Wouldn’t you know it … my first pen runs out of ink on the first word of third column ... had to grab a second pen to finish up the list.

I L O V E it!!!

Words: Judson W. Van DeVenter (1855-1939)
Music: Winfield S. Weeden (1847-1908)

Pilot Custom 743 EF: Verdigris
Iroshizuku: asa-gao

Arrived just a few short hours ago. Decided to tune the nib for reversed writing to achieve a true Japan EF line. Incredible results !

It’s every bit as smooth as the dozens of Pilot EFs I have! Things are starting to get F U N now!

Got this just to see how well I like the form factor.

Is it weird that I prefer NOT to post this when writing ? Its length is plenty long enough for the way I hold the pen.

• Has anyone compared writing with an ef nib against a stub?
• What happens if you attempt to write Spencerian with a stub?

Well … here’s my results of exaclty that.

Any comments ?

Stub: J. Herbin: eclat de suphir
EF: Pilot Iroshizuku: murasaki-shikibu

Hymn: The Love of God is Greater Far
Fredrick Martin Lehman (1868-1953)

Pilot Custom 823 ef
Iroshizuku yama-guri

Hymn: The love of God is greater far

Verse three

Pilot Custom 823 ef

Iroshizuku: yama-guri

If you’re birthday happens to fall within the month of September:

Happy Birthday !

Let us know by commenting below!

misspelled a word in my last; deleted and re-posted.

Pilot Metropolitan ef nib

Iroshizuku kon-peki

This is one of the hardest letters to get looking correct! I think it’s advanced, and I often fall back to the simpler form when writing a whole page.

Still, it was requested … so here it is.

Encouraging motivation:

If you can make this letter look correct most of the time - you’re doing better than me, and you can form any other letter much easier than this one!

Got my last New Pen - The Pop Orange flower metro, thrid from the end, yesterday! Now, my second drawer is complete! 😄

Some people might be embarrassed to post an image like this - but I am not “some people.” lol

The Pilot Metropolitan is a f a n t a s t i c pen!

Each of these have an <ef> from a Pilot Penmanship too! This is an awesome arsenal for Spencerian mono-line writing. 

Easy enough request to answer.
Comments:

• Break it up into four parts, or pen strokes.
• Go into the fourth stroke, at the end of the third stroke, with a smallest-possible very slight turn. I.e Don't come to a complete stop at the end of third, and abruptly start the fourth stroke - rather glide into it with the smallest possible turn.
• Try to make the first and last strokes perfectly parallel (equal distance between them)

Hope this helps. I’m pulling for everyone to improve with fantastic results they’re happy with.

I hope this may inspire someone. My handwriting was typical chicken-scratch until age 48 when I began to turn things around. If I can do this, then I’m convinced anyone can. I’m pulling for you to have great success !

Pilot metro with kon-peki

I recreated my hardcopy of the ESV Study Bible (for personal use only, observing all copyright protection and fair use to be legal) of all of it's nearly 3000 pages. I learned LaTex as I went!

• Features: hyperlink navigation system
• includes all charts (which I redrew with tiki functions) and images. I even added the images that spanned two pages onto a single landscape view
• includes all margin references, which are hyperlinked
• included all footnotes, with a color coded template
• included a topical concordance, with a colored tempate of entries, hyperlinked back to the verse.

This was an amazing project ... I used python to reformat three raw text streams: the margin references, the main text, and the commentary.

I made a private youtube video a few months before it was complete, where most of the progress is shown in the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Su4eJp1DY&t=1704s

Just saying …

Pilot metropolitan white tiger - stub nib
Noodler’s apache sunset

words: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)

Pilot Metropolitan <ef> Green Marble
Noodler's cactus gruene

well ... and one A4 loose-leaf option as well ...

In this video, I focus on what was available at the time on Amazon with price points in the US. Hope this helps someone as a resource for price comparisons.

enjoy

Made this a while back, and just found this channel. I do not even remember everything I said during this video. Hope it lands well in this community!

enjoy