It looks like there's some line variation on the Faber-Castell. I'm not familiar with the pen. Is it a flex nib? Gold perhaps? (I now see that you have a 1h video on it. I'll check it out.) oh, it looks like you were looking for it. It's titled "First impressions - Faber-Castlell Osmia 882". (some sites don't like posting links)
I can foresee TH-cam videos on this channel for at least 20 more years, so you’ll certainly be remembered as one of the “Top tier TH-camrs” in FP world ! With my sizable collection of affordable watches which is growing by the day, I May end up having a room full of affordable watches when I retire, so I may start my TH-cam journey and be remembered as “yet another budget watch TH-camr” !
I haven't thought about the end to this channel yet. I've only just turned 49, so I think there is a lot of time yet. I don't yet know the end game. I actually do follow one or two watch TH-camrs, even though I only own one watch myself. I'd be interested to see what you produce.
Fun that you gave Fran Blanche a shout out :) I blame her for sending me down the fountain pen rabbit hole! I found her channel a decade ago while looking at videos about pipe organs... As an amateur musician with a love of vintage electronics, hers is still one of my favorite channels :) Motorcycles, typewriters, airplanes, kitschy 1970s toys... lots of shared interests! Anyway, at one point she did a video about fountain pens, and I ordered a Safari and a Metro that week. TH-cam, for all its faults, is a treasure trove of great stuff! Your channel is in my list next to folks with millions of subscribers... Don't sell yourself short. Great stuff Mister Squirrel!
It is easy to see that you will be remembered fondly by generations of students who have been fortunate enough to have you as a teacher. My (grown) daughters and my grandchildren love spending time with me, and my wife, and fortunately we all live in the same area and see them all the time. That is enough of a legacy for me. FYI, I am doing my best to turn as many of them as possible into fountain pen lovers. 😁 BTW, "peche" with the carat mark over the e is pronounced simply "pesh" and is French for peach. To make things more confusing, the same word with the same carat mark means fishing (third person of pecher), but the word for fish the creature is poisson. I do not actually speak French so that may not all be perfectly accurate; I just took a couple of courses long, long ago.
Thank you for both! Yes, I'm satisfied to be remembered by the people in my life. I don't need anything fancy. And interesting about the dual uses of the word in French. I suspect they mean "peach" with the ink, based on the color.
I hope youtube gives the chance to youtubers to decide between deleting or not their videos once they pass away or something to preserve their legacy because I do find your videos valuable. You mentioned to Honor Veterans and yes we owe them, but you also mentioned their families. Last week,I thanked a Veteran for his service and his wife smiled and I thanked her too...she looked at me and almost cried...families go through so much indeed. Take care and thank you for your legacy 😊
TH-cam is a wealth of data for future historians. And there is valuable stuff here. I agree: I hope TH-cam keeps these videos. You're right: families sacrifice a lot as well and deserve our thanks as well.
The Lamy Flame and Lamy 2000 Steel are firm personal favourites. Pilot,Monteverde,Lamy and Esterbrook,Faber-Castelle ,Pelikan ar e my favourite brands. From large ink bottles,you can fill,smaller more portable ones. Glad to see you are staying put and not joining the growing list of celebrities leaving the United States. Do you read Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective series? I think the main difference you make, is bringing to our attention things that we would otherwise not know about. That in my opinion,is important. My parents requested their ashes be scattered on a small mountain out the back of their property( with permission of local authorities). They left no physical evidence (gravestones) of their existence. A lot of service men and women are injured or killed on the way to work or in training accidents. You give up a lot of personal freedoms to serve in the military.
I have heard for the Rebus detective series but have not read it. And, no, I'm not leaving my country. I deliberately kept election talk out of this video, but I'm sticking around to help the US pick up the pieces when it becomes sane again. You are right about those who serve: many deaths are in service and often not glamorous.
1. I can't worry about leaving a legacy. I have to focus on getting through the day. 2. Being against war, I look askance at any glorification of soldiers. I know this makes me a bad person, but there you are.
