Time to slow it down, relax, and scribble a bit. Enjoy!
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The LAMI Safari - https://www.lamy.com/eng/b2c/safari
Palomino Blackwing pencils - https://palominobrands.com/collection/
Ooly pens - https://www.ooly.com/collections/fountain-pens
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Pilot varsity is best writing instrument.
TWSBI actually stands for something in Taiwanese Chinese. By the way, you can lock down the filling mechanism. Just turn it to the end of the fill cycle and turn just a little bit farther and it will lock.
I think the ball helps with the surface tension and bubbles, I also agree P51 aerometric is the one of the greatest feat of design and manufacturing in the USA.
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If the cap doesn't fit on the other end of the pen, does that mean it is deCAPitated?
I like your aluminum barreled pen and great vintage inkwell… I fell in ‘love’ with the Parker 51 Flighter, in 1949 it was the first fountain pen to be made with a beautiful, durable stainless steel cap and barrel. The 51 14K nibs were stamped with various codes over the years such as PU, RU, PL (?, Ruthenium, Plathenium) so the tipping alloy formula may have varied but likely contained osmium and iridium plus others. Rough or noisy nibs can be treated with practice by careful alignment followed by judicious use of Mylar ‘smoothing’ films. Thank you 🙏🏼 Fran 🙂
I have found some pencils that have 100% useless erasers. I assume they were made in CCP. I cut the the erasers off and put slip on erasers that work.
Dear Fran Blanche, you might like the Ferrari pen that requires no ink. It carbonizes the paper and is fairly dark on most paper manufactured plus it never needs refills ever it has a proprietary metallic alloy nib and is quite beautiful with wood inlay
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Water marbling and you just get better love your channel what a amazing woman of many interests 💖💝💗
I use the Nemosine with fine nib. I do have an issue with allowing it to sit more than a month, but I like it so… Only blue ink and I won't sign anything without that pen. How nerdy is that?
I was thinking of buying an OOLY the $5 fountain pen but changed my mind when I saw the price on eBay: 'Ooly – Splendid Fountain Pen & Refills Set – Purple
– Brand new – £6.20 From United States Buy it now+ £43.53 postage' At £50 ($64.50) inc postage it's a 'No' from me 😉 (postage from the US = Postage: US $56.15 (approx. £43.53) USPS Priority Mail International |)
Of you took a year to empty the eco don't look into eye dropper pens then.
I'm just now catching up on your videos on pens. I watched the previous video introducing the TWSBI and was like "No its Twisby!!!" I own about four of them at this point, they are by far my favorite utilitarian pen. I also own a Parker from my grandfather and it is a dream to write with. I try not to use it too often for fear I'll break it or lose it!
I've found using a dip pen a very cool experience, it's like having to set up your equipment to write something. As far as the screw top to fountain pens go, I like them. Makes it feel kinda official to take the cap off to write something.
The 51 is a great pen, although my ca. '28 Duofold is my favorite writer. I've never been bothered by the twist on cap. It's a little ironic that one of the features of the 51 was that the hooded nib would prevent ink from drying, it was the first pen you didn't need to cap every time you set it down.
My partner has a Twisbi, I think it's a 580. She likes it so much she's cleaned out her other pens and put them away.
Typically a parker 51 will have a 14k gold nib not an alloy nib. Parker did produce a version with an alloy nib but that was the 51 special, which yours is not they can be distinguished primarily by the cap, cap jewel and the filler unit.