We Bust a Nib Myth and Brian Drafts 5 Pens | Pencast 114
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Why doesn't the perfect fountain pen exist? Does Drew makes exceptions to his 3-pen rule? Brian and Drew tackle these question and more this week on episode 114 of The Goulet Pencast!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:29 Feedback
0:14:11 New Stuff
0:24:49 Q&A
0:26:20 Why doesn't the perfect pen exist at this point?
0:33:01 Do nibs produce a thicker line over time?
0:40:21 Can we hear Brian's Pen Draft?
0:49:10 Does Drew make exceptions to his 3-pen rule?
0:53:02 Do larger nibs have more tipping material?
1:00:37 Pen Spotlight
1:06:39 What's Happening?
1:44:53 Comp-nay Updates
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I think I speak for all of us when I saay how much we appreciate you both making the pencast
I'm in!
Well said!!
Yep!
Absolutely. And part of the joy is all the positivity in both the pencast and the comments. There’s just so much fun and comfort in being around it.
Yes, totally!!!!!
The amount of joy and vindication on Drew's face when Brian says he tapes the bag back together :P
I would just like to say that I recently bought a pen from you guys; reason being that I wanted a nice pen for writing get-well-soon cards for the patients at my surgery clinic. The nurses were having a blast seeing my messages in those cards, and it was fun while it lasted. But due to the high patient count in my office, my manager decided to transfer that writing privilege to someone else. Condolences to that part of my job that I really liked. In any case, you made a pen accessible to me, and I have absolutely loved it: not only the pen itself, but also the fact that I got it from you instead of someone else. And the customer service is just glorious. Thank you truly.
Also, it's my 10th anniversary of being a fan of yours! It was my first time buying a pen from you recently, but it has been 10 years since you guys first popped in my RUclipss, and I've been loving the content ever since. Happy decade, happy Tenniversary!
Fun fact: Tigers are striped and orange because (although they appear orange to humans) to common prey like boar or deer, that orange will apear as green. That's also why deer hunters usually wear an orange vest. They'll be camouflaged for the deers but other hunters can still see them.
Whoa! I didn't know that! - Drew
i was about to say this.
😮 I think this could actually be the coolest fun fact I've ever heard 😎
Snowing outside: Check
Hot chocolate milk: Check
Wrapped around in my blanket: Check
Perfect time to watch the pencast =)
Brian’s telling of using his pocket pen to fill out forms in the doctor’s office made me laugh. I’ve done this. Oh, the disdain of the “crappy” ballpoint!
I've done the same at the doctors office or even pulling out my fountain pen to sign a credit receipt at a restaurant rather than use a lousy ballpoint.
I love the discussion of perfection. I feel perfection is the journey itself of finding your own happiness in finding the pen, ink, and paper in your own fountain pen journey. I’m just glad there is such a positive community as I continue on in my own journey!
Well said! - Drew
Good discussion about the arts and feeling more complete when you get to do those things. I started writing when I was a kid and then didn't for a long time (after getting married). In about 2014 I thought "this not being a writer thing is old" and started writing again. I've had 2 poetry chapbooks published, I'm working on a full-length collection, and started a (very small) publishing company. Go create, anything and everything. It's so important to be able to express yourself and let that out.
I missed you guys last week. You are a bright, shiny, fun video each week. I love the education and learning about your lives. I’m unable to be active right now, but my fountain pens are bringing me joy, as are you guys. Thanks for being awesome!
"Rock Bucket Friends" NEEDS to be a sticker!
Why would anyone want just the one ‘perfect’ pen. The joy in the hobby is to have variety: different looks, different feels, different inks - not perfection. Long live the perfect imperfect pens!!
They're all perfect! - Drew
The online negativity is awful but you guys are awesome
Yeah here on this podcast one can completely forget about any negativity 😁 Just lovely people as far as the eye can see 🥰
Drew, your comments about developing string mindedness and resisting the critical spirit of the age were a very salutary reminder and much appreciated. Always happy to hear more in that vein.