I feel that my campaigns against wars are in favour of the individual soldiers who shouldn't be put at risk in stupid and immoral conflicts like Vietnam or Iraq, say (there's plenty to choose from). Gung ho jingoism is making life worse. Having grown up at a time of great unemployment, I know how hard the forces recruit like predators around kids who have few other options. So I can understand how young people can be suckered in to be cannon fodder, and don't usually blame the individuals. I would never thank anyone for their service; the last time US soldiers fought and enhanced the safety of the civilians was 1945.
I’m not a pacifist by any means. But I’m no fan of brazen militarism, jingoism and unnecessary wars either. I believe that wars ought to be only fought in self-defense, when attacked by another - not initiated as an aggressor on another nation. America has been, for decades, a hegemonic, warmongering aggressor around the world. Obviously, for the contemptible ruling elites in this country it’s always been so much more convenient to send other people’s expendable offspring to go fight and die in the myriad wicked wars America has started all around the world. Flag-waving ‘patriotism’ makes me nauseous. As does the rather forced homage to war veterans and soldiers on the various commemorative holidays. I don’t feel thankful to any American soldier for his/her supposed ‘service’ to the nation.
1. Daily life comes first. 2. Any sane person is against war. Sometimes they are needed because we don't live in a sane world. I don't blame the soldiers because the US government wants to misuse them in insane wars.
I’d add that the United States enjoys a unique geographical location where it never fears nor has ever faced (and never will) the risk of an armed invasion by a foreign foe. So, it has instead cavalierly waged myriad wars of choice overseas. And American soldiers haven’t always had to actually fight in combat situations themselves. America has fought countless proxy wars by arming, funding local foreign insurgents to fight and die for America. Today, American soldiers are deployed as part of unlawful occupation forces in different parts of the world. Not surprisingly, they are the legitimate targets of attack by locals who don’t want them in their country…
Hey, i would love to see your ink collections lately.. Can you please show your whole ink and your current favourites sorted by color... That would be great.. 😇
I appreciate what you say there about the ephemeral nature of digital content. I agree with your sentiments. I had a blogger page that had some watercolors that I had done with some notes. I hadn’t logged into it in a long time, but wanted to because I had made notes as to what pigments I had used. When I tried to log in I found that the page was gone. Apparently, google deleted it because of inactivity. I got no warning. They just deleted it. Google owns TH-cam too, so I suspect that if a channel has no activity from hits from other users, or from the content creator it will be deleted. I think that if a channel is receiving hits it will stay up. The channels popularity will keep it alive if it is generating revenue. It’s possible for any content to be forgotten eventually, so I wonder what will be kept for historical value? The internet really isn’t forever like I’ve heard some say. Popularity is the only thing that makes things persist. Popularity can be manipulated by promotion. Tastes change over time. What is popular today might not be popular tomorrow. There ain’t nothing like paper and ink!
Storage is the big concern with a company like Google or TH-cam. For now, TH-cam doesn't plan to delete videos, but that doesn't mean it won't change. I know they have deleted other things like photos and, apparently, blogs. I feel like it's history. I remember the BBC deleting video tape and recording over it in the 1960s and 1970s. That history is now gone.
I agree. It is historic. It is amazing what a large archive is being created. I suppose it is quite a lot of data to store. TH-cam sure has changed a lot over the 16 years that I’ve been looking at it. I haven’t made one video yet, but I think it could be fun to make some pen videos. I like the homemade content like yours best. 16 years ago that’s pretty much all I saw here.
As always, a tasteful line-up of lovely pens. But truth be told: the Platinum Izumo is the runaway highlight this week. I only still wish these pens had a distinct Platinum gold nib, instead of the standard 14k, found on the 3776 pens.
@ Oh ok, got mixed up there. But why even the same nib as the President? Darn, Platinum should give the Izumo and the Nakaya a different gold nib altogether.
