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I appear to have gotten rid of always the mold that was still viable, too, for leaving the pen overnight full of ink at slightly higher than chamber temperature (yesterday’s indoor maximum was 28C/90F– summer namely definitely here) did no produce the arrange of teeny forest in the breather chasm namely a pen polluted with spores develops at once.  I might allege this job an absolute success, within the limits of people powers. Today’s pen:  The self-same Eversharp Skyline
Today’s ink: Wancher Imari

I also laud the whimsical matter printed inside the covers, which I won’t rebuild here, but which can be glimpsed in the manufacturer’s on-line cache.  I find that there is no difference between the price in-person and on-line, which means that those that want to support a local source that offers there things need not feel they’re getting ripped off.
Benificent
A fruitful weekall overdeed!  I got to go on a quite pretty Conway-Stewart and a slightly less beautiful Mentmore, either belonging to a correspondent become customer, and I have ample time left over to do something about that Skyline said last week.  For a alteration, I’d have the intellect to take a pre-operative photo, so it’s feasible to show the world the difference a tiny consideration tin make:
Exaggeration aside, the effects of the medium upon the message are rarely consciously considered.  “How do we get the message out?” is ordinarily the cardinal question, and while there may be adjustments for the known effects of the medium in a gross way there’s not a lot of shrewd introspection about how the whole thing arrives.  For example, if one emails, I’m apologetic your doggie got buffet by a automobile, the gross adjustment to indicate substantial sadness might be : ( , but only infrequently will there be any thought given to the slightly impersonal ecology of text on a shade (even if your default is Comic Sans), to the ultimately ephemeral ecology of the note and the implication that the commiseration is likewise temporary, or a dozen other little subtextual cues being sent along with the conscious message.
I find it very interesting that all except tread 3 have “please” in them.  It gives some sagacity into the mandatory as viewed by Japanese spokesmen.
Good paper, but a dubious scanner.

Today’s pen: Parker Challenger
Today’s ink: Wancher Asuka (the brown one)
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Today’s pen: Mabie, Todd & Co. Blackbird 
Today’s ink:  Noodler’s Tulipe Noir
Posted by ravensmarch on 20 July,Montblanc Boheme Jewels Topaz Ballpoint Pen, 2011
A short Friday riddle:  knowing this site as you do (those of you who have not equitable arrived, although you’re welcome to melodrama), how precisely does the following search string bring somebody to my gate?
A cover which admits the papers roots in a tree
…it’s unlikely that the reader will ever be convinced of it.
Posted by ravensmarch on 14 July, 2011

The entreating After
But… there’s other things to be taken from the medium, certainly.  As I’ve been contemplating this matter very shallowly for nearly three hours, and that three hours of almost completely unconnected moments between the demands of The Regular Job, I haven’t quite worked out they are.  Comments are greet at all times they’re sensible or amusing.
The only problem with this writing lies in its construction.  It is forty canvases of paper and a sheet of cardboard with a line of stitching banged up the middle, and that method it ambition not, besides perhaps for the medium two or 3 pages, prevaricate flat.  This is a stuff of sallow insignificance for me, but I know there are some who it pedals indeed crazy.  For those anywhere approach this camp, it probably won’t suit.

Posted by ravensmarch on 15 July, 2011
The hideous Before

Today’s pen: Pilot Vanishing Point
Today’s ink: Sailor Jentle blue-black




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Quest for… Something.
Before and After
I should probably linger away from subjects like yesterday’s.  I am now slowly going mad trying to determine what covert message is inherent to the choice of the most sought-after (yesterday’s) and most popular (today’s) pens of wartime USA.  Using Freud’s “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” as a mantra doesn’t seem to help.  I return to The Great Work in hopes of distracting myself.
Posted by ravensmarch on 19 July, 2011


