Vicki

Ahhh, thank you! I've been practicing a lot lately 😊

A visconti fountain pen sitting on a journal.

Visconti Mariposa Painted Beauty with a Cursive Italic Grind by Damien @ All in the Nib

Inked with Sailor Ink Studio #143 (I think 😅)

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I was considered the medium SIG - the one I tried had killer line variation

But, alas, I prefer my hand writing when its on the finer side

I hope you get to try an EF soon!

I tried to do a low-buy this year and failed spectacularly within the first few months 😩

I hope you have better luck with it than I 🤞🏻

I keep saying that and then somehow new ink still shows up!

Wild how that can happen 🤭

A Franklin-Christoph Model 46 fountain pen sitting on a journal. This is Lucky Star Pens 6th anniversary special edition pen. I picked it up at the Baltimore Pen Show 👌🏻

Franklin-Christoph Model 46 with an Extra Fine SIG nib

Inked with Colorverse "Icy Moon"

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BOOTS by Rudyard Kipling (1915) read by Taylor Holmes (cleaned audio) YouTube video by VESTAL FILMS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ5...

I am sure a lot of people have heard this by now, but leaving it here in case someone hasn't

A fountain pen ink swatch on new sanzen tomoe river paper. The writing was done with an extra fine pelikan m1000 nib and the swirl with a dip pen. The text reads: Diamine 'Rosewood' "I—'ave—marched—six—weeks in 'Ell an' certify It—is—not—fire—devils, dark, or anything, But boots—boots—boots—boots— movin' up an' down again, An' there's no discharge in the war!" Excerpt from "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling

Diamine "Rosewood" swatched on (new) sanzen tomoe river paper 🤎

I try - the crunch of an M1000 nib inside a cap will continue to live on only in my nightmares, thankfully 🙌🏻

Yup, the #8 bock nib in the photo is the one that came with the pen!

I did actually remove the finial and use my dremel to make the part that sits inside of the cap more concave just in case haha

The tines were definitely going to mash into the finial if I didnt deepen the nib channel on the grip so it would screw all the way in 🫣

If it was in the pelikan housing the nib would be seated deeper - in the FNF Pelikan to Bock housing it sits to be about the same length as a bock #8

Also no one should do any of this unless you're willing to break your pen or nib 💀

I am just insane apparently.
But it worked out.

So I had to take a dremel and *very carefully* deepen the area in the grip where the housing would sit.

I also bent the nib doing all of this (because something else had to go wrong lmfao) and had to fix that and then heat set the feed to the nib a billion times to get the ink to flow.

Like actually such a pain - the FNF housing wasn't wide enough to house the M1000 nib and feed so I had to carefully sand down the inside of housing bit by bit until it fit...
And then the housing wouldn't screw into the pen grip due to the extra length of the M1000 feed sticking out the bottom.

A Hinze König fountain pen sitting on a journal with a pelikan m1000 nib in it.

Getting this nib into this pen was a nightmare. But I did it. And I love it.

Hinze König Fountain Pen in Ultem with an Extra Fine Pelikan M1000 nib (fitted into a FNF BM1000E housing)

It is certainly a unique solution to his problem!

Post link for anyone curious:
www.reddit.com/r/fountainpe...

A fountain pen ink swatch. The writing says: Birmingham Pen Co. "Coldsnap" (V1) "She had blue skin, and so did he. He kept it hid and so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by - and never knew." -Shel Silverstein

A fountain pen ink swatch.

Birmingham Pen Company "Coldsnap" (V1) on New Sanzen Tomoe River Paper

I don't get tired of this ink - it's so pretty 🩵🩶💚

I went with the two slit feed and it provides more than enough ink flow!

A fountain pen sits on top of an endless notes notepad.

Opus88 Jazz "Under the Mistletoe" with a medium nib - Kitty Inkpot "Elegy of the Fallen" ink - Regalia 80gsm paper

A fountain pen sits on a sheet of paper that is covered in words written with it.

This color combo is really pretty 🥰

Vazir Monarch Fountain Pen in the Blue and Pink colorway with a medium nib
Inked with Papier Plume "Forget-Me-Not Blue"
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A cat making a funny face

Theodore was very offended by the sound of the wet vac. The wet vac that my other half had to use to clean up Theo's vom 😆

An ēnsso bolt bronze fountain pen sitting on a notebook.

The fine nib on this ēnsso bolt bronze is really nice!
I've got it inked with Herbin "Cacao du Brésil" at the moment 🩷

A Pilot Custom 743 Verdigris, Newton Pens Prospector, and Analog Notes Carbon Chain sit on top of a sterling ink to do list. Each pen wrote on the to do list. Only the Newton Pens Prospector bled through, but it has a Regalia Writing Labs Crossflex on it and that nib bleeds thru most papers lol... The paper says: "Sterling Ink To-Do LIst Paper Test 2/16/26 Pilot Custom 743 <FA> Tom's Studio #16 "Sunny Teal" Newton Prosepector Regalia "Crossflex" KWZ "Brown-Pink" Analog Notes "Carbon Chain" <F> Sailor "Yukiusagi" "

A close up of the to do list and the writing on it.

The Sterling Ink To-Do List Notepads use Cosmo Air which makes them fountain pen friendly... and they're really cute.

In case anyone is in search of a fountain pen friendly to do list

Yup - I am glad I went with the red feed <3

It is a very comfortable pen, for sure.

Maybe a nibmeister would be able to alter a pilot nib to be perfect for you!

I'll def go with the 2-channel option instead of the 3-channel one. I like a juicy pen, but not so juicy that it'll feather like mad!🫣

A Pilot Custom 743 Fountain Pen in the Verdigris colorway with an FA nib. The ink is Toms Studio #16 "Sunny Teal" and the paper is an Endless Notepad with Regalia 80gsm

Stopped by Bertram's Inkwell today & finally couldn't resist the call of this pen... it's been on my list for a couple of years & now that they're discontinuing the colorway I figured I might as well...

The FA nib is so nice 🥰
I'm thinking it'd look nice with a red ebonite feed from FNF (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

Fountain pen blank for makers

Oooor - a quartz strata m1000

That'd be so stunning 😩

Pelikan - please make a pink m1000 fountain pen 🙏🏻🩷

I'd buy it so fast

Yukiusagi on Regalia 80gsm paper is much more blue 🩵