Got Another Fountain Pen...the Same One I Had!
My wife and I went out the other evening and I put my new 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” Stillman & Burns sketchbook in my sport coat pocket. I decided I might want to use my Lamy Safari fountain pen if I got a chance to sketch so I put it in the other jacket pocket...or so I thought. I never had the opportunity to sketch during the evening, but when we got home my Lamy Safari wasn’t in my jacket pocket. Darn! Somehow it had fallen out! Bummer. I have come to really like that pen, plus, I bought a cartridge converter for it. I looked several times but the pen never miraculously reappeared. I decided to order another one. I didn’t like any of the colors I saw so I ordered the same as before, a charcoal fine tip.
When I sat down to draw the next day and opened up my pen, pencil, and brush case, there was my charcoal Lamy Safari pen staring me in the face! Wow! I must have decided that I didn’t need to take it with me after all and returned it to the case. Man! Getting old sometimes sucks! The newly ordered Lamy Safari arrived the next day so now I had two identical pens. But it’s okay since I like this pen and actually use it compared to my Duke 209 bent nib (Fude) fountain pen. I just can’t get used to that one.
I decided to fill the cartridge converter in the new Lamy with my Kaweco water-soluble black ink and continue to use the Carbon Platinum permanent black ink in my original Lamy. But they are both charcoal so how will I tell them apart? Hmmmm? My solution was to wrap some white, narrow artist tape around the top of the one with water-soluble ink so I don’t confuse them. That’s the ink I have in the Duke 209, but since I don’t like using it, I rarely experiment with water-soluble ink and a wash. Now, perhaps, I will!
