Hemingway Jones is our little corner of the internet where we talk about Fountain Pens, Inks, Journals, Journaling, and Anything to do with Self Expression. From a Pen We Can Go Anywhere! Pour a cup and settle in.
After Hours replay-- I always envision one of the Asvine or Majohn pens that I can buy many different style nibs for even some of the eastern styles. I however would never give up the rest of my pens. Peace and happiness to the non gate keeping. Thinking of becoming cognisinti....
Among my favorite fountain pens are Dryden Designs and Scriveiner. Those are really the only ones I even write with, and the DD are honestly the smoothest to write with (I only use fine nibs).
I've been replaying some old videos and this wone struck a nerve. Journaling is a double edged sword. You can essentially write all the bad and fall deeper into despair or you can let it out on the page and then use the format to find your way out of that darkness. I have done both. I have journals I want to burn because of the things I wrote in them. And then I have pages where I was diligent in finding mt way. Thank you for this video and your thoughts on this subject. It is appreciated.
Would it be possible to use Krishna Moonview 2 in a Kaweco Classic Sport as they are easy to take apart? Love your channel. Been watching the vlogs regularly. Love your favourite ink videos.
Hello Tim, I very much like your idea of touching on other topics like paper, and for me this comes at the right time 😅 I am considering (well a bit more than considering) studying again (I’ve your age) and I was trying to source TR 52gsm A4 notebook for my course summaries and exercises and so far I’ve come only across Rhodia/Clairefontaine/Midori in this format, great paper, but I find them too thick. My ideal would be the 400pp notebook from Galen Leather in A4 but it does not exist. I’d love to hear from you if you have an idea of a dark place where I could find such notebooks 😂 As always great live (even if I am watching them after the facts).
Wonderful inks, I appreciate that you explain why you chose each ink. Thanks to you Kon Peki has revived a few of my pens that I thought were hopeless.
I have at least 6 journals and have yet to write a single entry as I just don’t know where to start. So if you have any suggestions on where to start?? ideas to journal about ?? That would be great.
Lovely folding knife you used there, is it a Laguiole knife? Sadly for me that bottle design is a deal breaker. It is like they intentionally made the most unstable bottle just so you spill and have to buy more inks from them.
I bought a bottle of the Iroshizuku fugu-syogun on a whim (it was on clearance super cheap). I love it. The color is kind of a boring gray but sometimes it fits my mood. And unlike other inks it works perfectly in all my pens. Really nice viscosity. Really nice when I have to put my signature on a pile of documents an inch thick. What it lacks with its melancholy gray it makes up for in its ease of use in every pen I own, even the difficult ones.
If I was forced to choose one pen it would have to be a Platinum 3776 for me with Carbon black ink. I reduced my collection from 60 to 10 but while I was in Japan recently I picked up a new Sailor and I’m loving it.
Speaking of England, I was in a group chat with friends, and they were talking about the British museum. I asked them which museum, and they seemed confused. Evidently, "The British Museum" is the actual name of it. How odd!
Bearing inmind Lamy has always been renowned as a German manufacturer and that is there BMW Ness, have you thought that this was probably released by Mitsubishi who doesn’t want the majority to know that it’s no longer Germany owned?
Enjoyed being with you and the gang last night. However, if you keep waving and brandishing that OMAS Balognia in every video, I’m going to have to get one! Thanks a lot.
Thanks so much! I am glad you are with us! Sorry about that. I really like that pen. It just suits me. I think I like smaller more elegant pens these days.
First- As the person who asked about the quality of that Morris set, def post more paper, with tests! It’s hard enough to find good stationery, even tougher when you have to make sure it is fp friendly. I ended up looking up that box brand and there are a ton of history and art-themed sets, and def worth checking out. Views: If you want big numbers, you have to constantly be serving the whims of the majority-group search habits, and not yourself. You have catered a channel that serves yourself and interest viewers-those who are interested in what You are serving and not just the content. It creates an incredibly rare comment section more about topics than complaints or sycophantic, parasocial following. The numbers come from the topic viewers who are looking for the best answers to specific needs and curiosities. People don’t search and stay for video quality or how well a particular video turned out. They’re there for the subject. And if the entire channel is not about that subject, they probably won’t stay. This says nothing at all about you and the quality of your videos. Look at Good Mythical Morning. The pair started their show with comedy, skits, songs, weirdsies, etc. Over years it was focused to maintain the best traffic and left them almost exclusively doing taste test videos as their passions became occasional side projects. Don’t chase the taste tests if your goal is to be creative and fulfilled.
You should look at getting a light tracing board. They don't cost a lot. I always use one with my nice stationery so I can follow the lines beneath it.
I was for awhile thinking you looked like a guy from a movie i watched but i couldnt quite place my finger on it. Then i rewatched top gun Maverick and you look like ice!! (I mean this as a compliment since both of you are awesome!)
my one pen to rule them all is my lovely Sailor pro gear H-EF which I’ve inked w GvFC cobalt blue: if I had to let everything else go, this would be the last pen I’d ever willingly let go, oddly enough I found my last mp much harder: think I narrowed it down to my lovely Leuchtturm1917 Drehgriffel no.2 in navy w a 0.7mm lead, any of my Pentel P20X, my lovely Pentel Kerry Green Tea and Navy, or my wonderful Pentel Orenz w 0.3mm lead, I also love my Rotring600 and my Staedtler 925 35 0.3mm - which is 9mp’s ffs!; but there’s no doubt of my fp choice!:)
You are just the best and I will tell you why--you critique (not criticize) yourself, and that is what we should all be doing--self-reflection and evaluation--in order to be better tomorrow than we are today . . . and love what you do, so unique and varied in what you put forward.
