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Hotbod Handsomeface posted:I am going to ask for a red-black ink and a Lamy for my birthday. Red-Brown is where it's at. Noodlers Tiananmen and Diamine OxBlood are  as hell.
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You can buy an italic nib for a safari for  e: beaten Welsper fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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I don't think you can get converters for the Kaweco Sport, so your ink options might be a bit limited unless you refill empty cartridges.
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No chance of repair? I sent my Lamy 2000 to Germany after it fell on its nib, came back writing better than when I bought it. They've got some superb staff there.
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Kessel posted:Now I'm wondering if I can write to Lamy Germany and try to send it in to them, or if they'll just tell me to deal with the local distributor/repair company. I just sent mine straight to Germany because the Australian distributors were a pain to deal with. I included a nicely worded letter explaining how it broke and how much I'd enjoyed using it, and included contact details for billing and such. They were nice enough to repair it for free! Total cost of repair: $25 AUD for international postage. Mine was less than 2 years old and didn't need replacement parts though, but from what I hear the repair rates from Lamy itself are better than the distributors in some cases. Welsper fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Just wait until you own a bunch of nice inks, you'll want all those pens so you can use them at once. (Buy some Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo and wonder why you bothered to write in any other colour).
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Pilot Metal Falcon fits with big+metal, it uses a semi-flexible nib though, which could be good or bad depending on your preferences. Taking metal+size to its logical endpoint is the Lamy Dialog 3, probably the largest pen I've handled in person.
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Jun 10, 2013 17:39
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If you're spending more than $100 on a pen, absolutely get a Lamy 2000. I've got a few hundred pages of university notes done thanks to that pen, plus a free repair from Lamy after it fell on its nib. A++ would buy again.
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Nask26 posted:I've had my twsbi 580 for a little while now, The pen just doesn't feel very comfortable for me. The pen is awesome but I'm not sure I will be able to write notes every day with it. I was thinking about getting a safari? The Safari looks thinner and lighter then the twsbi. Any thoughts? Diamond 540 vs. Lamy Safari  If you're looking specifically for thin, a Pilot/Namiki Vanishing Point, Lamy CP1 or Lamy Logo might be what you're after. Welsper fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:I think it's something with my batch of HoD. It seems to want to run down the tines on my other pen as well. Maybe it's because you're filling it so often, then the environment of the pen is changing? The heat from your hand could be warming the ink and making expand. I had a leak problem yesterday when I topped up my VP in a cold room, then brought it into a heated exam hall.
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blowfish posted:Pelikan superiority Speaking of Pelikans, I'm currently saving for a Pilot Elabo, but part of me wants to double down and get a Pelikan M400. I'm just on the fence about spending $300 on a writing instrument when there's so many Lamys and Pilots I could get for $200 or less. Basically, tell me why I should choose a Pelikan.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I'm completely wrecked on Iroshizuku inks. It's all I will ever buy or use from here on out. I do wish their black was more dark, it's what has held me back from getting some. Are you using Kiri-same or Take-sumi?
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Freckles posted:drat this thread for making me want a TWSBI Diamond 580. I don't really need another pen, but it's just so pretty... Best prices for Australia are direct from TWSBI, or Malaysian / Japanese retailers for other brands.
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DanManIt posted:Any recommendations on cheapish but decent quality paper? Spending $10 for a little rhodia pad doesn't really seem worth it. Plus, with how much I write it would be used up pretty quickly. What size are you after? I'm paying $6 each for Rhodia A5 dot pads.
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DanManIt posted:I was just looking at small notepad spiral bound ones on amazon. Where are you getting yours? Here. It's $12.50 for shipping outside Australia though.
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Aircorp Blue-Black comes out as dark black-green with a suggestion of blue. E: Pilot Iroshizuku Asa-Gao is a less hostile alternative to Noodler's Baystate Blue Welsper fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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The Lamy Safari is a $20 refillable fountain pen.
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Rhodia products use Clairfontaine paper. 
