Thought I'd try an old fountain pen of mine.

Can anyone recommend a good calligraphy pen set? I started when I was younger with a Berol (I think) felt tip calligraphy pen with good results and would now like to get a proper pen set.

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I'm waiting on a Pilot Art 1.9mm pen - but I saw they also sell sets. Not a lot of money - but clearly tempting one to lean over the hole. And waiting for a Manuscript Scribe 1.9mm. And the converters. I fear I leaned in a little too far.
 
MrK1 said:
New cartridges are sealed. Some pens allow you to store a spare in the barrel.

I am assuming BB fills his cartridges as he needs them and doesn't store them already filled.
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I obviously have spare sealed (bought) cartridges if I am travelling but the point in filling cartridges was as an alternative to converters

I presume nobody here carries around or stores prefilled spare converters.
 
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OK - grommets are stoppers so I can move on to the syringes. As in Doctors and Nurses hypodermic syringes, a la mainlining heroin? I cannot tell you what an edge you have brought to fountain pens for me!
 
Bechet said:
OK - grommets are stoppers so I can move on to the syringes. As in Doctors and Nurses hypodermic syringes, a la mainlining heroin? I cannot tell you what an edge you have brought to fountain pens for me!
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You can pick up some BD microfine syringes from the Pharmacy Carl, come in 100 packs or 200 perfect for the job, size options too.

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I bought a pack of 10 3ml syringes from Amazon. Rather harder was getting hold of dispensing needles for them, had I wanted hypodermics the world was my oyster, but blunt ones? Oh no. In the end I think I found some on eBay that came from China.
 
Bechet said:
What is the advantage of syringes over converters? Messing about with 3ml syringes and needles seems a tad - well - messy.
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A lot cleaner than converters, you can also mix colours more accurately (given you have a volume graded syringe).

Main reason I use them is to extract ink from very old cartridges or ink that I have made myself, which I haven't done for some time.

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Syringes are handy for: filling sample vials, refilling cartridges, flushing converters, getting the last bit of ink from the bottle, mixing inks accurately - anything really where you may want to move a small quantity of liquid accurately. Oh, and squirting the cat. :)

For example, the Herbin ink bottles are ridiculously shallow which makes them awkward for filling pens from, and the Diamine plastic bottles have a neck which is too small for my Pelikan 805 nib. Using a syringe makes it easy to transfer ink to a 5ml vial which is easier to fill from, and portable should you want ink on the move.
 
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