Pen of the Day: Parker Duofold Centennial

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Parker Duofold Centennial with medium stub. You might have guessed by now that I am a Parker fan. This is the gorgeous Black and Pearl Duofold Centennial, which is about the size of the original Big Red.

I just recently got this back from the nibmeister. I was never perfectly happy with how it wrote, so I asked Dan Smith to decrease its over-enthusiastic ink flow and make the stub smoother. Thanks to Dan, it finally writes as beautifully as it looks.

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It’s inked with Caran d’Ache Saffron, my all-time favorite orange ink.

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Wednesday at the Movies

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There’s going to be a Star Wars Episode Seven?! I was tickled to see the trailer the other day.

I was in grade school when the movie Star Wars came out. Now Princess Leia and Han Solo must be parents or grandparents. I love it. Fictional characters: they’re just like us.

I am totally not a Star Wars fan. But I am totally looking forward to this.

Pen of the Day: Lamy 2000

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Lamy 2000 with fine nib. You know how sometimes you have a pen that just fits you perfectly? You might overlook it for flashier pens, but whenever you use it, you think, I could have this as my only pen. The Lamy 2000 with fine nib is that pen for me, combining gorgeous modern style with a nib I love to use.

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And I don’t know if this ever happens to anyone else, but I found such a perfect-for-me ink match that more than half the time I use this pen with one particular ink — J. Herbin Vert Empire.

Vert Empire is my favorite green ink, and since I just got a new bottle yesterday, I pulled out the Lamy 2000. Vert Empire shades beautifully. The gray-green color is soft and sophisticated, but still easy to read. It is a special ink. I am so happy to have it back, and back in this pen.

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Words of Wisdom

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Teenagers and parents are not always the best match. I’m sure both groups would agree.

Earlier this week, I was shaking my head about the latest teenage eruption here.  But then my older daughter offered a comforting thought. “The good thing about teenagers,” she pointed out, “is that they are out with their friends a lot.”

So true.

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“Munch The Scream lithography” by Edvard Munch, licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Peek at the Pen Cup: October Edition

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It’s hump day! At Fountain Pen Follies we’re trying to get over the hump. In non-pen news, the Chicago Cubs baseball team won their division series yesterday and next will play for the National League pennant. Wow. Surely the time is out of joint. In a good way.

I’ve been doing a lot of ink testing behind the scenes, and that has been tedious and a little frustrating. I hope things will be cleared up in time for a future post. At this point, if I never again hear the word “chromatography,” I’ll be good. Even seeing the roll of paper towels makes me scowl.

But let’s get over the hump. What’s in the pen cup?

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