tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888343698560662962024-03-19T04:02:45.206+00:00Mike's (got) Inky Fingers!An honest and (mostly) handwritten log of my pen and ink (and other) experiences...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-34560268432473994272015-01-01T14:32:00.001+00:002015-01-01T14:32:52.807+00:00Pilot Iroshizuku Inks - "Made in Japan"!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS. Look at the sheen on that Yama-Budo. (And it's not often I get to say something like that!).</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-73603827119456611482013-04-28T15:54:00.001+01:002013-04-29T06:34:54.320+01:00My Bexley Jitterbugs!Just a ropey old shot of the complete collection. Cute aren't they :-)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Ooops, that last scan was a bit rubbish - the last line reads something like "Congratulations if you actually read all this self-indulgent guff"!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inky Mike.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-22578203414016127692013-01-12T17:01:00.000+00:002013-01-12T17:01:11.690+00:00A 'Flock' of Pelikans?<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is that the collective term? Yeah well, whatever. Alternative titles for this post would be;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pen Porn - Pictures of large members (of the Pelikan M1000 family).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, I Got My M1005 Demonstrator Back from the Menders!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Shows Off His Pelikan Collection.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Just Shows Off<b>*</b>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So ok, the story is that I recently bought an M1005 Demonstrator off eBay and the nib didn't work too well so I thought "Hey, I can adjust that. I mean, how hard can that be?". The following picture shows how hard. Although the focus was a bit out you can still easily tell the 'adjusted' nib from the new one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the Demonstrator is back on my writing desk, and because while it was away I bought a regular M1000 body (in black - from <a href="http://www.richardspens.com/">Richards Pens</a>) to hold the 3B nib I'm always banging on about, AND a 3-pen case (from <a href="http://thewritingdesk.co.uk/">The Writing Desk</a> from whom I also bought my first M1000 - a stripy green one - originally with a Medium nib, but now with a rather scratchy but interesting OB nib, but I digress...), I thought why not do a gratuitous photo shoot of all three so anyone who's not seen them before can have a good look? Well, and just to show off of course...(actually, I really love these pens, and feel very privileged to have them, and, with all three in one case I do go a bit gooey when I get them out to use - sad, but true).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And even more oooh now they're out in the open...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The OB nib shows a bit of line-width variation but not as much as I had hoped. I almost wish I'd got the OBB... Never mind, maybe if I practice with it I'll be able to put some character into writing with it. Lovely colour though! (I believe Pelikan's 'Edelstein' Tourmaline was ink of the year in 2012?).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fine nib on the Demonstrator (yes, the NEW nib!) looks a bit intermittent, but, like the OB nib, it's still new and will need a bit of use before it settles down (or until I get used to it anyway - a bad workman always blames...).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 3B nib on the black pen with the black ink is an awesome combination in my opinion. It's like the fountain pen equivalent of a fat black marker pen, and I use it for signatures and addressing letters and parcels.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-13964551192487421752013-01-06T15:50:00.000+00:002013-01-06T15:50:54.984+00:00Caran d'Ache Bookmark (&Pen).<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-24436721809121293632012-12-24T12:01:00.001+00:002012-12-24T12:10:00.763+00:00Musical Ink...<p>Just in case people thought that I wasn't eccentric enough, I have just ordered one of Diamine's new boxed sets of inks, with colours inspired(?) by famous composers!</p>
<p>I heard about them on another blog (Gourmet Pens) and couldn't resist. Expect a demonstration after Christmas... :-)</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-20077282507717478142012-12-16T20:40:00.001+00:002012-12-16T20:40:57.141+00:00Caran d'Ache Varius Carbon 3000<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, what a mouthful that is, and I forget the meaning of the '3000' bit. Anyway, here's the review (with none of those profuse apologies I put in the last one - I resized everything to fit this time, though I <u>still</u> managed to lose the last line off the scanned pages - doh!), preceded by a picture, natch...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excuse the arrangement. It's not art, it's just what I had to do to stop the pen rolling with the nib upside down.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS. Forgot to mention that the ink is Pelikan Edelstein Jade...</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-20097281962996905802012-12-15T19:38:00.002+00:002012-12-15T19:38:44.885+00:00Finally! The Visconti Opera Crystal Demonstrator.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, the apologies;</span><div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry it's taken so long.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the handwriting (as ever).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry that the words and photos aren't coordinated better.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the quality of the photos.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the quality of the scanned pages (I'm getting to grips with a new 'hand-held' scanner).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for all the 'sorry's :-)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, here goes...first, some piccies (do you like the background I used?)...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oops, forgot to take this photo before I filled it up...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cap, showing that hefty clip (by the way - Merry Christmas!).<br />(You can just see the spring that makes the bayonet cap system work).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magnetically attached cap trim.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note tip of nib turned up - Makes writing at all angles easy.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metal of nib goes all the way around!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully this explains some of the stuff I've been waffling on about!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cap engraving.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only 1000 have been made (I was<br />very lucky to get hold of one).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That 'Mosquito' filling device (that's not a device to fill mosquitos, you understand).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You just stick the nib in the filler...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the right way up, mind! And hey, no inky fingers to fret about :-)</span></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-63777929434100946532012-11-28T06:44:00.001+00:002012-11-28T06:44:47.738+00:00Pelikan M1005 Demonstrator, Take/3<p>This post should really be entitled "Do NOT Adjust Your Nib!!".</p>
