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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
If you are in the look out for the smoothest writing experience i would recommend a Pilot Vanishing Point with broad or if you have the patience, a Pilot Custom 74 with an SM nib from japan. The latter will be the softest and smoothest writing experience you will get without braking the bank that much, it will absolutely blow you away.
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
That is in a way sureal for me, because this is a stable of pens in schools here in germany. Pupils of my age (50) know this very well. Almost everybody had it one time. And up to this day, I as a teacher see this one sometimes. But it is sad to say, but pupils today prefer biros. They produce a worse writing and that coincides with the loss of desire to write nicely. It becomes more and more difficult to decipher the writing of pupils … 😭
It looks like your black Lamy has a black nib. If so, the writing experience will be a bit different as the nib is coated. I like the experience and often prefer a black coated nib, but that’s a personal preference.
I think you can get lost finding the right pen and the right Ink for your personal preference and for me , I had Waterman, Montblanc Meisterstück and many Lamys but actually sometimes the cheap ones are the better for my taste. I think the most stuff I wrote was with a very soft nibbed Pelikan Script. But I ended up mixing my own Ink 4/5 4001 Dark Green and 1/5 4001 Black. It is crazy what you do when you fall into the world of fountain pens
I really like the Safari. I also own LamyAl-Stars, Lamy Lx, Lamy Aions, a Lamy Studio and a couple of Lamy Scalas. The Studio feels amazing in the hand and people really like it. I prefer the Scala. I think it is an amazing pen. Looks very nice, feels great in the hand and is simply just very well made. If you want one really nice pen for say business I think the Scala is the perfect pen.
Gold nibs are actually not that expensive and you will definitely notice a step up in smoothness with gold nibs, you can find them for like 200-300$ check out the Lamy 2000 for example
Tyler, if you contact the supplier of the first pen and explain you got the pen with the wrong nib, they should be able to supply you with a broader nib.
i forgot about lamy pens! they were great coz if you stand it on end, if you knock it over so it falls on to its clip, it flips over. but I always get parker pens when i used to get fountain pens
Video idea: Ever heard the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword?" You could test that using the katana vs pens to determine the winner in various tests. Bet you could fire pens out of a crossbow.
Glad you like the Safaris and noticed you don't need to spend 100+ Dollars for a very good fountain pen. Personally I prefer round grip sections over the triangular ones like on the Safari. Your black Safari feeling a little scratchier than the blue one could be just the nib. It doesn't need to be the ink. You can swap the nibs to test this. My experience with Lamy nibs bought without a pen is so so. Sometimes your lucky, sometimes your not. But apparently they test write all pens before they leave the factory, so the pens should be alright.
I never cared about pens and always just bought the cheapest ones, like the Bic ones. But one day I got my hands on a fisher space pen and now it's the only one I ever use. Multiples in fact. In my car, in my home office, in my office bag, in my bug out bag, etc... This is a pen you can count on in any situation, unlike regular pens that just stop working after not using them for a little while. Every other pen just went straight to the trash where it belongs, except the ones that can fit a space mine...
He's about the last person I'd expect to become a pen nerd, but I'm glad for him and it's gotten me back into pens too for the first time since high school.
This is cool and all but have you tried the plug-in electric version of this pen? It’s made by the same company that makes the electric carpenters hammer you used in previous videos.
Oh Tyler.... you have fallen down the rabbit hole! Once you start, you never want to go back! Good luck on your fountain pen journey, and may you not get too obsessed. I have been a fountain pen collector and user for 4-5 years, and I don't regret it. HOWEVER, I have to make sure I use RESTRAINT (or go broke)! It is a good thing to play with different inks- you'll have fun without buying a ton of pens and spending too much too fast! Keep writing!
Why this makes me happy idk but great rabbit hole the lamy safari was my first fountain pen too!! With black noodlers ink too!! I had the fine nib but I loved it too for the same reasons and the flex the nib had is epic
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
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!
