Another post about fountain pens
Nov. 10th, 2012 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiMy Serwex MB arrived today, which pleased and surprised me. It is a fountain pen of Indian manufacture, and I bought it from a company based in India, and I didn't expect to see it until next week. But it showed up at work today, which meant it traveled from New Deli to Lincoln, NE in only a week. It is an amazing world.
With this pen I now have a complete collection of Serwex pens, by which I mean I have a complete collection of all the Serwex pens that Fountain Pen Revolution sells. I had hoped that this would slake my thirst for Indian fountain pens, but now I find myself eyeing the Airmail Wality page at FPR. Luckily for me, some of them are really ugly so I'm not inclined to collect the set. (Few of the Serwex pens are beauties, but the worst of the lot still manage to attain a pedestrian dignity.) Even luckier, even the most expensive Airmail is still cheaper than a Safari!
Now that I have the MB I want to ink it up Right Now so I can see how it works. Part of me thinks this is not a good idea, due to the number of pens I already have inked up. Part of me thinks that this is a dandy way to make me write more! (I don't quite trust that part of my brain.) The good(?) news is that it comes with the same ridiculous tiny slide converter that the Serwex Executive came with, so if I do ink it up it truly will not take me long to work through it.
In related news, I decided that I had used up enough of the cartridge in the Pilot Penmanship to declare it empty and rinse it out: the nib unit is now soaking in a glass of water. This technically takes a pen out of the Inked pile, but I will have to reink it because it's my only Japanese EF nib and I need it to write in the margins of books. (Came home from a shopping spree today with Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman, The Confessions of St Augustine, and The Interior Castle (Study Edition) by St Teresa of Avila.)
I could eyedropper the Penmanship at this point, but I think I'll play it conservative and just refill the cartridge. I could use one of the Pilot cartridges I have on hand, but what's the fun of that? Also, I think it would be best to save the cartridges for when I'm traveling and need emergency refills. I think I'll sort though my ink samples and see if I have any of Noodler's X-feather; two of the books are Dover Thrift Editions and the paper shows it.
With this pen I now have a complete collection of Serwex pens, by which I mean I have a complete collection of all the Serwex pens that Fountain Pen Revolution sells. I had hoped that this would slake my thirst for Indian fountain pens, but now I find myself eyeing the Airmail Wality page at FPR. Luckily for me, some of them are really ugly so I'm not inclined to collect the set. (Few of the Serwex pens are beauties, but the worst of the lot still manage to attain a pedestrian dignity.) Even luckier, even the most expensive Airmail is still cheaper than a Safari!
Now that I have the MB I want to ink it up Right Now so I can see how it works. Part of me thinks this is not a good idea, due to the number of pens I already have inked up. Part of me thinks that this is a dandy way to make me write more! (I don't quite trust that part of my brain.) The good(?) news is that it comes with the same ridiculous tiny slide converter that the Serwex Executive came with, so if I do ink it up it truly will not take me long to work through it.
In related news, I decided that I had used up enough of the cartridge in the Pilot Penmanship to declare it empty and rinse it out: the nib unit is now soaking in a glass of water. This technically takes a pen out of the Inked pile, but I will have to reink it because it's my only Japanese EF nib and I need it to write in the margins of books. (Came home from a shopping spree today with Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman, The Confessions of St Augustine, and The Interior Castle (Study Edition) by St Teresa of Avila.)
I could eyedropper the Penmanship at this point, but I think I'll play it conservative and just refill the cartridge. I could use one of the Pilot cartridges I have on hand, but what's the fun of that? Also, I think it would be best to save the cartridges for when I'm traveling and need emergency refills. I think I'll sort though my ink samples and see if I have any of Noodler's X-feather; two of the books are Dover Thrift Editions and the paper shows it.