Brian and Drew! The secret to the bag trauma is to buy containers to decant your cereal or coffee in to keep it fresh. I can't stand stale cereal or coffee, so I have a big glass container that does the rubber ring/metal hinge thing for my coffee, and I've put cereal into Tupperware when the bag has split on me. It's a handy compromise if you can get the other people in your house to use them too!
Enjoying the pencast with hot coffee and cheez-its! Love you guys!
I think that's a fantastic idea. - Drew
I'm right there with ya Drew- I like to enjoy my nerdy things without other people on the internet telling me it's wrong. No one gets angrier than a fan sometimes. I don't use basically any social media and I am thankful every day! I find these cozy corners of the internet like fountain pen land and stay here 😊
Yeah, I'm seriously considering backing off of social media more. The pros and cons seem to be 50/50 for me at this point. - Drew
1:03:24 Brian uncaps the Pelikan pen by turning the cap!👀
WOW! Hahaha! Great catch! - Drew
Speaking of sticking posters to walls, you can actually put down a rectangular frame of painters tape to protect the wall. Then you add a layer of double sided tape on top of the painters tape. This will hold up the poster and should be easily removed from the wall when you're done without damaging the wall.
That is really smart!!
Oh wow, that’s genius! 🥳
Good tip - thank you!
I am so glad you posted this. Great idea
Hey Brian and Drew love you guys. I always miss you but appreciate even more the pencast after your week off
It's nice to see the winter sweaters, guys!
We've got plenty more! - Drew
Here's an enhance converter ink behind the piston fix. Use a syringe bulb cut to fit snuggly on the converter, compress the syringe, attach it to the converter and let it do the work. No finger suction marks and it provides a continuos vacuum to pull the ink out. But wait, there's more. I first used this concept for an even more irritating problem; ink behind an cap liner. I couldn't disassemble the cap to clean it and using this same concept pulled the ink from behind the cap liner completely and quickly. It's best to leave it vertical with the cap opening facing downward.
When Drew talked about no perfect pan, I knew hammer would follow 😂 Thank you for another fun pencast!
Either I cut the corner of the cereal bag for a controlled flow OR I cut across the top of the bag. The latter for larger cereal pieces like my beloved Corn Pops.
For Drew, accordions come in different sizes, just like pianos, some bigger like a concert grand, some smaller like a spinet. A friend of mine played an orchestral size accordion in a traditional Irish band. His bandmates called it the "Stomach Steinway". Concertinas are smaller and hexagonal in shape. Another Irish band I knew included a bass concertina which they affectionately referred to as the fart-o-phone.
Stomach Steinway! Ha! Love it. - Drew
I'd just like to add that in between the accordion and the concertina (or constant screamer as they're known around here) are diatonic button accordions aka the melodeon which aren't chromatic instruments but come the keys of d/g or c/f etc. They're the squeezebox of choice for most folkies over here in the UK.
I remember when Barnes & Noble tried selling Lamy pens and every fountain pen nib got splayed by people trying them out with too much pressure
Happy Weekend! First door of my Diamine calender to try out during the pencast! Nice dark gold.
So happy to have you guys back!
3M poster strips are the way to go for hanging posters in a removeable way. Also, I feel your pain about the cereal bags. I actually resort to taping up the bags that have been thus mangled. I just can't handle it.
Almost everytime I get a new pen, I feel like it's the perfect pen for me. Drew, I loved the cherry blossom analogy.
Glad y'all had a good break from work but very happy the pencast is back!
Thank you! - Drew
It was the famous 18th century chess player and composer André Philidor who claimed that "Pawns are the soul of chess".
The cereal conversation reminds me of the scene in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Need to get the plastic cereal containers. GAME CHANGER.
