The ₿itographer⚡️ @The ₿itographer⚡️ - 14d
https://i.nostr.build/oMwVw.jpg Anyone who knows me knows I have a strong dislike of planned obsolescence. Everything is increasingly made of garbage and it drives me nuts. Enter the fountain pen. To start, they're made to be refilled which means they're too be reused in a way (for a lifetime) that your average ballpoint or rollerball aren't. They're really made to last and I love that. Second, they write SO NICELY. Their performance is far above mass market pens. As an artist, I've had some nice pens in my life but these outstrip all of them. And these two are beginner pens! I'm genuinely enjoying writing maybe for the first time in my life and these pens feel like the kind of item worth buying with Bitcoin as they stand the test of time, they are fun to use and they are beautiful to boot. #grownostr #plebchain #penstr #fountainpens
Jay @Jay - 14d
Fountain pens are the way 🔥 Just be careful, you might like them so much that you end up with heirloom pens that you'll have to pass on to your grandchildren.
And a drawer full of ink you have no hope of using up...
I need every detail of this pen. It is beautiful.
It's the Visconti Homo Sapiens Lava. I saw it at a pen show at a Visconti booth. But it doesn't look like it's available in black anymore online, but in other really nice colors.
I thought that was what it was. I've never seen the black, but then again, I only learned of their existence a week ago. I do believe I'm gob to need to get my hands on a variant of that pen.
I mean, that just sounds fun.
It's a worthwhile pen to have. Extremely satisfying and worth the price unlike a lot of snooty high end pens that are worse than ones you can get under 200. The lava stone absorbs your sweat as you write and stays cool. The filing mechanism can clean out leftover ink in an empty reservoir completely with enough pumps in water. And the cap's locking mechanism/vacuum seal is the best I've ever seen. The nib is excellent too, but I had to fix mine a little and re-tune it (which I don't recommend doing yourself).
The ₿itographer⚡️ @The ₿itographer⚡️ - 13d
I could do that! (I definitely will not)
zyrotin @zyrotin - 13d
I love my LAMY Safari.
That escalated quickly.😐
Agreed.
Right? I think I'm stick with the pranks.
They're certainly nicer than a Bic, but I've not used one yet. I like the look of the Lamy pens better and the Al-Stars are a much nicer material than both the Preppy and Safari. I might need to try a Preppy just to see how it writes.
The Al-Star comes with an ink cartridge, but I swapped them out for converters. I'm big on bottled ink.