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Also, Tsuki-yo and other Iroshizuku inks are the best way to spend too much money on not-pens. Welsper fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Magnus Praeda posted:They can't. They come with a Con-20 (ugh) and they can take a Con-50. Goulet "helpfully" offers the Con-50 as an add-on on the Metropolitan order page. It's only $5.50 more... My innumeracy aside, isn't a con-20 preferable to a con-50 due capacity? It's why I swapped to the con-20 in my vanishing point.
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Fair enough. While we're on the topic of Pilot, has anyone got an opinion on the new Justus 95?
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I suggest a Lamy 2000. It's usually around $120, which is the starting point for gold nibbed pens. Other gold nibbed pens in the $100-$200 bracket: Pilot Vanishing Point Namiki Falcon Sailor 1911M Pilot Custom 74
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e: nevermind
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SnakesRevenge posted:While we're matching colors, can anybody recommend a close equivalent to El Lawrence from Noodler's? It's one of my favorite inks, but it stains everything it touches pretty severely. I'd go nuts over a similar color that I wouldn't have to worry so much about actually filling my pens with. Maybe Iroshizuku Ina-ho, though it might not be dark/saturated enough for you.
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Would anyone be interested in a bottle of Iroshizuku Fuyu-Gaki? I'm using it with a 1.1m stub nib at the moment, but;  plus shipping to anywhere in Australia or abroad, (it's been decanted into a small plastic bottle for cheaper postage). Please PM me if you're interested.I'm also considering picking up some Noodler's Antietam, since Red-Brown is the most colour.
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Kessel posted:If you like red-brown and you don't get Tsukushi, you're cheating yourself. I was considering either that or J.Herbin Terre de Feu for my next brown-leaning colour. What sort of nib are you using with it?
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Solkanar512 posted:Are there any other inks which have a similar intensity? Iroshizuku Asa-Gao is fairly close to Bay-State Blue without the feed murder.
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Lamy Turquoise is the exception to that rule.
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Solkanar512 posted:Indeed, the nib on that last Sailor is amazing. I just don't understand why those huge pens aren't piston/vac instead of the current converter. Especially the King of Pens, it feels like a waste, especially if you decide to get one of the crazy stacked nibs. If memory serves, Sailor do piston variants of several of their pens under the "Realo" moniker.
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So I got a broad nib from gouletpens to replace the medium that came on my VAC700. The goulet #6 nib body seems very slightly wider than the default TWSBI nib body, which seems to increase the distance between the tines somewhat when fitted. As a consequence, I no longer have a pen, but a paintbrush;  
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Vitamins posted:That's a really nice red too, blood-reds are the greatest. With the clear centre of the VAC700, it looks like something I've filled from my forearm.
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Selling a Lamy Safari, nibs, and some Fuyu-Syogun Does anyone have experience using Sailor nano-carbon inks in demonstrators? I'm considering getting some Sei-Boku blue-black, but I'm worried about staining.
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A5 Rhodia Dot Pads for lyfe.
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The Lamy 2000 is still in production, ergo it's always fine to prefer a Lamy. Lamy 2000 + Pilot VP best student pen combination.
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There's not really enough of a texture on the piston knob for it to get caught on anything, plus it's fairly firm in its normal position. I've got a medium nib on my 580, which works fine for standard 7mm ruled paper.
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Xun posted:Help stop me from making enormous wishlists of inks for my pens Colour coded annotation in lecture notes and diagrams. Very handy in biology for protein complexes etc. And sometimes submit handwritten exercises in purple because why not.
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Xun posted:Any suggestions for a good slim pen? I'm thinking about moving up from my safari at some point but a lot of the suggested ones look too fat for my tiny rear end hands A Pilot Capless Decimo might be suitable. It's a smaller/thinner version of the Pilot Vanishing point and uses the same nib units.
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Kon-Peki is quite nice, Tsukushi and Fuyu-Syogun have been getting lots of comment in the thread lately. Always buy a Tsuki-Yo
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E: nope, all sixes at the moment 
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Demon_Corsair posted:How do you get the existing bulb filler off of a metropolitan to get the con-50 on it? Does it just pull out? It should just be a friction fit.
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