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I personally prefer to do it that way because I don't like sticking the end of the pen into an ink bottle. That feels crude and messy. You can get a 10 pack of 3 ml blunt syringes on Amazon for like $5 and that's how I refill the pens even if I have a converter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVnxe0ZvyI With the disclaimer that I've never used a KoP myself, I think this is about as fair an assessment of the two pens as you'll get from an authorized retailer. To wit, holy gently caress the KoP is overpriced for what you get versus goddamn Visconti could you maybe stop being drunk when you make your pens
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 17:01 |
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I have a KoP and a Homo Sapiens (technically a Medici, but the only difference as far as I can tell is the facets on the Medici) and they are both fantastic pens. The nib on the KoP really is something else and the whole pen is designed to be balanced both when posted and unposted, which is crazy considering how thicc it is. You're right though, the US prices are insane and it's much better to import one from Japan. You can get one for around half of what you'd pay in the states.
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 19:52 |
It feels like every pen company saw how much the 149 goes for here and then decided "hey our big flagship pen is comparable we need to match that price" Chip is right, always check import prices for your pens if you can help it. It can save you so much money. it's not even just Japanese pens, even. I got my Pelikan M800 for $300ish when it goes for double that in the US
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 20:48 |
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I paid $280 CDN for my 149 That's like, $20 US
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 00:31 |
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Went a little overboard and got a bunch of Scribos (and a Leonardo)
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 14:50 |
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Maybe this is weird to ask - I was going to get a starter pen, but then I saw this and sort of instantly fell in love with the look of it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G5Z68Y/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=A1NLAL3X6WRYZY&th=1 sailor pro gear for $155 I went to shop around for price, and see what I think is the same pen for twice as much here. https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/all-sailor-products/products/sailor-pro-gear-fountain-pen-black-silver sailor pro gear for $312 Am I missing something? even with adding in a converter, its still way cheaper on amazon. Is 155 a good price for that pen? Are there any other comparable pens for cheaper? Id even take suggestion for one with steel nib, I don't feel that I actually need gold I just think the actual overall pen is gorgeous.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 20:41 |
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Prince Reggie K posted:Am I missing something? even with adding in a converter, its still way cheaper on amazon. Is 155 a good price for that pen? Are there any other comparable pens for cheaper? Id even take suggestion for one with steel nib, I don't feel that I actually need gold I just think the actual overall pen is gorgeous. Wengy posted:Went a little overboard and got a bunch of Scribos (and a Leonardo) new Scribo buddy. Vanness had a nice price on the somewhat translucent Feel Ombré Verdi, and considering my only Omas is a similar color and material I had to have it The Feel and its older, I dunno, cousin? An Arte Italiana Vision in green cotton resin howe_sam fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Prince Reggie K posted:Maybe this is weird to ask - I was going to get a starter pen, but then I saw this and sort of instantly fell in love with the look of it. It's the gray market for pens, which is not necessarily bad. I've purchased most of my pilot pens from this store (don't visit this site if you value your money) and they are $100 or more off the American cost. What you don't get is the support from the vendor that you buy it from. Say your Sailor nib from Amazon sucks. You have the option of returning it but nothing much more. If you buy it from Goulet, they'll give you ways you can improve your writing experience and may send a replacement free of charge, depending on what's going on. As an example, my Dad bought a Noodler's Triple Tail from Goulet to try out a flex nib. The section cracked and leaked ink during writing. Goulet sent him new parts for the pen. He had also contacted Noodler's specifically and they sent him a new pen as he mentioned he purchased from Goulet (which at the time were better friends than they appear now). If he had purchased this from Amazon, there wouldn't be any recourse besides returning. For higher end pens (in my mind, $120 or more), as long as the brand isn't Visconti, it's going to work right out of the box. A gray vendor allows you to try out several pens that would normally cost 2-3x more, but you're just not getting the support or warranty that you would have from another pen vendor.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 21:06 |
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Thanks for confirming that it was a decent price. Just made a financially dubious order! I have horrible handwriting, and want to practice - so I'm thinking a treat might inspire, if not, I'm guessing these have okay resale value. Here's hoping I win the quality control lottery I guess technically this also isn't my first fountain pen. My dad bought me some sort of very cheap cartridge based fountain pen when I was in elementary school that I probably lost or broke with my dumb kid brain, but vaguely remember enjoying.
