The Moonman C1 Fountain Pen Has Amazing Presentation
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I am a sucker for presentation, and the Moonman C1 has won me over. If you want this pen, you can get it here: amzn.to/2CUAAOd
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Welcome to the world of fountain pens. Need to look at Fuliwen 017 & Kaigelu 316. Most PENBBSs. Many are quite attractive. Suggest you try writing on more fountain pen friendly paper, like Rhodia, Clairefontaine or Tomeo River, avoid fuzzy letters. The color variation is shading due to changes in the amount of ink nib lays down. If you press down with more pressure, more ink flows out, darker color & on this type of paper, feathering.
@@chrisrap52 is a great source of info, Greg, particularly on the modern Chinese pen market, which is a really dynamic one with many great new pens coming out all the time. I subscribe to his channel and highly recommend it.
Another reason for the shading is that that particular ink isn't highly saturated (by design--it's an ink that is made to be easy to clean out of pens), so differences in dye concentration in where the ink pools vs. where it ink is laid down more thinly is visible. It's not necessarily about pressure--if you look very closely, you'll see that ink pools in spots where you lift the nib off the paper and at the end of longer strokes. Many of my pen/ink combos produce shading even if I use steady, light pressure.
More saturated inks will generally provide less shading. There are some exceptions, i.e. inks with really rich color saturation that still show shading, and these inks tend to be at the top of many people's "favorite inks" lists.
Shading can be highly desirable to a lot of fountain pen users. Others dislike it. It's all personal taste. I personally love shading in inks, but I consider Parker Quink Blue to be more of a "safe" ink, i.e., one of those inks that is easy to clean out and won't stain or clog anything in the pen and is easy to clean even if you mess up and let the ink dry out in the pen, so I use it in vintage pens, pens that are harder to clean because I can't disassemble them, or borrowed pens.
Thanks man. being super new to this, I was recommended to him as well
I can buy this paper in an office depot or amazon, correct?
@@gregandpens1334 Amazon usually doesn't have the best prices or they ship from abroad, which takes a long time. Try online retailers that cater to stationery nerds and fountain pen addicts (JetPens, Goulet, Anderson, Vanness, Pen Chalet, Goldspot, etc.). For specifically Tomoe River notebooks, there's GLP Creations, which does sell through Amazon, and Nanami Paper. Exaclair brands (Clairefontaine, Rhodia, Quo Vadis, Exacompta) are available at ClassicOfficeProducts.com at a good price.
You can often find Rhodia and/or Clairefontaine notebooks and notepads in art supply stores if you want to shop brick and mortar (Blick/Utrecht, Michael's, etc.) and sometimes Barnes & Noble or fancy bookstores/stationery stores. Michael's often has discounts on Rhodia if you order online and pick up.
Office Depot and Staples aren't the best places for fountain pen friendly paper, but they do often carry Red & Black notebooks, which have excellent paper (same paper as UK's Oxford brand--North American Oxford brand is NOT fp-friendly--and Hamelin). And as I may have stated elsewhere, the Office Depot brand sugar cane paper notepads/legal pads are acceptable for fountain pen use.
I have no affiliation with any of these places--I just have firsthand good experiences purchasing from them.
What!!! The glory of this pen is to be able to fill the entire body of the pen with ink and to see the flow of it then using that itty bitty converter!
The rough edges of the lines is called feathering. It's the fault of the paper, not the ink or the pen. Try Rhodia paper. Of course, this is coming from another newbie. I love your videos because they are genuine and not pretentious. Keep 'em coming! I personally love my Pilot Metropolitan, but would love to get a Moonman.
Thanks man, I’ll look into that type of paper then! I’ll also look into the metropolitan pen 🙂
@@gregandpens1334 Yes, definitely do some research on "fountain pen friendly paper" for many brands that work well with fountain pens. Typical paper in the North American market, even in fancy notebooks, is terrible for fountain pens.
Japanese and French paper/stationery tends to be by default fountain pen friendly. For budget options, look for notebooks in Target or dollar stores that are labeled "Made in India". India still has a thriving everyday fountain pen culture, so even the cheap paper from India tends to be fountain pen friendly. Made in Vietnam paper is also a pretty good bet--I've had about 75% success with Made in Vietnam notebooks. I avoid any notebooks/paper that is Made in the USA, Mexico, or China. These are almost never fountain pen friendly. Sugar cane paper notepads from Office Depot are a good budget notepad option. For unlined, loose sheets, people often use HP Premium 32lb printer paper. The nice thing about that is that you can print your own ruling or guide lines on it if you want.
