Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I like the ink themed funghi and flower, and the pen is nice. I too, like the other self admitted luddites, use a fountain pen daily. Prosaically, my current plume ordinaire is one of two Shaeffer cartridge pens. One has dark green ink for letters of complaint :-), and the main one has blue ink. The history of green ink which I regularly received on moaning letters to the financial institution I laboured in is well known. When I retired, and had a problem with an item myself, I decided to perpetuate the tradition, and bought a couple of green ink cartridges thinking ahead of the happer years of vituperous fulminating retirement. I think I've used it twice. Unfortunately, my 1944 Watermans - gold topped and presented to my father back then, but it may be 1943 as I never asked him what month of the year he got it - is missing its ink sac as it was ruptured. I hate to admit the sacrilege but I threw the sac away a couple of years ago. I must get it fixed. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Friday's flora, fungi and old stuff > On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > >>The pen really appeals to me, as I am also one of those Luddites who still >>uses fountain pens on a daily basis. My taste runs to the Japanese ones >>though, which, like everything they do, are beautifully made, intricately >>detailed and with more than a dozen nib choices..... >>Cheers >>Jayanand > ================================================================= > I'm a daily user too. > > Two years ago I treated myself to a Pilot retractable pen after I dropped > my Waterman > while shopping and bent the nib about 45 degrees up, because the cap > retaining > mechanism was shot. My pen store guy said it's not fixable. But I was > able to manipulate > the nib back so that I can still use it at my desk where it doesn't matter > if the cap is loose. > > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >