Fountain pens can be fun… the Amazon basics one ( had mine for a few years) is amazing. It’s a cl9ne of course.. a good clone at that.. for the money?? It’s so hard to beat
Man's out in his garage opining on the viscosity of fountain pen ink with old pasta stuck to the door and a burning hatred of pickles in his heart. Never change, Tyler.
That Lamy pen is the absolute standard for every German child going into elementary school. Such a classic. Both Pelikan and Lamy are German brands btw. Kinda like Coca-Cola versus Pepsi but for fountain pens, they are HUGE over here.
Once the nib breaks in it will be smoother. The important thing about fountain pens is not to let people use them. I’ve had people drop mine and ruin the nib. And some people bear down hard when writing which isn’t good for the nib.
Welcome to the fountain pen community Tyler! Edit: Tyler, you need to look into nibmeisters, they can make almost any pen write smoother than glass, that Pelikan would be a good one to send off to one for tuning.
It brought me so much joy to watch you fall in love with fountain pens! I fell down the rabbit hole a few years ago so it was fun to watch you nerd out over them. Also, starting right out of the gate with Baystate Blue!? You’re a brave soul. That stuff will stain anything! If you feel like venturing further down the rabbit hole I bet you’d like Monteverde ink- they’re lubricated so they write super smooth!
Usually, banks and lawyers offices give out blue pens because it is harder to forge a blue signature than a black one. So blue is actually the preferred ink color for signing checks and official documents. Sometimes blue is required for a signature to be official.
If you like Noodlers but want a smoother black try their Eel Black. It's lubricated and is a very well behaved ink. Also, look into an ink syringe for filling and cleaning your converters. It will save you from Baystate Blue fingers, clothes, desks, floors...
One of the hobbies my grandfather picked up was pen making. He’s given me some really nice fountain pens that are hand turned and made out of nice wood. What a great writing experience
I guarantee that is THE first time a Pelikan pen has been filled on a shop towel atop a dirty piece of plywood. That being said... I am now a pen nerd.
And yet it’s absolutely the right kind of place to fill a pen with Baystate Blue-it’s known as the single most impossible to remove ink in the history of mankind. In other words, that spot on the table is a permanent feature of the channel now!
Tyler, if you’re beginning a dive into fountain pens, you have to try my personal favourite. That being the Parker Sonnet. Scrivener are a very good brand also. Maybe, providing you’re willing to put a little investment into it, buy a selection and put them through a few tests to find which is your personal selection.
I've been using a Parker fountain pen all my life. Even a 30 dollar Parker pen is awesome, but a Sonnet is really sweet. I tend to have my Parker pens stolen at work :(, so I'm using a Parker Jotter now. The Parker ink comes in cartridges which are really easy and clean to refill. Buy a Parker if you want to use a fountain pen!
My first experience with a fountain pen was in 6th grade. We were learning calligraphy and we were all given fountain pens to practice with. I loved it! I've been a fan of them ever since. Good vid, Tyler!
Learning calligraphy was exactly what I thought of when I first started watching this video. I'd love to learn it again. It might improve my overall handwriting if I got back into it.
You clearly haven’t heard of Noodler’s inks. There’s a legendary man in Massachusetts who made a whole line of fountain pen inks in response to an mit student proving he could remove the old fraud proof formula with a laser. So now there are inks for fountain pens that not only resist chemicals, but also lasers.
I’m 49 and I remember we had to do ‘exams’ using a fountain pen in primary school: especially in joint (cursive) lol. Still love how it feels when you get a good pen. Also wrote with Quill ! 😂 xx
You can't go wrong with Lamy , beside the fact that they use proprietary cartriges (hackable) . I went to school in France and french schools in other countries, where using fountain pens is encouraged as well as proper calligraphy is also tought from a very young age where print characters are ( or at least were) forbidden! As we were so many in one classroom, it was easy to test a large variety of pens from classsmates in order to discover new or better ones. Other classics brands are : Parker, Waterman, Creeks (stubby and glamorous) , Pilot ,Schaeffer , Bic and Faber Castell. Different writing style require different pen , you can find low and high flow as well as soft or hard nibs.