@@sajjadhusain4146 This is a good point, but I think the pens would be more expensive if they went this route. It's like how luxury cars might use the same frame as cheaper cars, but put on fancier parts.
like that MonteRosa fp: sometimes vintage fp’s look better to me than what’s currently available:); love Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun, the other grey I’ve got but not used yet is Diamine Earl Grey:)
@@WaskiSquirrel I think it was developed for Earl Grey who liked his tea with oil of bergamot in it!:) - think the name was chosen by the Reddit community who commissioned this ink, not sure quite what they were thinking!:)
QUESTION - Would love your thoughts. I have a Sailor Pro Gear (regular/full size, not slim) pen with 21K nib. I like the writing experience, but the nib does feel a bit "fragile". Do you think there is the possibility that the nib would eventually "wear out"? My steel nibs on other pens and my 14K gold nib on the Pro Gear slim feel a bit more substantial. It was a pricey pen so I'm a bit careful. But I kind of thought, heck, just enjoy the pen and write write write. If it "wears out", it wears out. I suppose we should just enjoy our pens, even if they were expensive. Wear it out if you have to.. what do you think, Waski?
To clarify on the other replies, you’re writing with a very hard tipping material (usually an alloy of tungsten and rhenium, not iridium as often advertised) and not the gold itself, it should outlive you even if you write daily.
Have you tried Noodlers Lexington grey ? its pretty well behaved and its perminant. If you havnt let me know I have a Huge bottle I can share with you :)
It looks like there's some line variation on the Faber-Castell. I'm not familiar with the pen. Is it a flex nib? Gold perhaps? (I now see that you have a 1h video on it. I'll check it out.)
oh, it looks like you were looking for it. It's titled "First impressions - Faber-Castlell Osmia 882". (some sites don't like posting links)
Thank you! That explains why I couldn't find the video: I misspelled the name of the pen! I'll fix both that video and my link here.
I can foresee TH-cam videos on this channel for at least 20 more years, so you’ll certainly be remembered as one of the “Top tier TH-camrs” in FP world !
With my sizable collection of affordable watches which is growing by the day, I May end up having a room full of affordable watches when I retire, so I may start my TH-cam journey and be remembered as “yet another budget watch TH-camr” !
I haven't thought about the end to this channel yet. I've only just turned 49, so I think there is a lot of time yet. I don't yet know the end game.
I actually do follow one or two watch TH-camrs, even though I only own one watch myself. I'd be interested to see what you produce.
Fun that you gave Fran Blanche a shout out :) I blame her for sending me down the fountain pen rabbit hole! I found her channel a decade ago while looking at videos about pipe organs... As an amateur musician with a love of vintage electronics, hers is still one of my favorite channels :) Motorcycles, typewriters, airplanes, kitschy 1970s toys... lots of shared interests! Anyway, at one point she did a video about fountain pens, and I ordered a Safari and a Metro that week. TH-cam, for all its faults, is a treasure trove of great stuff! Your channel is in my list next to folks with millions of subscribers... Don't sell yourself short. Great stuff Mister Squirrel!
Fran is great! Lots of diverse stuff on her channel. I'll have to look for her fountain pen video. Thank you!
It is easy to see that you will be remembered fondly by generations of students who have been fortunate enough to have you as a teacher. My (grown) daughters and my grandchildren love spending time with me, and my wife, and fortunately we all live in the same area and see them all the time. That is enough of a legacy for me. FYI, I am doing my best to turn as many of them as possible into fountain pen lovers. 😁
BTW, "peche" with the carat mark over the e is pronounced simply "pesh" and is French for peach. To make things more confusing, the same word with the same carat mark means fishing (third person of pecher), but the word for fish the creature is poisson. I do not actually speak French so that may not all be perfectly accurate; I just took a couple of courses long, long ago.
C'est exact !😊
Thank you for both! Yes, I'm satisfied to be remembered by the people in my life. I don't need anything fancy.
And interesting about the dual uses of the word in French. I suspect they mean "peach" with the ink, based on the color.
I see you as living on in your students, teaching them far more than academics. I honor those who have sacrificed so much for humanity
That's one way to live on. And I'm content with my choices. I went into teaching with my eyes as wide open as possible at such a young age.
I hope youtube gives the chance to youtubers to decide between deleting or not their videos once they pass away or something to preserve their legacy because I do find your videos valuable.
