Hello! Afficionado here. First of all congrats! It's not just a very nice pen, you got yourself one of the best fountain pens out there, and one of my personal "grail pens". Let's take it from the top, please don't take any of these as offensive, just constructive: 1:08 It's pronounced "goo-lay", the company's run by Brian and Rachel Goulet, awesome people, you can find a butt-ton of videos from them on YT on their official channel; 1:30 The Pilot Metro is an excellent entry-level pen, and I'm thrilled that you enjoy writing with it; 1:50 Iroshizuku is generally considered a top-tier ink in general, not only in Pilot's lineup. It's notoriously well behaved and personally Take-Sumi is my favourite shade of black. Parker is dependable but for my 2 cents, it's comparing Hondas to Jaguars; 3:20 Yes, there is a pretty heavy price tag on this pen, but it's well worth it. After using it for a while you'll understand; 4:30 Pucker factor 100; 4:50 Yes, 585 is 14K gold. The nib is gold, but the tip of the nib is reinforced with a wear-resistant metal. It's either iridium or ruthenium, it's standard practice to reinforce the tip on all nibs, whether gold or steel. The difference you'll feel is in the springiness of the nib. There are very few steel nibs that even come close to the feeling of writing with gold; 6:00 Converter. It's called a converter. You don't dip IT in the ink. You dip the nib of the pen so it's submerged in ink, and then draw the ink through the nib, it saturates the feed all the way up to the converter. Your method is... I mean it gets the job done, but come on. Part of the zen is taking a paper towel and wiping off the excess ink after a fill. Plus, doing it your way means you have to wait for the ink to make its way through the feed, to the tip. 9:40 Yup, that's the way it's intended to be used, capped. Or to use the correct term, "posted". 9:50 Pucker factor 1000. Do NOT jab your nib into, or close to a hard surface. Seriously, don't. If you absolutely must, put the cap back on the pen. Or draw a few dry lines to coax the ink out. Or just be patient for a few minutes. 10:15 Remember, this is a fountain pen. It uses capillary action to put ink on paper. Meaning 2 things: It can write under its own weight, just pull it along the surface and the ink flows. You do not/should not put so much pressure on the nib when writing. It may have been the mic's fault, but that ther felt like you were stabbing through the paper. One of the biggest downsides of writing with ballpoints, people these days are used to pushing down hard when writing. At least relative to how hard you need to for a fountain pen. Pens are better from this perspective, as your wrist will hurt a lot less after a long session. Fun fact to close it off, you have there an nib, which means Fine line width. This is a Japanese pen, and their standard is a lot thinner than western sizes, due to their alphabet. A German Bock edium nib for example, would be equivalent to a Japanese Pilot road nib, or a bit more. Tell your friend he's a great friend.
You sir, have mastered the art of constructive criticism. I'm sure I will cringe in the future when I learn more about fountain pen etiquette and re-watch this video. Thank you!
Thanks for educating him a bit. This pen, or marvel of design and culture, deserves a bit of love. Otherwise, buy a standard pen, you'll wear it out within months needing, but not willing, to pay for a nibmeister to repair any damage done to it.
I just got one of these. Frankly, it’s a freaking lovely pen. It’s the size of a little baby pen, but posted it suddenly grows up to an adult. It’s light as heck, and so comfortable to write with. My only complaint is the ink capacity. I am hand writing a novel for my own personal pleasure, and let’s us just say the ink bottle is never far away. 😂 It’s a Sherlock Holmes novel, so a fountain pen seemed like the appropriate choice.
14 karat, aka 58.5% gold, hence .585. Interestingly, with pens while there is a gold vs steel difference, once gold it isn't like more gold is necessarily better, just depends on what they're trying to achieve and/or marketing.
Goulet is pronounced “goo-lay” and company is owned by Brian and Rachel Goulet and is in Virginia! I absolutely depend on their videos and I just bought this pen last year and love it! I use the con-40 converter which came with the pen. Favorite ink for it is Diamine Burgandy Royale, as my pen is the Burgandy version. This pen just writes so smoothly. I got the Fine nib. Highly recommend this pen! You have a wonderful friend!
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Hello! Afficionado here.
First of all congrats! It's not just a very nice pen, you got yourself one of the best fountain pens out there, and one of my personal "grail pens".