You know what? We really should do that. - Drew
Hey Brian and Drew, I just wanted to thank you for a couple of things, firstly for your knowledge and enthusiasm which (along with my partner's small collection) helped me find my way back to fountain pens (I'd desperately loved and coveted them as a child but only ever had the £3 crappy sus80s/90s ones and awful exercise book paper so thought I could not write with them. Rediscovering their beauty, and that I can write without pain is GLORIOUS. Thank you. Secondly: It's Big Deadline month over here, with end of term teacher reports and book drafts both due, and old episodes of Pencast have been keeping me company and sane as I write.
Newbie question: I have a Christmas Pen budget! I love my TWSBI Eco though not the barrel cracking, and my Brass Sport, where somehow the weight doesn't feel heavy and it almost helps the pen move itself. My safaris were my gateway pens and I love the stub nib though on bad pain days the grips hurt for longer sessions. I like M, and 1.1/ 1/5 stub nibs. And I'm looking for something comfortable and smooth writing for looooong novel writing sessions. Should I go LAMY 2000?Aion? Esterbrook Estie? Pilot E95s or Custom 74? Benu? I've caught the pen bug and want them all but because I can't get somewhere to try them, don't know what my 1st big upgrade should be.
I love the E95s, but it wouldn't be ideal for long sessions. Of the ones you mentioned, the Custom 74 and the 2000 would probably be best! Also, thank you sooooo much for taking the time to drop in some kind words! 😊 - Drew
When I was in the dorms in college I used Command strips to hang posters. No damage to the walls, and if you're careful, no damage to the posters either.
I am a nurse. Pen Cast is something new to me since maybe 2 months ago. I always play it while planning or journaling. It is always informative, funny, and relaxing. Last pen cast was specifically funny because if the question about how do you uncap your fountain pen. 😂
We're glad you found us! - Drew
Hi Guys! Thanks for another fun and informative pencast! LOVE the sweaters! Can't wait until the next one week after next!
Brian nailed the problem with nitpicking about invented worlds of sci-fi/fantasy; it reminded me of the classic SNL skit with (the actual) Bill Shatner at a comcon taking questions about Star Trek, upon which he goes into a diatribe about “get a life!”; “what’s the matter with you people?” that was so on point it was as hilarious!
Former supply chain reporter here now in a field where I have to build organizations from scratch and hire and train leaders, I too very much enjoy when you guys talk about those topics and love that of all places where I can listen to interesting discussion about them, it’s a fountain pen podcast :)
I love the sweaters! I Look forward to Your videos every week
Interesting to see in the Pen Spotlight that Brian unscrewed the cap and not the body of the pen - presumably because held it in his left hand and used his dominant (right) hand to open the pen.
Quote for Brian: "The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer." (Arnold Bennett)
I believe Brian was thinking of "The Centipede's Dilemma" attributed to Katherine Craster
"A centipede was happy - quite!
Until a toad in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"
This raised her doubts to such a pitch,
She fell exhausted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run."
Just want to say how much I enjoy this content, home from work with a glass of whiskey, many bottles of ink (different glasses) and my pens to wind down with after a long week. Thank you for the service gentlemen, more dad jokes would also be appreciated 👍
Thanks for joining us! - Drew
I'm the one who destroys cereal bags in my house. My hubby always asks me if I let a wolverine open it 😄
Brian, for hanging posters: 3M command strips, but I don't like their specific poster hanger ones, I find the clear bathroom ones actually work the best, especially if you have textured (or in our case, plaster) walls. Also: As a warmup or dynamics exercise if nothing else, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is super fun on Tenor. The octave jump is a good embouchure exercise, too!
Drew: We honestly solved the cereal bag issue by buying some plastic OXO containers for it at Costco. I don't eat cold cereal generally (just not a fan), but my husband and stepkids do. Every one of them opens like a beast and never closes the bag properly, so it goes basically instantly stale...and then they refuse to eat it. And I refuse to buy it when we have brand new boxes sitting around more or less untouched. So now whoever opens the bag pours all of it into the big plastic container and they so far have no problem remembering to close that. Problem solved for $15.
