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camino posted:The one thing I wanted to throw in on the last thread is about breaking TWSBI's. It seems to me that aside from the cap, they don't crack until you disassemble and reassemble them. I've seen a lot of people comment on this. With my next TWSBI, I'm not going to take it apart unless absolutely necessary. 
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To add to all this trying to improve your handwriting by writing from the shoulder might help quite a bit. Here's an article about handwriting in general that goes over grips, writing from the shoulder, and such. It takes practice but it makes writing more comfortable and produces smoother letters. I'm sorta in between writing with my wrist/fingers and shoulder right now unless I'm actively thinking about it, but it does work.
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Got my Pilot Metropolitan early today. Goulet Pens threw in a Tootsie Pop with this one...okay. Came with a Con-20 instead of a Con-50, which ain't that bad considering the 50's capacity is a bit poor. It writes really well, the line is thinner than the medium nib on my VP funnily enough, but the snap cap feels looser than my Lamy Safari, so I don't have a lot of confidence carrying this outside of a shirt pocket. Pen looks nice, writes decently, and for the price it's a great deal, quite deserving of its place in the OP. Edit: I skimmed the page description on Goulet, the Con-50 is extra and the pen comes with the Con-20 by default. Brightman fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Feb 2, 2013 01:39
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:How do I get ink for this thing oh god what am I doing? To get ink you should buy some at a store, either online, or in real life if you can find one. This is much easier than punching a squid and trying to get your ink fresh. For fancy ink you can get Iroshizuku ink for $28. It's quite nice, has some really vibrant colors, comes in the standard 50 ml, and should last a few years unless you write a crap ton. For cheaper ink with lots of variety in function as well as color there's Noodler's which is made by a crazy person. It's about $12.50 a pop, comes in 3 oz jars because gently caress metrication. For a quarter more you can get Diamine inks at 80ml a thing, they are also colorful, and reportedly vary from crap that will feather a lot or never dry, to stuff that's alright (I can vouch for Steel-Blue, although it's kinda fruity). Even cheaper ink: Private Reserve. $8.80 for 50ml, the color selection is different, the colors don't match the color of the labels very well, and I haven't had any personal experience with the ink myself but have heard good things. You can order samples from Goulet for like a $1.25~2.50 for 2ml, and I think they're good for a fill or two depending on the pen. I'd say start with some Noodler's (not Baystate Blue, it stains pens, so you'll need to "sacrifice" a pen to it if you want the bluest blue) and then get some Iroshizuku for fancy stuff if you find one you like. There are other inks out there, these are just the ones I've used or heard a decent amount about. There's also pen brand inks, like Lamy ink, Parker, etc but they tend to just be a few colors, however they often perform solidly from what I hear.
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I did some tests with Iroshizuku ink in regards to water, left it in the sink overnight and it faded, but was still there. I've heard probably half and half good/bad stuff about Private Reserve, but with any ink company there's some crappy inks, also paper/pen/nib combinations to take into account and it's all very nebulous in the long run. Fake edit: Found the water test:  That ink is usually more green-blue than blue, so yeah, it fades a decent bit. Of course HoD is basically unmovable. Brightman fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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The Hebug posted:This might be sacrilegious, but I like to mix a little bulletproof black into my Iroshizuku inks using a syringe. It makes for really nice shades of blue black and though I haven't tested it, I tell myself it makes them slightly more waterproof.  jomiel posted:I find Iroshizuku inks to have water-resistant properties. Water drop tests are great for my needs, since I'm much more concerned about bleeding when I spill a drink (I also do bleach & hand sanitizer tests).  Oddly the middle of the "heart" never got wet.      Sorry about my sloppy picture taking/writing. Also the grammar in that last one 
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Feb 6, 2013 02:34
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    Fake edit: Looking at yours again, I think the descender from the 'g' above the 20 made it look like a 30. If that means you're throwing in the Con-50, I'd say stick with the Con-20 as it has more capacity, but it's up to you if you just dislike squeeze fillers.
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Feb 7, 2013 02:26
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cobalt impurity posted:This is typical of Asian pens in general. European nibs usually write the same thickness as one size up in Asian nibs, though there are obvious exceptions. The Nib Nook is invaluable for comparing lines, but sadly it's only useful for pens the Goulets happen to sell. Actually if you use the individual drop downs instead of the one that grabs all the nibs for a particular pen there's pens in there they don't sell. Not a lot of them, but they have Sailor 1911's in there for instance. It's pretty helpful, but the selection is still fairly limited. I think it's basically just pens they've been able to get their hands on or maybe ones they reviewed in their blog.
