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So aside from picking up a Lamy Petrol (which looks and feels great) I also finally got that Al-Star I ordered a month ago. So far it's looking nice and the bold nib really lays down the ink.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Can I request some examples of awesome calligraphy? My grandfather, who tried to get me into calligraphy as a kid and was delighted that I was getting into it as an adult, passed away yesterday and the creative interests we shared are among my favorite memories of him. I'm sorry for your loss. I've been getting into calligraphy myself and have found it an enjoyable, if sometimes frustrating, hobby. I hope you find it rewarding though. Here's a relaxing compilation of calligraphy
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Jun 18, 2017 16:37
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Heath posted:Can anybody tell me about dip pens? I'm thinking of getting an oblique one made of wood and some nib sets - I found a guy with a box of old banker's dip nibs made to be extremely fine and said he would sell me a few so I'm looking into getting a nib holder. Do most nib holders carry most nibs? I know a little. Most nibs are going to come in 2 sizes, 9mm and 3mm. There are a number of nib holders that can actually fit both, letting you use pretty much any nib you can find. Like this one. If you want more information about this jetpens has a really good FAQ on dip pens you can find Here
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Yeah I put Rouge Hematite in my ahab and the results are pretty amazing. The particles are significantly smaller than those in the diamine shimmer group which gives it a sheen more than a glitter and I believe it flows better through fountain pens as a result but that could just be me. I tried to capture a good angle on it but I clearly need more light sources. Also I may have been watching some panel shows in the background. 
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Sep 11, 2017 18:54
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Platystemon posted:Iron‐gall inks work especially well on cheap paper. It’s what I use for newspaper crosswords. Actually, on that note does anyone have any experience with KWZ iron gall inks? Ive used Diamine's Registrar to great effect and was curious if anyone had tried other iron galls.
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Sep 11, 2017 23:47
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Ive gotta say, of all the notepads I've used I like the Midori the best. The paper is thick enough that there's no bleedthrough. No feathering that I've seen. And sold fairly cheap on amazon and prime eligible. I used one as my journal for a few months and it worked great.
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Sep 13, 2017 02:23
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Noodler's flex pen really brings out the shading in a lot of inks, I'm really impressed. I've used it with normal nibs but was disappointed in the results. Here are a few samples on a rhodia dot pad.  
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Sep 23, 2017 04:18
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Premature posted:I just bought a pilot parallel too, are there any good resources on calligraphy? I seem to recall some have been posted before and I checked the OP but couldn't see them. With a parallel are you talking calligraphy as in cursive writing or calligraphy like the gothic style of lettering?
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Premature posted:I'm happy with my cursive (mostly), I'm just looking for stuff like Gothic script. Anything big and ostentatious. This looks like a good resource for learning gothic script
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Sep 24, 2017 14:01
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theres a will theres moe posted:I want to buy a fountain pen, but I want one with a thin body that is made of metal, preferably a satin finish with a uniform color (silver, please) and a sturdy pocket-clip. Have you considered a Lamy Logo?  It seems to have most of what you want and fits their standard cartridges and converter.
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Oct 8, 2017 15:00
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MJP posted:I should probably clarify: this is just standard printing that sucks. Cursive and me haven't gotten along since the last time I had to use it consistently, and that was probably 3rd grade. Honestly it's going to take some time but there's a big difference between learning something as a kid and as an adult. When you're in school, you have to learn it, you don't have a choice. Now you're doing the same thing because you want to do it and that can make all the difference in the world. For me when I was practicing I would just write a stream of thought of whatever and if I didn't like the way a letter looked I'd take a break, practice that letter till it looked how I wanted, then go back to essentially doodling with cursive. The shape was always more important than the content when I was doing this. I also tended to look at actual examples of cursive writing when I was writing and not just the loopy practice sheets you used in school. Those teach you the shape and how to write them but they were always too round for my preference. Bulbous even. From there it's just a matter of regular practice in small chunks. Just a few minutes a day will have you writing better before you know it.
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Also writing in (terrible) italics with a parallel can be a lot of fun.
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MJP posted:Edit: disregard, I am a moron who didn't know that there was such a thing as small ink containers that Diamine sold. Still, $7 shipped from Germany is kinda nuts. Shipping from amazon can be weird sometimes. I got a bottle a Pelikan Tanzanite and it was 4 dollars cheaper to get it shipped from Germany than it was to buy a bottle that had already been imported.
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Professor Shark posted:I wasn't sure about the size so I went to their website... 3", wayyyyy too big! Honestly I'd do some trawling through etsy first just in case. There's a TON of different designs already done on there that go for much cheaper than a custom seal. I've seen a LOT of bees and a lot of other cool designs.