Chipping Away
Today is Marshall McLuhan’s hundredth birthday, and as the radio is alive with mentions of him (the radio I hear to, at least), I am contemplating what I know of his work.  Specifically, the famously-typoed The Medium is the Massage, which may be summarized thus:  Whatever the information one wishes to convey, the understanding of it is so jump to the means of its delivery that it is silly to try and consider one without the other.  For example, meantime frank condolence might have been the aim of the sender of this…
Today’s pen: Pilot Vanishing Point
Today’s ink: Sailor Jentle blue-black
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Post Scriptus– On the unfashionable explorer I’m stuck with at The Regular Job, the embedded image looks horrible and disproportionate, like the “Super Deformed” paradigm of manga.  Clicking on it provides not only a full size but a well-proportioned image, avoid you meditation you’ll see an oddly pudgy pen.
Yesterday’s ink was a new arrival.  As I’m anxious to be about The Great Work, I absence to barely give it a terse highlighting; the colour is jolly enough (the Evergreen is extremely fine, at least in some correspondent’s pens), the stream certainly suits Japanese pens, it has a pronounced but not unpleasant smell (somehow nostalgic of basic school masterpiece classes), and the decanter is extremely serviceable.  Howso?  There’s a little interior cup that makes filling pens a lot easier as the decanter empties.  I’m very elated to have some.
The Medium wants a Massage.
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spongebob cussing pictured
Posted by ravensmarch on 26 July, 2011
Quietly Decomposing My Thoughts
I’ve knocked something off my hope account.  Yesterday I received in the send this item:
Posted by ravensmarch on 25 July, 2011

Which makes me dedicate more energy than usual to examining what sort of inevitable inclusions and revisions to the consciously-chosen content of my written messages is generated by the use of the fountain pens.  Some of  that appearance of what I write is actually in my awareness, as I am of course the Grand Imperial Raging Master of Mannenhitsu-do.  While I’m now reasonably sure that most people don’t take actual notification of the medium when looking at what I’ve written, I’m also of a mind that they don’t must take placard to be affected, and so I do actually think about this sort of stuff.  By using a fountain pen, I recommend that I am interested in your being proficient to actually read what I set down (and thus, that what I set down is worth attending to), and that I am confident enough to stand separately from the usual constraints of ink colour that the most ball-based pens inflict (and thus, that I’m either worth paying attention to or a self-inflated idiot).
I’m catching a little damage from The Great Work to attempt a rapid review of a new-to-me notebook.  Those who came here for a drowse will be only slightly dissatisfied.
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Self-Impeding

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Step one: Make VERY SURE the lid is on.
The pen is naturally an Eversharp Skyline, with what for me is an uncommon super-cheap edition of the cap.  Unlike the pencil, this thing was definitely accustomed, nevertheless it’s a bit of a conundrum in that use.   The body shows almost no signs of wear, with even the stereotyped dress to the pry from posting the cap being absent.  The point, whatsoever, proves that it was accustom pretty thoroughly.  What’s not got ink on it (and possibly India ink) has got what appears to be mold; the lusty at center may look in themselves.  That’s going to be very a delight to neat up… although it should be a stunner, within the limits of grey pens, when I’m done.  Now all I absence to do is find a pencil to match it to fill out the carton.
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A Break!

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For all my speak of productivity, I am not precisely cooking on all burners with reference to The Great Work of website relaunch.  I’ve somehow administered to bog down in the Hero pens, for goodness sake.  I thus return to brevity in this department.
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Today’s pen: Eversharp Skyline
Today’s ink: Wancher Imari
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A terminal word, only tangentially connected– the prose example penetrated here is a magnificent instance of why 1 ought not take internet colour samples too seriously.  There’s not 1 of those inks that looks at all favor it does on the sheet in front of me.  The first and final are not only not black, they’re not even particularly black.  I may at some point spend some time in calibration to bring the images produced extra in line with the real world, merely that still leaves each monitor with its own sense of what is averaged by “blue.”
The upper item is not a pen, but it was in box so whoever was selling it presumed that it belonged there.  Despite the truth that I’m not particularly entranced by pencils, I love this one.  Why?  An irrational regard for the ephemera of the age of steam, I guess.  The fact that the thing is in truly nice shape assists a lot– the plating and the after-the-fact Cunard puffery is all very many the course it have to have been in the great ship’s gift mart (at 173% the price of the same pen ashore, no mistrust)– and for it’s a pencil there’s no sac-induced ambering of the celluloid barrel.  Having a full lead in location is a great bonus, too.  One supposes it to have been brought behind as a gift by some well-liked auntie; not truly the recipient’s cup of tea, but with sufficient appendix to sensation to have kept it from getting badly beaten up.
 
