Greyboy and Blueboy Pelikan M200s happy at last

My handwriting has changed so much that these days I really prefer a wider nib.

I sent back a B nib to Chartpak as it seemed to be writing fine and today I received just what the two pens needed--width. They are writing like two charms.

I inked them up, cleaned the older nibs and wrote with them for ages on my Rhodia reporter--smooth no bleeding, smearing, feathering.


The only problem, and of course life has its obstacle courses, is the older Pelikan nibs (circa 1989) are flexy and these are not.

Pity, but it might be a good trade off.

Thank you, Abi.

I would love to get one more war-time Pelikan. However, it doesn't look good for the Pelikan 100 as I'm not willing to pay the going prices on the 'bay.

Perhaps the Goddess will look upon me favourably as there is one up for sale now that looks like it would be perfect for my small piston collection.

On the question of ink...behaviour

With the exception of watercolour (paints), I don't have much experience with variates with colour on paper. I have a wide array of watercolour, and after learning that a name is not the same as its true nature, it appeared that a cadmium in one brand may be totally different in another. Two blues could and do vary greatly and if one is inclined to follow a palette suggestion from another watercolour artist, substitutions might get you a dull green rather than the bright one you saw on the page.

Now, I hadn't really given much thought to the variation of how ink reacts to pen nib and paper.

Just this week trying to sort out a fine 14k vs a medium 18k nib on the Parker, I discovered a vast difference not only in stroke width but in shade. Diamine WES Imperial in the two nibs are startlingly different.


Then as my focus is clearly off, and I wanted to ink my Sensa Girl, I reached for the Diamine WES bottle again and inked her up.

Surprise!

The WES is totally different in the Sensa Crystal than in either of the two Parker nibs--totally. It is clearer, brighter and nearly as intense as some of the blues remarked upon at FPn.