I remember the original video and how funny it was that you loved the fountain pen after talking mad trash about it before you tried it lol. That was beyond funny. =D
Hi Tyler. Look into heavier pens. Usually pens made out of metals like aluminium, titanium, stainless, brass or copper. I'm using Gravitas Pocket Pen made out of copper (copper is the densest of all metals used for pens) and it's something else. It not only affects the writing experience, it also interacts with other senses like touch, smell (copper and brass pens smell like coins) and temperature difference. Some metal pens (mostly brass and copper) will patina over time.
The Pelican will "write in". The more expensive fountain pens tend to have more gold in the nib and as you write, it shaves off a little bit of that. Eventually giving you a "customized" nip tip that will allow for a much smoother writing experience. But yes, the Lamy Safari is an excellent pen and when I went to school in Germany it was a bit of a battle between the Lamy kids and the ones that used the Pelican school fountain pen.
you should try to stop moving the pen, keeping contact with the paper to see if this pen is leaking ink on the paper. Its one of the required quality to write a long text
Not sure if fountain pens are still a thing in Europe but 20 +yrs ago when i was in school that was pretty much the standard. Fountain pens are amazing, as long as you dont ruin the nib and let it dry out they are bullet proof. Btw Lamy is also an incredible fountain pen brand. They have extremely affordable amazing pens.
I'll call him a pen nerd when he gets himself an Omas, Montegrappa, high end Montblanc, or a Namiki. Wait, I have those 😬 My most expensive Pen was a Lamy safari, that pen started the obsession.
Congratulations! I've been looking into buying a Lamy as well, because of the variety of different nibs available, so I'm glad to see you're happy with yours. I actually started looking into pens again because of you, which is about the last thing I would have expected!
Highly recommend the muji aluminum fountain pen, it’s cheap and it works amazing. It’s about the size of a normal pen with a cap, and is in my opinion the best more budget friendly fountain pen.
As a former teller I can honestly say you can use blue ink to write checks. We saw checks written with all colors of the rainbow. I prefer to use blue ink, especially on legal documents because you can easily spot the original. Enjoy you fountain pen journey. That last blue ink was absolutely beautiful.
Welcome to the fabulous fountain pen rabbit hole! I just started a year ago and I have been obsessed. Lamy Safaris were some of the first few pens I got in this hobby and it’s fun to see you just getting started..enjoy!!!
I love the LAMY Safari. My grail pen for a while was a LAMY 2000 until I finally got one last year or so. The gold nib of the 2000 on Rhodia paper is *so* smooth.
This reminds me of how I love learning what my friends are nerdy about. For example, I have a friend who grows giant pumpkins competitively. Yes, that’s a thing.
My wife is really good at calligraphy you can get calligraphy fountain pen sets that come with all sorts of tips (have bought her so many different pens over the years 😂) you should check it out i think you would enjoy it there is all sorts of tutorials for it.
I dont know about other countries but in germany its kind of a tradition that when you enter elementary school, you get a fountain pen as your first actual pen after learning with a pencil. And i can assure you that most if not all students in germany had a pelikan pen in some way or form.
I have 2 Lamy Vistas (clear versions of the safari) and I love them both. I tend to to Noodler’s Bad Black Moccasin in my pilot metropolitan, Noodler’s gruene cactus eel (I may have used the wrong name there) in one of my Lamy vistas, and Diamine wild strawberry in my other vista. I’ve found that those three colors make taking notes (I’m a college student) much easier. I love fountain pens and like to see others getting into them. Best of luck!
Excellent! As an FP enthusiast myself, it was fun watching your journey, and the lessons learned. There's much more i could add, but you've found what makes you happy, and that is ideal.