See how I cautiously use aware pessimism to maintain a stoic equilibrium in the face of the joy of discovery I’m past half-way to the stated goal.  Twenty numbered models, 11 in house… perhaps I permit myself a small, included grin.
 
Today’s pen, no longer in danger of heat prostration: Eversharp Skyline
Today’s ink, no longer in danger of creature cartoonishly faulted for a sport drink: Wancher Imari

Today’s pen: Parker “51″ (making it a week of grey pens)
Today’s ink: Pelikan 4001 violet
The ink component of the dyeing was happily not India ink, but merely a classical high-acidity blue-black.  It came out fairly readily, and was not impacted into the aisles of the feed.  Once the horrible material was off the point, I found ay some time in the past, someone had gone at the point with something like a nail– there was a crowd of rather deep scratches lying parallel to the point.  A bit of effort with manifold levels of buffers has produced the new efficacy, which is nothing like as atmospheric as that picture seems to indicate.  There are still scratches there, but to get rid of them would get rid of the impression, and that seems the wrong sort of trade off.  These scratches add to my bafflement with this pen, since as I mentioned formerly there is virtually any sign of use on the body.  The nib of Dorian Grey, perhaps?
When thinking of pens, that sort of exclamation is usually not what one hopes to utter.  However, I call out gleefully for two reasons.  First, I’ve eventually stopped mumbling over the Hero pens in The Great Work.  Second, the heat that was oppressing us has broken; the past two days have been on 33°C (91°F), and the unwonted humidity of the atmosphere had meant there was little night-time cooling.  Since we depend on night-time cooling (oh, for a ground-sourced heat pump!) to reset the house to “liveable”, yesterday saw the walls thermostat peruse 30.5° briefly as we opened the skylights to agree the evening zephyrs.  Today is almost spring-like by comparison, and the capability for logical thought returns
Posted by ravensmarch on 18 July, 2011
I do not concern to chase the deeper question of why someone would be looking fhardly evermething like that.  Innocent amusement, no doubt.

Posted by ravensmarch on 21 July, 2011
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Today’s pen: Parker “51″  (except for casual resorts to the table pen, see under)
Today’s ink: Pelikan 4001 violet  (except for certain business communication, which calls for more a conventional colour if the message is not to be misconstrued)
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 I happened above this book while chasing my son through the Major Chain bookstore which serves our city, and bought it on a whim.  The reasoning was this; when it inevitably proves unable of assisting fountain pen ink, I can pass it onward to wife for sketching all butn for crayon muddle, and still signify to Major Chain that there is some user interest in environmentally-friendly products.  I mention “inevitably”,Montblanc Meisterstuck Solitaire Gold And Black Me, since my experience of recycled paper tends in that intention, and all the moreso when it actually brags about being recycled and green and so forth.  It seems that hippies don’t grok the fountain pens, which is a bit of a shame.

I’ve mentioned in the past that I have some excellent friends, and one in particular who is highly hard-working in reserving an eye out for pens on my behalf.  Here’s her most recent finds, rotated up in the screeching wilderness of Prince Albert:
Posted by ravensmarch on 27 July, 2011
This picture elevated heaved from the on-line seller’s posting. I’ll replace it shortly.



Today’s pen: Sheaffer 5-30SC
Today’s ink: Herbin Lis de Thé
That’s a Parker 180, one of the oddities of the 1970s.  The only reason I had it on the list is because I’m trying to compose a set of all Parker’s numbered pens that emulated the “51″, and this one was unexpectedly affordable.  The problem with its arrival is it marks the end of pens of that specification which are in any way affordable in a state that I can return them to use.  Once I finally get a 75, I will have done away with all the readily-available pens on the list, too.
Go Not Jentle? Whyever Not?
 As it occurred, I was entirely proven bad.  The paper in this book is admirably suited to fountain pen use, not only in terms of feathering but also in the space of bleed-through.  I had thought of putting a scan of the verso of this page into the post, but as it was essentially innocent of anything but the lines that it left the bindery with that appeared a consume of effort and record space.  There were, for the most fussy eye, a pair of small prompts of show-through from the points of standstill and overlap in the writing of the wettest of the 4 pens I used, but naught to agitate whichever but the most obssessive hater of a blemished writing surface.