Waterman 92

[douglas]

In my student days I used a Conway Stewart and Quink Ink...that was the IN thing then. I now have a Parker cartrige which is very nice...but not the same!!!!!

[WVCoalMiner]

I use a 1986 Eraser Mate medium point blue ink that way when I mess up I can erase it and start over. Are those rare or anything??? Maybe i'll post a picture of it for you guys hmmmm???
I used to have fountain pens back when I was in High School but hmmm I guess I just quit using them LOL.
Nice Huh????

[lputman]

I always love reading inkista's posts....WVCoalMiner, I just laughed so hard when I got to your post! Thanks for a wonderful morning laugh!

[inkista]

Originally Posted by douglas

In my student days I used a Conway Stewart and Quink Ink...that was the IN thing then. I now have a Parker cartrige which is very nice...but not the same!!!!!

Ooooo. Conway Stewart. Drool. Someday I hope to score a Dinkie. Quink rocks. I use the Blue Black all the time with my vintage pens. Like my lowly clipless capringless Inkograph (poor baby, someone chewed the hell out of the nib assembly with a pair of pliars, but she writes like a dream nonetheless):

Originally Posted by WVCoalMiner

I use a 1986 Eraser Mate medium point blue ink that way when I mess up I can erase it and start over. Are those rare or anything???

From 1986? Kinda smudgier than the current model. But I'd bet they were rare 'cause nobody keeps 'em when they're empty! (Valuable and rare don't always coincide with pens, though. The old Inkograph Mickey Mouse fountain pen is probably one of the rarest out there, and nobody wants one. It's a really ugly pen. Kinda disturbing, actually.)

[dizwold]

Originally Posted by inkista

Yeah, I know I'm weird. My daily users are a Parker 51 vac, an Inkograph, a Pelikano (the older style, not the new one), and a Lamy Safari. Today. I tend to rotate them with a flex-nibbed Waterman 32, a Parker Falcon flighter, a Waterman 452 1/2V, a Parker 61, various Parker Vacumatics, a Sheaffer piston fill (Triumph nib), and a Shaeffer PFMI (Pen For Men, hand-on-heart that's really the name of the thing), and whatever my last find was. Probably the only collectible modern I have is a Visconti Copernicus (stylo with a barrel pattern that apes the old Parker Vacumatics) and I never use it.

All of my friends who've heard my pen hunt/restoration stories went "well, duh, of course you would!" when I started going on and on and on about finding old manual focus lenses to slap onto my XT.

Hi ink
i have probably come on here a bit late and was checking out your how i did it why??
because i am too, a collector of vintage fountain pens. Its funny how people can easily become bored when you start talking about them yawn and change the subject-i can talk about them all day. My current and favourte is a Swan 4660 black and torpedo like - a blokes pen. A parker victory dark blue early 50s and a pelikan 400.
cheers
mike

[inkista]

dizwold, if you ever feel the urgent need to natter on about pens, the fountain pen network is the place to hang. Those guys can even bore me.

Mmmm.. Pelikan 400....

[Harksie Photos]

What's a nib? Very interesting photo...

[inkista]

The nib is the business end of the pen that you write with. This is a more typical fountain pen nib:



A stylograph's nib is a needle in a tube, rather than the two-tined nib most folks associate with fountain pens. The bit of plastic that's up against the back of the nib is called "the feed" and it controls the flow of the ink and the rate of ink/air exchange when you write. The short tube on top of the barrel that holds the nib and the feed into the pen is called "the section".

[inkista]

dizwold (and anybody else here on DPS), if you want to post some pen pics in this thread, be my guest.

Thought I'd try another one tonight (with a ca. 1950 Sheaffer Touchdown Valiant--Triumph nib!), so I just did a quick shot with my G9, this time using my Ikea "Fniss" ($1.99) as a lightbox and a simple sheet of printer paper as the background, instead of my much more upscale ($8.99) Sortera and pillowcase. Note to self: next time wipe the pen free of dust before shooting. And gaffer's tape is good for keeping the pen and/or cap from rolling about.


G9. @16.8mm, iso 80, f/5, 1/125s. In Manual mode with Macro on, obviously.
on-camera ST-E2 master, eTTL used for the EXes, 580EX on the right, SB-26 (in optical slave mode, 1/64 power*) on the bottom, 430EX on the left. I think. I moved the lights around a lot. 8:1 ratio between the 580EX and the 430EX.

Here's the general set-up:


*as long as you keep the SB-26 to 1/2 power or lower, it can recycle in time from the eTTL pre-flash to fire again with the main flash burst.