Watching your chat is a delight! "Right chuffed" indeed, and thanks for showing my dear Waterman's. Doug, you are beyond a pen nerd, you are a treasure, and I thank the Lord I met you on RU-vid!
I really enjoyed this, thank you. Nice seeing you in conversation together (I follow you both), especially your descriptions of why fountain pens are special to you.
The conversation about the emotional attachments to particular pens and their history was my favorite part of this video. My motivations for learning to restore vintage pens is very much like yours, Doug. I can’t help but wonder what things were written with the 80-year-old tool in my hand. And the victory of restoration is such a rewarding part of this hobby!
Thanks to you both for a fun joint upload with some great Q an A. @ Doug, I just had to say that last week I was the very fortunate recipient in a prize draw here in Australia of a Maiora Ti 22. It's my first Maiora and I still cannot get over the incredible attention to thought, detail, and expertise in the creation of a beautiful instrument. This will be an emotional and forever loved pen. Please pass on my thanks to Nino for his knowledge and passion if you ever have the opportunity. Ha ha, I'm not that well connected! 😂 Dorothy from Oz (Aus).
Hello, Dorothy from Oz! Thanks for watching and congrats on your Maiora! Nino makes wonderful pens. My Delta DV 2.0 is one of the most exquisite pens I've ever owned!
@InkquiringMinds Indeed, I've been a fountain pen enthusiast since the 1980s so truly appreciate the quality of Nino's thoughtful design. Writes like a dream, perfect weight and shape for my hand. Just gorgeous!
It's extremely rare that I watch a 40-minute video in its entirety. This time, yes. Very pleasant and interesting video, thank you gentlemen. Greetings from Belgium.
A wonderful "crossover" episode, like they used to do on television. I hope you make it a regular event. It's interesting to see the two of you in a more conversational mode and we viewers feel like we're sitting at the table with you. If you made the trade permanent, then Doug you got a wonderful pen. I'm sitting here with my LM1 inked up (med nib) bought from Andy at the DC Show more than a decade ago. Every time I ink it it surpasses my memory of how nice it writes. Maybe the two of you should trade pens for six months, then come back together to give us your impressions of each other's pens? Maybe you could push each other's boundaries that way. Thanks for the great conversation!
Gentlemen, your joint discussion of various pen topics is one of the more pleasurable experiences I have observed and, vicarious though it is, shared in recent memory. Thank you for your knowledge, your comradery, your good cheer. This was wonderful, in every sense of the word.
Magnificent video, Doug! For hours, I could listen to you talking about vintage pens! 🥰 It's great to see you in daylight for once! I'm delighted that you're even wearing a polo shirt in my favourite colour! 💙 And sbrebrown even answered all the questions I didn’t know I had before. All in all: two wizards in top form!
Been busy for a bit and decided to kick off the binge watch catch up with this lovely Q&A, great selection of questions! Looking forward to the restoration videos I missed.
Wow sir! The Blessed & Saintly Dr S B R E Brown and you in the same room! This is indeed an amazing sight to behold! Are you changed in any way since being in His presence? 🙌🙏👌
A whole lot of fun, watching and listening this pen talk. Yes, FP's are a very emotional thing to most of us nerds. And it bothers me more and more that there are too many manufacturer and dealers out there trying to make a lot of unjustified big bucks out of this emotional thing.
The last question brought tears to my eyes! I've used fountain pens since I was very young, in the 1950s, and have several older pens that were given to me as gifts that I cherish still. I rarely use them, given how nicely some of my modern pens write, but they sit in a pen box that takes up the top of a side board in our dining room. Even some more modern pens bring back memories; presently I filled and am using a first year Parker Duofold Centennial (Marbled Maroon) my wife bought for my Birthday at an introductory show at a local Pen Shop (since deceased). It write like a dream!
Fellow Albertan here! Thank you for this great conversation. Loved what you said about vintage pens and our writing experiences. Edmonton has Stylus which is located on Whyte Ave. Wonderful shop! Thanks again!
