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So I decided to breathe some life I to my old TWSBI Diamond fountain pen by replacing the stock nib and feed with a 115 year old extra fine flex nib from a Waterman's 52 and an ebonite feed. It is quite glorious.
The t won't beat my new spencerian custom pilot 912, but at least now I have a reason to ink up this pen and play. The old nib was fine for a stiff extra fine nib it's just I have little use for such nibs. Plus I have a weakness for these clear demonstrators
@freemo
I've been considering grabbing one of TWISBI's vacuum fillers just because I think that filling mechanism is too cool. :3
@Irick I never tried the TWSBI vac but I love demonstrators and for me the diamond has the best look with ink capacity. But the Vacs are unique ill give you that.
I have a Pilot Custom 912 (my favorite pen right now in terms of writing). It hs a vacuume pump converter in it. There are good and bad points..
First off the ink capacity is about the same as most converters. So you wont get the capacity youd get with an eyedropper or piston filled. But thats ok its enough.
Second it does make up for the limited capacity by allowing you to gill it 100% with no air. So its still way more than enough room.
My main complaint is i always wash my pen every single time I need to fill it with in. This means when i usually go to activate the pump my hands are wet and cant get a good grip on it. This makes it very hard to activate, the twist ones not so much.
With all that said, vacuum pump converters are usually the way to go if i cant get something like the diamond witht he built in converter. Diamond is and always will be my favorite pen body.
@freemo
My main is a Lamy 2000. I've got an eyedropper in the form of a Franklin Christoph model-02, but it's an imperfect seal and I rarely use it because of the finger staining XD.
I really doubt I'll ever move away from the Lamy as a daily driver, so I mostly just grab curiosities in other designs. I'm also thinking about grabbing a Pilot Vanishing Point for instance :3