Hi Kathy -- I do still have a little King Philip ink ... I believe one 30 ml bottle and 1 sample for passing along and my own little bottle. It's so stainy that I am now leery of it. :)
Online orders from stationery stores have opened up availability of pens and inks to so many. Hence the creation of new online storefronts to provide an array of tempting products. 🖋❤️
Hi @MarcellHobbs - it was really a new thing for me to order much of anything online back in 2016. There were several years it seems of a gap between mail order catalogs and online purchasing. I did occasionally order things from a catalog in terms of clothing lol. Then along came the realization that all the pens and accessories were just a click away. :)
This was a fun exercise. I’m just starting to get into fountain pens (mostly in it for the ink options!) and getting overwhelmed with ink shopping. I had this same thought “what was I using before and should I try to to find more up to date equivalents for staples?” I commonplace with a green pen (quotes) and a purple pen (my notes), and red for underlining, so I’m considering getting 3 starter pens to reserve for those colours, and then a couple extras to switch around and have the novelty of changing colours. Still just a thought, I’m not sure I should be buying more pens right now 😂
Online orders from stationery stores have opened up availability of pens and inks to so many. Hence the creation of new online storefronts to provide an array of tempting products. 🖋❤️ Update: Happy Anniversary. We celebrated 41 years this year.
Hi @MarcellHobbs -- Thank you and Happy Anniversary to you all too! It's amazing how much life has changed in terms of how we get the simplest things these days! :) I never thought I'd order small stationery things online ... but I've embraced it totally in the past 7+ years.
I too had a gel pen period for years but fountain pens have taken over. My fave gel pen color dupe is diamine hope pink. Such a brain stimulating hit pink!
Hi @kellyandthehorses2877 -- it's so nice isn't it .... being able to refill the pens so easily and switch inks .... having so many choices of color will keep me forever with fountain pens. We have only a few stragglers and most of the gels pens left my husband has put black ink into them. LOL
I appreciate you so much for doing these videos it really keeps me interested in the hobby its like one of the favorite parts of my momth when you do Chris's inked pens I feel like sometimes I do so many reviews people get tired of seeing my mug for a while but then there are days where people come and hang out in the chat which I appreciate so much.. I hope youre feeling better the heat got to me today for sure it was 85 today here in so cal and it was a nightmare the aircon was barely keeping up on full blast I worry for those who have elder conditioners that are gonna crap out and the electrical systems crapping out I hope that people are smart and if they have a broken aircon go to the mall go to the library go somewhere where its cool even if you just go shopping for a while some of those stores have nice aircon and if you feel like your gonna have heat stroke go to the hospital they have aircon and generators they dont need the grid so Be safe out there I look forward to seeing your letter very soon
Hi Marilyn!!! I wound up with 15 pens to start July 1st with .... lol and 2 videos .... but then again, I'm going to be writing so much this month ... trapped inside avoiding the heat. I'm sorry you have had heat to deal with too! I'm gonna hit the pen pal writing this morning and hope this holiday week sees me caught up for a few minutes at least lol. :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 Wow 15 I think thats the most pens youve had inked up I currently have 13 and I have 1 space left in my home made pen holder I think thats the most pens I've had inked up at once LOl so I hear ya
Glad your back from your 24hr. bug. Wow, 9 TWSBI Ecos, how many letters do you write a month? I thought I was extravagant with one Eco and a beautiful Jaipur V2 from Fountain Pen Revolution. I'll add Faber Castell Stone Grey ink to my wish list. Thanks for your guidance.
