Fountain Pen Show Live! Review, Opinion, Best & Worst Pens!

Tonight! Live Pen Review of the Conway Stewart Churchill Fountain Pen, What is it about Lever-fills? Bottega Obscura Journals, Christmas Pens, The Holy Grail (yes, it's coming!) Indiana Jones 5! Andor, and Your Questions / Comments LIVE!

[fossilimprint]

Congratulations! I am hoping you will make videos or do a Live review of both the Visconti and the vintage pen you got from Payton. I definitely like how you put the comments on the same screen as you, because I frequently watch YouTube on devices that do not allow me to see the chat. I truly appreciate that you give your honest opinion, be it good, bad, or mediocre. I truly enjoyed your Benu video, it was so wonderful that I watched it several times!

[patrickblindeman]

I enjoyed it again, albeit not the live version.
That's why it's good to hear that you will also go live on Saturdays, if possible, then in the afternoon, then I can be there too.
Also very pleased to hear that the Conway Stewart is a great fountain pen, and that it writes smoothly. It is therefore a beautiful bespoke fountain pen.
I'm going to be able to receive my performance of the Churchill "Victory At All Costs" on Friday, I'm already shaking.
Thank you Hemingway Jones for once again taking us into the wonderful world of fountain pens and what comes with it.
I'm also looking forward to Thursday, the EDC release.
Already sitting on the edge of my chair to see this one.
Keep up the good work, you're doing great!

[davidblack]

As always, excellent show! This is always a highlight of the week watching, thanks!

[richardsimms]

Always fun and a joy to watch. Thank you. RS. Canada

[taiko]

Early congrats on your HS ~!
I bought mine used with a palladium nib and love it. I did have it tuned to write wetter, but oh my - how gloriously smooth!
I'd saved a special ink for it, not realizing it was a shimmer ink (cause I'd no interest in shimmer inks...), but because it's a <M> and quite wet, it seems fine. The ink, J. Herbin 'Shogun, ' is amazing (I think) and leaning toward it as my 'signature ink' as you'd spoke to.

[FireTower]

Because I live in Begium I'm never able to watch the show live. In my timezone your show is at 2 at night. So I always watch it a day later, but really enjoy it every time.

[taiko]

Bummed I couldn't catch you live this week - but great show! Lovin' the comment scroll on-screen.

[Vermiliontea]

A tip, I have been in mind to put out to you, is Akkerman Ink bottles. They're quite delightful, and also solve this problem of submerging enough of those piston fillers, vacuum fillers and lever fillers to draw up ink, even in an almost empty ink bottle, in the most satisfyingly elegant manner. You probably have to buy them all the way from PW Akkerman den Haag, in Netherland. I actually originally bought my first with the notion to empty them and just use the bottle for other inks. But that seemed a waste and now that I'm retired and don't need extreme inks any longer, I have also come to like some of Akkerman's inks as well. I strongly suspect they outsource the actual mixing together of the inks to Diamine. Anyway, they're simple, water soluble, good inks, with varying lightfastness, some of them quite lightfast, some quite fugitive, just like most brands.

Since it seems I have to tell you how to handle the rubber gasket in Akkerman's bottles, here it comes: You at first only unscrew the cap enough to loosen it, then you wriggle it until you feel the gasket inside unstick from the bottle. Then you unscrew it fully, and the gasket will come up with the cap.

[davidjimenezlopez]

I know this is an old video, but just in case, a small hack to avoid the leaking when you shake the Ferris Wheel inks without the seal: cut a square piece of a thicker bag (thicker than the supermarket, maybe a ziplock) put it between the cap and the bottle, cap it well and shake it.

I usually throw the plastic away, as I find it not esthetic to leave it there, but at least the bottle does not leak when shaken.

[taiko]

You've recommended before (I think) to buy a MB 149 second hand. There are very good deals on the second hand market, which is where I bought my HS and (first) 823. There is a risk of course, but if the price is low enough it's justifiable. (Although justifiying a pen purchase is easy enough 😉).

[mellow-jello]

FWP is infamous for difficult flaps to their boxes, and I also go for my Victorinox swiss army knife to swipe the flaps to open my box. The seal is a great idea, so that it prevents evaporation, your wife was right, Mr. Jones.

[SouthShorePaper]

Fellow knucklehead. I lost a half a bottle of my Ferris Wheel Press due to leakage and the missing plastic . To make matters worse it was a red ink, making it look like a crime scene.

[juicylouisey]

Has anyone tried the Visconti or Pineider travel pen filler with a lever/crescent filler?
Having the ink bottle sitting over the nib gravity would help getting a good fill.

[coffeeandbarbells]

Was the journaling video filmed near Walden Pond?

[mellow-jello]

$400 is far past a good gift level. Folio type of journals for archival should be half that price. That said, at least it is superior journal, and not a designer journal by a fashion house.

[frankmarek]

I have 2montblanca pen holder won holds 3 other holds 2pens frank in Oswego ill