I just love this channel, I'll tell you why: often my day today life is filled with tense, filled with anxiety. I will put this and have it on the side. Listening, watching it will create a peaceful mindset for me, where my conscience is tranquil. Thank you for that, have a great, purposeful and successful year 🎉.
57:48 I too have grey eyes that are slightly monochromatic. If I wear blue they look blue, if I were green they take on a bit of green. Turquoise is always fun, and purple looks weird as an eye color. When I wear white, black, or grey then you can clearly see I have grey eyes. Any other colors will shift my eye color a bit.
To prevent shimmering inks from clogging your pens, don't fill them all the way. leaving some empty space. Push the excess air out so the piston is half-way up the barrel/converter before you use it. Then when you finish writing, suck all of the ink out of the feed by unscrewing the converter/piston and store your pen nib-up. When you go to write again, turn the converter until the fins of the feed start filling with ink. This both primes the feed and loosens shimmer left behind on the walls of the ink channel, and you're good to go. If your pen is running dry while writing, I find it helps to either add an agitator to the converter or to use a filling system in which the ink can slosh around freely, and just inverting your pen every time you've written one or two lines; that stops all the shimmer from settling behind the feed in one big pile. Edit: This also applies to the gentleman changing elevation in his truck and experiencing burping. Suck the ink out of the feed and store your pen nib-up, then the air pocket can freely exit the feed as the ambient pressure changes without taking any ink along with it in the process. As for a pen that has a shut-off mechanism but no rod that could get bent: Diplomat Nexus, that's the only one I can come up with. It has a rod, but it's always protected inside the barrel and doesn't move.
Great video as usual, Brian, thanks! Like you, I enjoy very much watching Severance. Great idea of yours to regard the series as a puzzle.Have a nice week.
I just got my Midnight Orchid Ritma today and am in love! The gunmetal 💜 and this beautiful purple 💜 and the POP when you unpost 😄 is so satisfying. Ty for this cool sticker too! It went straight on my Journal🥰
When Lord Ishmael mentioned that he drives in the mountains that have large elevation changes, my first thought was "wonder if he's driving in Colorado" because in Denver we're at 5280' and Vail Pass sits at 10.666' with the peak being a 14er. There are a lot of elevations drops coming off Eisenhower Tunnel (11,138') down to Dillon, CO (9.019). It's an ~8 mile drop from tunnel to Dillon and you feel the elevation drop while you're trying to maintain speed.
Opus 88 (an eyedropper pen made in Taiwan) also has the second reservoir and lock to prevent burping. Problem with this pen is that it takes 4 turns to get the cap off, which starts to feel like FOREVER I’ve found that when the shimmer clogs my feed while writing, if I take a wet wipe and wipe down the surface of the nib along the slit, it seems to wipe out some of the offending shimmer and gets the pen writing again most of the time
On all of my pens that use shimmering ink I use an old school safety razor blade to widen and deepen the ink channel(s) in the feed and after that I have no issues. Ive done it to sailor fines, kakunos, jinhaos and many more plus it's something narrow enough to clean the ink channel(s) as well
That Ritma pen is really pretty. I should get one, maybe. When you talked about color shifting, I thought about my cars; both my current car and my previous car. My current car is blue; but, some people think it's grey and some people say it looks white. It depends on the lighting. I looked up the color once; but, don't remember what Honda calls it; Glacier Ice, maybe. My previous car had a color name called Tideland Pearl. I described it as the color of the ocean on a cloudy day. In some lighting, it looked grey or silver or green. Interesting facts about eye color. My son was just telling me these things about eye color earlier this week. My dad had brown eyes and my mom had blue eyes. I ended up with green eyes, my brother had blue eyes, and my sister had color shifting eyes; but, they were noted as hazel.