If I didn't have a couple pens that were hand-made by my father in law, I'd totally get a personal fountain pen as well. I've honestly always loved fountain pens since about 3rd grade when I'd first been exposed to them, but as someone that barely ever writes anything not on computers, I just keep the very pretty pens that my father-in-law made in my purse, sadly mostly used for filling out medical documents.
The lamys are a little more mass produced and a little less consistent than the pelikans. You can get a new nib section for the pelikan (whole thing just twists out of the pen) and bump up a size. Plus, the lamy has the coated nibs. I find them to be smoother than non coated. Really comes down to preference. Keep trying. You’ll be there and you’ll enjoy it.
You can also hone your nib points. Apparently, even expensive nibs aren't always cut perfectly, and you may need to polish the point. I bought a 50 dollar pen that is pretty much useless with how bad the nib point is.
Some kids these days will never experience writing in cursive and that really bothers me. Once it becomes your natural writing style, it can be extremely relaxing. Even if you're just writing a short note to someone.
I have a set from a bank in a wooden case that I found at my grandmother’s estate. It’s a ballpoint pen and a mechanical pencil, both with wooden handles. I modded the pen with a pilot G2 ink canister and writing tip. The original canister that was in it was dry. I use the set to do sketches and outlines because it’s comfortable to hold. Wish I could carry it everywhere.
Soon Tyler will have a big ebony desk, with a green desklamp and a desktop wallpaper in high quality. Once he learned how to use the fountain pens, he will move on to the feather
Economy and banks failing, dozen eggs costing 10 bucks, and Tyler’s playing around with fountain pens that cost multiple hundreds of dollars. What a world
Fountain Pens were a symbol of coolness in one of my schools to the point that having a ball point pen would cause you to get mocked, I feel like my pen was better then that expensive one
The price of a fountain pen does not really means that it will write smooth… you can get a Lamy Safari (around 30$) or a Pilot Metropolitan (even cheaper) or a TWSBI and those pens are not really expensive and they are great to write with… also the ink and the paper plays a great role… and also what make the contact with the paper is the tip… not the nib… the nib is the entire metal part and the tip is the iridium ball… Baystate Blue is awesome!! But it is hard to clean!! Great video!!
I'm guessing that really was your question answered on the Goulet Pens Pencast last week. I wondered when one came up from The Real Tyler Tube, I hadn't seen this video yet. Welcome to the club man, the fountain pen rabbit hole really never ends.
I love when you said you feel like a nerd! Bc like i feel like that with my fountain pens too. I also recently discovered that vanness pens sells something that helps with drier inks it is call Vanness White lightning. It is freaking amazing!!! It like lubricates, the drier inks. A small drop goes a LONG way! Idk how else to describe it!! I too am a Lamy Safari medium nib lover. I have six of them. I love Diamine inks too bc they are so lubricated is the best way i can describe them. I found that noodler’s inks are watery but work and are designed bc for crappy papers but some stain so bad. I also have no problem mixing inks if i dont like the color. I recently bought off amazon a three pack of pilot iroshizuku inks. Every youtuber said if you put this ink a pen and your pen doesnt write its the pen. The ink is super nice it is lubricated and I understand what they mean when they say if the pen doesnt work with this pen its the pens problem. Bc Lamy safari’s are drier writers but with pilot’s iroshizuku line it is amazing. I really like the color kon-peki it is more of a cyan blue. It is also amazing when i added to Lamy’s mango color it was to light for me to write with and a little drier than i liked so i added some kon-peki and made a tealy color and it is amazing not. Also i found i prefer to use a converter bc i can push the ink down when getting low. But i fill with a blunt tip syringe so much easier and cleaner!! Good luck in your journey pen friend!!
My daily user is a Pilot Namiki Falcon with Diamine Oxblood ink. It's probably the most affordable gold nib fountain pen out there (around $200). The gold nib really does make a noticeable difference. It has some nice flex without getting scratchy.
