I'm going to finish a bottle of ink this year. I am currently halfway through a bottle of de Atramentis Benjamin Franklin, and if I keep writing at my current pace, I have a decent shot to finish it by next January.
Your 2016 Nib Resolutions!
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2016's pen budget is already blown here too. I don't even know what awesome new editions from Pelikan are coming out this year.
I'm new to the nib but but have been lurking. I don't know if this fits here, but I consider myself a bit of a woodworker, but have never turned a pen. In a few hours, I will be turning my first one, a slimline. I've got about a dozen wood blanks and a couple acrylic & 3 pen sets so the only thing left to do is decide which ones to use.
I also intend to turn a fountain pen and a dip pen in the coming weeks. I'm in a few shaving restraints so I will use my shaving budget for pen supplies to help keep me in the restraints. Sounds like cheating but any lawyer will tell you I'm just exposing a loophole
I also intend to turn a fountain pen and a dip pen in the coming weeks. I'm in a few shaving restraints so I will use my shaving budget for pen supplies to help keep me in the restraints. Sounds like cheating but any lawyer will tell you I'm just exposing a loophole
I think I'm a little burned out on ink sampling, so want to finish up the samples I have remaining and stick with the bottled ink I have.
I'm new to the nib but but have been lurking. I don't know if this fits here, but I consider myself a bit of a woodworker, but have never turned a pen. In a few hours, I will be turning my first one, a slimline. I've got about a dozen wood blanks and a couple acrylic & 3 pen sets so the only thing left to do is decide which ones to use.
I also intend to turn a fountain pen and a dip pen in the coming weeks. I'm in a few shaving restraints so I will use my shaving budget for pen supplies to help keep me in the restraints. Sounds like cheating but any lawyer will tell you I'm just exposing a loophole
Sounds like a fun project. Best of luck with it! If you feel like it, start a thread to keep us updated on your progress.
I'm new to the nib but but have been lurking. I don't know if this fits here, but I consider myself a bit of a woodworker, but have never turned a pen. In a few hours, I will be turning my first one, a slimline. I've got about a dozen wood blanks and a couple acrylic & 3 pen sets so the only thing left to do is decide which ones to use.
I also intend to turn a fountain pen and a dip pen in the coming weeks. I'm in a few shaving restraints so I will use my shaving budget for pen supplies to help keep me in the restraints. Sounds like cheating but any lawyer will tell you I'm just exposing a loophole
Be careful. Turning is addicting! My afternoon project tomorrow is to modify my sharpening station for the lathe!
My resolution is to be much more discriminating when looking for pens in antique stores. At this moment in time, if it isn't a full sized Parker 51 Aeromatic or a really nice Sheaffer Touchdown I plan on letting the thing stay in its spot.
SWMBO says this resolution will hold until I see something interesting... She's probably right!
SWMBO says this resolution will hold until I see something interesting... She's probably right!
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I think mine will last until January 23. That's when I'm going to the Philadelphia Pen Show.
Goals for 2016;
Attend the Dallas Pen Show
Purchase 5 additional Esterbrooks
To purchase an Edison
To purchase a custom made pen
Of course more ink and paper
Attend the Dallas Pen Show
Purchase 5 additional Esterbrooks
To purchase an Edison
To purchase a custom made pen
Of course more ink and paper
Lets see
1. Continue my sabbatical on TWSBI
2. Try to finish a bottle of ink
3. Buy no pens... in fact try to winnow my collection
4. Repair the 51 "51"'s I have in parts
5. Attend the Supershow in DC
1. Continue my sabbatical on TWSBI
2. Try to finish a bottle of ink
3. Buy no pens... in fact try to winnow my collection
4. Repair the 51 "51"'s I have in parts
5. Attend the Supershow in DC
Quite a few projects for this year,
1. Source decent nibs for a couple of Indian eye droppers
2. Finish a few bottles of ink
3. Buy a loupe
4. Figure out how to write well with a Sailor zoom nib that I don't use enough
5. Visit Deccan pens
6. Buy a Japanese pen, either Pilot or Platinum.
1. Source decent nibs for a couple of Indian eye droppers
2. Finish a few bottles of ink
3. Buy a loupe
4. Figure out how to write well with a Sailor zoom nib that I don't use enough
5. Visit Deccan pens
6. Buy a Japanese pen, either Pilot or Platinum.
I will continue my quest for an MB Agatha Christie at a reasonable price.
I want to start using my pens more and get rid of the ones I don't use.
- Write more letters and cards (so...more than one)
- Re-learn cursive/script
- Bait Snargle into posting a personalized writing sample
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I don't like making resolutions I know I probably can't keep, so there is no point in saying I'll use more restraint in buying pens this year!
What I will resolve is to
1) Get all of my pens into working order.
2) Write more in my journal.
3) Attend a pen show. I have DC already marked on the calendar!
What I will resolve is to
1) Get all of my pens into working order.
2) Write more in my journal.
3) Attend a pen show. I have DC already marked on the calendar!
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- Write more letters and cards (so...more than one)
- Re-learn cursive/script
- Bait Snargle into posting a personalized writing sample
This is all you're getting from me, you young whippersnapper!
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This is all you're getting from me, you young whippersnapper!
Wow - that's the fastest I have cleared a resolution in a long time. Thanks for the assist!
I am seriously working on improving my cursive writing. I have been working on that project daily since the end of December and I already see big improvements. I would like to learn a bit of calligraphy, so I picked up some nibs and a holder and once I get to the point where my cursive is considered "good" I will work on learning to do calligraphy.
This!
If I apply my experience from my journey into wet shaving to my journey ahead with fountain pens, then I need to stop impulse-buying cheap pens that I know deep down are not for me, and instead buy the pens that I have researched properly and if that means saving up, then do it - get some self restraint and save up.
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