You mentioned to Honor Veterans and yes we owe them, but you also mentioned their families. Last week,I thanked a Veteran for his service and his wife smiled and I thanked her too...she looked at me and almost cried...families go through so much indeed.
Take care and thank you for your legacy 😊
TH-cam is a wealth of data for future historians. And there is valuable stuff here. I agree: I hope TH-cam keeps these videos.
You're right: families sacrifice a lot as well and deserve our thanks as well.
The Lamy Flame and Lamy 2000 Steel are firm personal favourites. Pilot,Monteverde,Lamy and Esterbrook,Faber-Castelle ,Pelikan ar
e my favourite brands.
From large ink bottles,you can fill,smaller more portable ones.
Glad to see you are staying put and not joining the growing list of celebrities leaving the United States.
Do you read Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective series?
I think the main difference you make, is bringing to our attention things that we would otherwise not know about. That in my opinion,is important.
My parents requested their ashes be scattered on a small mountain out the back of their property( with permission of local authorities). They left no physical evidence (gravestones) of their existence.
A lot of service men and women are injured or killed on the way to work or in training accidents. You give up a lot of personal freedoms to serve in the military.
I have heard for the Rebus detective series but have not read it. And, no, I'm not leaving my country. I deliberately kept election talk out of this video, but I'm sticking around to help the US pick up the pieces when it becomes sane again.
You are right about those who serve: many deaths are in service and often not glamorous.
1. I can't worry about leaving a legacy. I have to focus on getting through the day.
2. Being against war, I look askance at any glorification of soldiers. I know this makes me a bad person, but there you are.
I feel that my campaigns against wars are in favour of the individual soldiers who shouldn't be put at risk in stupid and immoral conflicts like Vietnam or Iraq, say (there's plenty to choose from). Gung ho jingoism is making life worse. Having grown up at a time of great unemployment, I know how hard the forces recruit like predators around kids who have few other options. So I can understand how young people can be suckered in to be cannon fodder, and don't usually blame the individuals. I would never thank anyone for their service; the last time US soldiers fought and enhanced the safety of the civilians was 1945.
I’m not a pacifist by any means. But I’m no fan of brazen militarism, jingoism and unnecessary wars either.
I believe that wars ought to be only fought in self-defense, when attacked by another - not initiated as an aggressor on another nation.
America has been, for decades, a hegemonic, warmongering aggressor around the world. Obviously, for the contemptible ruling elites in this country it’s always been so much more convenient to send other people’s expendable offspring to go fight and die in the myriad wicked wars America has started all around the world.
Flag-waving ‘patriotism’ makes me nauseous. As does the rather forced homage to war veterans and soldiers on the various commemorative holidays. I don’t feel thankful to any American soldier for his/her supposed ‘service’ to the nation.
1. Daily life comes first.
2. Any sane person is against war. Sometimes they are needed because we don't live in a sane world. I don't blame the soldiers because the US government wants to misuse them in insane wars.
I’d add that the United States enjoys a unique geographical location where it never fears nor has ever faced (and never will) the risk of an armed invasion by a foreign foe. So, it has instead cavalierly waged myriad wars of choice overseas. And American soldiers haven’t always had to actually fight in combat situations themselves. America has fought countless proxy wars by arming, funding local foreign insurgents to fight and die for America. Today, American soldiers are deployed as part of unlawful occupation forces in different parts of the world. Not surprisingly, they are the legitimate targets of attack by locals who don’t want them in their country…
@@sajjadhusain4146 Who was it that said every new war is started as a defensive war?
Have you tried Kobe ink by Nagasawa?
Made by Sailor.
Looks familiar. Available from Cult Pens.
I've only tried one of those inks. And I liked it very much. Sailor really makes some beautiful colors.
Hey, i would love to see your ink collections lately.. Can you please show your whole ink and your current favourites sorted by color... That would be great.. 😇
Great idea! I don't know if it will happen...
