SKB Black-faced Spoonbill #FountainPen with a fude nib. I am a fan
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Wow! Troublemaker Kelp Tea is the first dual shader I've really enjoyed (I also love seaweed and tea so perhaps I was biased from the start)
The orange/pink colour really glows inside the green
No matter what set of pens I'm using, that Lamy Safari always ends up in it
Taiwan 2024: In-house inks and Crescent nib grind https://inksync.au27.net/blog/taipei-2024-trip/
My small haul from the London Autumn Pen Show :) it was fun! blog post coming later
This part from Willian Zinsser's On Writing Well nicely captures the feeling of trying to keep up with notes while interviewing someone, but I couldn't figure out how to quote it in the blog post, so I'll just share it
When there are so many pens to refill at once that you need a box just to carry them all to the kitchen 😅
So I know a bit of Teeline which is a nice shorthand where you (mostly) write regular English but with different letterforms. But I've just learned about Pitman shorthand which is a) phonetic b) requires you to vary the thickness of the lines!? This looks like it was made to torture journalists.
Anyway, apparently this used to be one of the applications for fountain pens with flex nibs
Recently Inked: 24th July 2024 https://inksync.au27.net/blog/recently-inked-jul-2024/
I also saw this amazing design of the Maruzen Onoto nib. It's so pleasingly abstracted, it took me a minute to realise it's a dragon.
(photo is from yahoo auctions)