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JRRClocks
12
Nov 7, 2016
I often wear polo shirts or t-shirts with pockets. The pockets in them are much shorter than the pockets in dress shirts, so I like correspondingly shorter pens. I have an Ohto Tasche and Ohto Rook that write nicely and fit the bill. Moving up a bit from the Ohtos, I have a TWSBI Diamond Mini with a 1.1 mm stub nib. It writes very nicely, and the stub nib makes my handwriting look great.
About ten years ago I bought a Pelican M205 Demonstrator because I wanted a piston-filler, and I like the techy Demonstrator look. At that time I kept a day planner, and the bold nib in the Pelican was just too big to use, so I bought a custom-ground nib from Richard Binder. The regular side was ground to a 0.9 mm cursive italic, that writes like a dream and really makes my handwriting pop, but the nice thing about the nib is that the top side is ground to a fine point. I would keep notes and other writing using the cursive side, then just roll the pen over to write in my day planner.
Alas, that demonstrator suffered a tragic and ignoble end caused by the owner's negligence, the details of which I would prefer not to go into. I finally replaced it earlier this year with the Pelican M205 "Coffee and Cream" from a recent Massdrop. The old custom nib (which lived through the unfortunate "accident") fit right in, and now it is most often my EDC pen - light and compact for t-shirts, a little bit classy, and I get comments on my signature when I use it.
Thw1990
209
Nov 27, 2016
JRRClocksBinder is a nib master! Although I have no nibs currently that he's worked on, I've had the pleasure of testdriving at least one. Glad to see you could save it!
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