Author Archives: sbrebrown

Desiderata Soubriquet

This pen was kindly lent to me by Maestro Pierre Miller of Desiderata Pens – thank you!

For the record, this pen has a nib unit with a breather tube to optimize its filling system. In the video, the ink level had dipped below the breather tube, hence the dryness: as soon as I refilled it, it wrote wetly and it has continued to do so.

 

 

Consult the Doctor Episode 75

It’s the Diamond Jubilee episode!

With today:
00:55 Iron gall ink in piston-fillers?
03:00 Ink making (raw ingredients etc.)
05:15 Re-magnetizing a magnetic Visconti cap
07:10 #6 vs. #8 nibs (does size matter?)
15:00 In(k)fluencers in the pen world
25:09 “Showing the state of the collection” and repercussions