Pilot VPens waterproof test

it's something that is bugging me for a long time, is the pilot VPens' ink waterproof? i mean, the ink do have nice color. i wanted to use them for daily work use....

too bad, the test turned out as such....

 

 

Sheaffer converter

For those who are interested in a full breakdown of a sheaffer converter. I had to do this to repair the faulty converter.

Daiso fountain pen in hotrod red

finally it is done! Daiso fountain pen in hotrod red! also comes with a red nib! the one of its kind in the world ( i think ). anyway there's a lot of sweat put into it, don't think i will want to make more.

maybe one more in black. in blue too. hmmm

 

 

daiso fountain pen : old and new comparison

well, this is something new....

daiso had a recent change of their fountain pen in terms of packaging, and i didn't think much of it. until i gotten a couple to replace the few i have used, and realized not only did the packaging changed, the pen actually has changed too.

1) the cap cannot be exchanged between the 2. the newer version the cap is bigger.

2) the nib is different.

3) the feed on the old version has 1 drain. the newer version has 2 drains. i have not physically tested it, but i think the newer version will write even wetter.

in retrospective, it was wise of me to get 300 pieces of the old daiso pen. lame excuse for myself. :p 

 

 

cerruti 1881 fountain pens

brass shrim for cleaning fountain pen? save your money with these.

you can cannibalize those metal strips in those anti theft thingy as brass strips to clean your nibs.

Home and Office supplies fountain pen

This is a heads-up on this cheap $2 pen which i have shown earlier. while it is cheap and writes well, but it has a major flaw; it is a cartridge killer.

I have put in one long cartridge initially, standard international, and it worked for a while. after a couple of weeks, the pen suddenly leaked on first writing, and i realise that the cartridge's mouth had split. no matter, could be a cartridge issue, so i had it swapped to another short international cartridge. same thing happened, it was working initially, then the cartridge's mouth split opened. the pen leaked and created a whole mess. I am now trying the china standard international cartridge, or the daiso pen refill, which has a bigger mouth and seems to be made of a sturdy material, but i'm not betting much money on it. and no way am i going to sacrifice a converter.

my verdict: buy the pen for the nib, stay clear of using it. the grip isn't very good btw too.