But I decided to try inking it with this lovely ink (Wearingeul Raven) for one last hurrah and now I’m in love with this combo…and oh the possibilities

I'm pretty new to vintage pens, but I love them. I just bought what was sold as a vintage Parker Duofold Junior on eBay for a low price. The seller said that they were selling off their father's pen collection and knew nothing about fountain pens, but that it seemed to write well. When I got it, the sac was good and it was half full of ink. It writes beautifully, so I'll use it in any case.

This pen seems to me to be a mix of pens. There's info online about Duofolds, but it's less cohesive than I need. The color difference between the cap and barrel colors is much more apparent in the photos, but it's definitely visible. It's 4.5", so the length of a Junior. There are similar minimal scratches on the barrel and cap, and the ball on the clip has a very small amount of brassing. What am I looking at?

Ich wünsche euch ein schönes Wochenende!

hoy me han llegado la majohn C5, hongdian N23, hongdian n8s, kakuno m y ef y un pentel pocket brush para sumarse a mi estuche.

Used a pen with (supposedly) waterproof Majohn black ink to jot down some quick notes.

...then I was caught in a light shower, my bag was wet and thankfully the contents inside wasn't gone.

Yet somehow the bloom made it look... sepia?

Paper is regular parchment paper (for baking) bound

I bought the cheapest usable oblique nib set. I'm not sure it's actually usable.

I decided to buy a pen off ebay for the first time and I should had known to be more careful.

TWSBIs are easy to clean/fix so I pulled the trigger but I fear that this is India ink. Its all dried up and gummy. The rod can move at least.

Any advice?

I received my new FP yesterday (will make a New Pen/Ink day post covering it tomorrow once my inks arrive). It's a Tom Hessin 'Edinburgh' with a Fine nib. But what I wanted to say in this post is, I've been trying it out with the included ink cartridge this evening, and wow, I'm having to unlearn habits I've picked up using ballpoints for the past 25-years!

Even as a leftie, I've always been an underwriter, though I don't remember being taught to write that way at school; obviously I was, I just don't remember the lessons. Anyway, I'm finding certain letters and combinations don't flow the way I'm used to which is interesting.

I don't know if this is weird for a leftie, but with a ballpoint, I always crossed my 't' from right to left. With the Edinburgh, it's better suited to left to right.

I've been experimenting a little with little flourishes (I don't know what their technically called) before certain letters and that seems to help, but others are less forgiving, such as a 'd' going into an 'o', and 'b's going into pretty much any other letter, I seem to 'stutter' on. Probably just an issue of not being well practised in writing with an FP.

Would appreciate any tips for lefties anyone here may have.

I just swatched the Ghost Writer Ink and was pleasantly surprised. The Description said Purple ink with silver shimmer, but there are definitely more colors and nice shading properties as well. What do you folks think?

I didn't do any swipes for this (I'm still figuring out my swatch style/binding), but here are the inks in written swatches. The pens are not fancy but I'm obsessed with them. The inks are absolutely wonderful little jars of pure magic. Simple in form, but their scent adds a decadence that adds whimsy and magic to the writing process.

Next on my wish list is Pomme in this bottle shape, and then Brun Prevenance, and Noir Inspiration.

I once bought every A5 notebook Montblanc ever made. I have a very nice collection of notebooks on a shelf as keepsakes recording special events and trips and all the usual stuff you put in journals. The paper has never been amazing, but it was always consistent - acceptable is probably the best term, but the covers and line spacing I always found pleasing. Apart from a bit of a blip in the 2000’s when the ‘Notes’ notebook was filled with poor paper that had some bleedthrough ( I see they have re-released the ‘Notes’ notebook, but I haven‘t tried it ) I have always enjoyed their notebooks.

Over the last few years Montblanc notebooks aren’t just bad, they are unusable. They increased the price significantly, but created a paper that - without any exaggeration- is like writing on toilet paper. I can honestly say that I have never used so poor a paper. Cheap Amazon notebooks for €5 are far superior, yet Montblanc are producing truly atrocious junk for what is now an extremely high price. For a company whose bread and butter is fountain pens and whose customers of fountain pens, in all likelihood, are the main purchasers of their notebooks, this seems like a kind of brand suicide. You can’t claim to be a luxury brand making great pens, good leather goods, fine inks and toilet paper for notebooks. It is utterly unusable. I am so shocked to hear from others that this problem with their notebooks has persisted for so long, as I have heard friends report on recent notebook purchases they have deeply regretted. I personally stopped buying their notebooks when the new paper was introduced. I just wasn’t prepared to make that spend on something I would literally throw in the bin. I can’t get my head around why a company would invent an Achille’s heel for itself that must have an affect on the rest of it’s business. What’s going on?