<p>Having got the Demonstrator's Nib working with a change of ink I then went and spoiled everything.</p>
<p>I switched from the Monte Verde Purple to Caran D'Ache Amazon and found that the nib tines started 'ticking'.</p>
<p>This often happens with a new nib so, since I preferred the Caran ink, I decided to adjust the nib like I'd read about on the 'net.</p>
<p>All I had to do was ease the tines apart in small increments, testing the nib regularly as I went... So what happened? On the second 'easing' I bent one of the tines way too far and the nib stopped working.</p>
<p>I then spent ages trying to bend it back, but that's a lot harder thing to do, and unfortunately it bent in a different place, so I ended up with one kinked tine and one straight one.</p>
<p>The nib actually worked quite well, no ticking and good ink flow once started. But it needed a bit of encouragement to start flowing after a minute's pause in writing, and above all it looked horrible.</p>
<p>So I decided to send it back to Germany for a new nib. It's probably going to cost me in excess of £150.</p>
<p>So maybe nib adjustment is best left to the professionals...</p>
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Update: Soon now means Friday 7th December - looking forward to that :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0Cheltenham, Cheltenham51.8976 -2.075609tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-91319234260851356092012-11-20T17:38:00.002+00:002012-11-20T17:38:42.044+00:00Pelikan M1005 Demonstrator, Take/2.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-41439900173710039212012-11-15T10:59:00.001+00:002012-11-15T10:59:17.571+00:00Pelikan M1005 Demonstrator<p>Getting very excited! Ordered one of the above from a chap in the US via ebay and it's in the country. Only problem - Parcelforce won't let me have it until I've coughed up about £30 customs duty :-( Bugger! Should have it by Friday though, and although it's not a new release and has been reviewed to the 'n'th degree by others, I'm still looking forward to showing it off, here, sometime this weekend. I can't wait...</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-55377990904197742972012-11-11T13:31:00.002+00:002012-11-11T13:31:27.026+00:00My Last Post...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...was a bit disorganised - I appear to have pasted everything twice, in different sizes! If you didn't know me you'd be forgiven for thinking that I'd totally lost it (although even those who know me might still think that!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll sharpen up me act next time (and use a decent pen too).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-70967004501635974732012-11-11T13:00:00.003+00:002012-11-11T13:00:33.224+00:00Karlsson Clock (and a pen rant!).<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alas, I started this post with great enthusiasm, but once my pen had malfunctioned (having just got it back from the repairers) I lost heart. I'll post it anyway, simply because this blog is really only meant to be a record for myself, and if anyone finds it and takes an interest, well that's fine by me. You're welcome to tag along...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, a picture of the clock, and then the angst...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-66008259373725222012-11-01T19:45:00.003+00:002012-11-01T19:45:33.716+00:00Test Post - Handwritten...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, so I got myself a Leuchtterm 1917 super-size notebook (dotted variety) and couldn't resist scribbling down some stuff, scanning it, and posting it here;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Problems are;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notebook pages are slightly over-A4 size so the scanner clipped the edge off - but I think I can play with the scanner settings to solve that.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hand-writing's a bit crap! But I can solve that by practising, and also by switching to my Visconti with the more appropriate BB nib (when Mr.Visconti returns it to me from Italy!!).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoping to do a proper post this weekend...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Oooer, my signature's gone all big - have to fix that too...).</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-55195365125682038462012-10-28T12:27:00.001+00:002012-10-28T12:27:23.931+00:00Did You Know...?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...that with some nibs, maybe all nibs, I don't know, you can write with the nib upside down, and it still works. Only, and this is the good bit, the line you get is about 2-3 'nib-widths' narrower. How cool is that! (Yes, yes, of course you knew - but now I do, too).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The relevance for me is that I can now use my Pelikan with its massive 3B nib to do the crossword. Brilliant! Filling in a crossword with a 3B nib normally results in a big splurge in each square as you'd expect with 'newspaper' paper. But up the other way I get about a Medium nib which is just fine (I mean fine as in perfectly acceptable, not fine as in a 'Fine' nib...you knew that). But don't take my word for it, see the evidence;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is especially useful since my 'Shopping-list and Crosswords' pen, the pocket Yard-o-Led (which really does have a Fine nib), is away having my name engraved on it (remind me to post a picture when it's done).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, back to bed, I got a stinker of a cold (expressions of sympathy are permitted :-) ).</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-44065578854166291972012-10-27T17:46:00.002+01:002017-10-11T07:40:20.018+01:00Pelikan Nib Experiments<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So where was I...? Oh yeah, mucking about with Pelikan nibs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, it was inevitable I guess, having progressed from nib sizes of Medium to Broad, briefly to Fine, and then boldly on to Double-Broad, that I'd be tempted by a Triple-Broad nib.