Not strictly #fountainpen related but I was at Disneyland over the weekend and they had a couple of Chinese calligraphers drawing your choice of symbols. They used a real ink stone to make the ink, which appears to have some (natural?) glitter in it, and a brush.
If I didn't see him paint it, I wouldn't believe that it wasn't printed from a printer. And so fast!
I'm seeing unverified claims that alcohol hurts plastic. I can believe that it hurts /some/ materials, but a petroleum product doesn't sound like one of them.
So it's experiment time! Mr. Preppy, here's your glass of Conundrum.
btw, even red wine is /very/ pale.
(The cracks were already there. Because it's a brand new Preppy.)
Every time I forget how wide Western nibs are, I go onto ebay and start looking for a replacement for my Cross Townsend EF nib, which *surely* must be a thin writer.
Nope. Here it is (albeit with some feathering) next to some Pilot stub writing.
Occasionally, I see people ask about little #fountainpen friendly notebooks. I noticed how the following ink would feather on Moleskine (and show through) but it looks great on these Curnow notebooks.
They're shorter than Field Notes - 132mm. They have minor stitching, so you may want to add your own if you abuse notebooks. None of the pages are perforated, and there's no little pocket at either end. 24 sheets/pages per booklet. There's an odd picture on each cover.
I guess I was the only one who didn't like #thelastofus video game. Ignoring the huge broken content warning at the beginning, it's basically just listening to a whiny teenager while you try to figure out how to operate an elevator. When I went to look through reviews, others have described it as "paying $60 to cry for days".
No thanks. Refund please, Steam.
For those who think that a Platinum Procyon is identical to a Preppy, here they are, side by side. The Procyon nib is much larger, much smoother and the feed can draw ink from the tip, ala Pilot Elite and others.
Does it *look* like a Preppy nib? Yes, but so what. Do Lamy nibs look like Big Boy nibs? No, they don't.
Reviewers, if you don't like the pen, fine, but please get the facts correct. Looking at you Pen Addict and Ana @ Well Appointed Desk.
Why does Moleskine paper hate only _some_ inks? The only thing in common that I've noticed so far is that saturated inks /seem/ to do well? And pale ones do this weird splotchy thing?
Does anyone have more data or a better theory? Or you all just don't bother with this paper? (Smart, if so.)
But more significantly, I learned that it dumped the entire cartridge that it came with into the front section.
I can't find the leak, but now, every time I use it, there's ink on the feed. And I'm not sure if I can trust it with another cartridge.
I'm going to coat the end of a cartridge with silicone, and fill it with some junk ink, to see if it's any better. Otherwise, it's a bad feed, I guess.
Sucks for a near $200 pen.
Sorry for the downer #fountainpen post, but I'm annoyed. I love Pilot pens. I have Kakunos, Explorers, a Prera and Elites. They are all better than any of my other pens (Noodlers, Cross, TWSBI, Sheaffer, Platinum, Visconti).
But this summer, I splurged on a VP (Decimo) for my birthday and it has given me nothing but problems. First, the medium nib runs wetter than e.g. my Prera medium (also documented by Doodlebug.) Or maybe it's just leaking...
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Well, that's not good.
Why use paper-thin plastic for a critical part? Would it kill them to stamp it out of metal?
