Fountain pen - recommendations

[smmudge]

Thanks guys, I got my dad to contact the place he got it from and they said they'd take it back and either fix or replace it.

 

[mrs quoad]

Just bought a 2nd hand never-used Murano glass dipping pen off the Fountain Pen Network

Should be here by Thurs / Fri.

 

[mrs quoad]

What's that ink that some of youse like?

Vintage Paw and Fridgemagnet, I think?

Something to do with red, or something

Carbamazapine?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

What's that ink that I like?

 

[mrs quoad]

That one that Violent Panda also likes?

I think it sounds like Carbamazepine, or Cinnabar.

Only carbamazepine is an antipsychotic, and Cinnabar Blood is a space marine modification which results in near-instantaneous healing of all but the most horrendous of wounds.

So I doubt it's either of those.

I think it's reddish.

It's one of the inks that's cropped up several times on here, IIRC.

 

[mrs quoad]

Myself, I use a nice purple iron gall ink by Rohrer and Klingner that rejoices in the name "scabiosa", but that's because I'm a bit pretentious.

Got it.

Was confusing VP with the other VP, so ctrl+f-ing for 'vintage'

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Stop! That's confused me even more.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oh, Scabiosa. Right. Yes. Purple.

 

[mrs quoad]

Oh, Scabiosa. Right. Yes. Purple.

Any ideas where it can be found / bought?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Any ideas where it can be found / bought?

TWD sell it - http://www.thewritingdesk.co.uk/showproduct.php?brand=Rohrer+and+Klingner&range=bottled+ink&cat=ink

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I loaded a pen with some today actually - a TWSBI 530 with a B nib. It might look a bit pale and underwhelming in the spiderleg nibs you use, though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I loaded a pen with some today actually - a TWSBI 530 with a B nib. It might look a bit pale and underwhelming in the spiderleg nibs you use, though.

Spiderleg. Heheheh!

 

[mrs quoad]

I loaded a pen with some today actually - a TWSBI 530 with a B nib. It might look a bit pale and underwhelming in the spiderleg nibs you use, though.

Should be ok with a glass dip pen, though!

And, tbf, anyone who thinks a Lamy F is 'fine' is having a larf. My dad - being well-intentioned - brought up a 1980s manifestly plastic Cross pen last w/e. It's got a B nib. It's within a gnat's crotchet of my Lamy's 'F.'

 

[mrs quoad]

Buggeration only knows what's happened there, but that's a Lamy Safari M at the top, a Cross Abomination B in the middle, and a Lamy 2000 F at the bottom.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Well, this is Scabiosa with the TWSBI B, anyway. 5mm Rhodia paper. Rather underwhelming light.

 

[mrs quoad]

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Well, this is Scabiosa with the TWSBI B, anyway. 5mm Rhodia paper. Rather underwhelming light.

What is a 'cupcake sticker,' and what kind of recipe (or grooming policy) requires one?

(btw, is that much weaker than oxblood?)

 

[FridgeMagnet]

What is a 'cupcake sticker,' and what kind of recipe (or grooming policy) requires one?

(btw, is that much weaker than oxblood?)

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/making.289488

It's a greyish, dusky purple, not very colour-saturated i.e. low S on the HSV scale - it looks much like J Herbin Poussiere de Lune, rather than, say, Waterman Violet. I have a few purples if you want other recommendations.

 

[mrs quoad]

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/making.289488

It's a greyish, dusky purple, not very colour-saturated i.e. low S on the HSV scale - it looks much like J Herbin Poussiere de Lune, rather than, say, Waterman Violet. I have a few purples if you want other recommendations.

I would (L) some recommendations.

And a brief description of the HSV scale wouldn't go amiss, either

 

[smmudge]

So what is a good EF nib? I have a OHTO Tasche and pending parker sonnet both F nibs but they seem more like M nibs. I'd like to try a proper skinny nib.

 

[mrs quoad]

So what is a good EF nib? I have a OHTO Tasche and pending parker sonnet both F nibs but they seem more like M nibs. I'd like to try a proper skinny nib.

£10-12 I'd go for the Platinum Carbon.

£115ish I'd go for a Sailor Sapporo in the colour of your choice, ordered through writing desk (who will allow you an EF nib with any colour body / stock), which will be your most beloved pen ever.

Other folks might have other suggestions

 

[Cid]

Get one of the carbon pens, they're dirt cheap and very fine.

e2a: great minds...

 

[smmudge]

Cool, think I'll go with the carbon. Thanks!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I would (L) some recommendations.

And a brief description of the HSV scale wouldn't go amiss, either

HSV as in Hue, Saturation, Value - saturation being the intensity of the colour. Sort of thing.

What sort of purple are you after? The aforementioned Waterman Violet is a pleasant brightish colour (as bright as, say, the blue) and very reliable, fairly mid-purple, between indigo and violet. Diamine Syrah is a more reddish purple that has a lot of shading. Diamine also make Eclipse, which is an absurdly dark ink that has purple edges to it - I regularly mistake it for black - a good work ink for things that should be in proper respectable ink but where you want to be a little individual.

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[mrs quoad]

HSV as in Hue, Saturation, Value - saturation being the intensity of the colour. Sort of thing.

What sort of purple are you after?

I'm unlikely to know until it turns out I like it

The aforementioned Waterman Violet is a pleasant brightish colour (as bright as, say, the blue) and very reliable, fairly mid-purple, between indigo and violet. Diamine Syrah is a more reddish purple that has a lot of shading. Diamine also make Eclipse, which is an absurdly dark ink that has purple edges to it - I regularly mistake it for black - a good work ink for things that should be in proper respectable ink but where you want to be a little individual.

ty! Will have a look when we're back from salsa, and after I've tried making a chocolate marquise

 

[mrs quoad]

Cool, think I'll go with the carbon. Thanks!

It probably writes better than nearly all my other pens. And has one of my stand-out favourite nibs. Compared to anything else I've got close to that price range... it's just... a different kind of writing experience. Lovely, lovely pen. IMO.

It's one of the reasons that I was easily convinced by Fridgey's Nakaya link... if Platinum's dirt cheap pens are that good (and not a million miles from expendable at £10-12)...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

So what is a good EF nib? I have a OHTO Tasche and pending parker sonnet both F nibs but they seem more like M nibs. I'd like to try a proper skinny nib.

Another good fine nibbed pen is the Wality eyedropper - http://www.andys-pens.co.uk/clearacrylic.shtml - which IME has a terrific nib for the price. They're also sold under the Airmail brand in India, where they're made. Not hyper-fine like a Sailor EF but pretty fine.

 

[Athos]

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[Cid]

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Athos what pen were you using for that?