If the only criteria is "affordability", one can still get a vintage Parker 45 with 14k nib for no more than $80 quite easily. Agree with you about gold. My daily writer is a 14k 70s Soyuz, made in Leningrad. A beautiful pen that writes with no scratch whatsoever.
The Falcon is a great pen. I'm a big fan of the Pilot e95s. That fingernail nib is so elegant. And the design is really clever - from pocket pen to full-size just by posting.
Tyler getting really into fountain pens is the biggest plot twist of the century
Fountain pens can be fun… the Amazon basics one ( had mine for a few years) is amazing. It’s a cl9ne of course.. a good clone at that.. for the money?? It’s so hard to beat
Next thing we know he'll be critiquing Omega watches
what? how does that even make sense.
Yeah know... I bought the basics one from his video, and really like it... guess I'm joining him in this rabbit hole..
@@AJ_ghdhejsien the pilot metropolitan is a solid one also.. it’s more nimble. The pilot varsity is my on the go pen. They don’t dry out
Billions of things to watch online. But I wanted to watch this. I genuinely want to see Tyler’s favourite pen.
What a channel
Man's out in his garage opining on the viscosity of fountain pen ink with old pasta stuck to the door and a burning hatred of pickles in his heart.
Never change, Tyler.
Where's the pasta??
@@erichlee3305 on the papers right behind his head and scattered in other random spots
Pickles suck!
Pretty sure thats the most careful and gentle tyler has ever handled packaging. Including the plastic around the pen😂
That Lamy pen is the absolute standard for every German child going into elementary school. Such a classic. Both Pelikan and Lamy are German brands btw. Kinda like Coca-Cola versus Pepsi but for fountain pens, they are HUGE over here.
Germany sounds like the place to be
I low key love how passionate you are about this man. Like I would legit go for more pen videos.
Once the nib breaks in it will be smoother. The important thing about fountain pens is not to let people use them. I’ve had people drop mine and ruin the nib. And some people bear down hard when writing which isn’t good for the nib.
Welcome to the fountain pen community Tyler!
Edit: Tyler, you need to look into nibmeisters, they can make almost any pen write smoother than glass, that Pelikan would be a good one to send off to one for tuning.
In Germany in school fountain pens were what every kid uses. This brings back many memories and the Lamy is the one most of us used :)
Waiting for Tyler to start a new channel: "Tyler Pen Review" where he wears a shirt that says "PEN" "Fountain Pen"
Oh damn! Baystate Blue is epic. Looks amazing but will delcare any object which it touches to now be forever Baystate Blue
i learned the hard way lmao
I'm wondering if Tyler can write in cursive. That's where a fountain pen really shines.
Also, perhaps he should try making paper some time...
That would be really interesting to watch!
He cant even do a normal g so i doubt 😅
He writes like a four-year old.
It brought me so much joy to watch you fall in love with fountain pens! I fell down the rabbit hole a few years ago so it was fun to watch you nerd out over them. Also, starting right out of the gate with Baystate Blue!? You’re a brave soul. That stuff will stain anything!
If you feel like venturing further down the rabbit hole I bet you’d like Monteverde ink- they’re lubricated so they write super smooth!
Is that made by Montblanc?
Nope. Monteverde is its own company (under Yafa).
Usually, banks and lawyers offices give out blue pens because it is harder to forge a blue signature than a black one. So blue is actually the preferred ink color for signing checks and official documents. Sometimes blue is required for a signature to be official.
Legal documents still require black ink, while banks prefer blue.
If you like Noodlers but want a smoother black try their Eel Black. It's lubricated and is a very well behaved ink. Also, look into an ink syringe for filling and cleaning your converters. It will save you from Baystate Blue fingers, clothes, desks, floors...
One of the hobbies my grandfather picked up was pen making. He’s given me some really nice fountain pens that are hand turned and made out of nice wood.
What a great writing experience
I guarantee that is THE first time a Pelikan pen has been filled on a shop towel atop a dirty piece of plywood. That being said... I am now a pen nerd.
