Found these "National Fashion" pens for 1 USD each or 3 USD for the set on my local marketplace. I'm not really the target audience for these but you could imagine kids who like comics or manga would love to have a dragon on their pen. Could be an interesting penabling pen.
Not sure about these specific pens but in my experience these EF Lamy-style nibs write pretty well. The pens themselves are probably made of brittle plastic, but longevity isn't really the point of these.
The name of the ink is “green ceramic glaze”, after the copper glaze used in green-glazed pottery. Very aptly named with a shading dark green base and silver shimmer which represents the reflective effect of glazed pottery.
Pen is Sailor Hocoro fude, paper is Tomoe River 52gsm original
Ihave only been reminded of #MerMay in the past few days, so only sliding in to the last day! Oh well, now I'm subscribed I can at least have reminders. So, in the last hours of the month, here's a quick drawing of a #merman doing his morning callisthenics.
Good old Rotring Art Pen. Pen straight to paper, no pencil, no erasing.
@UlrikeSkadir@jezlyn@alexa488 I tried it just to see if it would work, and it does work sort of, but I would probably not keep them upside down like this for long-term storage. I think folks (I think including @jezlyn) have designed 3-D printed storage trays that would work a lot better. Personally, I only have a few, so I’ll just keep them in a separate box with other oddly shaped small bottles.
Big delivery of #FountainPens from China today! From R-L: Majohn P139 with a big, fat #8 nib & ebonite feed; Tramol National(?) with a Jowo nib; Admok M800 with a Schmidt nib; Majohn A1; Jinhao Dadao 9013; a bonus Hero 58 thrown in for free with the Tramol; and a funky ink syringe. All with fine nibs, which I hadn't realised I'd done but am completely okay with, especially on the A1!
@paradoxmo I always forget the Realo exists. The Tramol seems pretty decent. It’s a bit bigger than a standard Pro Gear, but some parts are interchangeable. The PG cap will fit on the Tramol body, although you can’t screw it all the way down because of the larger nib, but the Tramol’s won’t fit on the PG, and the sections can be swapped, but the std int converter is too long to fit in the PG body. The plastic seems to be pretty decent quality, too.
Picked up a couple of cheap #FountainPens on eBay over the past week, one of which is this Pierre Cardin ballpoint & fountain pen set. They were marked as oversized, but I hadn't realised just how huge they were! It's only a fraction smaller than the gargantuan Kanwrite Mammoth, with a roughly #8½ sized steel nib. It writes okay, but it's very dry. With a bit of tuning it should be quite nice. No idea what model these are. I couldn't find anything resembling these in my searches.
Photo of the gold coloured Pierre Cardin fountain pen next to a marron & black marbled Kanwrite Mammoth fountain pen. They are both roughly the same size, with the PC pen having a slightly smaller, roughly #8½ size nib.
@toga Just to give a better sense of scale, here it is along with the Kanwrite Mammoth again, as well as a Jinhao Dadao 9019, Platinum Preppy, Sailor Pro Gear, & Kaweco Sport.