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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +11 
 Fountain pens are the way 🔥

Just be careful, you might like them so much that you end up with heirloom pens that you'll have to pass on to your grandchildren.
https://i.nostr.build/POPkn.jpg
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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 And a drawer full of ink you have no hope of using up... https://i.nostr.build/6Gx2q.jpg
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The Pentographer | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I need every detail of this pen. It is beautiful.
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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's the Visconti Homo Sapiens Lava. I saw it at a pen show at a Visconti booth. But it doesn't look like it's available in black anymore online, but in other really nice colors.
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The Pentographer | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I thought that was what it was. I've never seen the black, but then again, I only learned of their existence a week ago. 

I do believe I'm gob to need to get my hands on a variant of that pen.
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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It's a worthwhile pen to have. Extremely satisfying and worth the price unlike a lot of snooty high end pens that are worse than ones you can get under 200.

The lava stone absorbs your sweat as you write and stays cool. The filing mechanism can clean out leftover ink in an empty reservoir completely with enough pumps in water. And the cap's locking mechanism/vacuum seal is the best I've ever seen. The nib is excellent too, but I had to fix mine a little and re-tune it (which I don't recommend doing yourself).
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The Pentographer | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I have been looking into nibmeisters today. There are many in the US and one in Canada so I'll definitely look into some custom grinds at some point.