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Feb 8, 2013 06:58
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Maybe? Noodler's Bulletproof Black will probably serve you well, their Heart of Darkness bottle is larger and comes with a free Platinum Preppy modded for eyedropper filling, but the bottle is an eyedropper one with a narrow neck, so filling other pens with it without a spare inkwell to use is a pain.quote:Paper talk.
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Feb 13, 2013 21:01
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Here's Goulet's table of Noodler's Ink Properties, and here's their selection of inks listed as Bulletproof in pretty much every color. One of those is even an invisible ink that only shows up under black lights. Not quite sure if that's awesome or just  but given Noodler's history probably the latter in some fashion.
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Feb 15, 2013 07:27
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I saw some discussion on this the other day somewhere (I forgot where, doesn't seem to be on fpn, so maybe it was on a blog) and the only other noticeable differences are the clip style, larger o-rings for the grip section, and also a metal bit in the grip that holds the nib assembly, which is also to help prevent cracking as people seemed to have a hard time lining up the notches and not just cramming it in there. Also the metal bit in the body where the plunger mechanism is screwed in is gone and it just screws straight into the plastic now, probably, again, to prevent cracking. So if you're pen is cracked, then this might be a good idea, but otherwise yeah, what 404notfound said. Personally I'm looking forward to the 850, really curious how that'll end up and how it'll perform. Also still trying to hold off on getting a Vac700.
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Feb 27, 2013 17:40
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angerbot posted:How could you get that, but not the 3 in 1 FP/Butane Lighter/Flashlight? Don't you know a deal when you see it! I feel like that pen would be right up the Noodler guy's alley. You can use it in the dark thanks to the flashlight, and if you need to, you can burn the documents so no one can read your secrets.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:15
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cobalt impurity posted:
I don't think it's refillable, can't tell from the picture. You might be able to mod it in some way to make it refillable possible. Also yeah, if you could get one with a UV light that would be fantastic for all your needs.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:20
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312 posted:Honestly I'd rather just use a ballpoint, and I'm guessing most people you give them to will feel the same. They just weren't very much fun to write with, but some here like them obviously. Good if you have a lot of inks and want to have a pen for every color. Hero 616 pens are a real crap-shoot due to their crumby quality control. You can just as easily get a great one as you can one that is basically a nail stuck in an ink tube. The one I got wrote pretty drat well at first, but it has since degraded a bit and is now fairly mediocre to bad. The plus side is they're so drat cheap you could almost just treat them like disposables.
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I'm a bit confused...wait, you got a fake Mont Blanc and bought real refill cartridges for it that don't fit, got it. Is that a ballpoint though, are the refills ballpoint or gel? Looking into it MB makes proprietary refills, however someone mentions that Pilot G2 refills fit in MB pens, so maybe the reverse is true...actually yeah, you can probably just use some scissors and do what this guy did. You might have to make a cap for the end of it though if you need to cut the entire thing off for it to fit so the ink doesn't dry up super quick.
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Mar 15, 2013 15:02
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I think I came in to the old thread thinking it would be all about vintage pens and super crazy custom jobs because, "who the hell makes fountain pens anymore?" Also I thought you could potentially stab someone with one in a pinch, or at least squirt ink in their eyes, but I found out that movies had lied to me yet again. A few years later and I have several hundred dollars worth of pens and 5 bottles of ink and I have my eye on like half a dozen pens and three more inks. These threads are tricky like that, much like the Wet Shaving Thread, although that one is probably cheaper in the end.
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Mar 18, 2013 21:50
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I don't recall many pen sales going on in the thread besides the old thread's OP having a site for TWSBI pens and some other inks. Probably be best to post in SA-mart and put the link up in here. That way some other people might have a shot at it.