I'm a calligrapher, and I have used fountain pen inks with my steel dip nibs, both italic and flex. It works, but it's different from inks intended for that use. With dip pen ink, I can usually write 1 to 3 words per dip; with fountain pen ink, because it's more watery, I can write 1 to 4 letters per dip. For high shading inks, it can be worth it! My favorite so far was a commission for a quote using Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun in a 4 mm italic nib. It was awesome. Thank you for the fascinating fun fact! I've always enjoyed that my eyes will shift to match blue, grey, or green shirts, but I didn't know why that was. Have a great two weeks!
For the truck driver: Opus 88 Japanese eyedropper! Has a seal between the main reservoir and feed section (and the knob on the back to unscrew) but you just fill it with an eyedropper/syringe instead of a piston/plunger. A more expensive option is the Diplomat Nexus with its sealing rod mechanism when it's capped. I've never used one, but it looks cool!
For the truck driver: my solution is to use the Lamy with a converter. That way, before travel to a high location, you can take the converter apart, put it upwards and screw the thing until the ink is close to the brim and the amount of air within is kept minimal.
Thank you for the science behind the pressurized ink cabin while flying and also on eye colors. Finally understand how my grandma’s eyes turned from dark brown to blue in her old age
Doodlebud made a great video a while back about pressure changes and flying with fountain pens - nib up will solve 100% of the problem. I've flown now with all kinds of pens, and no issues at all. Just keep the nib up during the elevation changes, and you can write with them in mid-flight no problem. Just can't use the pen during take off or landing :)
When changing altitude with a piston pen like the Eco, would it work to screw the piston such that there is little to no air in the barrel? Or would the air behind the piston work its way out because of the change in pressure? If this works for a piston pen, it should also work with a piston converter.
If you are creating finished calligraphy pieces you will want a lightfast ink. Most fountain pen inks are dye based and most dye based inks are not lightfast. So… if you are practising, go for it. If you are hanging your work, best to stick with pigment based inks. Speaking in generalities here. Always best to check out the properties of each ink.
Thanks for continuing with the videos. For the Q&A: What's the right way to clean a Rickshaw pencase/penroll without damaging it? Can it go into the washing machine? Should I use softener? I'm worried about ruining it but I'd like to clean it (stains of regular fp ink inside). Thanks and cheers!
Brian 'The Man' Goulet- were you the Goulet on the shelf when I discovered my calligraphy ink was completely dry in the little container snd when I tried my dip calligraphy nib in fountain pen ink and could only write one letter and a loopylou and had to redip...too funny..Great timing my friend
You mention the Frixon erasable pens. I’ve only recently found this channel, so have not looked through the backlog. Have you seen the friction erasable fountain pen inks? There seem to be limited offerings currently, but it’s something I’ve recently purchased as I wanted to use a fountain pen with my reusable notebook.
Question: I know this has been asked and answered before, but changing times bring changes to business practices so in this current economy, etc. how to you choose what new brands, models and colors of pens and ink to carry? On non fountain pen preferences, I would have thought you would dig the Lamy 2000 rollerball! I've considered a rollerball version of some of my favorite fountain pens.
RE trucker/altitude changes - I would argue that TWSBI Eco would be a solid choice since the piston can be wound down (thus - always ensuring there is not a significant air pocket in there)
Related question, or maybe suggestion, on the shimmer inks. It seems the Lamy Safari (and Vista, Al-Star, LX) are designed to be pretty easy to disassemble and clean. Would that make them a good choice--maybe with a broad or stub nib--for this ink type? The medium nib on my Eco seems quite a bit wetter than that on my Safaris, but would ease of cleaning trump that?
Hi Brian, I have another question (sorry but you are "The source" of knowledge) what is the difference between a broad nib and an oblique broad nib? 😮 thank you very much for sharing all your knowledge!
