It's not horrible free, if anything I think you may just need practice and focus on some key issues that you don't like... I go after individual letters u write and work on them to figure out what works for me
Handwriting samples, pics! Let us see yours.
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I agree, its not horrible, just a bit unrefined. I say do two to four pages of straight line and oblique excercizes a day for a week and show us again. It takes only 10 minutes to do these excercizes, also try and focus on your posture. I found that when I first started on the Palmer method I was tensing up my left shoulder and holding it raised. I just took a deep breath and dropped my shoulder and everything became easier. I still had to retrain my muscles, but I felt better with good posture.
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-Xander
Its Dollar Green Ink.
OK here is my chicken scratch!!! Excuse the sorry photography!!!
Tom
Tom
My cursive is improving but I have to really concentrate and write slowly. Only a weeks worth of practice though, since I got my first fountain pens.
No, Its the brand called Dollar from Pakistan.
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A bit of goofing around with ornamental penmanship at work today. One of my younger employees actually used the phrase in a conversation today...
Zebra F-701 modified, FSP4 refill.
-Xander
Zebra F-701 modified, FSP4 refill.
-Xander
Nice "S" very spencerian, i want to be able to do that script,... im working my way up to it
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Yeah, I never really tried it much either, my only flex nib pen needs repair right now but it doesn't even flex that much. Considering a Noodlers Ahab this month, though. I have realized I have gotten sloppy, I am revisiting the excercizes for palmer method again. Back to obliques and straight lines.
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I will start the excercises... Spencerian script, here I come 
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I have an Ahab. Honestly, I would prefer a different nib for shading. It's a bit stiff. I've ordered a few flex nibs and a wood holder to go with my inkwell for practicing my ornamental penmanship.
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I have a speedball holder and an old koh-i-nor holder with a bunch of different nibs, but I don't think any of them are flex. My mother did caligraphy for years as a side job and she always used italic nibs. She didn't do any fine line stuff really. I just don't like using dip pen much, which is why I wanted a filler pen.
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i just wrote you a response with my Ahab trying to get as much flex from it as I could--and then remembered my laptop is in the shop and I don't know how to upload images from an iPad.
In any advent, I would like more flex for proper ornamental/copper plate styles. The Ahab is good for adding some flourish to Palmer script, but I need more for serious shading work.
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Well, for the price of an ahab, I can get my Parker Duofold Vacumatic with gold flex nib repaired, but then I don't ge a new pen! What to do, what to do. I'll dig through the piles of nibs for the dip pens and see what I come up with.
-Xander
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Ok, a little more thought out goofing off. Parker Duofold medium flex nib (used as a dip pen, it non functioning currently) and vintage Sheaffer Skrip ink on Canson XL sketch paper. My name and my sons name. I tried a speedball C-6 nib and it was too stiff and to scratchy for this paper, and the ink feathered like crazy, but the Skrip is better behaved.
-Xander
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Once my first fountain pens arrive you, I'll show you guys what kind of penmanship a left-handed guy who's teachers gave up on him's handwriting looks like...terrible. The only advantage is that I am a printer and have access to a lot of fine paper, lol.
My handwriting looks like a kid was trying to write while fist-gripping the pen in a car with no shocks driving on a dirt road...
Once it gets better; I'll post a sample.
Either that or I'll write something when get home & scan it in later tonight.
Once it gets better; I'll post a sample.
Either that or I'll write something when get home & scan it in later tonight.
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By that sample, I would prefer that nib to the Ahab.Ok, a little more thought out goofing off. Parker Duofold medium flex nib (used as a dip pen, it non functioning currently) and vintage Sheaffer Skrip ink on Canson XL sketch paper. My name and my sons name. I tried a speedball C-6 nib and it was too stiff and to scratchy for this paper, and the ink feathered like crazy, but the Skrip is better behaved.
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Im jealous by the way; that's some mighty fine work.
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Well, don't let the amount of shading fool you, that nib can't go that far. That "Z" is about twice as wide as the nib can go. I wish it was a fine with flex, but it is more of a medium, its great for everyday writing. Maybe I'll send it to a nibmeister and have it refined a bit more.
About the work, that's with 40 minutes of practice from observing exemplar pages from IAMPETH, once I figured out the stroke direction of the capitals it came quite naturally. Fortunatly it is very close to my native slope, so I can (not that I should) write at a reasonably fast rate like this. The lower case is my everyday cursive. I do plan on developing this further, and I now would like to use this as my official signature, not for credit slips and such, but for documents.
-Xander
About the work, that's with 40 minutes of practice from observing exemplar pages from IAMPETH, once I figured out the stroke direction of the capitals it came quite naturally. Fortunatly it is very close to my native slope, so I can (not that I should) write at a reasonably fast rate like this. The lower case is my everyday cursive. I do plan on developing this further, and I now would like to use this as my official signature, not for credit slips and such, but for documents.
-Xander