Hi @honnony -- oh these 9 are just for my notetaking and journals mainly ... I'm inking 6 broad nibs for July letter writing. :) I expect these 9 will run lots longer than July though and I'll see which colors I missed .... I already wish I had inked a brown ink. :)
What I have inked always is a black and a blue. My selection was seriously decreased when I left my apartment (I couldn't manage it's lack of handicapped accessibility. ) My beloved family threw out all my ink, trying to "help." Grrr... So I have Platinum Carbon Black cartridges in my Platinum pocket pen, and currently 2 blues: both Waterman, Serenity Blue and Mysterious Blue. Both bought because they were cheap, from Amazon. And I have an avowed dislike of many blue inks. 😂 But they are very well behaved on cheap copy paper (a necessity for dealing with doctor's forms and the hunt for a new place. ) Currently the Mysterious Blue in a black Esterbrook J with a 2550 firm "posting" nib (their version of an accounting nib, and this is the first extra fine I've ever used that was actually one I've liked to use, and I've had several other equivalent. Even a "properly tipped" 9550, the top end version. The Serenity Blue in a gray J, with a very worn 2668 firm medium (again, folded tipping, not "proper osmiridium tipping"), almost worn to an italic. Because I like it.😉 I have 2 more inks, currently. Because I wanted to try them, and the brand is highly regarded, KWZ Spruce Green and Cappuccino. Spruce Green is very like the emerald greens every American brand had in the past. It's really close to Waterman's current Green (I've compared them. Bought some Waterman for my niece. ) And almost as well behaved on cheap copy paper. Have it in a medium Jinhao (whatever number that the biggest of the Dadao series is 😁). Still deciding on what pen is going to get the Cappuccino. Knowing me, a copper Esterbrook. I'm still hunting for a couple core inks I've had before. Both from Sheaffer: Blue-black, the only quintessential one that isn't iron gall, and Red. The blue-black was my first bottle in 1983, and it's the nostalgia for me. Red because it's not exciting, but THE red. Only completely true red I've ever seen, and it's the same color as the red from a BIC multipen. So I associate it with teachers.😂 Need several more inks, but they'll wait until I get my own place again. And I've kinda decided that I like the basics. Getting the complete range from the "Deco bottle" era from Parker, I discovered the basics were my aesthetic. Don't need vintage to meet this, but similar (though I STILL despise "schoolboy washable blue."😂) And to get an assortment that I can use a different color each month, not just what they used in the past. But, for pretty much constant use, it's a black, blue and blue-black. I have simple tastes. 😁
Hi Paul -- oh that would be a hard thing for me to "take" if someone disposed of my inks without me being able to choose a few to keep. Eeeks and that's putting it mildly. Although, I do understand that others don't know much about the hobby and would not realize which things were hard to find or special. I guess recovery from that kind of purge would be like the aftermath of natural disaster. A starting over of sorts. Good luck my friend and if you need ink please let me know ... !
@ChrisSaenz13 Picking up as I can, right now. I fully intend to get the spectrum from Parker I'd gotten, again, my first ink (Sheaffer Skrip blue-black), and Sheaffer Red again, minimally. Plus whatever it takes to gain an ink for each month again. Not as big a spectrum of properties this time. I think I'm pretty happy with fairly basic standard inks. It's the color people I've written noticed, never permanence, sheen or shimmer (though I plan to get shimmer inks again for certain types of holiday greeting cards. They just make me happy. 😉) Not everything standard, but the focus on how they behave over the latest new property. Like I still like certain Noodler's bulletproof inks. I still want iron gall ink. But not a gallon of various blue inks again, or ones that would take decades to get through. I still fully expect my tastes to change. But on my terms. In rotation, not buying multiple bottles to try something different. I'm generally happy with many Waterman colors, for example. But there's only 8. Not enough for each month, plus the few special properties ones I like to use for specific things (I like iron gall for "official documents," generally original copies, and checks, for instance, and I want permanence for envelopes and the like, that have a higher chance of getting wet. But I'm still currently at my sister's, and don't want to risk staining anything, so very water soluble for me right now. Plus, I'm currently enjoying the Waterman blues I've been using for doctor's forms and such. Enough not ballpoint that people have noticed. 😁 Plus my occasional signing things in green. Soon to be brown. Just because.
Until recently I had a similar setup, with 8 of my Beginner pens filled with my 8 basic colors, primary, secondary, brown and black, in a little pouch. I filled a sketchbook with drawings using two at a time. Took FOREVER. Now I want to keep fewer pens inked, and I'm switching over to some nicer pens, Sailors and Franklins-Christoph. So now of course I see that I have NINE pens inked, how did that happen?
Hi Ichiro - I go back and forth between being real careful about too many pens being inked at once to being very over inked which is what July will be with 15 lol but it's okay. I write a lot and will carry the TWSBIs much longer than July to finish them. :)
It sounds like you had the Noro virus. 🤢 nasty little bug that lasts about 48 hours and it’s over but it makes you feel like death warmed over until it’s gone. I’m glad you’re feeling better. I love your videos.
This is a very original way of exploring your inks! Thank you for the video. It’s fun!! ❤
What a creative and fun way to play with your pens.
Fun video! I really like that Twsbi Sky blue too!
I love hope Pink. After 2 samples, I bought a bottle. You’ll never finish King Philip. Happy Anniversary!
I just bought it myself. I got a sample pack from Goulet pens and bought Hope Pink and Black Swan Austalian Rose (Noodlers.)