I love to use eyedropper pens, both intentional and converted, so while I don’t have experience with altitude changes, I’ve had to deal with burping (especially in the converted ones). And honestly? The Pilot Varsity is the pen I’ve never had issues with burping. Even my non-eyedropper pens burp more. I think the fact that it uses a wick helps- it makes sense to me that maybe the wick is helping to moderate the ink coming out so that you don’t get burping. There are downsides- they’re not meant to be refillable, so you need to hack it to clean and refill which can make refilling more of a pita than a pen that’s meant for it (something to hold it upright, pliers and something to cushion them for taking them apart and putting them back together once filled, something to hold the body upright as you fill). And if you’re like me and like to play around with shimmer inks, they also can’t be used (wick doesn’t let them pass), but that doesn’t seem like it would be an issue for someone using it for trucking work. lol But I’ve found a single fill will last a looooong time, like any other pen with a large volume. Sometimes I can get annoyed with how long a full can last, because I want to change inks already and don’t want to waste ink! 🤣 As far as eye color, you can see the melanin get diluted in my family history. My grandpa had brown eyes, my grandma blue, and my mom had hazel. And then my dad had blue eyes as well, so mom’s hazel got diluted down to a grey in mine, that’s tinted towards green when I don’t wear a strong color. But yeah, my eyes will also reflect the colors I wear so if I wear something blue, that’s how it’ll look. It’s cool!
I have brown eyes. My wife is blue, My children are hazel as was my father. So I carried his gene for eye color. I have a carbon fiber Ritma which was a special edition. Love the feel and weight of the pen. I only wish the nib could be softer. Do you know if such nibs are available through Yafa?
Those times are awesome! My average is about the same, but my best is only 29 seconds (still happy about that one) I also went the same way with cubes, my favorite is 12×12, I enjoy building the centers and edges. I wish I had advice for the other trucker, but I'm really new to these pens, and I don't do OTR anymore, so I don't see elevation changes.
On the trucker thing: Nib up storage is best storage if worried about potential leakage, just in general. Asvine might be more economical if he is worried about breaking them. They are like, what, 20-30 dollars a whack at the most expensive (thinking of the v126 here) compared to 50+ for the twsbi vac mini? IIRC Asvine also uses 'eastern' sized nibs (I don't know if there is a technical term for the flow difference and resulting lower amount of opportunity for leakage and burping from the nib width that shows up in Euro vs Asian nibs) which might also have other benefits when travelling as it won't need filled as often. They are cheap chinese pens, but they do work pretty good in my experience as general use 'pretty, feels reasonably nice, but not to the point of worry' pens. But Goulett doesn't carry the, so maybe that's why they don't get a mention? Or just the general 'we don't like chinese pens' mindset that is in the portions of the community with the disposable income to just throw it at pens.
Question idea for future video: if I wanted to buy three bottles of my favorite ink (same company, same color) and buy a big empty bottle (like 60-100ml) and combine them all, would there be an issue? I ask because my favorite ink only comes in 20ml bottles and they are very poorly designed because they are so shallow. I'd like to have a normal bottle with a larger amount of ink in it. I have a Visconti Traveling Inkwell, so filling pens is no problem; I'm asking more for the satisfaction of having a nice looking bottle of ink on my desk. Do you think the chemistry of the same ink is close enough that they'd all mix ok even if they were different batches but presumably produced around the same time? Thanks! Love the show!
Sounds like things are tough Brian. Make sure you take care of yourself too. Goulet has wonderful professional videos, virtually all others are flaky and just not good.
Speaking of triangular grips, if German children use Lamy pens promoting a tripod finger grip, do most Germans now have that grip? I do that grip but never paid attention to grips until I got into fountain pens and noticed all the different grips in UA-cam videos!
I would love a Vanishing Point but I also need a new roof. So, I opted for the Jinhao 10 and a Majohn A2 and I love them both! On another note, TikTok... feels like when a teenager's parent takes their phone/tablet away and loads it with mommy spyware... 🙁 A lot of us are over on Red Note and love it. Its not the toxic mess that TikTok has become.