Billions of things to watch online. But I wanted to watch this. I genuinely want to see Tyler’s favourite pen.
What a channel
Pretty sure thats the most careful and gentle tyler has ever handled packaging. Including the plastic around the pen😂
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.
I low key love how passionate you are about this man. Like I would legit go for more pen videos.
Waiting for Tyler to start a new channel: "Tyler Pen Review" where he wears a shirt that says "PEN" "Fountain Pen"
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
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.
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!
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
I have never been so invested in someone else's journey into fountain pens. I am absolutely loving this plot twist.
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
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.
It would have been funny if Tyler had beautiful handwriting, but he writes exactly how I'm sure we all expected
Tyler has graduated to the finer things in life! can't wait to see him review brushes and oil paint.
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.
cant wait for the next video with him trying the $2k+ gold tips lol
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.
I'm very happy for you in finding everything you want in a pen. Feels like a big day
I am 100% behind you reviewing some fancy grownup stuff like this!! An automatic watch perhaps? ;)
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.
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
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.
Fountain pens are such a wonderful way to write with. They're so much smoother than ball-points and "jam" so much less
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.
So you're telling me the guy who like chicken wings and kids food is really into fancy pens thats a plot twist
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$145 is probably, collectively, the most I’ve ever spent on pens in my life
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 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!
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 😆😆
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.
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
At this point now I'll happily watch whatever you upload, something about this channel I love
Dudes spending a couple hundred dollars on pens and ink, but writes like my 5 year old. 😂
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.
I love that youve unknowingly found a niche hobby purely by ragging on it, and youre humble about it. Level 10 Human-ing!
Next episode Tyler tries out ink blotters and monocles.
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.
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.
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 just love how excited and interested Tyler bacame cuz of this ❤
Tyler might accidentally get a new job, taking his fountain pen and filling out applications just so he can write with it.😂
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
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.
So good to see people getting into fountain pens. Personally I daily drive a Gravitas Pocket pen. Small, compact and beautiful to write with.
With the penmanship of a toddler, Tyler tests fountain pens haha.
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.
Is tyler becoming a gentleman of leisure and class?
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
I've got a couple of pens from the 1950s and one from the 30s, they are beautiful writers even today.
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.
I've heard that signing documents with blue ink is preferable over black because it's harder to counterfeit the color blue.
Never understood “hate watching” until I found Tyler.
If you are in the look out for the smoothest writing experience i would recommend a Pilot Vanishing Point with broad or if you have the patience, a Pilot Custom 74 with an SM nib from japan. The latter will be the softest and smoothest writing experience you will get without braking the bank that much, it will absolutely blow you away.
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.
I got one 2 weeks ago, and I bought it for 20 bucks. Amazing and I love writing with it
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 ❤️
That is in a way sureal for me, because this is a stable of pens in schools here in germany.
Pupils of my age (50) know this very well. Almost everybody had it one time.
And up to this day, I as a teacher see this one sometimes. But it is sad to say, but pupils today prefer biros. They produce a worse writing and that coincides with the loss of desire to write nicely.
It becomes more and more difficult to decipher the writing of pupils … 😭
When a man gets excited about a pen and a box with magnets. 😅
This is the only guy that can make a 12 minute long video about a single pen.
2:04 tell me you’re getting old without telling me you’re getting old lol
For anything professional, black and blue ink are both acceptable. So you could totally sign checks with blue ink.
It looks like your black Lamy has a black nib. If so, the writing experience will be a bit different as the nib is coated. I like the experience and often prefer a black coated nib, but that’s a personal preference.
I think you can get lost finding the right pen and the right Ink for your personal preference and for me , I had Waterman, Montblanc Meisterstück and many Lamys but actually sometimes the cheap ones are the better for my taste. I think the most stuff I wrote was with a very soft nibbed Pelikan Script. But I ended up mixing my own Ink 4/5 4001 Dark Green and 1/5 4001 Black. It is crazy what you do when you fall into the world of fountain pens
I'm surprised he didn't get some big calligraphy set with like 100 nibs. It would have blown his mind lmao.