No. Actually it's not. I have used mine to mark cut marks on wood.
And yet it’s absolutely the right kind of place to fill a pen with Baystate Blue-it’s known as the single most impossible to remove ink in the history of mankind.
In other words, that spot on the table is a permanent feature of the channel now!
Tyler not only read the directions, he watched videos to prepare for this. Truly a first.
Hold your judgement…. He can’t even say lamy lol
Tyler, if you’re beginning a dive into fountain pens, you have to try my personal favourite. That being the Parker Sonnet. Scrivener are a very good brand also. Maybe, providing you’re willing to put a little investment into it, buy a selection and put them through a few tests to find which is your personal selection.
Parker fountain pens are what I thought was considered the top brand
i was surprised he didn't go with a parker
I've been using a Parker fountain pen all my life. Even a 30 dollar Parker pen is awesome, but a Sonnet is really sweet. I tend to have my Parker pens stolen at work :(, so I'm using a Parker Jotter now. The Parker ink comes in cartridges which are really easy and clean to refill.
Buy a Parker if you want to use a fountain pen!
My first experience with a fountain pen was in 6th grade. We were learning calligraphy and we were all given fountain pens to practice with. I loved it! I've been a fan of them ever since. Good vid, Tyler!
Learning calligraphy was exactly what I thought of when I first started watching this video. I'd love to learn it again. It might improve my overall handwriting if I got back into it.
I have never been so invested in someone else's journey into fountain pens. I am absolutely loving this plot twist.
Tyler you should use Gel pens when writing checks, they can't be removed with Acetone like normal ink does when washed. Might be worth a future video!
You clearly haven’t heard of Noodler’s inks. There’s a legendary man in Massachusetts who made a whole line of fountain pen inks in response to an mit student proving he could remove the old fraud proof formula with a laser. So now there are inks for fountain pens that not only resist chemicals, but also lasers.
I use Noodlers Heart of Darkness for legal signatures.
I’m 49 and I remember we had to do ‘exams’ using a fountain pen in primary school: especially in joint (cursive) lol. Still love how it feels when you get a good pen. Also wrote with Quill ! 😂 xx
This man has sold me on more things i dont need than anyone else 😂
You can't go wrong with Lamy , beside the fact that they use proprietary cartriges (hackable) .
I went to school in France and french schools in other countries, where using fountain pens is encouraged as well as proper calligraphy is also tought from a very young age where print characters are ( or at least were) forbidden! As we were so many in one classroom, it was easy to test a large variety of pens from classsmates in order to discover new or better ones.
Other classics brands are : Parker, Waterman, Creeks (stubby and glamorous) , Pilot ,Schaeffer , Bic and Faber Castell.
Different writing style require different pen , you can find low and high flow as well as soft or hard nibs.
The fountain pen hole is real and very easy to get sucked into. There's a whole side of TH-cam that is just reviews for them. It's amazing!
I remember the original video and how funny it was that you loved the fountain pen after talking mad trash about it before you tried it lol. That was beyond funny. =D
cant wait for the next video with him trying the $2k+ gold tips lol
Tyler has graduated to the finer things in life! can't wait to see him review brushes and oil paint.
"Sell me this pen..."
Tyler - "Hold my beer!"
I am 100% behind you reviewing some fancy grownup stuff like this!! An automatic watch perhaps? ;)
It would have been funny if Tyler had beautiful handwriting, but he writes exactly how I'm sure we all expected
Try Noodlers Apache Sunset. The flow of the ink creates a gradient effect from orange to red depending on how heavy you write. Really beautiful.
I'm very happy for you in finding everything you want in a pen. Feels like a big day
Dudes spending a couple hundred dollars on pens and ink, but writes like my 5 year old. 😂
Fountain pens are such a wonderful way to write with. They're so much smoother than ball-points and "jam" so much less
$145 is probably, collectively, the most I’ve ever spent on pens in my life
Hi Tyler. Look into heavier pens. Usually pens made out of metals like aluminium, titanium, stainless, brass or copper. I'm using Gravitas Pocket Pen made out of copper (copper is the densest of all metals used for pens) and it's something else. It not only affects the writing experience, it also interacts with other senses like touch, smell (copper and brass pens smell like coins) and temperature difference. Some metal pens (mostly brass and copper) will patina over time.