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think that Pelikan are the only people who make such a nib (edited to add that, of course, Montblanc do a 3B too), and, given that their nibs are easily removed/re-fitted (they simply screw in to the barrel), and the fact that I already had a Pelikan M1000 that I'd dropped and glued back together (so I didn't mind using it as a test-bed), I simply couldn't resist getting hold of one to try out. Though at about half the cost of a whole new pen, they're not cheap!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the photo of the 3B that I've used at the top of the blog (but without the silly writing all over it);</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the nibs in the range are the same physical size as the 3B, i.e. <span style="font-size: large;">HUGE</span>, compared to most makes, and I love that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So anyway, I fitted it and...wow, what a thick line it lays down (quel surprise). For a comparison with other nibs see below (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ok, so it bleeds and feathers rather, but the paper in this Daycraft notebook is a little on the thin side</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">);</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it's even more impressive with black ink (e.g. Pelikan Edelstein Onyx, or Aurora Black). Makes for high impact writing, though you have to write a bit larger than normal or you end up with joined-up puddles...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only problem, which is partly paper quality dependant, is that after a few seconds of not writing the ink can withdraw from the very tip of the nib. So if the paper is too smooth and shiny the first thing (e.g. a capital letter) you write after the pause is invisible but straight away the ink's flowing again. However, this doesn't always happen and is a minor quibble that's easily overcome with a quick scribble on the side before starting to write again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ok, enough nib stuff for today! Next time I'll do the Pelikan Oblique-Broad (OB) nib I thought I'd try too. So yes, I now have one pen and three nibs to chose from, and if that isn't an indulgence I don't know what is...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488834369856066296.post-80434881590818499662012-10-24T19:55:00.000+01:002012-10-24T19:55:01.162+01:00Hi From Mike!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I guess I'd better kick this blog off with some kind of explanation...of course, that assumes that you've discovered it and are wondering what it's about...ha, fat chance, but then, you never know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be honest, this is really just a place to keep a log of my Pen&Ink experiences (see title), but I thought I'd allow the great unwashed to see it in case somebody actually wanted to take an interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bit of history to start, then. I bought a Pelikan Souveran M1000 with a medium nib back in around 2005 I think. It was the first decent pen I'd ever bought and it was brilliant from the off. Smooth nib, nice to hold, good ink-flow, the works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later I saw a Conway Stewart I fancied, a 'Nelson' (which they don't make any more). It was in a lovely swirly red pattern, with gold trim, and had a broad nib. The 'B' nib was tempting as I felt that it would open up my otherwise scrawly handwriting, and up to a point it did (the business of improving one's handwriting will have to wait for a later post...).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, possibly because I filled it from a Visconti Travelling Inkwell (i.e. under pressure), it became leaky, from both ends of the barrel. Also, it was actually prone to drying up in the middle of a long bit of writing (I was a member of International Pen Friends at that time), and I became disillusioned with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in the end I decided to have Conway Stewart service it, for a reasonable £50, and after that it was fine. And it remains to this day a favourite of mine and is rarely without ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that I was on a roll. I went for a Yard-o-Led Viceroy Pocket pen with the Victorian finish and, unusually, a fine nib. Well straight away I regretted it. The nib was stiff and scratchy, and the ink-flow was very hard to get started but ink still leaked a little from the barrel causing the nib unit to become stained black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, after I bashed the nib on my desk whilst shaking it because it had dried up (!) and bent it (!!), I sent it off to Birmingham for a service and repair and when it came back it was great. Still a stiff nib, but good ink flow, no leaking, and great for carrying around in my pocket for important jobs like shopping lists and crosswords in the local cafe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, I went really mad, and ordered a Visconti Opera Master, in black, and with, yes, you guessed it, a double-broad nib. Well, you gotta try these things. Well, it was lovely (just as well, given the price!). Nice to hold (kind of a rounded-off octagonal shape), a bit heavier than the Pelikan, and with the smoothest loveliest nib I'd ever experienced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was cock-a-hoop until...the ink started drying up in the middle of a long letter. I was using Visconti Black ink, and indeed, wanted to use black in it. But, I don't know if black inks are generally thicker than coloured one's, but I got the same effect with both Pelikan Brilliant Black and, but to a lesser extent, Pelikan Edelstein Onyx.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Visconti importers recommended Monte Verde ink which is supposed to have additives that help with the ink flow, but still no luck. So...off to the importers it went to, frankly, be replaced. Well, we'll see...I believe I should have it back in a week or so. I'm sure it'll be fine, though, and I can hardly wait. If it all goes well, I'm sure that it will become my number one pen so far (obviously I have designs on something even better, but not this year!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, while the Visconti has been away, I've been mucking about with different nibs for the old Pelikan (there's a clue in the picture behind the blog headline - can you spot what it is, boys and girls?).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, on that bombshell, I'll sign off, and go have me tea! I'll do all the trials and tribulations of nib changing next time and, if anyone really is reading this drivel, I'll try to include some images, links, and maybe some jokes too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Byeee!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734650774265861389noreply@blogger.com0