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    From threatcat@threatcat@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Tue Oct 28 14:46:46 2025
    I just arrived in a happy place with pens. I rarely obsess over a class
    of equipment, but when I do, I'm consumed by it, and I do not enjoy
    that. But I do it. It's happened with analog cameras, lenses, headphones
    and earbuds, and lately, pens.

    I had a requirement: I wanted a capped pen. And I don't do fountain
    pens, which it seems almost corners the market of capped pens. I found
    two rollerballs that looked good, the Kaweco Perkeo (ooh, check out the two-tone chambray colorway!) and a charcoal gray Lamy Safari. They each
    have a different style of angled body and feel great in the hand -- and
    they both write thin, scratchy and skipping. Absolute garbage refills.

    By chance I had a Papermate Profile Ball 1.4 that fit perfectly in the
    Kaweco, and now it writes butter smooth. Yesterday an order of Uniball Jetstream SXR-10 refills arrived. It'a a popular pen and a dream to
    write with, but somehow I found no comments online about modding
    it for the Lamy. It was necessary, and I ended up adding an extender
    to make up the length. The refill's tip was a little thin for the
    body's, so I cut a piece of transparency tape and wrapped the metal just
    above the ballpoint. It now fits snugly in the pen body. And the ink gliiiiiiides.

    I think I will now chill out on reading pen reddit and random blog
    reviews, and get to the business of spreading ink.

    what pens are working for you all?


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  • From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Tue Oct 28 19:22:19 2025
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    threatcat@tilde.club writes:

    I just arrived in a happy place with pens. I rarely obsess over a class
    of equipment, but when I do, I'm consumed by it, and I do not enjoy
    that. But I do it. It's happened with analog cameras, lenses, headphones
    and earbuds, and lately, pens.

    I had a requirement: I wanted a capped pen. And I don't do fountain
    pens, which it seems almost corners the market of capped pens. I found
    two rollerballs that looked good, the Kaweco Perkeo (ooh, check out the two-tone chambray colorway!) and a charcoal gray Lamy Safari. They each
    have a different style of angled body and feel great in the hand -- and
    they both write thin, scratchy and skipping. Absolute garbage refills.

    By chance I had a Papermate Profile Ball 1.4 that fit perfectly in the Kaweco, and now it writes butter smooth. Yesterday an order of Uniball Jetstream SXR-10 refills arrived. It'a a popular pen and a dream to
    write with, but somehow I found no comments online about modding
    it for the Lamy. It was necessary, and I ended up adding an extender
    to make up the length. The refill's tip was a little thin for the
    body's, so I cut a piece of transparency tape and wrapped the metal just above the ballpoint. It now fits snugly in the pen body. And the ink gliiiiiiides.

    I think I will now chill out on reading pen reddit and random blog
    reviews, and get to the business of spreading ink.

    what pens are working for you all?

    Just saying that I appreciate your initiative and that I don't
    personally fancy pens :-P .

    Cheers for Netnews and for Freedom,


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  • From ant@ant@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Wed Oct 29 00:01:45 2025
    threatcat to ant:

    what pens are working for you all?

    Only fountain pens here. I enjoy most fontain pens if a have
    been able to adjust, align, and polish it to perfection. I can
    make a candy out of the two-dollar Baoer 388.
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  • From ant@ant@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Wed Oct 29 00:07:19 2025
    threatcat:

    It's happened with analog cameras, lenses, headphones and
    earbuds, and lately, pens.

    I share your passion for film cameras and lenses, but deplore the
    colossal prices of film, especially sheet film and medium format
    film. I love my 5x4" pinhole, Arax (a updated Kiev-88), Zenit-E,
    and Zenit-APK.

    By the way, some people don't believe this to be a genuine
    pinhole shot:

    https://files.catbox.moe/e9d8kf.jpg

    With a digital camera, I can never achieve that lovely texture
    that only film offers, especially black-and-white film.
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