In the high-end market, avoid Moleskine like the plague. The paper quality is erratic, and while it's fine for pencil or ballpoints, I find that, most of the time, the paper is so bad it performs worse with fountain pens than Staples copy paper or Mead notebook paper.
When letters are darker in some areas than others, that's called "shading" and some ink are more prone to that than others. Goulet Pens, Vanness Pens, and Anderson Pens are great places to get ink because they sell samples. You can try a variety of inks without having to commit to an entire bottle.
The little glass ball in the ink converter is an agitator to break the surface tension of the ink in case it sticks in the far end when the ink level gets lower. Honestly, agitators aren't strictly necessary, as most modern inks have enough surfactants, etc. that this isn't that frequent of a problem, and, if you have an issue with ink not flowing down to the feed, you can invert the pen nib up and twist the piston to push out air. But Chinese converters tend to have those agitators more often, so I think it's just a consumer preference in that market.
hey man, thanks for the education! I'll give you a shout out on my next video about this info :)
And... I have to say.. mine is spectacular as well.. mine does write a tad dry as well. I've not wanted to mess with the tines since I love how it writes.. I mean I really like it! Some concerns that they ripped off Shawn Newton's Shinobi .. but the Pen they made is exquisite! Again.. very nice work Gregory!
Frank
Very cool approach! And the camera work truly impresses this pen nut.. well done!! Thanks for your work.. Frank Bruno in Boulder
i can recomend diamine black onyx try a 2ml sample first
Bruh you can fill the whole body with ink 😑😑😑😑
Why does this pen have different packaging all over. Im still confused. Cant wait for mine to arrive tho
@Emre Can Akdaş Hi i've had mine for about a few months now and its working great. I would just buy regardless of the box to be honest at this point, pen is great I got mine from aliexpress was the top seller i think. I don't think its fake as the design belongs to no one so i wouldnt go as far to assume someone would fake it. its a copy of pen named shinobi, but its a clients custom design and he doesnt seem to ip protect it. My box is the small plastic see through box, it looks bad on photos but much better in real.
@Emre Can Akdaş i dont remember which store but i remember picking the one with most sold
For paper, I'd say get a ream of 28lb/32lb hp LaserJet paper. Or maybe clairfontaine paper.
Don't go for extremely glossy paper like rhodia because some pens might show skipping behavior due to slight baby's bottom.
Toothy papers is my personal preference. Baron fig paper seems to perform quite well too. Chrisrap52 usually uses fabriano paper in his reviews.
Glossy paper like rhodia/tomoe river/... will have extremely long drying times. Especially if you use a ink like noodlers Apache sunset it may even take more than a week to dry if you use medium/broad fountain pens.
You’re saying no to Rhodia paper? I heard nothing but great things about it
@@gregandpens1334 rhodia paper is no doubt very good. But for everyday writing it is quite expensive and the the high level of coating has its own downsides.
The HP 28/32pb LaserJet paper is about 90% of your standard rhodia paper but only costs like 20 dollars for 500 sheets/1000 pages.
@@gregandpens1334 nice review on a lot of fountain pen paper available in the market
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That is a good review! I have more insight on this, that’s for the recommendation
Parker quink is a very dry ink.
Just buy any waterman ink and don't look any further. The best performing ink money can buy. Period. Yeah you won't get anycrazy colour choices but the performance and behavior of the ink is exceptional.
You can even write on cheap paper and the ink won't feather or bleed. And it's also the safest ink to put in vintage pens.
Diamine inks are also very very good for the money. And the pilot standard inks , blue/black/blue-black. These are all extremely good inks. Don't waste money on boutique ink brands. Diamine has plenty of choices to pick from.
For a demonstrator pen your ink choice is extremely important because if you are not careful you can end up with an ugly stained pen or a pen whose feed is completely clogged due to the ink being extremely saturated or containing pigment.
I just ordered waterman ink based off your recommendation. 👍🏾
While it looks nice, all I can see is more plastic being added to the massive problem we have with plastics. I would much prefer a recyclable cardboard box!
Probably should capitalize your name.