"The Last Jedi" appreciation comment. So many great moments that hit me right in the heart
Brian and Drew, this is the second pencast I found - haven't gone back and listened to past episodes, which I plan to! Brian's comment on Cyber Insurance made me smile. I work as a Finance Manager for a technology company. Cyber Insurance is a real need and jumped in cost this year. We went through the same cringes when we heard the increase! Kudos to you guys for going through that and thank you for mentioning that!!
Yay! We're so glad that you found us! - Drew
My husband and I hide a small Simba (Lion King) stuffed toy from McDonald's that someone left at our house about 20 years ago (in our previous house). We started a little game of hiding "the lion" as we call it, for the other one to find. It's super fun. The thing sometimes hides for months waiting to be found because we choose kinda rarely visited spots in the house.
I love the M600 Glauco Cambon and am so excited it's my first Pelikan. Wanted to get into the brand but wanted something special, and it DELIVERS. As cool as it looks on the video, it really is better in person as others have said. That "Aurora" process they have seems pretty special.
As for the weight Brian commented on, it feels so good in the hand because it is heavier than a resin M600 (28g Glauco Cambon vs. 18g "standard" per the Goulet website).... Pelikan used a brass body on this one, so it's the same weight as an M800, but with the great "everyday" size of the M600. This along, with the special process, make this a very special M600
😃
When i had posters on the wall as a kid (2 walls, ceiling to floor) i used scotch tape loops, which really didn’t mar the paint, but the trick is, once you take them down, i cut the loops with scissors and flattened them to the back of the poster, which ultimately reinforced the corners. 😊
I love Drew’s thoughts about artistic pursuits. So well said. I’m so happy for Brian having music in his life again! My degree is in piano performance and music composition, but there’s a definite intensity involved with music practice. I’m mom to an autistic teen, and when I get some personal time, I need less intensity. I have found calligraphy & handwriting practice to have many similarities to piano practice, and I get to use my pens. I’m grateful to have a creative equivalent that works for now. I play the piano in my mind every day, and I hope to return to it in the future. Kudos to Brian!
I share Drew’s horror with the torn cereal bags! In our coastal climate, exposed cereal would be soggy in a few days, so if the top seam does not yield to gentle persuasion, I use kitchen scissors.
Love the festive sweaters! Thanks for the Pencast!
Thanks for the comment, Wendy! I hope that you have some downtime to yourself this weekend! - Drew
Come On folks, @1:07:38 to open bags of cereal (or potato chips, corn chips) use kitchen shears, or whip out your Leatherman.
1:09:03 Why aren’t the bags inside cereal boxes zip loc bags?
Until they are, I just use a pair of scissors and cut the bag open.
I love my new Cozy Penguins holiday pen!!!
If Shannon cannot control her strength with those cereal bags, I suggest keeping a pair of scissors near the cereal boxes to open the tops of the bags.
Santa, for the holidays please gift some kitchen scissors to the unaware to make their lives easier and their cereal bags neater. (Also, you can close them with washi tape!)
Pencast stats:
Average length of video: 1 hour, 55 minutes, 50 seconds
Total length of playlist: 9 days, 4 hours, 5 minutes, 22 seconds
Thanks for Brian's pen draft! Like Drew, I was honestly very surprised by his picks. I liked how he had to put restrictions for himself even though it wasn't specified. I expected a lot of higher end pens on his list. I'm very surprised that he didn't pick a Pilot Custom 743 in Verdigris as one of his picks, especially since it's a new USA exclusive!
At my house, if the cereal bag doesn't give enough to be opened like a bag of chips, we get scissors and cut the corner off carefully. I recently cut incorrectly a bagged cereal, so I used packing tape to fix it.
I JUST had a conversation with custom nib studio yesterday. Sending a Sailor music to get a cursive italic grind. It will be my first time sending a pen off to a nibsmith. Excited!
