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Pen, Ink & Paper

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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    Mark gets a new hobby and goes a little nuts with it. Who would’ve guessed.

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    @jon-nyc said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

    Mark gets a new hobby and goes a little nuts with it. Who would’ve guessed.

    Hey! When I do something, I go all in! 🤣

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      You two! Get a room! 😅🤣😂

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        @jon-nyc said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

        Mark gets a new hobby and goes a little nuts with it. Who would’ve guessed.

        Hey! When I do something, I go all in! 🤣

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        @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

        @jon-nyc said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

        Mark gets a new hobby and goes a little nuts with it. Who would’ve guessed.

        Hey! When I do something, I go all in! 🤣

        Just checking in on this. My bet is that Mark is close to a dozen by now. Anyone want to take the over?

        Anyway, how's the writing been going, Mark?

        Please love yourself.

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          Just 3 (The Monteverde and Conklin with The Little Witch Kaweco enroute)

          I am actually 3D printing one as I type this.

          I have a spare converter and the original medium nib from the Monteverde. I found a ready to print model for them and I'm printing it using color changing filament. It should be a cool looking pen if it works. I will post a photo when it's done printing.

          Writing is getting better. Well the penmanship anyway. lol I have been using them at work for everything! I love the looks I get when I use them. Like WTF?

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            A 3D printed fountain pen.

            It does not work with my threaded converters so I had to use a stock cartridge and I don't like the ink.

            I suppose changing cartridges with a full one in the pen would be rather messy but I might risk it.

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            • markM mark

              Just 3 (The Monteverde and Conklin with The Little Witch Kaweco enroute)

              I am actually 3D printing one as I type this.

              I have a spare converter and the original medium nib from the Monteverde. I found a ready to print model for them and I'm printing it using color changing filament. It should be a cool looking pen if it works. I will post a photo when it's done printing.

              Writing is getting better. Well the penmanship anyway. lol I have been using them at work for everything! I love the looks I get when I use them. Like WTF?

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              @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

              Writing is getting better. Well the penmanship anyway. lol I have been using them at work for everything! I love the looks I get when I use them. Like WTF?

              I never really use mine outside of the house. I mean sometimes I do, but never with anyone close enough to see what I'm writing with.

              But one thing I like to do is keep a cool kind of ink in my Liliput and keep that on me. I have a nice, rich turquoise that has a serious amount of color variation to it, even on cheap paper, and thankfully it barely feathers. So, when I'm given something to sign, I'm given a ballpoint, but I use my pen (along with a fairly wide italic nib) and people are like "WTF did you use to write that?" 😄

              Maybe just get a friction fit converter? That pen looks awesome, Can it be polished so that the irregularities in the 3D printing can be smoothed out?

              Please love yourself.

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                It's a silky finish filament and when you sand it, the silky surface gets dulled. I might try again with a .05mm layer height. I printed the first one with a .10mm layer height which is pretty much the limit of a .4mm nozzle. I will try a .05 layer height and will probably print it with a mat black filament this time. Using a .2mm nozzle is tricky and is prone to clogging but it is the proper way to get to .05mm layer height. The "hairs" inside the clip are unavoidable but I can clean them up with an exacto blade. I tried to vaporize them with a heat gun but it deformed the entire cap so that ended up in the recycle bin.

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                  We drove to the heart of downtown Chicago this morning for our first visit to Atlas Stationers. https://www.atlasstationers.com/

                  So many pens! So much ink! Notebooks, accessories and very helpful and friendly staff.

                  Purchased my first Italian pen. A just released and not even on display yet, Visconti Comedia Purgatorio with a fine nib. It is the smoothest writing pen I own.

                  Found a beautiful leather pen/notebook case. Two Rhodia notebooks, A Pilot dip pen and an Atlas exclusive "ink of the week" Colorverse Wolf Point. It's a shimmering ink with tiny bits of glitter in it. Absolutely gorgeous ink.

                  The Mrs picked out a couple of cheap pens including a Pilot disposable fountain pen and a gel pen. She also found a small sketch pad.

                  D1 picked out 3 inks, notepads and a pack of Leaf color swatch papers.

                  We had a great time despite the overpriced parking. $59 for 90 minutes of parking! 🙄

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                  I foresee more trips like this in the future.

                  We will be scoping out more affordable parking for our future visits though.

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                  • markM mark

                    We drove to the heart of downtown Chicago this morning for our first visit to Atlas Stationers. https://www.atlasstationers.com/

                    So many pens! So much ink! Notebooks, accessories and very helpful and friendly staff.

                    Purchased my first Italian pen. A just released and not even on display yet, Visconti Comedia Purgatorio with a fine nib. It is the smoothest writing pen I own.

                    Found a beautiful leather pen/notebook case. Two Rhodia notebooks, A Pilot dip pen and an Atlas exclusive "ink of the week" Colorverse Wolf Point. It's a shimmering ink with tiny bits of glitter in it. Absolutely gorgeous ink.