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Mar 20, 2013 16:07
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Dominoes posted:How do you 'flush the pen' through the cup? Is this a fountain pen? Or is it a Lamy 2000 Rollerball or Ballpoint? You'd need to
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Mar 21, 2013 22:59
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Dominoes posted:I submerged the top part of the pen in water and unscrewed the back end. After unscrewing a certain amount, a hole bubbled, through several cycles of unscrewing, and re-screwing. No water left the pen at any point, and the bubbles implied some was taken in. A small amount of ink emptied into the water. I'm about to return this, seems defective. Well it shouldn't have any ink in it at all, you need to get ink and put it in yourself with a pen that has a built in filling system. Actually I don't think any fountain pens come pre-inked, at most they'd have a cartridge with them.
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Mar 22, 2013 06:28
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Why is this happening? Nib Nook! Compare for yourself and see with fancy graph paper and a multitude of nib types. Selecting the Lamy F and M with the TWSBI 1.1 stub in between it is much wider with the wide stroke, and appears as thin or thinner than the F with the thin stroke.
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Mar 28, 2013 17:50
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Luisfe posted:I just got a bottle of Heart of Darkness. Is the free pen it comes with safe to use with it (as in, it won't leak horribly when put in a pocket and then put goddamn impossible to remove ink on everything I have?) On top of being a great pen, the ink is only absolutely permanent on paper, on cloth you can get it out, as in, it's in the realm of possibility, but depending on several factors, the thing might still be stained for life.
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Mar 29, 2013 14:51
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Yoshi Jjang posted:So I bought some Heart of Darkness because I'm curious what the whole raving over it was all about. No, it's not you. The Platinum Preppy that comes free with HoD is a ridiculously good writer, super smooth. I think it's about as good as, if not better than, my Pilot Vanishing Point, and that cost a hundred bucks. Actually the Metro might be in line with the Preppy as well, but I haven't compared those two yet.
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Apr 19, 2013 14:53
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On the other hand the TWSBI should have a much better build quality overall than the Preppy. My Preppy's cap cracked because I had been posting it randomly while writing checks when sitting on the couch. Also the Preppy seems more prone to leaking in the cap. Might also be worth noting that fountain pens sorta have a breaking in phase and the 580 will get more used to the way you write. Sometimes I notice a decent difference in this area, but I haven't with the Preppy as much. Apparently this can be so pronounced with certain pens and people that only the owner can effectively write with them.
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Welsper posted:Just wait until you own a bunch of nice inks, you'll want all those pens so you can use them at once. I might need to see it in person, but I prefer Syo-Ro over Tsuki-Yo. Granted when you use Syo-Ro with a fine nib it looks more like a cross between the two, much less green. I just like the shading I get with it so much, but I also prefer green over blue in general, and I also might lack sense as I have Ina-Ho and Chika-Rin too, which are like writing with gold~copper and lime respectively. Although using the Chika-Rin in my bright green Lamy seems pretty great, which reminds me, I need to try the Ina-Ho in that since it's my 1.5 italic nib, sorta want to see how it and Syo-Ro do with that.
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Went to some antique shops over the weekend, came back empty handed. Did find some fountain pens, but nothing worth buying and trying to fix. I found some Scheaffers that looked like they were cartridge pens but the cartridge was the whole body, seemed odd. The only semi-promising one was a Wearever pen, but it was really gunked up with old ink, and also bright purple. I'd also probably be up for letter writing shenanigans.
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May 13, 2013 15:38
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Ed Mungo posted:What do y'all keep your pens and pen accessories in? iostream.h posted:Edit: Ok, let's try this this way. Okay, done.
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May 14, 2013 19:51
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Solkanar512 posted:Just a heads up, but TWSBI is offering a Vac 700 (any color/nib size) and the Vac 20 inkwell for $85 + shipping. You're basically getting the inkwell for $5. I hate you...so much...but in a good, thanks for pointing this out, way. Wait, I can't get a stub nib...that's annoying.
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May 15, 2013 22:11
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fivre posted:How hard would it be to get a TWSBI nib/nib unit into another pen? Everyone here seems to love them, but I don't care for their styling at all. Honestly I think a lot of the love is for the style and for them being a decently priced pen that has a built in filling system. Also with the Diamonds you can take them all apart and clean every crevice to your heart's content. At any rate I think they're basically the same as some other company's nibs, like maybe Schaeffer's, but I could be wrong about that...actually I think that was just initially, and probably not the case now.
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Pretty sure that site misspoke and meant that it is "a" standard paper size.quote:When to use A3 Size This bit shows that it's fairly limited, A4 is the standard in most countries, and Letter is the standard in the US and Canada. Actually I bet A3 is probably close to whatever the standard was when people wrote with quills and such.