You won't be disappointed! - Drew
1:05:32 Welp, now you've done it, Brian and Drew. I was on the fence about that M600 because I thought it was opaque, but now that I see it's TRANSLUCENT?! My wallet is likely going to want a word with you shortly. And maybe my wife and why you enable me 😅 😂 ❤
It's sooooo pretty!!! - Drew
Brian and Drew! Because of your Pen Spotlight, I bit the bullet and bought myself the Glauco Cambon from a reseller here in Manila. Was eyeing this on your site actually, but I figured shipping from the US to the Philippines will be a battle over the holidays. This is actually my first Pelikan! 🫢 It’s a beaut! Thank you so much for showing this off! Happy holidays! ✨🥂🤍 Here’s to more Pencasts! 🤞🏻
OMG I'm sure you're loving it! That pen was INCREDIBLE! - Drew
I am one of your newest followers, literally subscribed to this channel just now ❤ I have been going to your account for months now to get advice about specific fountain pens I wantedto buy and I find your way of doing the pencasts and reviews and the dep dives the best out there! And I've watched some... I love your relaxed yet very informative sessions.. And it's a shameyou don't have a European online shop as you would be very competetive..maybe an idea? 😊 Thank you!,
Drew, my friend, you better get that new sofa quickly after that cereal box comment.
I do need a new sofa! Haha - Drew
I work at a hotel front desk part time and bought myself a Pilot Vanishing Point as a present to myself for getting a new and better job. Since we tend to write quick little notes to ourselves throughout the shift, I thought a Vanishing Point was a perfect fit. On my first day, I had it laying on a small notebook I brought to take notes while I am training. The manager who hired me and is such a lovely person, grabbed it without realizing what it was, clicked it open and proceeded to write herself a note WITH THE NIB UPSIDE DOWN before I could stop her. She looked at it funny when it didn't write well and I said, "Um, it's a fountain pen." She said, "Cool" and proceeded to write the rest of her note with the nib still upside down before I could say, "Let me show you how to use it". Fortunately, she had a light hand and no damage was done. Maybe I need to just bring a Lamy or something inexpensive and easy to uncap to work because that experience was completely unnerving. I used to use a Platinum Preppy at work but it sometimes skipped if I left the cap off for a few minutes. Any advice appreciated.
On Washi tape: it is made of rice paper, rather than regular cellulose pulp (as paper is). Rice paper has longer fibers, making it resistant enough but delicate enough to cut with your fingers. The glue used for them is low tack, like sticky notes, which makes washintape repositionable
I have Maiora Capsule fountain pen and have seen the Leonardo Momento Zero pens and they look almost identical. Can you explain the difference between the two and why they look so similar?
Fun pencast as always. Brian, you should try Scotch Restickable Dots or Squares for your kids' posters.
"Busting a nib" is so hardcore for a nerd (me).
Drew and Brian, If your turkey is dry, please consider brining it and being careful with the internal temperature. There is no reason a turkey needs to be dry. There are ways to make this one of the best meals you will cook with your families. Most people overcook their turkey and that is why it becomes dry. Use a good quality thermometer that is properly placed in your bird. You can do this!
off topic but does anyone know why the Visconti HS Lava Color - Blu Oltremare is no longer on most pen websites? it doesn't even say out of stock it's just not there anymore. I was planning on buying this pen this week but now I can't find it anywhere
Uncapping observation is maybe like Heisenberg uncertainty principle rather than Schrödinger's cat.
Absolutely. - Drew
Checked comments for this-just what I was thinking! 👍🏼
Your ksek trivia fact of the week: "washi" is Japanese for "Japanese paper" and refers to a specific type of traditional Japanese paper. (And now I cross my fingers and hope this isn't Brian's fun fact at the end of the episode.)