The Pelican will "write in". The more expensive fountain pens tend to have more gold in the nib and as you write, it shaves off a little bit of that. Eventually giving you a "customized" nip tip that will allow for a much smoother writing experience.
But yes, the Lamy Safari is an excellent pen and when I went to school in Germany it was a bit of a battle between the Lamy kids and the ones that used the Pelican school fountain pen.
Apparently the M205 only comes with steel nibs.
you should try to stop moving the pen, keeping contact with the paper to see if this pen is leaking ink on the paper. Its one of the required quality to write a long text
Not sure if fountain pens are still a thing in Europe but 20 +yrs ago when i was in school that was pretty much the standard. Fountain pens are amazing, as long as you dont ruin the nib and let it dry out they are bullet proof. Btw Lamy is also an incredible fountain pen brand. They have extremely affordable amazing pens.
“ are still a thing”… it’s Europe.. they just discovered wifi… I doubt gel pens are even discovered yet over there 😆😆
Tyler has turned into a pen nerd!!
Is it time yet to dunk him into the school toilet? Nööööörd
I’ll call him a pen nerd when he gets himself a Montblanc.
lol yeah i think him and his boyfriend gonna buy a tesla next haha.
I'll call him a pen nerd when he gets himself an Omas, Montegrappa, high end Montblanc, or a Namiki. Wait, I have those 😬
My most expensive Pen was a Lamy safari, that pen started the obsession.
Congratulations! I've been looking into buying a Lamy as well, because of the variety of different nibs available, so I'm glad to see you're happy with yours. I actually started looking into pens again because of you, which is about the last thing I would have expected!
I like my metro.. it’s so solid 😆😆
You'll pretty quickly find that your writing is much neater and easier to read once you find the right pen. Happy for you to have made this discovery.
Highly recommend the muji aluminum fountain pen, it’s cheap and it works amazing. It’s about the size of a normal pen with a cap, and is in my opinion the best more budget friendly fountain pen.
4:35 you can honestly hear the difference or hear how the pelican doesn’t really even make a sound while you can hear the other against the paper.
Most wholesome channel u might happen to come across, he keeps it real. Real guy real content
As a Brit watching an American discovering fountain pens for the first time is so adorable haha.
TYLER CHALLENGE. NEXT write a paragraph in cursive
If he ever tries a longhand letter in cursive with a fountain pen... He might wet his pants
Never understood “hate watching” until I found Tyler.
So you're telling me the guy who like chicken wings and kids food is really into fancy pens thats a plot twist
As a former teller I can honestly say you can use blue ink to write checks. We saw checks written with all colors of the rainbow. I prefer to use blue ink, especially on legal documents because you can easily spot the original. Enjoy you fountain pen journey. That last blue ink was absolutely beautiful.
Welcome to the fabulous fountain pen rabbit hole! I just started a year ago and I have been obsessed. Lamy Safaris were some of the first few pens I got in this hobby and it’s fun to see you just getting started..enjoy!!!
Cries in Left-Handedness. We southpaws push the pen rather than pull it to write, which makes fountain pens a Dark Souls level challenge.
I love the LAMY Safari. My grail pen for a while was a LAMY 2000 until I finally got one last year or so. The gold nib of the 2000 on Rhodia paper is *so* smooth.
I like how you can even hear the difference. Like with the amazon basics pen you can hear the pen scratching the paper but with the Pelikan, nothing.
This reminds me of how I love learning what my friends are nerdy about. For example, I have a friend who grows giant pumpkins competitively. Yes, that’s a thing.