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If you're buying something you particularly care about it's worth noting that Amazon sellers can be a bit of a crapshoot with packaging. I'm not saying don't go to Amazon to save $200. You should save where you can as pen prices are pretty insane in the us. However if it's an ink or something and the difference is only 5 or 10 bucks sometimes it's worth paying extra for the security of knowing it'll be packaged well and not break.
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howe_sam posted:new Scribo buddy. Vanness had a nice price on the somewhat translucent Feel Ombré Verdi, and considering my only Omas is a similar color and material I had to have it[/timg] That looks so cool, I almost got one. I should really stop splurging on pens now, but I want more Scribos, damnit. Also, the Pilot Custom 743 in Verdigris is calling me. Help.
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Abyss posted:I've purchased most of my pilot pens from this store (don't visit this site if you value your money) Yes, that place took so much of my money and I will throw more at them if my annual bonus is any good.
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My Sailor pro gear came, and its now on a %20sale on amazon bringing it down to 125.41 So I'm kinda pissed that its already cheaper, but I can report that the pen arrived just fine in a sailor box with 2 ink cartridges and everything. the only thing it did not include was a converter which I purchased separately. If anyone wants this pen, seems like a steal. It was smaller than expected, I thought since my hands were so small it would be bigger, but I had to double check that I didn't get a slim! Prince Reggie K fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Pretty much the entire Sailor line of pens is the shorter side. except for The Luminous Shadow is the only "affordable" KoP variant available from a North American retailler, and you can only get them with a medium nib, but still look at that thing.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 21:14 |
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That is a sexy pen. Mine has a medium nib on it - it writes really well for me. Japanese M is really F and all that. If I could do it all over, and I had a little more disposable income I'd probably get the KOP or one of the larger Pilots knowing what I now know. But This is my first pen, so ill just make it my EDC for a while and see how my opinion develops over time.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 21:36 |
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Crossposting from the Restoration Thread after being directed here by Megabound. TL;DR is that I got into restoring vintage fountain pens and am very much enjoying it! I make no claims to being highly informed as to dates or whatnot-- I am basing what I know off of the observations of people that I know who are much better informed and what I can piece together from whatever is to be gleaned from the internet.Fearless posted:I do a lot of writing by hand in various notebooks and journals both professionally and in support of various hobbies that I engage in. Back during my undergrad, a good friend introduced me to fountain pens and eventually I wound up coming into possession of a selection of vintage Parker, Waterman's and Esterbrook fountain pens that belonged to some relatives that had a really huge impact on my life and from there I chose to focus my fountain pen collection on older pens. The trouble is that most older pens that survive to the present day are usually not in a usable state (with some very notable exceptions-- seventy year old Parker 51 Aerometrics and Esterbrook J series pens can often be found only needing a cleaning and a cosmetic restoration) and so I wound up getting pulled into the hive of angst and snobbery that is fountain pen restoration! Here are some of the restorations that I have handled personally: Fearless fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Fearless posted:Crossposting from the Restoration Thread after being directed here by Megabound. TL;DR is that I got into restoring vintage fountain pens and am very much enjoying it! I make no claims to being highly informed as to dates or whatnot-- I am basing what I know off of the observations of people that I know who are much better informed and what I can piece together from whatever is to be gleaned from the internet. Hey that's really impressive! Repairing a broken barrel is not easy at all, but yours looks like it went really well.
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Dad Hominem posted:Hey that's really impressive! Repairing a broken barrel is not easy at all, but yours looks like it went really well. Thank you kindly! The repair did indeed go well-- it's not easily visible, but if you know what to feel for you will know something was up. If and when I repair more Vacs with broken barrels and high opacity, I think this is how I would do it going forward. I really like the reflection from the polished aluminum as it adds something subtle where there was nothing before. I kinda suspect that these kinds of vacumatic barrels probably break pretty cleanly along their layer lines, and it makes lining up the repair simultaneously fairly easy in that epoxy squeeze out is good enough to fill any gaps in the join, but a bit trickier in that there is less to index the halves off of one another to ensure alignment is dead-on.
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 08:52 |
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I've purchased four Deltas in the last two months. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? WHY HAVEN'T I BOUGHT MORE?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 23:06 |
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grack posted:I've purchased four Deltas in the last two months.
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# ? Apr 16, 2024 14:35 |
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Okay Delta Unica Fountain Pen Hospital Special Edition Delta Unica Red Delta Markiaro Posillipo Azure Delta Write Balance Green Still waiting for the last three to arrive
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# ? Apr 16, 2024 17:16 |
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grack posted:Okay How many of your delta's do you actually write with?