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Jan 25, 2018 21:11
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I don't know but if there aren't I am 100% on board with starting round 2
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Feb 1, 2018 03:49
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Im working on a letter to a friend, copying down a very, very angry man excommunicating a bunch of people. Its Noodler's Antietam but I'm curious how it might compare to diamine oxblood.
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Feb 16, 2018 07:36
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Nephzinho posted:Anyone try the Amazon basic notebook? Looks petty standard, though I have serious doubts about the paper. I got one myself just to take a look. Its a lot like moleskine notebooks. It's okay when you're using a thin nib but the second you start getting a lot of ink on the paper you get feathering and bleeding.   It wouldn't make a bad gift, it has a bookmark and pocket and all that, but personally I prefer the clairefontaine or midori notebooks edit: I also recently got a pilot penmanship and it has a staggeringly thin nib which I of course immediately used in an adult, responsible way. 
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Feb 22, 2018 05:42
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The J. Herbin shimmer inks use much smaller granules than the diamine shimmer inks. I've only gotten really satisfactory results from the diamine using a glass dip pen where there's no feed to clog because it's clogged everything else I've tried.
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Feb 27, 2018 04:45
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MockingQuantum posted:Anybody do calligraphy ITT? I'm interested in trying it out, and I'm curious about a few things: This is a good look at nib holders and nibs (jetpens has a lot of good guides). For blackletter and the like you're looking for the italic nibs. Speedball sells sets like This if you're getting started. Honestly its all relatively cheap so I'd look around. You want a nib holder that's comfortable in your hand and most of the nibs you'll use for calligraphy will be the larger size, the smaller one tends to be for much smaller drawing nibs. Fountain pen ink can be hit or miss with dip pens. The problem you'll run into is that it'll be a bit too thin and run off your nib. If you find an ink you want to use that does this you can add some gum arabic to it to thicken it up without impacting its color. I've used some fountain pen inks that worked fine and others that ran off immediately.  Also I found this site helpful starting out but there's many resources online if you do a bit of snooping around.
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Bank posted:Anyone know any good tips/videos on how to improve calligraphy? I watched one last night and gave it a shot but still need (a lot of) practice. It helps to figure out what kind of style you're going to work on to focus how you study. With a stub nib you should probably take a look at various italic tutorials like This one. That should get you started and from there you can start branching out into other styles 
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meat glitter posted:also the benu boxes are good for washi tape storage and can never have too much of that right I can quit whenever I want 
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Jul 3, 2021 03:26
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Keetron posted:Where do you buy that Jetpens has a great selection of quality tape. Some of these I got from Booth but the logistics and shipping on that makes it only really workable as part of larger orders. Aside from that aliexpress, etsy and amazon all sell washi tapes. There's a LOT out there.
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Jul 3, 2021 15:12
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Goulet Pens has a similar offering of samples. You can even buy the empty bottles if you're down with that (Iroshizuku bottles look really nice). They even have big random grab bags of ink so you can get a bunch and go nuts to see if any strike your fancy And also sell the tiny vials if you want to send samples to others.
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Jul 14, 2021 18:12
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Hell yeah, I have finally achieved skull pen  Now I need a pen case that holds like 10 pens, because all the one's Ive seen have very little between 3 and 50
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Aug 29, 2021 20:49
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Just get a nice glass dip pen, they're neat and look pretty.
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Aug 31, 2021 05:10
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So Im curious, Im familiar with the performance of a lot of the inks on jetpens and goulet but then I hit a site that has a huge array of inks like the aforementioned Tono and Lims or KWZ or any number of other names. Are there any I should watch out for or are they all pretty consistent in terms of quality?
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Oct 3, 2021 03:59
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Oh poo poo are we posting our ink collections that we'll totally get around to using one of these days? Ill totally use these up as soon as Im not working 60+ hours a week 
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Oct 21, 2021 23:16
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Anyone have any experience with Conklin pens? I was looking at this pen but noticed some of their pens had mixed reviews on jetpens and was wondering if there was something going on.
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Dec 6, 2021 05:00
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So I decided to get a pen for christmas  I honestly thought it would be bigger but I love the way BENU pens glitter in the light. BENU scepter btw.
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Dec 20, 2021 19:00
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JNCO BILOBA posted:How do you like the Benu? They caught my eye a couple times. I have another I've written with and it works just fine. I just really like how the light catches the flakes in the resin and knowing it's going to be a little unique, for a given value of unique. Also the shape. The flared ends isn't something Ive really seen in other fountain pens. Unfortunately this also means it won't fit in some of the pen holders I have but that's okay. Also the pen holders are part of a blind box set but it looks like This Place is selling them individually.
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So, Im curious and not sure if this has been asked before, but does anyone have any experience or opinions on the flex nib fountain pens? I see osprey and bluedew as some of the more popular brands but I'm curious if anyone has any experience with this.
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