The First Day of 2013
Jan. 1st, 2013 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiI repaired a fountain pen nib today. No one could be more surprised at this than I.
It was the nib of my Serwex MB: the tip of one of the tines was bent back perpendicular to its mate. This had happened because the cap has an inner lining and if you don't pay attention when you recap it you can catch one of the tines and bad things happen. I had the urge to ink up a pen (which I should have ignored: I have so many pens inked up right now) and the MB is actually kind of pretty so with one thing and another I got out my jewelry-making tools and had a go at trying to bend the tip back into position. I got it more-or-less where it should be, to my unaided eye, and tried a dip-test on its writing performance. It wrote! It had a bit of tooth, but it was still smoother than most ball-points. I filled it next and proceeded to write two pages of fanfic. I still think it could use some work, but until I get a jeweler's loupe (or ship the pen off to Yoon's House of Pen Repair ;-) ) I don't want to do any smoothing. If it's really just residual misalignment, anything I do to smooth the nib could make it worse in the end.
This morning's perfume was Dragon's Musk (from the PBAL website:Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks) and I liked it a lot. However, I liked it a lot because it reminds me a lot of Spellbound, which is roses, amber, and red musk, and apparently I have a thing for florals with musk. (Who knew?) I don't react as strongly to Dragon's Musk as I do to Spellbound, so I could arguably find a use for it. On the other hand, it's not like I lack pretty scents to wear and I still have a lot of rose scents in the general catalog to sample through. (Based on my recent experience with the leather note in Dragon's Hide, I am now thinking seriously about getting an imp of Whip (rose and leather), which hadn't previously interested me.)
After my bath I tried on Dragon's Tears (Bittersweet yet powerful: salty aquatic notes and bursting with dragon’s blood) which to me smells like a weaker copy of Dragon's Blood. Thus, I still have no idea what an aquatic is supposed to smell like.
It was the nib of my Serwex MB: the tip of one of the tines was bent back perpendicular to its mate. This had happened because the cap has an inner lining and if you don't pay attention when you recap it you can catch one of the tines and bad things happen. I had the urge to ink up a pen (which I should have ignored: I have so many pens inked up right now) and the MB is actually kind of pretty so with one thing and another I got out my jewelry-making tools and had a go at trying to bend the tip back into position. I got it more-or-less where it should be, to my unaided eye, and tried a dip-test on its writing performance. It wrote! It had a bit of tooth, but it was still smoother than most ball-points. I filled it next and proceeded to write two pages of fanfic. I still think it could use some work, but until I get a jeweler's loupe (or ship the pen off to Yoon's House of Pen Repair ;-) ) I don't want to do any smoothing. If it's really just residual misalignment, anything I do to smooth the nib could make it worse in the end.
This morning's perfume was Dragon's Musk (from the PBAL website:Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks) and I liked it a lot. However, I liked it a lot because it reminds me a lot of Spellbound, which is roses, amber, and red musk, and apparently I have a thing for florals with musk. (Who knew?) I don't react as strongly to Dragon's Musk as I do to Spellbound, so I could arguably find a use for it. On the other hand, it's not like I lack pretty scents to wear and I still have a lot of rose scents in the general catalog to sample through. (Based on my recent experience with the leather note in Dragon's Hide, I am now thinking seriously about getting an imp of Whip (rose and leather), which hadn't previously interested me.)
After my bath I tried on Dragon's Tears (Bittersweet yet powerful: salty aquatic notes and bursting with dragon’s blood) which to me smells like a weaker copy of Dragon's Blood. Thus, I still have no idea what an aquatic is supposed to smell like.