I appreciate what you say there about the ephemeral nature of digital content. I agree with your sentiments. I had a blogger page that had some watercolors that I had done with some notes. I hadn’t logged into it in a long time, but wanted to because I had made notes as to what pigments I had used. When I tried to log in I found that the page was gone. Apparently, google deleted it because of inactivity. I got no warning. They just deleted it. Google owns TH-cam too, so I suspect that if a channel has no activity from hits from other users, or from the content creator it will be deleted. I think that if a channel is receiving hits it will stay up. The channels popularity will keep it alive if it is generating revenue. It’s possible for any content to be forgotten eventually, so I wonder what will be kept for historical value? The internet really isn’t forever like I’ve heard some say. Popularity is the only thing that makes things persist. Popularity can be manipulated by promotion. Tastes change over time. What is popular today might not be popular tomorrow. There ain’t nothing like paper and ink!
Storage is the big concern with a company like Google or TH-cam. For now, TH-cam doesn't plan to delete videos, but that doesn't mean it won't change. I know they have deleted other things like photos and, apparently, blogs.
I feel like it's history. I remember the BBC deleting video tape and recording over it in the 1960s and 1970s. That history is now gone.
I agree. It is historic. It is amazing what a large archive is being created. I suppose it is quite a lot of data to store. TH-cam sure has changed a lot over the 16 years that I’ve been looking at it. I haven’t made one video yet, but I think it could be fun to make some pen videos. I like the homemade content like yours best. 16 years ago that’s pretty much all I saw here.
As always, a tasteful line-up of lovely pens. But truth be told: the Platinum Izumo is the runaway highlight this week.
I only still wish these pens had a distinct Platinum gold nib, instead of the standard 14k, found on the 3776 pens.
The Izumo uses the 18K President nib. It's the Nakaya that uses the nib from the 3776.
@ Oh ok, got mixed up there. But why even the same nib as the President? Darn, Platinum should give the Izumo and the Nakaya a different gold nib altogether.
@@sajjadhusain4146 This is a good point, but I think the pens would be more expensive if they went this route. It's like how luxury cars might use the same frame as cheaper cars, but put on fancier parts.
like that MonteRosa fp: sometimes vintage fp’s look better to me than what’s currently available:); love Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun, the other grey I’ve got but not used yet is Diamine Earl Grey:)
Edelstein Moonstone
I think I'll buy a few samples before I settle on a grey. I'll add this to the list. Interesting name since the tea is actually brown.
@@WaskiSquirrel I think it was developed for Earl Grey who liked his tea with oil of bergamot in it!:) - think the name was chosen by the Reddit community who commissioned this ink, not sure quite what they were thinking!:)
Pêche accent circonflexe (circumflex)
Pronounced (roughly) 'pesh'. It means peach.
Thank you!
QUESTION - Would love your thoughts. I have a Sailor Pro Gear (regular/full size, not slim) pen with 21K nib. I like the writing experience, but the nib does feel a bit "fragile". Do you think there is the possibility that the nib would eventually "wear out"? My steel nibs on other pens and my 14K gold nib on the Pro Gear slim feel a bit more substantial. It was a pricey pen so I'm a bit careful. But I kind of thought, heck, just enjoy the pen and write write write. If it "wears out", it wears out. I suppose we should just enjoy our pens, even if they were expensive. Wear it out if you have to.. what do you think, Waski?
Treat it right and it will last longer than you.
Pens like this don't "wear out", at least not within a human lifetime. I don't think you will deal with this with any of the pens you listed.
To clarify on the other replies, you’re writing with a very hard tipping material (usually an alloy of tungsten and rhenium, not iridium as often advertised) and not the gold itself, it should outlive you even if you write daily.
Have you tried Noodlers Lexington grey ? its pretty well behaved and its perminant. If you havnt let me know I have a Huge bottle I can share with you :)
I have not tried that ink. I'm a bit down on Noodler's at the moment.
Lexington Grey is one of my favorites…it reminds me of a shading graphite pencil.
“Preach the gospel, die, be forgotten.” -Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
I think most of us will be forgotten. And I'm okay with that.
I’m pretty much forgotten now.
So what do you think about Trump’s decision to abolish the Federal Education department and hand back responsibility for that to the States?
Dumbass idea that is suitable only as a political talking point and not serious policy.
@ Fair comment. I see the South Dakota governor is one of the chosen ones.