Fountain Pen Video Reviews from Penultimate Dave including Visconti, Pelikan, Conway Stewart and more. Find me on Instagram at instagram.com/PenultimateDave and at my website at www.PenultimateDave.com.
@@PenultimateDave Actually, the white document ink from DeAtramentis shows quite well, and is very nice on truly dark paper. I was interested in inks that can do this.
I always spend at least a couple of hours at the show but it's amazing what I miss! Thanks for filling in the gaps, Dave! I was pondering purchasing an Aurora but went for an Onoto instead. 😁
@@PenultimateDave The Neko Pen, gold edition, one of 49. It bears the name of the author of "I Am A Cat", Natsume, Soseki, in Japanese on the barrel, and has a silhouette of a cat on the finial. Other than that it's fairly plain. I just like the way it wrote. I am a cat dad! 😁
Great review. Nice to know about the ink staining fingers if not clesned properly from the section. How do you clean these vacuum fillers? Is there a way of filling the pen if the inkmlevel in the bottle is low?
To clean the vac filling pens I just keep filling with clear water and expelling the dirty water until clean. If the ink bottle is too low to fill from I use either a Visconti Travelling inkwell or Pineider Pen Filler to maximise the fill using gravity or you can use a little ink miser.
You were right ‘Onotos’ Dave 😊. When it comes to names, all the letters are preserved, with the added s (or es). ‘Onotae’ has fundamentally changed the name Onoto. Similarly, if you use an apostrophe in a possessive. Eg “The dogs’ dinner”. If it’s a name, you’d write “Charles’s dinner’.
@@herrsteppenwolf The (Bock?) Palladium nibs, back when they were offered by Visconti, in the "large" sizes like BB and the big stub were known to be "over-polished." Thus having baby's bottom and resultant flow issues. This is pretty well known. I had a couple of these, lucky me. There was never a problem in the B, M, F, XF ranges with the Palladium nibs, of which I am aware. There has never been a pervasive problem with the gold Visconti nibs, to my knowledge. It was a "big Palladium nib" issue. In my cases, the vendor did exchanges until it was worked out and I eventually got excellent writing pens. They write like an absolute joy now. Just a couple of trips back and forth to the post office, really. I would not remotely hesitate to buy a pen at the "Visconti" price point over the potential to get a poor nib. I can assure you, at some point it will happen. However, that is why you have a warranty, and a good vendor will do everything they can to make it right/write. Fear not! Write on! Ask Dave about his moose! :)
Awesome selection once again, so many thanks for showing them to us, really enjoy your selection of Onoto pens as they hit a sweet spot for me. Good luck if you intend to dive into the MB Writers editions, I love some of them, but just too many for me to actually start collecting.. so I've just stuck to the Meisterstuck range to keep things simple.
If you take a look at the clip near the finial, it has a hook-like shape, you use that to pull the knob out, I casually saw it in a RU-vid video 😂 I bought a grey Metropolitan some years ago, it almost made me forget about getting the Homo Sapiens. I love my pen, I still want the Dario Argento, it looks so damn nice 😁
You seem to like Cypress pens. Here is a question. If you had the money, what would you buy, the Cypress Raden Special Size (6.8 inches) or the Namiki Emperor Urushi red (7 inches)? As you know the Namiki is more expensive and has more prestige. But since you have 4 or more Cypress pens in your collection, do you think they are at least close in quality to the Namiki? Thanks for your videos. They are great. ❤
I actually had the chance recently to buy a namiki emperor in red for a really good price but turned it down. I think I’d still go for the cypress raden pens.
I my experience Lie de The is a very wet ink. It's the only ink I own that I have to be careful about using right after filling because it will sometimes create splotches. It also starts coming out of the pen darker / wetter halfway through longer writing sessions.
beautiful pen... i have the "Beloved Cat" eggshell pen and it is great too. You are right about the special size, it is a little expensive for a Cypress pen, since for that price or less you can get a Nakaya long cigar or a Taccia miyabi tamenuri (6 inches long). But still is a good option if you can't afford a Danitrio mikado or a Namiki emperor.
Love mine. Paid $414 July 2024 right price for it IMO. Perfect combo with Golden BeryI, haven’t tried to clean it yet. I am looking for a black Chevron now, tough search …
Thanks for the info on Onoto nibs. I have been musing on buying one at the pen show in London later this month. A wet writing nib clinches it for me! 😄
While I really like your sharing of your pen collection, I will never achieve the acquisition of many - my wife would flip(lol)! I am modestly looking at the Cross Townsend and Shaeffer Connaisseur. Thank you again for sharing your beautiful pens!
I am curious about the validity of a pen do you know if there is there a version of this that is black and silver with a slight texture in the black? Everything else looks spot on and I am a little confused
I’m not aware of a black version, all the versions I’ve seen are blue, so the black might be a fake. That said, Montblanc usually do several versions depending on price but searching for a black Jules Verne hasn’t shown any results for me.
This looks like the celluloid Visconti Wall Streets. Unfortunately, I missed on the "blue" LE, I have the others. They are beautiful in the direct sunlight.
"Pencil like feedback", seems appropriate really given that the ruthenium nib makes it look like a giant pencil, I understand why a lot of folks enjoy the stealth look of pens, but for my taste I never went for the ruthenium nibs.. why hide the great designs you can find on some of them.
Regards. I'm still looking for diamine pearl blue, twilight, shimmering seas and Upon a star. Do you think we can watch them soon ? Thank you and regards