Using a fountain pen ink in a dip pen will not work well because the nib will hold less ink than desirable. You are more dipping than writing. You can thicken the ink with arabic gun or any type of natural vegetal gun. Arabic is more spensive and will produce better results. An inclined table can mitigate a bit this problem preserving more ink into the nib and letting a more satisfatory writing experience expecially with tubular nibs; with this kind of table you will hold the pen about horizontal state and it will hold a bit more ink and tend less to blob over the paper. The ideal is thickening and an inclined table.
Shimering in need a bigger tip and wetter pen. And you have to use the pen regularly. The sealing of the cap is a real problem with this kind of super saturated inks. So it is ok for some pens and a problem for others.
I just love this channel, I'll tell you why: often my day today life is filled with tense, filled with anxiety.
I will put this and have it on the side. Listening, watching it will create a peaceful mindset for me, where my conscience is tranquil.
Thank you for that, have a great, purposeful and successful year 🎉.
Brian, you are forgetting the Opus 88 Japanese eye-dropper fillers for the truck driver. The filling might be easier for him than vacuum.
57:48 I too have grey eyes that are slightly monochromatic. If I wear blue they look blue, if I were green they take on a bit of green. Turquoise is always fun, and purple looks weird as an eye color. When I wear white, black, or grey then you can clearly see I have grey eyes. Any other colors will shift my eye color a bit.
I just penabled a coworker with a PilotVP so your video on filling it was just perfectly timed! Thank you!
To prevent shimmering inks from clogging your pens, don't fill them all the way. leaving some empty space. Push the excess air out so the piston is half-way up the barrel/converter before you use it. Then when you finish writing, suck all of the ink out of the feed by unscrewing the converter/piston and store your pen nib-up. When you go to write again, turn the converter until the fins of the feed start filling with ink. This both primes the feed and loosens shimmer left behind on the walls of the ink channel, and you're good to go. If your pen is running dry while writing, I find it helps to either add an agitator to the converter or to use a filling system in which the ink can slosh around freely, and just inverting your pen every time you've written one or two lines; that stops all the shimmer from settling behind the feed in one big pile.
Edit: This also applies to the gentleman changing elevation in his truck and experiencing burping. Suck the ink out of the feed and store your pen nib-up, then the air pocket can freely exit the feed as the ambient pressure changes without taking any ink along with it in the process. As for a pen that has a shut-off mechanism but no rod that could get bent: Diplomat Nexus, that's the only one I can come up with. It has a rod, but it's always protected inside the barrel and doesn't move.
Ty! I want to try shimmer inks but I was anxious of how to troubleshoot/prevent issues. Appreciate you so much!
Great video as usual, Brian, thanks! Like you, I enjoy very much watching Severance. Great idea of yours to regard the series as a puzzle.Have a nice week.
I just got my Midnight Orchid Ritma today and am in love! The gunmetal 💜 and this beautiful purple 💜 and the POP when you unpost 😄 is so satisfying. Ty for this cool sticker too! It went straight on my Journal🥰
I used to drive from North Carolina to Washington state every week and never had an issue with my twsbi vac.
When Lord Ishmael mentioned that he drives in the mountains that have large elevation changes, my first thought was "wonder if he's driving in Colorado" because in Denver we're at 5280' and Vail Pass sits at 10.666' with the peak being a 14er. There are a lot of elevations drops coming off Eisenhower Tunnel (11,138') down to Dillon, CO (9.019). It's an ~8 mile drop from tunnel to Dillon and you feel the elevation drop while you're trying to maintain speed.
Opus 88 (an eyedropper pen made in Taiwan) also has the second reservoir and lock to prevent burping. Problem with this pen is that it takes 4 turns to get the cap off, which starts to feel like FOREVER
I’ve found that when the shimmer clogs my feed while writing, if I take a wet wipe and wipe down the surface of the nib along the slit, it seems to wipe out some of the offending shimmer and gets the pen writing again most of the time
On all of my pens that use shimmering ink I use an old school safety razor blade to widen and deepen the ink channel(s) in the feed and after that I have no issues. Ive done it to sailor fines, kakunos, jinhaos and many more plus it's something narrow enough to clean the ink channel(s) as well
That Ritma pen is really pretty. I should get one, maybe. When you talked about color shifting, I thought about my cars; both my current car and my previous car. My current car is blue; but, some people think it's grey and some people say it looks white. It depends on the lighting. I looked up the color once; but, don't remember what Honda calls it; Glacier Ice, maybe. My previous car had a color name called Tideland Pearl. I described it as the color of the ocean on a cloudy day. In some lighting, it looked grey or silver or green.
