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Needed: Ink Recommendations for Sheaffer Nonsense Fountain Pen!
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I spilled ink on my computer. Will I have asdf creep? |
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Needed: Ink Recommendations for Sheaffer Nonsense Fountain Pen!
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK
wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. It's a Parker Duofold. I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. |
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On Jun 9, 6:08*pm, The Drunken Lord wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. *It's a Parker Duofold. *I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. Duofold is a nice pen. Is yours one of the modern ones, or a vintage? |
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On 2008-06-09, Brian Ketterling wrote:
In , MatthewK wrote: (The 329 was used as an example... ... ...His old postings as well as others led me to believe my statements are correct. 8-O With all due respect, Matthew, I hope no one has hired you as a statistician. Brian Hmmm...what are you talking about? That opinion was purely opinion. The only time I mentioned statistics was in quality control terms. As in statistical quality control, which I only understand in laymans terms, insures quality/cheap mass production. Being you chose to quote the part about my respect for Frank I think something else is at play. By all means, educate me. I'm not being a smartass...I'm just a dumbass really. matthew |
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On 2008-06-09, The Drunken Lord wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. It's a Parker Duofold. I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. This seems more reasonable, partly because of context and it's the afternoon for mme. What karat are these nibs? I wonder how much work hardening comes to play in this. matthew |
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On 2008-06-09, Bluesea wrote:
Please be careful about generalizing. Do you really mean that there aren't ANY $400 pens that write when you want? Do you have the knowledge and experience to back up that statement? I disobeyed a great usenet rule and posted before I was fully awake. I think many of my comments still stand that I clarified in my last post. Thanks for helping me clarify my thoughts. Your last statement about great pens from $3- $300(?) dollars is a good generalization. matthew |
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:50:22 -0700 (PDT), "titanic cruise? I think
not; much safer on a ruby yacht" wrote: On Jun 9, 6:08*pm, The Drunken Lord wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. *It's a Parker Duofold. *I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. Duofold is a nice pen. Is yours one of the modern ones, or a vintage? Modern, I think, but it's kind of old--about 30 years old, I think. Maybe that's vintage. I was thinking of vintage as 20s stuff. Yeah, it's a decent pen somebody gave me. If you could get the things for $5 each, I'd probably have about 10 of them. |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:48 +0000, MatthewK
wrote: On 2008-06-09, The Drunken Lord wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. It's a Parker Duofold. I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. This seems more reasonable, partly because of context and it's the afternoon for mme. What karat are these nibs? It doesn't have the karat listed on the nib--at least not visible. For all I know, it could be gold plate. But it looks gold, doesn't tarnish, and it seems to write a little bit different than the nongold nibs. I wonder how much work hardening comes to play in this. |
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Needed: Ink Recommendations for Sheaffer Nonsense Fountain Pen!
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:24:48 +0000, MatthewK
wrote: By all means, educate me. I'm not being a smartass...I'm just a dumbass really. When we're using the term, "dumbass", we need to define what we mean by the term, because there are ordinary dumbasses and there are "FPN dumbasses". FPN dumbasses are dumbasses of a higher order and magnitude--we're talking exponential--than an ordinary dumbass. Let's just say that until you type out a post about your plans to put some ink in the microwave or until you type out a post where you explain how you've discovered that ink has staining properties--until you work hard enough to display that kind of stupidity, the kind of stupidity that is commonplace on FPN, until then, I propose that the members of the forum do not consider you a dumbass. You haven't yet earned the title. I agree with your basic idea, that cheap pens are just as good. Thing is, I don't have any $2,000 pens around here to compare them with. I do have a duofold, and I don't know how much that is worth. It has a gold nib and writes maybe--not really sure--maybe better, a little better--smoother or something--but like I said, if I were blindfolded, I don't know that I'd know the difference between that pen and a Phileas. Aurora inks make a pen seem much smoother too, about as smooth as mother****ing silk. And Omas blue ink makes nibs seems scratchy. I wonder what they put in aurora to make it like that. You know, there are recipes all over the place for iron gall inks, but as far as I know, we don't have much of a clue about what Nathan and PR and Diamine are putting in their inks other than aniline dyes. I've tried ink jet ink in pens, and it just gushes out and feathers all over the place. |
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On Jun 10, 4:08*am, The Drunken Lord wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:07 +0000, MatthewK wrote: Gold nibs being better? That is surely personal bias. I've got one pen with a gold nib and that pen is different--something about it seems different. *It's a Parker Duofold. *I mean, I don't think it's all that, but it is different. There are Duofolds from the 20's and early 30's... there are British and Danish Duofolds from the 50's and 60's (much smaller).... and there are "modern" duofolds from the 70's (?) on up. Yours sounds like a modern, and it would have an 18k nib. But if I had my eyes closed, I don't know for sure I'd know the different between that and a Waterman Phileas. |
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