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 08:40 |
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grack posted:Delta Unica Fountain Pen Hospital Special Edition
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stealie72 posted:I initially read this as "Delta Unica Fountain Pen, Hospital Special Edition" with only the thumbnail and for a moment was wondering what cool stuff one does to a FP to make it for hospital use. I'd assumed it was their way of marketing it as a pen for doctors, not unlike the red-trimmed white coloring that esterbrook and waterman both used and sold as a pen for nurses.
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 16:08 |
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Keetron posted:How many of your delta's do you actually write with? It takes a couple of years at this point but I actually cycle through most of them.
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FAUXTON posted:I'd assumed it was their way of marketing it as a pen for doctors, not unlike the red-trimmed white coloring that esterbrook and waterman both used and sold as a pen for nurses. Fountain pens that were marketed towards doctors and nurses often came in a set that included a thermometer holder made of the same material as the pen.
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 02:48 |
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This is the cap of a Conklin Endura that I am repairing for a friend. It needed a new cap liner installed as the old one had been removed by the previous owner to repair the clip... which they bodged by trying to force a different clip into the pen. I made the liner from a piece of 12mm brass tube and installed it after repairing the cracks left by previous repair attempt (the cracks have been stabilized, not concealed). The other issue was that the rim of the cap had a significant chunk broken out of it, and so after a few days of mixing paint and resin, I found the right combination to match the colour of the hard rubber cap. It looks bright now, but it darkens as the resin sets up and by the time this is done the colour should be close to perfectly matched.
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:33 |
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grack posted:Fountain pens that were marketed towards doctors and nurses often came in a set that included a thermometer holder made of the same material as the pen. dang they had thermometer bling
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 03:36 |
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Got something in direct from Italy today, not a Delta, but Delta-adjacent I might've said "Holy poo poo" when I opened the box because holy poo poo that's pretty.
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howe_sam posted:Got something in direct from Italy today, not a Delta, but Delta-adjacent That is indeed a very pretty pen! Congratulations! I finished working on that big Conklin Endura this evening. The cap was the recipient of most of my attention-- chiefly, it needed a big chip repaired and I needed to colour match the chip. Well, here are the results: Here's a shot of the damage to the rim, along with colour samples that I provided the client with for his approval. We settled on mix of two different Vallejo Game Colour and Model Air paints that when combined with the resin, matched the colour of the pen extremely closely. This is the repaired section after some sanding, shaping, gap filling, more sanding and polishing. I am very pleased with the match on the colour and was also able to polish away the worst of the discoloration on the cap band as well. As mentioned, a previous botched attempt at replacing the clip cracked the cap. I stabilized the crack but left it visible-- the goal is to bring the pen closer to its designer's original vision while also preserving indicators of its age and life. And here are a couple of shots of the Endura all done. It originally had blue accent bands-- I was able to find a matching colour almost effortlessly and restore those and I am glad I did. It wasn't in the original request from the client but when I saw them from the reference material provided and pointed out that I could replace them easily, the client was happy to accept. I wouldn't exactly call a big orange pen drab as such, but the accent bands do add quite a lot to it.
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 05:34 |
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I don't really have a use for this, but it looks rad as hell. Sort of a fancier Pilot Parallel https://twitter.com/thingsbydan/status/1764635365954965634
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 16:28 |
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That's kind of cool but a 6MM diameter barrel? My hands are already cramping up just thinking about it.
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 18:12 |
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like a fude nib turned to 11. fascinating! No use for it either but it's neat
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 19:02 |
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It's new pen day and I have become a Benu sicko. Grand Scepter XI in Broad, because I cannot fathom having a pen that looks like this in F or EF. Medium would be pushing it.
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 20:58 |
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Get the Parrot pen
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 21:35 |
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Pelikan must be psychic, no sooner then I start kicking around the notion of maybe getting an M1000, they go and announce a Renaissance Brown version.
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# ? Apr 20, 2024 03:32 |
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I’ve got a couple of pens I’m deep cleaning and having trouble with. First, my Lamy 2000 has been leaking from the joint between the nib section and the barrel. I’m thinking a little silicon grease on the threads there would help. Second, I have a Franklin-Christoph where I can’t unscrew the nib section from the barrel. Gripping harder isn’t working, and I’m worried about scratching or cracking the pen. Any ideas before I break out the pliers?
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Does the Lamy still have the metal gasket?
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