My wife is really good at calligraphy you can get calligraphy fountain pen sets that come with all sorts of tips (have bought her so many different pens over the years 😂) you should check it out i think you would enjoy it there is all sorts of tutorials for it.
I use the Lamy pen just like you have daily. So much so, the paint is about 40% worn off. It has been my all time favorite.
I dont know about other countries but in germany its kind of a tradition that when you enter elementary school, you get a fountain pen as your first actual pen after learning with a pencil. And i can assure you that most if not all students in germany had a pelikan pen in some way or form.
Pretty soon, Tyler is going to be live on TikTok writing peoples names for gifts 🤣
Tyler discovers calligraphy next.
I have 2 Lamy Vistas (clear versions of the safari) and I love them both. I tend to to Noodler’s Bad Black Moccasin in my pilot metropolitan, Noodler’s gruene cactus eel (I may have used the wrong name there) in one of my Lamy vistas, and Diamine wild strawberry in my other vista. I’ve found that those three colors make taking notes (I’m a college student) much easier. I love fountain pens and like to see others getting into them. Best of luck!
I love that youve unknowingly found a niche hobby purely by ragging on it, and youre humble about it. Level 10 Human-ing!
Excellent! As an FP enthusiast myself, it was fun watching your journey, and the lessons learned. There's much more i could add, but you've found what makes you happy, and that is ideal.
If I didn't have a couple pens that were hand-made by my father in law, I'd totally get a personal fountain pen as well. I've honestly always loved fountain pens since about 3rd grade when I'd first been exposed to them, but as someone that barely ever writes anything not on computers, I just keep the very pretty pens that my father-in-law made in my purse, sadly mostly used for filling out medical documents.
Banks prefer blue because it's easier to verify that the signature is legitimate and the documents are original when they're signed in blue ink.
At this point now I'll happily watch whatever you upload, something about this channel I love
The lamys are a little more mass produced and a little less consistent than the pelikans. You can get a new nib section for the pelikan (whole thing just twists out of the pen) and bump up a size. Plus, the lamy has the coated nibs. I find them to be smoother than non coated. Really comes down to preference. Keep trying. You’ll be there and you’ll enjoy it.
You can also hone your nib points. Apparently, even expensive nibs aren't always cut perfectly, and you may need to polish the point. I bought a 50 dollar pen that is pretty much useless with how bad the nib point is.
Dude this happened to me with power tools; I have no need for them but I fell down such a rabbit hole and now have multiple Milwaukee power tools 😂
I feel you. Hardware stores are dangerous places for my money to the point where I'll pull cash and leave my card in the car.
Some kids these days will never experience writing in cursive and that really bothers me. Once it becomes your natural writing style, it can be extremely relaxing. Even if you're just writing a short note to someone.
*just sitting here waiting for Tyler to pull out the machete or the blow torch*
I have a set from a bank in a wooden case that I found at my grandmother’s estate. It’s a ballpoint pen and a mechanical pencil, both with wooden handles. I modded the pen with a pilot G2 ink canister and writing tip. The original canister that was in it was dry. I use the set to do sketches and outlines because it’s comfortable to hold. Wish I could carry it everywhere.
Soon Tyler will have a big ebony desk, with a green desklamp and a desktop wallpaper in high quality.
Once he learned how to use the fountain pens, he will move on to the feather
I have had a Pelikan M800 for close to 30 years. It never fails to put ink on the paper, no matter how long it has sat unused.
I've heard that signing documents with blue ink is preferable over black because it's harder to counterfeit the color blue.
So good to see people getting into fountain pens. Personally I daily drive a Gravitas Pocket pen. Small, compact and beautiful to write with.
The wide nib is very tricky to get saturation to the outside edges , accounts for why the medium is a bit smoother
Economy and banks failing, dozen eggs costing 10 bucks, and Tyler’s playing around with fountain pens that cost multiple hundreds of dollars. What a world
Bread and Circus.
Is tyler becoming a gentleman of leisure and class?