I really like the Safari. I also own LamyAl-Stars, Lamy Lx, Lamy Aions, a Lamy Studio and a couple of Lamy Scalas. The Studio feels amazing in the hand and people really like it. I prefer the Scala. I think it is an amazing pen. Looks very nice, feels great in the hand and is simply just very well made. If you want one really nice pen for say business I think the Scala is the perfect pen.
Gold nibs are actually not that expensive and you will definitely notice a step up in smoothness with gold nibs, you can find them for like 200-300$ check out the Lamy 2000 for example
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.
Huh, I didn't know pelican made High Quality stuff, they mainly sell those 0.05 cent pencils in my country.
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..
Tyler, if you contact the supplier of the first pen and explain you got the pen with the wrong nib, they should be able to supply you with a broader nib.
Tyler already has the Amish beard, hat and suspenders. Now he can write like he's living in the 1800s.
next up, quill
i forgot about lamy pens! they were great coz if you stand it on end, if you knock it over so it falls on to its clip, it flips over.
but I always get parker pens when i used to get fountain pens
This is what we call character development
I found this to be genuinely fascinating
We got em boys!! he took the plunge into the fountain pen world
His new hobby will be making his own pens now. Next thing you know, he'll be collecting feathers or maybe wood turning his pens...
Video idea: Ever heard the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword?" You could test that using the katana vs pens to determine the winner in various tests. Bet you could fire pens out of a crossbow.
You can sign checks in blue. At my bank they have pens on the counter as I'd assume all banks do for you to sign checks and they all have blue ink
This is a video I never thought I’d see Tyler make 😂
usually, you can mix the same brand ink to create your own colors, but consult with that company
Glad you like the Safaris and noticed you don't need to spend 100+ Dollars for a very good fountain pen.
Personally I prefer round grip sections over the triangular ones like on the Safari.
Your black Safari feeling a little scratchier than the blue one could be just the nib. It doesn't need to be the ink. You can swap the nibs to test this. My experience with Lamy nibs bought without a pen is so so. Sometimes your lucky, sometimes your not. But apparently they test write all pens before they leave the factory, so the pens should be alright.
I never cared about pens and always just bought the cheapest ones, like the Bic ones. But one day I got my hands on a fisher space pen and now it's the only one I ever use. Multiples in fact. In my car, in my home office, in my office bag, in my bug out bag, etc...
This is a pen you can count on in any situation, unlike regular pens that just stop working after not using them for a little while. Every other pen just went straight to the trash where it belongs, except the ones that can fit a space mine...
Lamy Studio Piano Black 😌 Iykyk
He’s so happy 😀
He's about the last person I'd expect to become a pen nerd, but I'm glad for him and it's gotten me back into pens too for the first time since high school.
This is cool and all but have you tried the plug-in electric version of this pen? It’s made by the same company that makes the electric carpenters hammer you used in previous videos.
Oh Tyler.... you have fallen down the rabbit hole! Once you start, you never want to go back! Good luck on your fountain pen journey, and may you not get too obsessed. I have been a fountain pen collector and user for 4-5 years, and I don't regret it. HOWEVER, I have to make sure I use RESTRAINT (or go broke)! It is a good thing to play with different inks- you'll have fun without buying a ton of pens and spending too much too fast! Keep writing!
*just sitting here waiting for Tyler to pull out the machete or the blow torch*
I used to have a safari and I loved it. I miss that pen 😢
Schon designs and a titanium nib could make it through at least a dozen zombie heads
Why this makes me happy idk but great rabbit hole the lamy safari was my first fountain pen too!! With black noodlers ink too!! I had the fine nib but I loved it too for the same reasons and the flex the nib had is epic