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I'd noticed that my handwriting had gone past the "doctor" stage to be completely illegible to all (including me) so I did a little research, asked a passing oracle (thanks Sunbury 
) and plumped in - kicking off with a pen that saw me through O-levels (10 of them), A-levels (5 of them) & a degree... a Parker 25 (which was always filled with Parker Quink in Turquoise).
By no means an expensive pen, but a familiar one... well one thing has led to another and I now have a 15, a 45, a 17 "Lady" and a UK duofold (and a second 25...) and some bottles of ink (a black Quink - mostly acquired because I had an itchy nib finger couldn't wait for the order to arrive and a couple of bottles of Diamine - Damson and Aqua Blue - that I ordered online).
What can I say - the service from http://www.cultpens.com is magnificent - ordered it late Friday (too late I thought), got home on Saturday afternoon to a P739 from Sheila the postie...
Why those colours? Well the black Quink because for some reason it was £4 when the blue was £7... the Damson Diamine because it's a different and the Diamine Aqua Blue because it looks to be a pretty close match for the Parker Quink in Turquoise that I used in my formative years... Oh and I spotted in my local Sainsbury's that 10 packs of Parker cartridges were 70% off - 89p for 10.
I have noticed though that the Quink is a lot slower to become smudge resistant than the Diamine inks - the Quink takes around 5-6 secs, the Diamine is dry in under 2 - so the Diamine is great for throwing my appalling handwriting into very sharp definition :icon_sad:
Side anecdote: We were only allowed to use blue or black ink at school and I had to fight to be able to continue to use turquoise - which I was allowed to do on the technicality that the dictionary that the headmaster had described it as a "greenish blue" (ergo: it's blue and therefore allowed)
) and plumped in - kicking off with a pen that saw me through O-levels (10 of them), A-levels (5 of them) & a degree... a Parker 25 (which was always filled with Parker Quink in Turquoise). By no means an expensive pen, but a familiar one... well one thing has led to another and I now have a 15, a 45, a 17 "Lady" and a UK duofold (and a second 25...) and some bottles of ink (a black Quink - mostly acquired because I had an itchy nib finger couldn't wait for the order to arrive and a couple of bottles of Diamine - Damson and Aqua Blue - that I ordered online).
What can I say - the service from http://www.cultpens.com is magnificent - ordered it late Friday (too late I thought), got home on Saturday afternoon to a P739 from Sheila the postie...
Why those colours? Well the black Quink because for some reason it was £4 when the blue was £7... the Damson Diamine because it's a different and the Diamine Aqua Blue because it looks to be a pretty close match for the Parker Quink in Turquoise that I used in my formative years... Oh and I spotted in my local Sainsbury's that 10 packs of Parker cartridges were 70% off - 89p for 10.
I have noticed though that the Quink is a lot slower to become smudge resistant than the Diamine inks - the Quink takes around 5-6 secs, the Diamine is dry in under 2 - so the Diamine is great for throwing my appalling handwriting into very sharp definition :icon_sad:
Side anecdote: We were only allowed to use blue or black ink at school and I had to fight to be able to continue to use turquoise - which I was allowed to do on the technicality that the dictionary that the headmaster had described it as a "greenish blue" (ergo: it's blue and therefore allowed)
