Hey, I'm the crazy-lucky winner of the load / stash that Liberty_2112 PIF'ed a week or two ago:
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/324525-New-to-FP-Holiday-PIF
What a Christmas present!
Folks at work have commented on it, that's kinda fun. "A pretty cool Christmas gift", sez I.
I loaded it originally with one of the Lamy cartridges and was having some fun with that this past week. I couldn't help myself, and I figured I had 4 other carts in the pkg, so I popped off the cartridge, cut the top off, rinsed it out over the sink, and used that as the go-between for flushing out the feed/nib (the bulb didn't fit down into the plug-end of the pen's back-end of the business-end of things). that worked really well.
I shook out all I could, made sure the internal fins didn't have water in there, and reloaded with the sample of de Atramentis Green Tomato from Liberty's PIF-package.
Question 1, then...how do I know that the water is fully out of the feed mechanism? My concern comes from the fact that the Green Tomato ink seems much wetter than the Lamy cartridge ink, and I am worried I diluted it somehow with potential residual water in the feed mechanism. Or is this ink just watery-er than the Lamy standard stuff?
The seemingly wetter ink makes for a thicker line when writing. The nib has an "F" on it (I assume "Fine"). Even with the Lamy cartridge ink, it seemed wider than I'd like (I like to write fairly small).
Question 2: does this Lamy Safari pen have an interchangeable thing where I can swap out a smaller, "extra fine" nib, or is it permanently mounted to the front-end, and to go smaller would require a different pen? If changeable,
Question 3: where would I get a nib like that? How small can I go and still have consistent ink flow?
I've been able to keep my pen-AD's under control (I don't have a massive urge to go buy 10 pens and 30 ink colors). However, I can see getting some abnormal-but-business-acceptable colors soon enough.
Question 4: Any suggestions in the blackish category that isn't black? There are bound to be thousands of options, but poking around Noodler's website, sure seems like some fun stuff.
Speaking of AD's, do pen AD's sneak-up on you? What triggers them? I can see one possibility of 1 pen for every color, and lots of inks and just going nuts that way, but for me, it seems like it will be more of a customization process with this single pen, and maybe get 1 other if I find I like two different colors equally.
One last one: I watched a video today that mentioned something about a "signature pen" vs. one that would be a daily driver. I was not impressed with the end result (the review showed and acknowledged lots of issues with basic writing features, but he still used the phrase "highly recommend" in the wrapup (was for a Kaigelu 316)), but he mentioned it to be a good "signature pen". Surely, unless you're POTUS or soemthing, people don't have a special pen with them just to sign stuff? Either way, I'd want that pen to start and flow nicely, which that one in the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H382U1_n5-E)
Thanks for listening.
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/324525-New-to-FP-Holiday-PIF
What a Christmas present!
Folks at work have commented on it, that's kinda fun. "A pretty cool Christmas gift", sez I.
I loaded it originally with one of the Lamy cartridges and was having some fun with that this past week. I couldn't help myself, and I figured I had 4 other carts in the pkg, so I popped off the cartridge, cut the top off, rinsed it out over the sink, and used that as the go-between for flushing out the feed/nib (the bulb didn't fit down into the plug-end of the pen's back-end of the business-end of things). that worked really well.
I shook out all I could, made sure the internal fins didn't have water in there, and reloaded with the sample of de Atramentis Green Tomato from Liberty's PIF-package.
Question 1, then...how do I know that the water is fully out of the feed mechanism? My concern comes from the fact that the Green Tomato ink seems much wetter than the Lamy cartridge ink, and I am worried I diluted it somehow with potential residual water in the feed mechanism. Or is this ink just watery-er than the Lamy standard stuff?
The seemingly wetter ink makes for a thicker line when writing. The nib has an "F" on it (I assume "Fine"). Even with the Lamy cartridge ink, it seemed wider than I'd like (I like to write fairly small).
Question 2: does this Lamy Safari pen have an interchangeable thing where I can swap out a smaller, "extra fine" nib, or is it permanently mounted to the front-end, and to go smaller would require a different pen? If changeable,
Question 3: where would I get a nib like that? How small can I go and still have consistent ink flow?
I've been able to keep my pen-AD's under control (I don't have a massive urge to go buy 10 pens and 30 ink colors). However, I can see getting some abnormal-but-business-acceptable colors soon enough.
Question 4: Any suggestions in the blackish category that isn't black? There are bound to be thousands of options, but poking around Noodler's website, sure seems like some fun stuff.
Speaking of AD's, do pen AD's sneak-up on you? What triggers them? I can see one possibility of 1 pen for every color, and lots of inks and just going nuts that way, but for me, it seems like it will be more of a customization process with this single pen, and maybe get 1 other if I find I like two different colors equally.
One last one: I watched a video today that mentioned something about a "signature pen" vs. one that would be a daily driver. I was not impressed with the end result (the review showed and acknowledged lots of issues with basic writing features, but he still used the phrase "highly recommend" in the wrapup (was for a Kaigelu 316)), but he mentioned it to be a good "signature pen". Surely, unless you're POTUS or soemthing, people don't have a special pen with them just to sign stuff? Either way, I'd want that pen to start and flow nicely, which that one in the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H382U1_n5-E)
Thanks for listening.
