This is my Chicken Scratch.
Handwriting samples, pics! Let us see yours.
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This is my Chicken Scratch.
My humble addition. I apologize for the atrocious cursive(still getting back into practice)
I said I'd play along... here we go! Please take into consideration that I write very, very little and am very out of practice. Getting an FP a few weeks ago has gotten me to write more, but I still don't have a ton of time to spend practicing.
Good luck.
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Its just the only flex pen I know off the top of my head at a fairly reasonable in price. I may just send my Parker dentists pen in for repair since it has some flex, but I would like a flexy nib to play around with. Are they not worth the effort?
-Xander
I gave up on mine- too much tinkering. When i get it adjusted so it flows well, the exposed part of the feed is always very wet. None of my other pens do this.
Keep at it man it will be awesome to see what it looks like in a few weeks after some practice
I got mine working pretty well, and I suppose all the fiddling that I did with it first was instructive. Then I decided I had too many pens with ink in them, and flushed it (for now). I actually liked the humble Noodler's piston flex bettter, the slimmer profile was more comfortable for me, it worked perfectly immediately (more luck of the draw that anything probably) and it's a bit cheaper. It's empty at the moment too, though.
I never really used the flex on those, however. Oh, I pressed a bit to see how it worked, but I find that for normal writing I don't care about line variation and shading (although it's interesting to see what emerges naturally). Every now and then, if I'm doing a hand written greeting card for a special occasion, I'll slow way down and try to get fancy. I've even got a couple of vintage pens with gold flex nibs, but I find that almost all the time I just write with them, enjoying the smoothness of the nibs, but not trying for any special effects.
The Noodlers Ahab seems to be "the Veg" of the Nib Forum, able to hijack a thread in the blink of an eye!
The Noodlers Ahab seems to be "the Veg" of the Nib Forum, able to hijack a thread in the blink of an eye!
Did I tell you about my Williams fountain pen?
I bet it keeps the mosquitos away
No they write but the ink is always thin and watery no matter how much of a line you lay down... i here t he vintage ones are good though
The vintage Williams pens are so much better.
Does that make the Pilot Varsity the "Arko" of the pen world? Not pretty, but it works.
Nah, the "Arko" of pens would be the free Noodlers one that comes with the 4.5 oz bottles of ink. I heard they have quite the stink.
yeah, but do they ALWAYS work? regardless of alleged stink​...
You got me there. And I will bolster your case: like Arko, it is cost-prohibitive and foolish to buy only a single Varsity.
Just put the pen in your garage for a few days and it will be just fine
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Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming!
Some of you likely read my thread about the Parker Vacumatic franken pen I purchased, well here is the teaser shot of what this nibs potential is...
The nib is an Eversharp Gold Seal Flexible, jammed into the Parker section which cracked it and the nib is sprung as well. I managed to get it working for now, but it has some bad habits that need to be worked out. Please forgive the shakey hand writing, not feeing well tonight. This is just some goofing around, learning how to control a flexible nib during writing movements compared to drawing and sketching.
-Xander
Some of you likely read my thread about the Parker Vacumatic franken pen I purchased, well here is the teaser shot of what this nibs potential is...
The nib is an Eversharp Gold Seal Flexible, jammed into the Parker section which cracked it and the nib is sprung as well. I managed to get it working for now, but it has some bad habits that need to be worked out. Please forgive the shakey hand writing, not feeing well tonight. This is just some goofing around, learning how to control a flexible nib during writing movements compared to drawing and sketching.
-Xander
