Thread: Fountain Pens?

Oooo Ahhhh Just got my box of ink

Noodlers Black Swan, Habanero, and Polar Brown. I also have a bottle of J. Herbin 1670, a great ink if you like shading

I was also wondering if anyone here would be interested in "Snail Mailing" with their fountain pens? Something I started doing over at The Fountain Pen Network is undergoing maintenance!

Just thought I'd put that out there

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

Oooo Ahhhh Just got my box of ink

Noodlers Black Swan, Habanero, and Polar Brown. I also have a bottle of J. Herbin 1670, a great ink if you like shading

I was also wondering if anyone here would be interested in "Snail Mailing" with their fountain pens? Something I started doing over at The Fountain Pen Network is undergoing maintenance!

Just thought I'd put that out there

Pen, paper, envelope and stamp.

Grand Parents, Mom's Dad's and lovers love them.

In todays world print a picture from your digital camera
with a sheet of paper that is too big then take pen
to the paper and add a bit about the picture. My
Mom suffered from Alzheimer's and she got to enjoy them
many many more times when compared to a phone call.

The Tortoise pen on the right can be had from Richard Binder for not much more than a hundred; mine has an 18k italics nib (ground yesterday at the Philadelphia Pen show by Richard Binder) and for that reason cost more. Its called the Belmont and is manufactured by Howard Levy of the famed Bexley pen co.

So in my new found fountain pen fondness I signed up for Gouletpens.com ink drop club where I get 5 little vials of different inks to sample each month. I emptied two of them already and thought I could put the empty vials to good use here on the SRP forum.
Here's the deal: I'll send you one vial of an ink I have you'd like to try, along with an empty vial for you to send me a sample of ink you think I should try.
Here are the inks I have bottles of: Diamine Ox Blood, Noodler's Air Corp Blue Black, Nakahama Manjiro, Black Swan in Australian Roses, El Lawrence, Burma Road Brown, Heart of Darkness.
I only have two vials right now so only enough for one trade but I'll get more as time goes on. Perhaps this can grow into a nice ink trading for the fountain pen heads around here.
Also, having bought a few cheap Jinhao pens I can recommend them as cheap beginner pens for someone interested in trying them out, but they are cheap and perform as such. I guess they're like the infamous Gold Dollar razors: good enough to get the idea of straight shaving in most cases but ultimately you can find better values elsewhere. The Lamy and Noodler's pens are much better tools overal. Just my 2 nibs.

Originally Posted by jleeg

The Tortoise pen on the right can be had from Richard Binder for not much more than a hundred; mine has an 18k italics nib (ground yesterday at the Philadelphia Pen show by Richard Binder) and for that reason cost more. Its called the Belmont and is manufactured by Howard Levy of the famed Bexley pen co.

BTW, Mitch Levy (Howard's son?) is an SRP member. He came to the Ohio get together a couple of years ago with a whole case full of Bexleys.

Bass guy,
I would do a mini ink swap with you. Maybe you would like to try some Iroshizuku? I have Yama Budo (Wild Grapes Burgundy) and KonPeki (deep ocean blue). I also have some Noodlers, Waterman, Aurora and Private Reserve. Anything sound good?

KonPeki sounds nice. I tend not to like blues, or at least haven't found one I like yet. Kind of the way I am with Sheffield :P but I'm always willing to try one!

I got a wild hair today and bought my first FP. I just picked up a new Nakimi/Pilot VP with a fine nib...

I'm already itching to see what kind of inks I should look at. Any good suggestions of what a newbie should experience?