ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I like my Ahab, but not enough to buy another Noodler.
Fountain pen - recommendations
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I like my Ahab, but not enough to buy another Noodler.
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Rapidograph uses cartridges, Isograph is refillable. I think the ink is a compromise - it dries very quickly on smooth media and creates that extremely dense black line. Inevitably in 0.1mm space it's going to dry out quickly. The sets came with stands that you could put them in without having to replace the lid, never had that though. Not sure where my thinner nibs, I appear to only have the basic set (0.25, 0.35, 0.5 I think) so just using those.
Virtual Blue
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I have found my perfect fountain pen!
Under £20 and the fine nib is perfect for my style of writing.
I love the action on the very slight point. And boy, the construction just spunks quality. Recommend!
Under £20 and the fine nib is perfect for my style of writing.
I love the action on the very slight point. And boy, the construction just spunks quality. Recommend!
I have one of these and love it.
mechanical pencils allowed?
i found these amazing value and they cost under a tenner from a certain japanese seller on amazon.
perfect weight for writing. solid feel and construction.
Also someone sent me a Lamy Joy fountain pen with a calligraphy nib, I love that too..
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I have found my perfect fountain pen!
Under £20 and the fine nib is perfect for my style of writing.
I love the action on the very slight point. And boy, the construction just spunks quality. Recommend!
Is that a Pilot MR? Had a look at one earlier this year, but didn't succumb to temptation.
Virtual Blue
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I believe the Pilot Cocoon is the Japanese version of the MR. It's my first time with a Japanese fine nib/ titanium pen and found it to be of superior quality. Very refreshing.
ViolentPanda
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I'm really enjoying using Platinum Preppy cartridge pens (with the .03 nibs, although Cult Pens are now selling the "EF" .02s too now) as "eyedropper"-filled fountain pens. I've been using 4 (with matching Rohrer & Klingner inks 
) for over 18 months now with no leakage whatsoever. IMO the ultimate "disposable" (at least price-wise, at £3 or less) fountain pen!
) for over 18 months now with no leakage whatsoever. IMO the ultimate "disposable" (at least price-wise, at £3 or less) fountain pen!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
So, pen fans, best notebooks that don't suffer terrible bleed-through from pens with wet nibs?
FridgeMagnet
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Rhodia, generally. Depends what style of notebook you're after but their paper is pretty much bulletproof.
Black 'n' Red paper is also tough but a bit too shiny for me.
I bought 20 a5 rhodias when starting my current job, which only funded something indescribable beginning with an L.
Great investment.
I've also found Oxford pads pretty good, in a supermarket emergency.
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I'm really enjoying using Platinum Preppy cartridge pens (with the .03 nibs, although Cult Pens are now selling the "EF" .02s too now) as "eyedropper"-filled fountain pens. I've been using 4 (with matching Rohrer & Klingner inks
and the ef's are dry enough to work with the moleskines.
which you may recall i have a few to bring you
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
FridgeMagnet
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Oh yes, them too—I have loads that I've picked up in Smiths and put in my bag because, you know, you never know when you might suddenly want to write a novel do you?
I can also confirm based on last year's NaNoWriMo that Oxford paper is very resistant to having a strange man knock half a pint over it because he objects to your iPhone in some way he is unable to articulate. The fountain pen ink, not necessarily quite as resistant.
FridgeMagnet
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My latest recommendation is for the Pentel Orenz 0.2mm pencil. Yes, 0.2mm. Normally 0.2mm lead is of course basically unusable as it's hair-thin and breaks if you look at it, but these pencils have a metal sleeve around the lead, which magically retracts as you write. This sounds like it would be awkward but in fact is really smooth in practice, and with 0.2mm the line variation is never going to get serious; you don't need to rotate the thing in your hand as you do with a 0.5mm. I've been using one for the last few days very happily.
Another bonus is that they're pocket-safe; you can pull the whole metal sleeve down into the body.
In the UK, Cult Pens sell them.
Another bonus is that they're pocket-safe; you can pull the whole metal sleeve down into the body.
In the UK, Cult Pens sell them.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
After searching for a chunky-bodied fountain pen (thus easier for me to grip) with an EF nib, I took a punt on a Pilot Kakuno - the Japanese equivalent of Pelikan's "Pelikano" school pens - and I have to say that I'm quite impressed by how natural it feels "in hand".
QOTH
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I love that 1) there is a fountain pen thread and 2) it is 42 pages long!
I've recently returned to manually writing things down which means my stationery obsession can flourish.
So far I've just been using those disposable pilot fountain pens, but they do the job of making my handwriting legible and I don't have to worry about losing them. And they come in a lot of colours.
I know its a kids pen but I rather like the cthuloid tentacley look of this one
Faber-Castell School Fountain Pen Grey
I've recently returned to manually writing things down which means my stationery obsession can flourish.
So far I've just been using those disposable pilot fountain pens, but they do the job of making my handwriting legible and I don't have to worry about losing them. And they come in a lot of colours.
I know its a kids pen but I rather like the cthuloid tentacley look of this one
Faber-Castell School Fountain Pen Grey
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You realise that if you buy that, you will be overwhelmingly compelled to make sure that the first thing you write is "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", don't you?
High Voltage
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I've just bought am IBM golf ball electric typewriter - it's in, as near as dammit, perfect working order, for a machine that's bouncing off 50 years old - I know it's not a fountain pen or pencil (which have squeezed in on this thread under the wire) - but this seems a place where I can own up to this - help me
QOTH
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I like the Dodo Pad blank jotter. I like that its squared rather than lines (no idea why, just do). Good size (inbetween A5 and A4) It feels nice to write on and the ink doesn't bleed through to the other side. Wire bound (so it folds flat) and you can buy an adhesive pen loop to stick on the inside cover so you don't lose your pen.
mmmm adhesive pen loops
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Tell us all about it. Did it come with multiple fonts?
High Voltage
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Yes - apart from the golf ball in the machine it came with a further box of 6 different fonts
and
1 PACK OF DIFFERENT SHRIFT GOLF BALLS
1 PACK OF GOLD GRADE FILM CARBON
1 PACK OF "PELIKAN" FILM RIBBON
1 PACK OF CORRECTION TAPES
1/2 PACK OF IBM LIFT-OFF TAPE
1 PACK OF HIGH YIELD CORRECTABLE FILM RIBBON
2 PACKS OF IBM HIGH YIELD CORRECTABLE FILM RIBBON
1 PACK OF TYPEWRITING PAPER
1 PACK OF COPYGRAPHIC FILM CARBON
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Which fonts?
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
It's at work - I'll let you know on Monday - but it does type very nicely indeed - and as I've been trained to touch type it's lovely to have a "proper" typewriter with nice feel to it
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
double post
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
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I'd hoped for a scanned sample of each, but I suppose we can't have everything.
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Isopropyl alcohol and lots of cotton buds, or invest in some "sticky stuff remover" from Lakeland - petroleum-based and stinky, but very effective!