Very cool! - Drew
Brian was talking about his difficulty sticking posters effectively and I need to shout out, specifically, the Velcro Command strips. You stick one to every corner, connect all the Velcro, and press it to the wall like a big sticker. If you ever have to move it, you can easily peel the Velcro off without hurting the poster. Plus, it adds a little bit of space between the poster and the wall just for a little more pop.
Brian, I have no idea if it's written for tenor sax, but Harlem Nocturne is so beautiful. The first time I heard it, the musician played it in a sultry, sexy way that transported me to 1930s Harlem. By the time he finished, I was weeping over the beauty. Check it out!
The internet can be such a negative space. Thankfully,I rarely find it in your pencast comments.
Drew, I'm with you. I watch movies for enjoyment. I don't want to over analyze it. I get sick of people nitpicking everything. Love sci-fi, but with you about JarJar Binks, what were they thinking.
Must say that the Pelican looks much better seeing it on the pencast than the stills on the website. The motion really shows off colors so well. If only it was in my price range. It's a beauty.
Turkey Hammock, love the pencast!
Funny story: a few years ago when I had just started my rabbit hole journey into fountain pens, I once handed a TWSBI ECO to my supervisor to sign a performance review doc. I had gone first, so it was already uncapped, but he didn't look at what I handed him, so he went and smashed the nib onto the paper like one would a ballpoint. Fortunately, the nib survived - all that happened was a little ink splatter. Now this was in Germany, and upon a second look he recognized the pen as a fountain pen, and then managed to properly sign with it, but he was a bit mystified as to being handed one. Possibly also a bit flustered at almost having damaged it.
This is getting even funnier two minutes later because that pen was the TWSBI ECO transparent blue! :D An extra fine nib, though, not a broad.
1:08:30 you are not alone. Despite all the efforts my husband and I put towards raising our kids properly, these three wild animals still forage into cereal boxes like if they were famished wolverines.
Never a properly opened cardbox in our pantry, just shreds of sorry packages.
Sailor Hokuro dip pens gave me the idea of using my Sailor HighAce Neo pens as dip pens. Calligraphy nibs, clear feed so I can see to clean it, and better for me because the HighAce nibs dry out between uses with a cartridge or converter.
Here’s a question for you. I decided not to re-ink my Pilot 823 after cleaning for once and the barrel still has water drops in it after at least 3 weeks [I lost count]. I’ve tried pumping the vacuum filler to no avail and I’m not about to mess with it further since I don’t dare given I’m not about to void my warranty, especially when I’m not nearly good enough to fiddle off the grid without breaking something. So do I just keep waiting or can I safely put it in my pen case without it becoming a terrarium?
I have a couple pens where the line width is different. Specifically my Pelikan M800’s. I have a EF that writes much wider than the ‘same’ pen in a F nib. I bought these preowned so it could certainly be the fact someone used the EF with a little bit of a hard hand. However,it is a delightful pen regardless.. ❤
I see you, Drew, with the Penguin Pen! 😄
I almost didn't get mine because USPS showed delivered but it wasn't on my front porch. After spending most of a week trying to list my package as missing on their website only to receive an error message each time, it miraculously it appeared on the same day that FedEx delivered a holiday package that was also ordered the same day as this order! Too long of a story to simply say, I LOVE my first Retro 51!
P.S. I ordered blue ink refills to match my new blue pen 🥰
New sticker time. Drew in his chair above a pit of alligators.
Brian spun the cap off the pelican... Spun The Cap
Does anyone know which Pencast episode has Drew and Brian picking their favorite nibs for every nib size? I can’t find it.
Drew, there's a great solution for you. Buy a plastic cereal container. You can then tip the entire bag of cereal into the plastic container. They have a top opening only large enough for cereal to fall at a slower pace and a jug like moulding down the side to help you hold the container. I'm sorry you have to go through this. I'm not sure I could deal with this either. 😮
I haven't read all bazillion comments on this episode but I wanted to talk about accordions.... There are piano accordions, the huge ones with keyboards, then there are smaller "button" accordions that are used in various folk musics like Irish, Cajun, conjunto, etc. Google will show you pictures. Then there are concertinas, which to me seem the most complicated to play. A friend who plays explained to me how the two hands work together in a tune, and it broke my brain.
