I haven’t done much of it. I have another Pilot Metropolitan with a medium nib which writes very smoothly. The stub nib isn’t as smooth, although my initial experiments have been on paper that’s not especially fountain pen friendly.
I also notice that I have to write more slowly with the stub nib or I get line widths that vary unexpectedly. Pilot calls it a calligraphy nib and I think it really is, rather than something you’d use for everyday notetaking. Perhaps those whose handwriting is more consistent have better results.
It’s too bad because I very much like how stub nibs let colored inks show. I’ve noticed that with narrow nibs, sometimes a colored ink doesn’t really “read” as colored when you look at it.
Question about Lines
When a line has endpoints on two consonants, must it be read as part of both of them?
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NPD Questions
I was recently gifted what I believe to be a Pilot Metropolitan Taupe Lizard (see photo)
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Can anyone tell me if I’ve identified it correctly?
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This is my first squeeze converter. Is it opaque? If so how do you guesstimate ink levels? All my other pens have piston converters with transparent reservoirs, so you can just look.
Welcome
Given recent events at reddit, I wanted there to be a place for r/Tengwar members to land if an exodus became necessary.
Many believe that Meta is using an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy here. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
SDF and Fedipact?
Has there been any public discussion about what the SDF mastodon instances (mastodon.sdf.org and social.sdf.org) plan to do if #Project92 comes to pass and meta/facebook begins to federate with ActivityPub instances?
Does sdf.org have toot?
toot - Mastodon CLI & TUI. Contribute to ihabunek/toot development by creating an account on GitHub.
Since SDF now has a mastodon instance, would it be possible for sdf.org to include toot on the *nix side? Toot is a CLI mastodon client.
I've done only a little experimenting with bright inks, but it seems like unless the nib is quite broad the color gets lost. This now has me hunting for inexpensive stub nibbed pens :)