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3rd December 2009, 10:09 AM #61
Received my order last night, thanks Russell
I have ripped my old pelican ink and nib out of my Baron FP and installed a nice, shiny new Heritance Small Fine nib in with some "Black Magic Blue" (dark blue in any other language!) ink.
Took a little while to get the ink flowing, but this is far more likely to be due to me bing a muppet at changing nibs than any fault of the ink, nib or pen.
The ink flows very nicely, and seems a bit more reliable than the previous setup - it used to take a mm or two before the ink would flow, but this one seems to be perfect. I also like the fine nib - just seems neater to write with, but then I have always preferred fine pens to medium.
I'll keep my stock of the nibs for special pens, or for replacements when people drop the FP on it's nib (I'm the only one to have done that so far on my pens!). It is nice to write with the FP and not have it be so temperamental! I haven't used the Velvet blak yet though. I was happy to ditch a 50c pelican cartridge that was nearly full, but I'll keep the PR ones till they empty out, I think
I also swapped out a Parker Gel ink from my Sierra pen with the PR Easyflow 9000 refil. To be honest, while both the Parker Gel and the PR refils are *far* superiour to the standard refils, I think the Parker Gel writes smoother and leaves a nicer line. Mind you, the PR refils were US$2.00 each and the Parker Gel was $7.50 at Dymocks city store (I think), so don't get me wrong - I'm not complaining. The PR refils are certainly worth the money and if I run out I will re-order from Exotic blanks before buying the Parker Gel ones. If the original refil was a 4 out of 10, the PR one is 8 and the Parker is a 8.5, to give you an idea of the comparisson.
Very happy with both purchases, and particularly to Russell for organising it all.
Oh, and the Kauri blanks look pretty nice, though being roughsawn it's hard to get an idea of the grain. One of them was very large - looks big enough to do 3 sierras out of
Cheers,
Dave...but together with the coffee civility flowed back into him
Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour
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3rd December 2009, 10:41 AM #62
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3rd December 2009, 10:53 AM #63SENIOR MEMBER
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3rd December 2009, 10:55 AM #64
My wife was suffering me playing with toys when I should have been getting kids ready for school... photos were out of the question
Cool about getting 10 blanks - I ordered the figured blanks - thought that I'd probably never do it again, so with only 2 blanks, why get the plain??? One thing I was suprised with was the weight - or the lack thereof. The things feel hollow! Probably similar weight to something like Western Red Cedar - I was expecting aussie hardwood weight (though dunno why)...
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3rd December 2009, 12:18 PM #65SENIOR MEMBER
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3rd December 2009, 02:12 PM #66Cheers Rum Pig
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3rd December 2009, 11:28 PM #67
I think the advantage of the Easyflow 9000 refills is that they write like a rollerball, but
the ink doesn't dry out as fast. Rollerballs typically need to be capped so that they
don't dry out. The Easyflow seems to last as long as the regular Parker refill, but it
lays down ink like a gel. But it dries on the paper quicker than the gel does. So you
get less smudging than you might with a rollerball.
I think of it as a hybrid refill .. sort of the "best of both worlds". I used to replace the
kit refills with Parker gels because they write so nicely.. but people would ask why
they ran out so quickly. With the Easyflow, I don't get that complaint. Now I just
replace all the standard refills with them.
And get people to write with it.. it just about sells the pen by itself.
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4th December 2009, 09:31 AM #68
Thanks for that - very interesting. I hadn't used the gel refil long enough to run it out yet, so I wasn't aware of how well (or not) it lasted. I'm certainly happy with how the PR ones write, so I'll be sticking to them. Much nicer than the scratchy ones that come with the kits new
Cheers,
Dave...but together with the coffee civility flowed back into him
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4th December 2009, 03:43 PM #71SENIOR MEMBER
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4th December 2009, 10:25 PM #72
Bah .. you're just jealous because Mom gave birth to me 8 minutes before you.
It's one of those pics that float around the Internet somewhere.. I don't even know where
I got it. I'm sure you can search on Google Images for something like "X-Ray pic" or
"Bike helmet pic" or something like that.. (bike helmet x-ray.. I found it!)
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Hi folks,
Thought I should update. Still no sign of the second package yet. Unless it turns up today, since I'm having the day at home, there won't be much chance of getting it out before next week.
Despite multiple emails, I've had no response from Dawn or Ed on if/when the second package was sent, or a tracking number, so I'm not even sure how long it's been in transit.
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14th December 2009, 08:35 AM #74GOLD MEMBER
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hey boomer didnt you say you had my blanks a week or so ago ??? just wondering cos you commented on how big they were.
think it was about 2 fridays ago
im off to wrestle cattle for a few hours be back this arvo .
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