That was a fun video with the two of you, Doug & Stephen. Who got the better of the trade?? I'd say it was a toss up & you both can think you each got the better!! Doug, you mentioned/showed one of my favorite Chinese pens - The Wing Sung 601. I gave my the same treatment after I saw yours for the first time. That pen never disappoints.
@@InkquiringMinds I love Doodlebud and Pens and Tea too! But you all speak English with very few problems. No one says "Aboot" and I can only remember one instance of someone saying "The Wanker pen". I would think most Canadian fountain pen lovers would be eaten by polar bears as time goes by! Glad to know you are all safe!
Lovely video! I am wondering: it appears that there is a conversion on Canada of fountain pen reviewers (I won’t use the term “influencers”). Frankly you are the best and I enjoy your videos so very much! keep up the good work!
It dawned on me that you guys don’t live that far apart when you both got pens from Your Main Man Murray appearing in reviews. Nice to see a video with both of you! While we might have more shops here in Europe, the same cannot be said about pen clubs, at least not here in Belgium.
Hearing about a pen borrowed from "Main Man Murray"... I was hoping this might happen some day.. then I went to wishing this should happen some day... And thank you both!
Thank you both for the informative, informal, as well as pleasant video. Thank you for answering my question (twice in actuality). As for the gold versus steel nib commentary, , I did not consider the longevity of gold nibs, which certainly makes sense. I think though that proper care of steel nibs would lengthen their usage. I own 3 pens with gold nibs. I also expect steel nibs to be around for many years, IF you maintain the nib which is not hard to do. This leads to a question I have about companies that push gold nibs for their pens for their high end models, notably two German companies, Pelikan and Montblanc. Pelikan offers a steel nib for their M205 pen, which is an awesome nib. Why not make these nibs for their M400, M600 and M800 models? The pens would be more affordable and I know they can make great steel nibs. Montblanc made great pens with steel nibs in the 1970s. Why stop?
@@paulmchugh1430 when montblanc and pelikan were both sold away from the original families that owned them anything non luxury was dropped by both firms that bought them
‘There is a certain vibe to it’… ha.. I own that pen too. I love a hooded nib wing sung pen.. Do you think an ebonite feed, vs a plastic feed, will increase ink flow and wetness to an extent? Great vid Doug, thanks gents.
Excellent content! Two of the most iconoclastic, yet stylistically divergent, content creators sat together in discussion, sometimes disagreeing, but mostly of similar opinions. I liked the way you clearly have great respect for each other. Btw, I never thought you would answer my question, but thank Stephen for the arcane inside information, would you? 😂
So, she said, “That!” I’ve never heard her say what Steven suggested. (I’m exhibiting a lot of restraint to keep this comment rated PG.) This was a very enjoyable video. Maybe you can do this format once a month virtually with other pen channel hosts like Doodle Bud, JG3, Figboot, PenBoyRoy, Drew Brown, Pens and Tea, and others.
Completely forgot about sending in questions, busy week. Anyway, looks like a fun conversation. I generally don't enjoy 'matey' videos - the viewer isn't party to the friendship (cf. the Appelboom quiz with Dutch contestants, lots of pally inside jokes) - but this was thankfully content-driven.
The sailor 14k nibbled pens are between 56-75$ right now including free shipping on Amazon Japan, most having free shipping, granted these aren’t “special” editions but wtf people…56$ for a gold nibbled pen, quit whinging
@@InkquiringMinds Well, he's roughly half way between. Anyway, the only place hockey is more ridiculous than in Sunrise, Florida, was in Glendale, Arizona. I can send you some replacement Boston Bruins gear if want to display it on your Sunday Resurrection reviews.
Doug, you should really do a video with the stories of how some of your subscribers came to fall in love with fountain pens. My fascination began at 5 years old in the doctor’s office. I so clearly remember my doctor pulling out that big burgundy Mont Blanc Meisterstuck 149. The sound of it, pen to paper, has stayed with me my entire life. I can still remember that sound today, 60 years later as if it were yesterday. That moment in time began a lifelong obsession with fountain pens that I have now passed on to my daughter who has embraced it with the same passion. I look forward to purchasing my daughter, whatever her holy grail is when she finishes her PhD in psychology, and pursues her career as a college professor.