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Vagueabond posted:Wait, Letter is standard in Canada? I've only ever used A4 for anything. I was taking that from this site http://www.a4papersize.org/ which is associated with that A3 one, so maybe the people making those are just not checking all their facts or whatever. quote:Which countries use A4
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HolySwissCheese posted:The Vac 700/20 deal was too good to pass up. The shipping was $3 for 2-3 days USPS, so it must be domestic. Yeah I broke on that too. No stub nibs, but if I don't like the EF nib I can always try getting it ground to something odd like an oblique or whatever and then buy a 1.1 nib if that fails.
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May 17, 2013 15:47
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404notfound posted:Goulet Pens apparently partnered with Monteverde to design this pen: http://www.gouletpens.com/Monteverde_Invincia_Deluxe_Nighthawk_p/mv41350.htm Vitamins posted:Oh wow that's sexy. I love the colour of Ruthenium plating. Not a fan of the matte black clip though, can't help think it'd look better in silver, but then I guess it wouldn't be a 'stealth' pen. They have a Black Chrome version you might like better, and also a non-stealth one with chrome accents.
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Got my Vac 700 and ink bottle today. It came with an extra EF nib taped to the side of the pen's box for some reason...so my plan to get the nib ground down to some weird oblique thing seems to be nigh fool-proof now.
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Solkanar512 posted:Uh, that extra nib is most likely the new nib that Vac 700s now come with. Try both nibs first and see if there's a difference. SnakesRevenge posted:Yeah, the one on the pen is the Bock nib, which they changed around the beginning of the year as those tended to be quite dry. The one on the box is a Jowo nib, that they've been issuing since. Edit: Would I be able to switch nibs on this with it inked up, or would it being a vac make that a terrible idea? Brightman fucked around with this message at 16:42 on May 24, 2013 |
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SnakesRevenge posted:Should be able to swap them no problem. In fact, with the blind cap screwed in all the way, the ink reservoir is blocked off completely (which is good to know before the feed dries out and you wonder why your pen has stopped working.)
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cobalt impurity posted:Welp, looks like I finally can't justify not having Iroshizuku inks! Adding this to the OP. I don't think this is wise. The shipping rates look like they'll knock it back up to about what it normally costs here, and also they don't tell you what you'll be charged, just have a chart of rates based on grams, and I'm not sure how much the package will weigh...so...it could be more expensive...the minimum is about 12 bucks for 300 grams, and then 15 bucks for 1.10 pounds. Also no idea how long it'll take to ship from Japan. Also just buy some of the ink, it's great and ink last so drat long anyway. Edit: We really need someone who's going to Japan anyway with space in a checked bagged for ink...an ink mule. Brightman fucked around with this message at 19:41 on May 31, 2013 |
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Yoshi Jjang posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for massive-sized and/or weighty fountain pens? I'm talking about pens that are 7~8 inches or more in length or just straight up made out of metal or something. I want huge and heavy. teethgrinder posted:You could check out the Sailor 1911. It's similar to Mont Blancs, but probably half that cost, and functions a hell of a lot better. I was going to point out that the standard size (17.2g) is only $155 on https://isellpens.com but they're looking for a large pen. They don't have normal large 1911s on there anymore, just the Realos, but they are on sale for just $300 now. Also the Pro Gear is on sale for $248, and while it's a different style, it is slightly heavier (21.6g) than the Realo (21.4g), so that might be a good option, granted they're both still pretty light. Metal pens are pretty much the way to go for a weighty feel, the heaviest I have is a Monteverde Invincia (40g), but I don't think it's all that long and the style is even farther from the Meisterstück (30g). Really the way to go on this request would probably be the metal TWSBIs that are coming out "soonish". fake edit: Added the weights.
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Yoshi Jjang posted:Actually, before I just posted my question, I did just order a Monteverde Invincia Deluxe. It didn't even occur to me that it would be heavy. Now I'm pretty excited to try it out. I have a Jinhao x450 too (it broke eventually, body came undone from the screw bit) and the Invincia is heavier. It also writes really nice, and since you got the Deluxe it should write even nicer. Also since I googled stuff about Mont Blanc earlier Google Now is now telling me that there's a Mont Blanc boutique 21 minutes from my current location. Maybe someday that information will be useful...someday.
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