coys25

@coys25@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NPD/NID⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that they’re great for headings, titles, dates, etc - a little emphasis in my notes. With that said, my pilot metropolitan’s stub nib has also always been really scratchy too, and hard starts a lot. It’s always been one of my most disappointing pens.

  One of my favorite stub nibs is a Jinhao 80 (Lamy 2000 clone, usually sub-$10). I swapped out the Jinhao nib for a Lamy 1.1 stub, and it writes like a dream!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite autumn inks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice - I had misread this as Diamine Earl Grey at first, and was very confused (“I’ve used this before and don’t remember any orange tones!”). But it does look beautiful!

  Saddle Brown also looks very nice and versatile. Do you think that you need a medium nib to get the full spectrum of shading? I’ve sometimes been disappointed with browns that are too light with an F nib (bought a sample of Robert Oster Caffe Crema, but it really was too light for my daily use unless in an M, B, or stub).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite autumn inks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Diamine guitar inks just generally look like nice autumn inks - nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite autumn inks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a pretty fascinating ink - seems to be a totally different color depending on nib and paper…

• Favorite autumn inks?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What paper is everyone else using?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly Leuchtturm, mainly because I really like their notebooks and the variety of them that are available. The paper is fine, but not like tomoe or anything like that. I mostly write at work during meetings etc., so the notebook is equally important to me. Open to other suggestions though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fountain pen-friendly printer paper?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m US based so unfortunately there’s a mismatch in size. I’ll probably just drop some sheets in right before I print, definitely not going to pay to replace everyone else’s paper!

• Fountain pen-friendly printer paper?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking less “copy-paste” and more “set up the structure and come up with content ourselves over time?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the new user intro stuff over there very useful, and many of the guides (eg guide to Chinese fountain pens, etc) were great. If we could recreate some of that, would be awesome!

• Anybody have any idea what this stuff inside the cap of my pen is?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NPD majohn A1 fishscale get⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great pen! I have matte black. How is writing with the new texture?

• NPD: Jinhao 82 (Sailor PGS knockoff)
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This lemmy inspired me to buy my first fountain pen!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! If ink dries in it, just get what you can out then soak it in water for a few hours / overnight. If you’re like the rest of us, you’ll have more pens than you can keep inked & working soon enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This lemmy inspired me to buy my first fountain pen!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! If you actually need help figuring out how to get it working, check out this video from Goulet.

  I would suggest doing a quick pen clean first. Some Jinhaos come with a bit of ink in them for testing or some oils from the factory. This doesn’t have to be anything fancy - it’s a $9 pen! Here are some tips but don’t feel the need to get distilled water or anything like that. Just push any ink out, pull up some water with the converter out of a cup, and repeat a few times until any ink that was in there at first is gone. Then dry the nib by holding a paper towel or cloth against it until all of the water is sucked out. Then ink it up!

  Especially with these cheaper pens, I try not to be super precious about cleaning them. People get really fussy about it. But the pens are meant to be used and if a few drops of ink are left, it doesn’t really matter. You might see that the ink is a slightly different color at first due to ink mixing, but oh well! It’ll work itself out.

  Just use the pen, and if you aren’t going to use it for a while, remove the ink and rinse it out so that it’s not drying inside.