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.
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!
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.
Followup from my #SwatchWednesday post, here is the writing sample for Lie de thé. Again, the ink entry format is adapted to the old planner, the swatch is colored in over the month box, a convenient rectangle (:
Also, after a falling to the floor mishap, fishie pen rest is back (: fixed with 2-part epoxy.
Hello, fountain pen peeps. For those of you who have a Diplomat Aero, how do you find the grip? I tried one and felt it was too slippery and had to exchange it for a different pen. I really like the look of it, especially the flame version, but the metal grip didn't work for my small hands. ☹️ I'm also interested in the Elox Matrix Green (is it discontinued?), but it looks like it has the same metal grip. #FountainPens#Diplomat