My day had already started out great because today's journaling pen is my new Diplomat Elox, and that cap action always gives me a decided frisson. But your shoutout truly made my day! :D If you want to see what an orchestral-sized accordion looks like, I just posted a photo on Goulet Nation. :-) Happy closet saxing, Brian, and I look forward to your musical emergence into the open! Wishing you both a rejuvenating week off.
I listened to your pencast about uncaping the pen yesterday and by coincidence yesterday I got my FIRST fountain pen with a „twist“ cap (a Pelikan 140) 😅 I had only just gotten used to the fact that it’s not a pull to open pen and so I grabbed it immediately and lo and behold, the natural was for me to open the pen seems to be by twisting BOTH, pen and cap simultaneously!! I use all of my fingers and probably look like a spider doing it 😂🙈
It's crazy what we find out when we pay attention to things we normally don't pay attention to! - Drew
I heard that nibs wearing in a way specific to the primary user was a thing before the use of a harder material in the tip, like iridium. Apparently no one uses iridium anymore, but stainless steel is good enough. Now that we have harder tip materials, user specific wear is not a thing any more. So it's possible it may have been a thing in the past (and pertetuated as lore passed down over the decades that never went away) but it's definitely not a thing now.
I have tried Drew’s “only 3 pens inked up” at any one time rule. Not easy to do when you like different nibs sizes and inks for different uses! I keep a Kaweco Sport in my handbag as my pocket pen. (It’s always at the ready, no dry starts even after a week or so and the ink never collects in the cap even if the pen gets jostled.). Then, I keep 2 Pilot Parallels (1.5 nib and 2.4 nib) inked and in my desk for addressing envelopes and writing greeting cards … So that’s 3 pens already inked up. Does that count against the number of pens that I want inked up for general use?!
I shall rest easier knowing that even the “arbitrary rule man” has a few exceptions.
Great pencast! And, Drew’s video on scratchy nibs was terrific. Mary Kerr
Haha! Great comment. Yes, arbitrary rules are helpful, but flexibility is also comfortable! - Drew
I finally have a name for the rock band I’ve been dreaming of starting since I was in high school 40 years ago:
“Rock Bucket” 🤘🏻
THANK YOU!
Yes, you can absolutely use washi tape to attach poster to the wall! ☺️ I do it all the time but it will depend a bit on the weight of the poster!
Also, there are special strips for posters (german manufacturer is TESA for example, they’re called tesa power strips here 😅) which will not damage the wall but that also depends on how solid your paint is etc. They are quite handy! 😊
Drew, a question for you since you have both pens. On a limited budget, E95s or the Visconti Mirage Mythos? I prefer a larger pen but one does have a gold nib?
Brian needs to learn "Never Gonna Give You Up" in secret and bust it out on the kids.
Washi tape! That makes me ridiculously happy. It's great for turning my favorite paper into sticky notes, and I love those designs!
Hey! Just thought of this as the closing of the video music kicked in: How about incorporating Brian's sax into the mix? Make it a little more jazzy......?
26:15 FREE GRATIS. Deadwood reference! I see you, Drew! Al approves. AW Merrick, not so much!
Yay!!! So glad someone got that! - Drew
@@Gouletpens Deadwood rules! Still amazes me Doc Cochran and Wormtongue are plywd by the same actor and is the voice of Chucky. 😅
Drew, let's combine your Star Wars enthusiasm and pen knowledge:
Would it be possible to tinker a Stormtrooper Lamy Safari from different colors Safaris? What colors and combinations would you use?
Maybe Brian can lobby at the Lamy factory. They have the necessary colors...
Do you have any recommendations for standard cartridges in black (like carbon black - I mean a really black black ink 🖤) Thank you!
Go with Carbon Black! :) - Drew