                    The Mrs picked out a couple of cheap pens including a Pilot disposable fountain pen and a gel pen. She also found a small sketch pad.

                    D1 picked out 3 inks, notepads and a pack of Leaf color swatch papers.

                    We had a great time despite the overpriced parking. $59 for 90 minutes of parking! 🙄

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                    I foresee more trips like this in the future.

                    We will be scoping out more affordable parking for our future visits though.

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                    @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

                    scoping out more affordable parking

                    Spot Hero is your friend.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    • George KG George K

                      @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

                      scoping out more affordable parking

                      Spot Hero is your friend.

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                      @George-K said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

                      @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

                      scoping out more affordable parking

                      Spot Hero is your friend.

                      Thank you! I will check it out.

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                        That's a great haul, Mark!

                        Visconti. I see we have an aristocrat in our midst. 😄 (They do make really beautiful stuff.)

                        It's my birthday next week, so my wife and daughter got me a pen and some ink.

                        The pen is a white Pilot Metropolitan. But, the nib is a 1.1 I tuned myself. It writes better and more consistently than any other nib I have, including the gold ones.

                        The ink is Baltimore Canyon Blue. So, hey, local, but with some weird properties. It's the most intense blue ink I've ever used, and it's permanent, but the stuff does NOT bleed through. I tried using it with a 1.5 on the shittiest paper I had around and it was fine. Crazy.

                        Here's a sample:

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                        Please love yourself.

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                          Love the pen! The ink looks killer too.

                          I'm done buying for a while. I just reprinted some parts for my 3D printed pen and using the JOWO medium nib, and a stock cartridge that came with the Monteverde, it is writing very nicely.

                          Now if I only had something to write that was worthy. 🤣

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                            Update:

                            Yesterday we drove to Appleton, WI for our second visit to Anderson Pens. The first visit was last month and it did not buy a pen! LOL.

                            I did however buy a vintage Esterbrook mechanical pencil from 1931. It is the one to the far right in the group photo.

                            Yesterday we hung around after closing for the monthly meeting of the pen club. The daughter of the owners is an art teacher and we all tried our hand with creating art with fountain pen inks. It was a lot of fun.

                            I did pick up a new pen and a new pencil yesterday as well as a bottle of Diamine Cobalt Jazz Shimmertastic ink.

                            The pen i purchased is the Pilot Vanishing Point in matt black. The pencil is a Monteverde mechanical with .9mm lead, in brass. It has 4 rulers engraved with Inches and millimeters gage. It also has a rubber stylus for use with tablets and smart phones. The top is threaded and when removed reveals a small reversible screwdriver with phillips and flat heads.

                            Not including the 3d printed pen I now have 13 fountain pens of varying price and quality levels. Two of them were given to me by my daughter's original penabler. We visited with him on our trip to Pennsylvania last month.

                            The Pilot Vanishing Point...

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                            The collection as of today.

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                              Very nice, Mark! I've a vanishing point as well—it's the black/gunmetal one. I used it regularly back when I was commuting. Not as much now, but they're great pens.

                              You've quite the collection there already!

                              I picked up, yet again, a Pilot Parallel calligraphy pen. A buddy of mine has been doing some really cool stuff with his and so I figured I'd give it a go again. Here's a practice page I did awhile back, using a cheap Speedball and some of my own writing as a sample. (The poem's basically my answer to AI as creative replacement.) I'm still getting used to calligraphy again, but it's fun.

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                              Please love yourself.

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                                I love the calligraphy! You have a very nice technique too!

                                I am gong to take you up on the creative writing lessons soon. I need a new intellectual pursuit and although I am currently at a loss as to how I will ever develop that skill, I know from a lifetime of pursuit of things that I know little of, practice and persistence is the key.

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                                  To extend this, I am still dismayed by my handwriting skills. I tend to rush and sometimes that actually produces some "acceptable results". But mostly, it results in a product that is absolutely horrifying. 😆

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                                    I love the calligraphy! You have a very nice technique too!

                                    I am gong to take you up on the creative writing lessons soon. I need a new intellectual pursuit and although I am currently at a loss as to how I will ever develop that skill, I know from a lifetime of pursuit of things that I know little of, practice and persistence is the key.

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                                    @mark said in Pen, Ink & Paper:

                                    I love the calligraphy! You have a very nice technique too!

                                    I am gong to take you up on the creative writing lessons soon. I need a new intellectual pursuit and although I am currently at a loss as to how I will ever develop that skill, I know from a lifetime of pursuit of things that I know little of, practice and persistence is the key.

                                    It's actually fairly easy to get started, but don't think you need to do all the things, all at once. The trick with developing is to couple having fun with a defined trajectory. It's a lot like music.

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      I'm entertained by this thread, that is all.

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