Hi Kathy -- I do still have a little King Philip ink ... I believe one 30 ml bottle and 1 sample for passing along and my own little bottle. It's so stainy that I am now leery of it. :)
Online orders from stationery stores have opened up availability of pens and inks to so many. Hence the creation of new online storefronts to provide an array of tempting products. 🖋❤️
Hi @MarcellHobbs - it was really a new thing for me to order much of anything online back in 2016. There were several years it seems of a gap between mail order catalogs and online purchasing. I did occasionally order things from a catalog in terms of clothing lol. Then along came the realization that all the pens and accessories were just a click away. :)
This was a fun exercise. I’m just starting to get into fountain pens (mostly in it for the ink options!) and getting overwhelmed with ink shopping. I had this same thought “what was I using before and should I try to to find more up to date equivalents for staples?” I commonplace with a green pen (quotes) and a purple pen (my notes), and red for underlining, so I’m considering getting 3 starter pens to reserve for those colours, and then a couple extras to switch around and have the novelty of changing colours. Still just a thought, I’m not sure I should be buying more pens right now 😂
Online orders from stationery stores have opened up availability of pens and inks to so many. Hence the creation of new online storefronts to provide an array of tempting products. 🖋❤️ Update: Happy Anniversary. We celebrated 41 years this year.
Hi @MarcellHobbs -- Thank you and Happy Anniversary to you all too! It's amazing how much life has changed in terms of how we get the simplest things these days! :) I never thought I'd order small stationery things online ... but I've embraced it totally in the past 7+ years.
I too had a gel pen period for years but fountain pens have taken over. My fave gel pen color dupe is diamine hope pink. Such a brain stimulating hit pink!
Hi @kellyandthehorses2877 -- it's so nice isn't it .... being able to refill the pens so easily and switch inks .... having so many choices of color will keep me forever with fountain pens. We have only a few stragglers and most of the gels pens left my husband has put black ink into them. LOL
The colors is EXACTLY why I got into fountain pens!!!! I used Papermate!! The G2’s as well!
Hi Elaine -- it's so wonderful to be able to have almost unlimited ink color choices!!!!! :)
Fascinating. Thank you.
Hi @Calcprof
I appreciate you so much for doing these videos it really keeps me interested in the hobby its like one of the favorite parts of my momth when you do Chris's inked pens I feel like sometimes I do so many reviews people get tired of seeing my mug for a while but then there are days where people come and hang out in the chat which I appreciate so much.. I hope youre feeling better the heat got to me today for sure it was 85 today here in so cal and it was a nightmare the aircon was barely keeping up on full blast I worry for those who have elder conditioners that are gonna crap out and the electrical systems crapping out I hope that people are smart and if they have a broken aircon go to the mall go to the library go somewhere where its cool even if you just go shopping for a while some of those stores have nice aircon and if you feel like your gonna have heat stroke go to the hospital they have aircon and generators they dont need the grid so Be safe out there I look forward to seeing your letter very soon
Hi Marilyn!!! I wound up with 15 pens to start July 1st with .... lol and 2 videos .... but then again, I'm going to be writing so much this month ... trapped inside avoiding the heat. I'm sorry you have had heat to deal with too! I'm gonna hit the pen pal writing this morning and hope this holiday week sees me caught up for a few minutes at least lol. :)
I think the most I've ever had inked up at once was 12 but that quickly went to the birds cause I kept running out of ink lol
@@ChrisSaenz13 Wow 15 I think thats the most pens youve had inked up I currently have 13 and I have 1 space left in my home made pen holder I think thats the most pens I've had inked up at once LOl so I hear ya
Hi Chris- Thamk you for the video and a very Happy Anniversary! Best regards!
Thank you Mike!
Glad your back from your 24hr. bug. Wow, 9 TWSBI Ecos, how many letters do you write a month? I thought I was extravagant with one Eco and a beautiful Jaipur V2 from Fountain Pen Revolution. I'll add Faber Castell Stone Grey ink to my wish list. Thanks for your guidance.
Hi @honnony -- oh these 9 are just for my notetaking and journals mainly ... I'm inking 6 broad nibs for July letter writing. :) I expect these 9 will run lots longer than July though and I'll see which colors I missed .... I already wish I had inked a brown ink. :)
What I have inked always is a black and a blue. My selection was seriously decreased when I left my apartment (I couldn't manage it's lack of handicapped accessibility. )
My beloved family threw out all my ink, trying to "help." Grrr...