Let's take it from the top, please don't take any of these as offensive, just constructive:
1:08 It's pronounced "goo-lay", the company's run by Brian and Rachel Goulet, awesome people, you can find a butt-ton of videos from them on YT on their official channel;
1:30 The Pilot Metro is an excellent entry-level pen, and I'm thrilled that you enjoy writing with it;
1:50 Iroshizuku is generally considered a top-tier ink in general, not only in Pilot's lineup. It's notoriously well behaved and personally Take-Sumi is my favourite shade of black. Parker is dependable but for my 2 cents, it's comparing Hondas to Jaguars;
3:20 Yes, there is a pretty heavy price tag on this pen, but it's well worth it. After using it for a while you'll understand;
4:30 Pucker factor 100;
4:50 Yes, 585 is 14K gold. The nib is gold, but the tip of the nib is reinforced with a wear-resistant metal. It's either iridium or ruthenium, it's standard practice to reinforce the tip on all nibs, whether gold or steel. The difference you'll feel is in the springiness of the nib. There are very few steel nibs that even come close to the feeling of writing with gold;
6:00 Converter. It's called a converter. You don't dip IT in the ink. You dip the nib of the pen so it's submerged in ink, and then draw the ink through the nib, it saturates the feed all the way up to the converter. Your method is... I mean it gets the job done, but come on. Part of the zen is taking a paper towel and wiping off the excess ink after a fill.
Plus, doing it your way means you have to wait for the ink to make its way through the feed, to the tip.
9:40 Yup, that's the way it's intended to be used, capped. Or to use the correct term, "posted".
9:50 Pucker factor 1000. Do NOT jab your nib into, or close to a hard surface. Seriously, don't. If you absolutely must, put the cap back on the pen.
Or draw a few dry lines to coax the ink out.
Or just be patient for a few minutes.
10:15 Remember, this is a fountain pen. It uses capillary action to put ink on paper. Meaning 2 things:
It can write under its own weight, just pull it along the surface and the ink flows.
You do not/should not put so much pressure on the nib when writing. It may have been the mic's fault, but that ther felt like you were stabbing through the paper.
One of the biggest downsides of writing with ballpoints, people these days are used to pushing down hard when writing. At least relative to how hard you
need to for a fountain pen. Pens are better from this perspective, as your wrist will hurt a lot less after a long session.
Fun fact to close it off, you have there an nib, which means Fine line width. This is a Japanese pen, and their standard is a lot thinner than western sizes, due to their alphabet. A German Bock edium nib for example, would be equivalent to a Japanese Pilot road nib, or a bit more.
Tell your friend he's a great friend.
You sir, have mastered the art of constructive criticism. I'm sure I will cringe in the future when I learn more about fountain pen etiquette and re-watch this video. Thank you!
Thanks for educating him a bit. This pen, or marvel of design and culture, deserves a bit of love. Otherwise, buy a standard pen, you'll wear it out within months needing, but not willing, to pay for a nibmeister to repair any damage done to it.
I just got one of these. Frankly, it’s a freaking lovely pen. It’s the size of a little baby pen, but posted it suddenly grows up to an adult. It’s light as heck, and so comfortable to write with. My only complaint is the ink capacity. I am hand writing a novel for my own personal pleasure, and let’s us just say the ink bottle is never far away. 😂 It’s a Sherlock Holmes novel, so a fountain pen seemed like the appropriate choice.
Let me know when you're done with the novel, I'll order a copy!
14 karat, aka 58.5% gold, hence .585. Interestingly, with pens while there is a gold vs steel difference, once gold it isn't like more gold is necessarily better, just depends on what they're trying to achieve and/or marketing.
Goulet is pronounced “goo-lay” and company is owned by Brian and Rachel Goulet and is in Virginia! I absolutely depend on their videos and I just bought this pen last year and love it! I use the con-40 converter which came with the pen. Favorite ink for it is Diamine Burgandy Royale, as my pen is the Burgandy version. This pen just writes so smoothly. I got the Fine nib. Highly recommend this pen! You have a wonderful friend!
Hey. Don’t you have a face? Never saw it in the video. I am sure you have a face on your head.
Picture the forehead of Tom Brady, the nose of voldemort, the lips of handsome squidward, and the ears of Dumbo.
Gift me a fountain pen brother , i will write amazing with that , and remember you every time , whenever i will use that and thankyou ❤
Thanks