Interesting facts about eye color. My son was just telling me these things about eye color earlier this week. My dad had brown eyes and my mom had blue eyes. I ended up with green eyes, my brother had blue eyes, and my sister had color shifting eyes; but, they were noted as hazel.
I'm a calligrapher, and I have used fountain pen inks with my steel dip nibs, both italic and flex. It works, but it's different from inks intended for that use. With dip pen ink, I can usually write 1 to 3 words per dip; with fountain pen ink, because it's more watery, I can write 1 to 4 letters per dip. For high shading inks, it can be worth it! My favorite so far was a commission for a quote using Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun in a 4 mm italic nib. It was awesome.
Thank you for the fascinating fun fact! I've always enjoyed that my eyes will shift to match blue, grey, or green shirts, but I didn't know why that was. Have a great two weeks!
For the truck driver: Opus 88 Japanese eyedropper! Has a seal between the main reservoir and feed section (and the knob on the back to unscrew) but you just fill it with an eyedropper/syringe instead of a piston/plunger.
A more expensive option is the Diplomat Nexus with its sealing rod mechanism when it's capped. I've never used one, but it looks cool!
For the truck driver: my solution is to use the Lamy with a converter. That way, before travel to a high location, you can take the converter apart, put it upwards and screw the thing until the ink is close to the brim and the amount of air within is kept minimal.
Thank you for the science behind the pressurized ink cabin while flying and also on eye colors. Finally understand how my grandma’s eyes turned from dark brown to blue in her old age
Doodlebud made a great video a while back about pressure changes and flying with fountain pens - nib up will solve 100% of the problem. I've flown now with all kinds of pens, and no issues at all. Just keep the nib up during the elevation changes, and you can write with them in mid-flight no problem. Just can't use the pen during take off or landing :)
When changing altitude with a piston pen like the Eco, would it work to screw the piston such that there is little to no air in the barrel? Or would the air behind the piston work its way out because of the change in pressure? If this works for a piston pen, it should also work with a piston converter.
If you are creating finished calligraphy pieces you will want a lightfast ink. Most fountain pen inks are dye based and most dye based inks are not lightfast. So… if you are practising, go for it. If you are hanging your work, best to stick with pigment based inks. Speaking in generalities here. Always best to check out the properties of each ink.
@thegouletpencompany , what about noodlers Boston safety fir the trucker? Wondering if that would take care of the burping? Thanks for the videos
That sounds like a good idea.
Another great show! Useful pen info but what an interesting fact! Im off to deep dive on it now. Thanks!!!!
I hope the Ideos gets restocked! It's one of my favorite pens (and I did get mine from you!)
It's so underrated, it needs more attention
That purple Ritma is gorgeous too!
Endless Regalia paper is very similar to 52 gsm tomoe river. Probably the closest thing to it that isn't Tomoe that I know of
Why did you not compare the midnight or hid to the first Ritma in purple that came out a few years ago?
29:20 Opus 88 seals off! Might be a good option for the trucker
The Opus eye dropper pens have a sealed ink reservoir. Open them nib up and you should be fine.
Hobonichi notebooks are great. 52 gsm Tomoe River paper, excellent binding.
I just need all the purple pens
green/blue better
Haha! Same here. And all the purple inks too!
@ oh yes! That’s a given lol! All the purples 🙌
Thanks for continuing with the videos.
For the Q&A: What's the right way to clean a Rickshaw pencase/penroll without damaging it? Can it go into the washing machine? Should I use softener? I'm worried about ruining it but I'd like to clean it (stains of regular fp ink inside).