So I have Platinum Carbon Black cartridges in my Platinum pocket pen, and currently 2 blues: both Waterman, Serenity Blue and Mysterious Blue. Both bought because they were cheap, from Amazon. And I have an avowed dislike of many blue inks. 😂
But they are very well behaved on cheap copy paper (a necessity for dealing with doctor's forms and the hunt for a new place. ) Currently the Mysterious Blue in a black Esterbrook J with a 2550 firm "posting" nib (their version of an accounting nib, and this is the first extra fine I've ever used that was actually one I've liked to use, and I've had several other equivalent. Even a "properly tipped" 9550, the top end version. The Serenity Blue in a gray J, with a very worn 2668 firm medium (again, folded tipping, not "proper osmiridium tipping"), almost worn to an italic. Because I like it.😉
I have 2 more inks, currently. Because I wanted to try them, and the brand is highly regarded, KWZ Spruce Green and Cappuccino. Spruce Green is very like the emerald greens every American brand had in the past. It's really close to Waterman's current Green (I've compared them. Bought some Waterman for my niece. ) And almost as well behaved on cheap copy paper. Have it in a medium Jinhao (whatever number that the biggest of the Dadao series is 😁). Still deciding on what pen is going to get the Cappuccino. Knowing me, a copper Esterbrook.
I'm still hunting for a couple core inks I've had before. Both from Sheaffer: Blue-black, the only quintessential one that isn't iron gall, and Red. The blue-black was my first bottle in 1983, and it's the nostalgia for me. Red because it's not exciting, but THE red. Only completely true red I've ever seen, and it's the same color as the red from a BIC multipen. So I associate it with teachers.😂
Need several more inks, but they'll wait until I get my own place again.
And I've kinda decided that I like the basics. Getting the complete range from the "Deco bottle" era from Parker, I discovered the basics were my aesthetic. Don't need vintage to meet this, but similar (though I STILL despise "schoolboy washable blue."😂) And to get an assortment that I can use a different color each month, not just what they used in the past.
But, for pretty much constant use, it's a black, blue and blue-black. I have simple tastes. 😁
Hi Paul -- oh that would be a hard thing for me to "take" if someone disposed of my inks without me being able to choose a few to keep. Eeeks and that's putting it mildly. Although, I do understand that others don't know much about the hobby and would not realize which things were hard to find or special. I guess recovery from that kind of purge would be like the aftermath of natural disaster. A starting over of sorts. Good luck my friend and if you need ink please let me know ... !
@ChrisSaenz13 Picking up as I can, right now. I fully intend to get the spectrum from Parker I'd gotten, again, my first ink (Sheaffer Skrip blue-black), and Sheaffer Red again, minimally.
Plus whatever it takes to gain an ink for each month again.
Not as big a spectrum of properties this time. I think I'm pretty happy with fairly basic standard inks. It's the color people I've written noticed, never permanence, sheen or shimmer (though I plan to get shimmer inks again for certain types of holiday greeting cards. They just make me happy. 😉)
Not everything standard, but the focus on how they behave over the latest new property. Like I still like certain Noodler's bulletproof inks. I still want iron gall ink. But not a gallon of various blue inks again, or ones that would take decades to get through. I still fully expect my tastes to change. But on my terms. In rotation, not buying multiple bottles to try something different.
I'm generally happy with many Waterman colors, for example. But there's only 8. Not enough for each month, plus the few special properties ones I like to use for specific things (I like iron gall for "official documents," generally original copies, and checks, for instance, and I want permanence for envelopes and the like, that have a higher chance of getting wet.
But I'm still currently at my sister's, and don't want to risk staining anything, so very water soluble for me right now.
Plus, I'm currently enjoying the Waterman blues I've been using for doctor's forms and such. Enough not ballpoint that people have noticed. 😁
Plus my occasional signing things in green. Soon to be brown. Just because.
Until recently I had a similar setup, with 8 of my Beginner pens filled with my 8 basic colors, primary, secondary, brown and black, in a little pouch. I filled a sketchbook with drawings using two at a time. Took FOREVER. Now I want to keep fewer pens inked, and I'm switching over to some nicer pens, Sailors and Franklins-Christoph. So now of course I see that I have NINE pens inked, how did that happen?
Hi Ichiro - I go back and forth between being real careful about too many pens being inked at once to being very over inked which is what July will be with 15 lol but it's okay. I write a lot and will carry the TWSBIs much longer than July to finish them. :)
It sounds like you had the Noro virus. 🤢 nasty little bug that lasts about 48 hours and it’s over but it makes you feel like death warmed over until it’s gone. I’m glad you’re feeling better. I love your videos.
Thank you @joistevens4454
😮 ballpoints are evil. 😪
LOL