I look forward to the Lamy Safari video. A year ago, I had cheap generic Lamy Safari knockoffs. All <EF> or <F> nibs and worked fine. I never thought I'd buy a Lamy (or a Kaweco). A year later, I now have two Safaris. I bought a Kewi Lilac Blackberry <B> from a pen shop and a red one <M> secondhand. I have two Lamy Studio <EF> Brushed Silver /Black bought secondhand. One came with a spare <B> nib. I have a secondhand Lamy Imporium Gold Oblique <M>. So, those knockoff Safaris, I had originally, have led me to the real brand of which I can say today I am a big fan. Interestingly, I think the knockoffs I started with can take Lamy nibs, so that might be a future project for my knockoffs. Interesting also what you say about number of pens. A year and a half ago, I had 3 Sheaffers and a Jinhao. Now I have approx 60 pens, plus 25 bottles of ink, plus ink samples and cartridges. I am happy with what I have and want to settle in to using them all. Some I have used much more than others, but I want to cycle through my collection. As for notebooks and paper, I reorganized everything and was surprised at how much I have. I am well-supplied for journaling and novel-writing and rewriting.
Looking forward to the journaling videos! My elevator pitch for journaling is "easiest way to have a conversation with yourself". I like seeing different peoples EDC's as you get ideas for little things, I've been using the Zeiss wipes for years but that would have been a handy tidbit. As for perfect fountain pen? For me it's the GvFC Guilloche, I have three so...
Hello HJ! Another absorbing and inspiring live stream! Very interesting that you are going to do a series on paper. That new Morris writing set looks very interesting! I managed to get the one in the box, like you showed during the video, but have not yet had a chance to use any of the stationery yet. VERY cool, though! Can't wait for the Hemingway and Safari videos, as well. It's funny, that's a pen I really had no interest in, and in fact, the first one I bought was part of the gift set, because I wanted a bottle of the Blackberry ink! THEN I wrote with it! Then I bought another one, then I bought the Aluminum one! They write FAR better than they look in my opinion. Although the Aluminum one is kind of spiffy, I must admit. Will be more Safari's in my future! My blue one with red clip is one of my go-to EDC pens. Have a great week!
Thank you very much! I love the 58 for its vintage proportions. It is an amazing pen. I haven’t tried the 100, so sorry, I cannot contrast them. I do love everything CS does. They put a lot of love and attention into their pens. Thanks!
Hello all . Fountain pens . Art , journaling have become a large part of my life , I am on the last part of my life trip and pens, and making marks with them has made this part of the trip so much better. . Thanks to all for being a part of it . Thanks the best to you and yours !!!!!
Thanks very much! I hope you are here with us for a long time. Wishing you all the best always and thank you for the kind words and for being part of this community.
The 'fins' on feeds, serve the purpose of catching an unfortunate blurp of ink, instead of dropping it on the paper. This works well enough at a start. Unfortunately, people, who unknowingly encounter this, often don't consume the ink drop in the fins before they're finished writing. They put on the cap, and then presumably the pen gets knocked around enough to have the ink loose on the inside of the cap, and then on the section, - messy next time the pen is used. The cure is to occasionally expel gas/air in systems that have a piston that can be repositionable, like converters or some piston pens like WS 618 or the Konrad. Then you never get a blurp. Pelikan and Montblanc don't have repositionable pistons, even so I have never had a blurp in my 149 or M800. Magic? Have you had a blurp in yours?
Hello My Friend! I have never had a burp in anything but the lever fill pens I have, oddly enough. I can see how the fins could trap it for a time! I have had catastrophic lever fill pen stomach issues! I have my M800 with me right now, coincidentally enough. Awesome pen. A pure joy!
For me its going to be conid bulk filler or some sort of clear piston filler and Titanic trim pen in #8 size nib....... I would like to have fine italic stiff flex if i can only have one nib......... I have Montblanc 149 in broad italic nib thats perfect size for me and asvine p36 in titanium with FPR steel medium italic flex nib....... My perfect grail one and done will be a combination of them
Tokyo pen show? That DOES sound nice. I recently changed Swiss Army knife models to one with a magnifying glass. This getting old thing is all about aches and your eyes going.
Great video, very enjoyable. I received my Raven button piston filler today. You're right it's a joy to write with. I can't stop writing. The cool thing about it is, it's the only Raven in country where I lived! As is right now. And my local pen shop says he not gonna reorder. Lucky me. Thanks for the video.
My collection breaks down into two distinct groups: my King of Pen <M>, and the other 49 pens.A restart would be with the KoP without a doubt. Then I would build up with Sailors - all the other standard sizes in 21k (EF, F, FM, M, B, Mu), plus a zoom and a fude. 9 pens.