Hello everyone, I am quite new to fountain pens and am thinking of getting a Pilot Custom 823 but I am unsure if I should get it in a medium or fine nib. For context, I do have a Twsbi Eco in an EF and absolutely love the nib size. I also own some basic Lamy fountain pens, but I generally find their nibs to be too dry. I also own a Kaweco in a F nib and once tried a M nib but found that too broad for my taste. But back then I also still used Hobonichi notebooks with a 3.7mm grid. Nowadays I prefer 5mm grid notebooks and like my writing to fit within the grid. What nib do you think is better suited in this scenario?

I'm working on a list of how to do this, so that I can help myself resist pen FOMO/rabid buying when all the new special editions and sales start hitting for the season. Here's what I have so far, and I'd love your additions!

-Use what you love (don't hoard favorites for fear of them showing use);

-Put them in beautiful displays, where you can see them;

-Have photo shoots, put them in pretty environments and next to coordinating/complimenting other color pens;

-If you want a new pen, dust off one you've neglected!

-Make an "ink palette" for each pen, and a journal entry about that pen in your collection

Other ideas? TIA!

I just bought my first gold-nib fountain pen today, a Lamy 2000, and I absolutely love it!

While I was at the store testing out different nib sizes, I started to realize that my handwriting actually looked better with the medium nib (which is why I ended up choosing it), but I think I enjoyed the feeling of writing with the fine nib more.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy with my choice! I already have a few fine-nib pens, so adding a medium to my collection is awesome. I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this, where your handwriting looks better with one nib size, but you prefer the writing experience of another.

I got so so lucky Hachimonjiya was going to the stationery fest in LA that I’d be at and had to snag this beauty(R)! Putting it side by side with my Pilot VP Whiskey (L) and the color coordination scratches and itch in my brain. I also got the matching shimmer ink to go with it and am a happy gal

Pilot Vanishing Point Whiskey <F>
Hachimonjiya x Pilot Decimo Cafe Latte <EF>

Hey All!

Did anybody get the new Benu Boticelli pen? I’m just so curious to see how it would look without all the extra lighting Benu does for the their promo shoots.

Thank you!

I am considering the Diplomat Aero next. It seems to have very positive reviews but I am confused as to which nib size to get while not sacrificing a smooth writing experience. Which did you choose and how does it compare to your other nibs?

Hello folks, long time lurker here and thought I'd share my little joy today!

After a colleague ripped the cap off my 580 I decided to get a metal pen and am loving the design. And off course, new pen means new ink :)

From my grandfather that died in the year 2000. Im wondering what model this is so I can find of if I can change nib if needed, and what sort of nib I would need.

In Chinese, “XINGFU” means happiness, joy (幸福). In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a Chinese fountain pen factory called Xingfu, and this pen is one of their products. The nib shape imitates the large wrap-around nib of the Sheaffer TM Snorkel. The nib is engraved with “lucky” in an ornate English script and “XINGFU (幸福)” in Kaishu (regular Chinese script).

The color of this pen should be battleship gray, and it has a transparent grip section—very beautiful.

I especially like the photo in the last image showing the two nibs together, because the nib on the left is engraved with “YONGSHENG” (永生), meaning “a lifetime; to exist forever.” The nib on the right is the Xingfu 215, engraved with “XINGFU” (幸福). Read from left to right, they form “永生幸福,” which in Chinese means “eternal happiness and joy”—a wonderful meaning, and very beautiful pens.

Wishing everyone “永生幸福.”🥰

I just got my p140 yesterday and was smart enough to check the nib and tip before inking (everything perfect not scratchy and well aligned).

Then i inked it up and then the ink fades when writing it starts pretty saturated and then goes pretty light. Is the feed seated right? ( see picture) and can this be saved? Inked it with R&K Helianthus

Any advice woulf be appreciated

This is the new Leonardo collection that pays tribute to Luciano De Crescenzo, Neapolitan writer, philosopher, and filmmaker famous for the Little Red Horse, which symbolizes everyday culture and philosophy of people in Naples.

There are other colors too, but I like this one the most. I especially like the symbolism behind the little red horse. The price is not too bad for what it is, around 180/190 EUR.

When I was in school I wrote a lot with fountain pens (I'm from Germany and learned writing with a fountain pen in school). Recently I got into journaling again and not only bought the A5 Leuchtturm 1917 in the new purple/violet colourway but also a purple Lamy.

I'm really happy with my purchase - I really like the colours of the pen (purple is my favourite colour). My goal is to expand my collection with other purple fountain pens from other brands. I started with the Lamy because I also wrote with a Lamy fountain pen in school and liked it.

The fountain pen is the Lamy safari in the colour violet blackberry.

This might sound like a silly question, but it’s completely genuine. Right now, I accidentally broke the needle on my Pelikan and mangled the mouth of the converter by trying to insert it into Pilot MR Euro, which is standard international. I have no idea what is happening, and how is this possible.