is nice but I still like custom stubs better than pilot's.
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I want to learn how to make somewhat artistic dividing lines that would go, for example, between two sections of a page. When I search for calligraphy dividing line, it comes up with a bunch of (very fancy) examples of what I'm looking for, but presented as something to paste into a computer-produced document: I don't need anything as fancy as that image, but I'd like to be able to reliably draw something a bit more involved than a simple horizontal line. I'm not sure I have the correct name, but this is the only search that has gotten me anything close. Is this the kind of thing that would be in a calligraphy book?
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Jun 24, 2016 22:16
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You might have better search results looking for how-to's on decorative or calligraphy flourishes, I think that's what those are called.
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Everything Burrito posted:calligraphy flourishes e: I found a picasa album that was filled with photos of the pages of Calligraphic Flourishing: A New Approach to an Ancient Art. I think those dividers could be considered 'tailpieces'. taqueso fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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I got a bottle of Heart of Darkness, and it came with a free Charlie pen. It leaks a lot of ink into the cap, even after just a few seconds. Can I fix that? It seemed fine for the first couple days.
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Jun 25, 2016 20:58
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taqueso posted:I got a bottle of Heart of Darkness, and it came with a free Charlie pen. It leaks a lot of ink into the cap, even after just a few seconds. Can I fix that? It seemed fine for the first couple days. If it has the normal Noodler's ebonite feed, try seating it so that less of the fins are exposed. If ink is just dripping out, it's because the pressure inside of the pen is able to interchange air and ink freely. Making sure the pen is at least 75% full as an eyedropper, and limiting the freedom with which air can backfill the space should help some. Alternately, I'll take it off of your hands. I've wanted one of those little experiments, but haven't had a reason to buy one of the bottles of ink they're packaged with.
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Jun 25, 2016 21:08
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taqueso posted:I got a bottle of Heart of Darkness, and it came with a free Charlie pen. It leaks a lot of ink into the cap, even after just a few seconds. Can I fix that? It seemed fine for the first couple days. Where'd you buy the HoD that it came with a Charlie? I thought that colour came with a modified Preppy
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Just got done testing some Noodler's Apache Sunset with my TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with 1.1 Stub. Talk about a beautiful color! The shading runs from a light yellow to medium orange (before it starts bleeding like a stuck pig). I still have mixed feelings though, because yellow... I just don't know if I can write with yellow ink and be taken seriously, even for signatures. Still, this has to be the most fun I've had with a new ink in a while!
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grack posted:Where'd you buy the HoD that it came with a Charlie? I thought that colour came with a modified Preppy Goulet does now. I may have just purchased an unnecessary bottle of HoD for the Charlie.
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Yeah, I got the HoD from Goulet. I tried topping off the ink and moving the feed in the Charlie and then it started really leaking a lot of ink. I had to go, so I put it away. Hopefully I will have time to look at it tomorrow. I will try greasing the threads.
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CrimsonSaber posted:Just got done testing some Noodler's Apache Sunset with my TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with 1.1 Stub. Wow, I never thought I'd want an orange/yellow ink but that is now a wishlist item. I only have a few purple, greens, and blues actually. What are everyone's more out-there favorite colors?
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Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun
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Noodler's Black Swan in English Roses is pretty nice. It's sorta a dusty pink. I also have a 2d formula (gold-free) Rouge Hematite which is a pretty striking red. (Also a very prone to gumming up if left unattended for a day or so red). Herbin doesn't really do “out there” colors, assuming your list is what you'd consider normal, but "the jewel of inks" is pretty accurate — even good ol' dusty-purple-grey Poussière de Lune is kinda gem-like. (That's also a favorite, by the way). I also remember hearing very nice things about the Caren d'Asche colors before they were discontinued and then started up again: anyone have an opinion on the newer ones?
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I use Noodler's Purple Martin. I really like it.
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