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I really liked your work! Looking forward to see your doodle collection as well! Are you using Koken? Any thoughts on how to switch the CMS when Koken gets sold?

Best,

Mani


JuJu said:
Thanks for your kind words, Will. Yeah, I made a empty link there to motivate myself to update the website with personal stuff, but got busy with work and my 3-yr-old boy... Hopefully I'll get to it in a few weeks.
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ChrisLivsey said:
No commission :bang: 😀

I really hope you love it,looks great, glad to see you bought the rest as well.
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Thanks Chris. Like yours, the pen is clipless, so I thought it would be wise to get the pen rest to avoid accidental roll-offs. 😱

BTW I also got that cute goldfish converter 😱
 
chhayanat said:
I really liked your work! Looking forward to see your doodle collection as well! Are you using Koken? Any thoughts on how to switch the CMS when Koken gets sold?

Best,

Mani
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Thanks, Mani, I made my website with Dreamweaver CS6, kind of outdated...

Here's another pen for doodles, a Sailor Pro Gear with medium fine nib (a lot thinner than European extra fine). It draws in a very controlled/precise fashion, quite different from Omas Milord's expressive/loose style. Love them both!

Cheers,
Tung

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Some questions for Nakaya pen owners: how does the nib feel? Wet/dry, flexy/rigid? How does the nib compare to Sailor's? Or feels similar to any brand's nib?

This thread is bad...

Thanks in advance!
Tung
 
JuJu said:
Some questions for Nakaya pen owners: how does the nib feel? Wet/dry, flexy/rigid? How does the nib compare to Sailor's? Or feels similar to any brand's nib?

This thread is bad...

Thanks in advance!
Tung
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Dear Tung,

I'm a very new Nakaya owner 🙂 I did quite a bit of research before choosing a "Broad" nib for my "fat" portable cigar (see pictures above). I normally like European medium, but I was told that Japanese medium was more like European fine whilst Japanese broad was like European medium. Nakaya also do a soft medium and a soft fine which have some flex (not much).

When you order, you can specify certain characteristics: ink flow, pressure used, angle the pen is held, L/R handed use etc. I chose a "medium flow" for by broad nib: it lays down a satisfyingly wet, thick medium line; very smooth with a tiny amount of give (by no means flex or semi-flex). It is comparable to my Pelikans in terms of smoothness. I don't have a Sailor to compare with.

I guess, with the Nakayas, you are paying for the body; the nib is equivalent to a Platinum nib. The Nakyas pens are made by guys who used to work for Platinum and who have now retired.

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Monz
 
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and congrats on your new Nakaya, Monz, I haven't heard of any complains about Nakaya's nibs so far, and that's very comforting 🙂

Cheers,
Tung


Here's pen & watercolor sketch, with Aurora Talentum Finesse extra fine nib. This pen is always inked and ready to go since I bought it 5 years ago. Never fails to perform.
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I've been watching this thread with interest, as I recently started using fountain pens on a daily basis. This Sheaffer Snorkel Valiant was a recent gift from my grandmother, and I also have a disposable fountain pen from BIC, which I have been using to test the waters of the fountain pen world...


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JuJu said:
Here's pen & watercolor sketch, with Aurora Talentum Finesse extra fine nib. This pen is always inked and ready to go since I bought it 5 years ago. Never fails to perform.
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Tung,

The Pen and Wash style of drawing/painting is one of my favorites. Do you have any resource on how to learn it? Or share more of your drawings with this style 😀
 
shadowfox said:
Monz, pardon the basic question, is that a broad nib because it produces thick lines, or it's called broad because it is physically big?
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Hi Will,
It's "broad" because of the wide line width that it produces.... but to complicate matters, it's Japanese "broad" which is equivalent to Western "medium"! It's a bit like shoe and dress sizes... no international standard 🙂

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Monz
 
It seems I have found fountain pen heaven. I need good advice: the ink suction mechanism in my Montblanc -you turn a dial and the pump is supposed to suck ink from a well does not function any longer. How do I fix this? Can I flush the suction mechanism myself or does it mean an expensive trip to a Montblanc dealer? Many thanks for your best advice. Peter
 
Peter Wijninga said:
It seems I have found fountain pen heaven. I need good advice: the ink suction mechanism in my Montblanc -you turn a dial and the pump is supposed to suck ink from a well does not function any longer. How do I fix this? Can I flush the suction mechanism myself or does it mean an expensive trip to a Montblanc dealer? Many thanks for your best advice. Peter
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Hi Peter,
Is your Mont Blanc a Meisterstuck model with a piston filler? If you don't want to send it to Mont Blanc for a (expensive) service, it is possible to do the job yourself but you need to buy or make a special wrench to disassemble the piston mechanism. Then you can wash out and re-grease the mechanism... but be careful, it is easy to crack the resin of the barrel.
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Monz
 
Hi,

We've several experts here and so I wonder if any one can identify the exact model and age this is, please?

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I know nothing about it except that a colleague gave it to me when she retired as it reminded her of work and I'd spotted it under her desk (meaning on the floor) on her last day. It was probably bought in France as that was where she came from.

I had to tweak the nib alignment with a pair of pliers and it meant I could retire my scratchy Parker 51 and even scratchier Mont Blanc.

Regards, David
 
David Hughes said:
Hi,

We've several experts here and so I wonder if any one can identify the exact model and age this is, please?

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I know nothing about it except that a colleague gave it to me when she retired as it reminded her of work and I'd spotted it under her desk (meaning on the floor) on her last day. It was probably bought in France as that was where she came from.

I had to tweak the nib alignment with a pair of pliers and it meant I could retire my scratchy Parker 51 and even scratchier Mont Blanc.

Regards, David
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Hi David,
That looks like a Sheaffer 330 Imperial. See these links:

http://penhabit.com/2014/08/01/pen-review-sheaffer-imperial-330/

http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferInlaidNibs.htm

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Monz
 
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