r/fountainpens

Hello fountainpenspeople just a quick word from yours truly: no we haven't forgotten about the Ink of the Year! As you may have guessed from the post title this time around we'll be partnering with KWZ Ink.

There are some news: we'll be able to pick sheen as a property for blues, purples and pinks aaaand you may, let me stress may, even be able to design the artwork for the ink bottle label

As always if you've got questions, doubts, feedback comment below.

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got a few samples in from vanness today and ahhhhh the sheen

This collection of six (of course!) pens that for whatever reason did not bring me joy.

Left to Right:

Montblanc 144/Mozart
Sheaffer 440
Sailor Realo ProFit
Parker Duofold Centennial
Pelikan M405
Platinum President

The MB Mozart is incredibly small, flimsy and has a snap cap (not the biggest fan of the mechanism in general, but this one is the worst versions of a snap cap that I own). The 440 was bought as part of my inlaid/inset nib collection and just never liked it. The Realo isn’t a bad pen, but I bought without realizing it had a black and silver Progear counterpart. I bought on EBay from Japan and got a great deal, but the retailer has a rule that they will replace defective ones but ‘I don’t like it’ is not a reason for returns. The Duofold I bought from EBay from Denmark and I thought I was buying the Centennial Big Red but was mistaken. My fault, not the seller’s but same situation as the Realo. The Pelikan is a great pen, but the M600 series is the smallest I like to use. The Platinum President is okay, it’s just a bigger nib than the 3776.

Not horrible pens, just my collection of mistakes!

Pilot Kakuno
Octopus - Ultramarine Blue Ink

Ft. My brain dump

I’m in love with it yall

Pen: JustTurnings Enceladus in Bohemian Twilight (Jonathon Brooks resin) Matte finish

Nib: Schon DSGN Monoc fine in satin bronze

Ink: Diamine Ancient Copper

Pen is threaded for Jowo 6 nib units so I thought a satin finish nib would be a good pairing for a matte resin, really like the combo now I've seen them together

Changing things around with my Diplomat Viper collection, just for fun, well, it makes me smile and isn’t that what it’s all about? Can’t wait for more colours to come out, I’d love a red Viper.

It’s actually surprisingly difficult to get the Vipers to play nicely together, their magnets can be a little overly attractive!

I have actually seen some mixed reviews on lamy safari here so I was bit confused if I should buy it and finally I did it try it and I should say it's really smooth i should say or maybe i have been lucky with this one and it's butterly smooth and I find it in paar with kakuno I think it's slightly more smoother than the kakuno and it's superb smooth....

I clearly have a favorite color… purple is a close second!!!

Just got back home from a week among the Cypress trees, winding paths and windy bluffs, and a lake so massive, goes down 1/2km in depth, up there almost 2 km above sea level.

I wish I can bring that cool wind and amazing views home. Alas, all things come to an end, but I still have my fountain pen to sketch from memory. It was a lot to unpack, but for starters, how about a sketch of a Cypress tree covered path?

I took this versatile and so reliable Pilot Myu striped for the trip and it didn't disappoint. Ink is Diamine Evergreen.

I recently shifted to Mumbai, one of the most humid places in India. Living in Central India since the last couple of years, where relative humidity barely crossed 30%, I stored my inks in cardboard boxes lined with thermocol.

Since it started raining cats and dogs here and the humidity has spiked up to 96%, I started reading up about all the problems that it might cause to my inks, especially what people call SITB (Slime in the Bottle). I hate wastage and didn't want to see some of my precious inks turn putrid and unusable.

I am a DIY person and so, I did some reading and came up with a solution of sorts...

I went to the local mart and got home some dessicant, a moderately airtight container, took aluminium foil from the kitchen and used up some old foam sheet lying at home and improvised a bit and made this makeshift safety nest for my inks. It's not perfect, but atleast it'll be better than nothing... Hope it works 🙏🤞🙏🤞

The ink in my Diamine bottle isn’t high enough anymore🤔 how do you do it? Do I have to fill them into a different bottle?

Stoker has joined the ranks. 🩸🦇

Fresh from the workshop today. I love the dyed stabilized Burl wood. Used Box Elder Burl and Buckeye Burl.

btw i dont like mismatched colous and the mini doesnt seem to have single colour ones too...

(colourful pens makes me appy :3 )

Just got this LAMY for b-day. Didn’t ask the model but pretty happy with how smoothly she writes. Came with one ink recharge. Are there (not sure what they called) those systems to suck ink out of the bottle for this model?

Pilot Elite S Kara-Kara

This pen is pilot elite vintage with a 14k <f> nib with pilot black. Im amazed how soft and smooth the nib feels, the reverse writing(drawing) with the nib is one of the best in my collection, im glad i pick this up.