Thanks and cheers!
Brian 'The Man' Goulet- were you the Goulet on the shelf when I discovered my calligraphy ink was completely dry in the little container snd when I tried my dip calligraphy nib in fountain pen ink and could only write one letter and a loopylou and had to redip...too funny..Great timing my friend
You mention the Frixon erasable pens. I’ve only recently found this channel, so have not looked through the backlog. Have you seen the friction erasable fountain pen inks? There seem to be limited offerings currently, but it’s something I’ve recently purchased as I wanted to use a fountain pen with my reusable notebook.
Wow! I didn’t know that erasable fountain pen ink was a thing. Interesting!
Great video! Re: the Ritma, could also be shown next to the one that they sold as 'purple' - I have that one, and think it's actually pink, but hey.
Question: I know this has been asked and answered before, but changing times bring changes to business practices so in this current economy, etc. how to you choose what new brands, models and colors of pens and ink to carry? On non fountain pen preferences, I would have thought you would dig the Lamy 2000 rollerball! I've considered a rollerball version of some of my favorite fountain pens.
RE trucker/altitude changes - I would argue that TWSBI Eco would be a solid choice since the piston can be wound down (thus - always ensuring there is not a significant air pocket in there)
Related question, or maybe suggestion, on the shimmer inks. It seems the Lamy Safari (and Vista, Al-Star, LX) are designed to be pretty easy to disassemble and clean. Would that make them a good choice--maybe with a broad or stub nib--for this ink type? The medium nib on my Eco seems quite a bit wetter than that on my Safaris, but would ease of cleaning trump that?
Hi Brian, I have another question (sorry but you are "The source" of knowledge) what is the difference between a broad nib and an oblique broad nib? 😮 thank you very much for sharing all your knowledge!
So I love the V7 precision pens. I use to bend the point a little. I found it more comfortable when writing.
Does anyone know if the Ritma can be converted to an eye-dropper?
Alternative to fp: pencil, wood-cased or mechanical/propelling, with eraser.
I love to use eyedropper pens, both intentional and converted, so while I don’t have experience with altitude changes, I’ve had to deal with burping (especially in the converted ones).
And honestly? The Pilot Varsity is the pen I’ve never had issues with burping. Even my non-eyedropper pens burp more. I think the fact that it uses a wick helps- it makes sense to me that maybe the wick is helping to moderate the ink coming out so that you don’t get burping.
There are downsides- they’re not meant to be refillable, so you need to hack it to clean and refill which can make refilling more of a pita than a pen that’s meant for it (something to hold it upright, pliers and something to cushion them for taking them apart and putting them back together once filled, something to hold the body upright as you fill). And if you’re like me and like to play around with shimmer inks, they also can’t be used (wick doesn’t let them pass), but that doesn’t seem like it would be an issue for someone using it for trucking work. lol
But I’ve found a single fill will last a looooong time, like any other pen with a large volume. Sometimes I can get annoyed with how long a full can last, because I want to change inks already and don’t want to waste ink! 🤣
As far as eye color, you can see the melanin get diluted in my family history. My grandpa had brown eyes, my grandma blue, and my mom had hazel. And then my dad had blue eyes as well, so mom’s hazel got diluted down to a grey in mine, that’s tinted towards green when I don’t wear a strong color. But yeah, my eyes will also reflect the colors I wear so if I wear something blue, that’s how it’ll look. It’s cool!
What cube do you usually solve on? Like which brand? And do you have a favorite one?
I have brown eyes. My wife is blue, My children are hazel as was my father. So I carried his gene for eye color.
I have a carbon fiber Ritma which was a special edition. Love the feel and weight of the pen. I only wish the nib could be softer. Do you know if such nibs are available through Yafa?
Those times are awesome! My average is about the same, but my best is only 29 seconds (still happy about that one) I also went the same way with cubes, my favorite is 12×12, I enjoy building the centers and edges. I wish I had advice for the other trucker, but I'm really new to these pens, and I don't do OTR anymore, so I don't see elevation changes.