I hated writing ever since school but once I got myself a fountain pen 8 years back it's only pen I've been using, such joy to use it
Wait until Tyler finds out about glass dip pens
I've got a couple of pens from the 1950s and one from the 30s, they are beautiful writers even today.
This is what we call character development
Fountain Pens were a symbol of coolness in one of my schools to the point that having a ball point pen would cause you to get mocked, I feel like my pen was better then that expensive one
Next episode Tyler tries out ink blotters and monocles.
Tyler might accidentally get a new job, taking his fountain pen and filling out applications just so he can write with it.😂
Lamy Studio Piano Black 😌 Iykyk
The price of a fountain pen does not really means that it will write smooth… you can get a Lamy Safari (around 30$) or a Pilot Metropolitan (even cheaper) or a TWSBI and those pens are not really expensive and they are great to write with… also the ink and the paper plays a great role… and also what make the contact with the paper is the tip… not the nib… the nib is the entire metal part and the tip is the iridium ball… Baystate Blue is awesome!! But it is hard to clean!! Great video!!
Those Lamy pens bring me back. Kids in school used to swap parts for different colours 25 years ago.
No idea what happened to mine.
I bought a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen after your last video. I LOVE it, can't believe I've been missing out on these for so long!
Solid choice for sure.. twisby is another common one.. my favorites ( for kick around or long term storage) is the varsity.. they don’t dry out lol..
I'm guessing that really was your question answered on the Goulet Pens Pencast last week. I wondered when one came up from The Real Tyler Tube, I hadn't seen this video yet. Welcome to the club man, the fountain pen rabbit hole really never ends.
I love when you said you feel like a nerd! Bc like i feel like that with my fountain pens too. I also recently discovered that vanness pens sells something that helps with drier inks it is call Vanness White lightning. It is freaking amazing!!! It like lubricates, the drier inks. A small drop goes a LONG way! Idk how else to describe it!! I too am a Lamy Safari medium nib lover. I have six of them. I love Diamine inks too bc they are so lubricated is the best way i can describe them. I found that noodler’s inks are watery but work and are designed bc for crappy papers but some stain so bad. I also have no problem mixing inks if i dont like the color. I recently bought off amazon a three pack of pilot iroshizuku inks. Every youtuber said if you put this ink a pen and your pen doesnt write its the pen. The ink is super nice it is lubricated and I understand what they mean when they say if the pen doesnt work with this pen its the pens problem. Bc Lamy safari’s are drier writers but with pilot’s iroshizuku line it is amazing. I really like the color kon-peki it is more of a cyan blue. It is also amazing when i added to Lamy’s mango color it was to light for me to write with and a little drier than i liked so i added some kon-peki and made a tealy color and it is amazing not. Also i found i prefer to use a converter bc i can push the ink down when getting low. But i fill with a blunt tip syringe so much easier and cleaner!! Good luck in your journey pen friend!!
My daily user is a Pilot Namiki Falcon with Diamine Oxblood ink. It's probably the most affordable gold nib fountain pen out there (around $200). The gold nib really does make a noticeable difference. It has some nice flex without getting scratchy.
If the only criteria is "affordability", one can still get a vintage Parker 45 with 14k nib for no more than $80 quite easily. Agree with you about gold. My daily writer is a 14k 70s Soyuz, made in Leningrad. A beautiful pen that writes with no scratch whatsoever.
The Falcon is a great pen. I'm a big fan of the Pilot e95s. That fingernail nib is so elegant. And the design is really clever - from pocket pen to full-size just by posting.
Liking the second channel content lately.
If you want to do more fountain pen videos, I'd be so down for it!
With the penmanship of a toddler, Tyler tests fountain pens haha.
Tyler my wife thinks I’m crazy for watching 12 minutes of a guy trying out a pen but I’m too dedicated to you Tyler is a God of TH-cam ❤️
For anything professional, black and blue ink are both acceptable. So you could totally sign checks with blue ink.