On the trucker thing: Nib up storage is best storage if worried about potential leakage, just in general. Asvine might be more economical if he is worried about breaking them. They are like, what, 20-30 dollars a whack at the most expensive (thinking of the v126 here) compared to 50+ for the twsbi vac mini? IIRC Asvine also uses 'eastern' sized nibs (I don't know if there is a technical term for the flow difference and resulting lower amount of opportunity for leakage and burping from the nib width that shows up in Euro vs Asian nibs) which might also have other benefits when travelling as it won't need filled as often.
They are cheap chinese pens, but they do work pretty good in my experience as general use 'pretty, feels reasonably nice, but not to the point of worry' pens. But Goulett doesn't carry the, so maybe that's why they don't get a mention? Or just the general 'we don't like chinese pens' mindset that is in the portions of the community with the disposable income to just throw it at pens.
Question idea for future video: if I wanted to buy three bottles of my favorite ink (same company, same color) and buy a big empty bottle (like 60-100ml) and combine them all, would there be an issue? I ask because my favorite ink only comes in 20ml bottles and they are very poorly designed because they are so shallow. I'd like to have a normal bottle with a larger amount of ink in it. I have a Visconti Traveling Inkwell, so filling pens is no problem; I'm asking more for the satisfaction of having a nice looking bottle of ink on my desk. Do you think the chemistry of the same ink is close enough that they'd all mix ok even if they were different batches but presumably produced around the same time? Thanks! Love the show!
Goodinkpressions makes notebooks with Tomoe River paper in 52 and 68 gsm.
Has anyone tried the (ye) old onion paper with a fountain pen? Just curious
The pelican 4001 ink is great for pointed, flexible steel nibs.
Sounds like things are tough Brian. Make sure you take care of yourself too. Goulet has wonderful professional videos, virtually all others are flaky and just not good.
Speaking of triangular grips, if German children use Lamy pens promoting a tripod finger grip, do most Germans now have that grip? I do that grip but never paid attention to grips until I got into fountain pens and noticed all the different grips in UA-cam videos!
Probably. I substitute teach and see a lot of students with the strangest grips. Many of these grips won't work well with a fountain pen.
Hi Brian please consider carrying Vinta Inks from the Philippines! So much shimmer and sheen!
I would love a Vanishing Point but I also need a new roof. So, I opted for the Jinhao 10 and a Majohn A2 and I love them both! On another note, TikTok... feels like when a teenager's parent takes their phone/tablet away and loads it with mommy spyware... 🙁 A lot of us are over on Red Note and love it. Its not the toxic mess that TikTok has become.
Hey Brian! I have gray eyes!!! I believe Henry Cavill does as well. My eyes change colors when I wear blue or green!
Sterling ink also has notebooks with tomoe river paper. 😊
Have you ever tried the Rubik’s 360? That is the only form I can complete.
The Pilot Metropolitan uses G2 refills!
brain could you make a video or a clip of playing the guitar in background
i like purple
Enjoy your time off
Crinkly paper journal = "Onion Skin" notebook!!
Using a fountain pen ink in a dip pen will not work well because the nib will hold less ink than desirable. You are more dipping than writing. You can thicken the ink with arabic gun or any type of natural vegetal gun. Arabic is more spensive and will produce better results. An inclined table can mitigate a bit this problem preserving more ink into the nib and letting a more satisfatory writing experience expecially with tubular nibs; with this kind of table you will hold the pen about horizontal state and it will hold a bit more ink and tend less to blob over the paper.
The ideal is thickening and an inclined table.
Shimering in need a bigger tip and wetter pen. And you have to use the pen regularly. The sealing of the cap is a real problem with this kind of super saturated inks. So it is ok for some pens and a problem for others.
Rice paper notebooks have crinkly paper.
Nice try, throwing us off of your extraterrestrial origins by talking about your grey eyes. We're onto you! 😉
I’m early