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Another example of just what a music nib can do. This is my first time doing a lot of these fancy print letters, still perfecting the letter a though. I dont like the first one, but the others are nicer.

So I tried three special nibs and I love them all. I dont think I will ever use a traditional nib on a fountain pen again. Here is a comparison of the three types all with the same ink: Fude Nib, Music Nib, and Flex Nib.

After a little more practice iwth my new Flex Nib I managed to get a nice clean signature. Really liking the flair on the vertical stroke of my capital F.

So after trying out several cheaper pens with every sort of nib under the sun, including some specialty nibs, I finally decided on the type of nibs I want in pens I carry with me. I decided to carry three fountain pens on me at all times, one with a Flex Nib, another with a Fude Nib, and finally a third with a Music Nib.

The Music Nib will give me a broad wet italic cursive good for fancy lettering. The flex nib is perfect for everyday writing as well as giving a lot of control over line width, and the Fude Nib is extra fancy and my favorite for signing my signature.

After sorting that out I ordered three high-end fountain pens with the various nibs. This one just arrived with a solid 14K gold nib, it is a Flex Nib but with a very unique and unusual design. Its a great nib, I wrote my signature below it, one of the best signatures I've attempted so far.

So got this cool new nib in, its called a Fude Nib. It bends upwards sharply. You write with it upside down to get very fine lines and right side up for very broad lines. Here is me trying to play with my signature. Some of them look really good!

Practicing my "pretty print" using a stub tip.

I've been practicing my signature and decided to give it a go with a few exotic fountain pen nibs. The top uses a fine flex tip with gold sheen ink. I love the J but the F wasn't perfect.

The second one is using a medium stub nib and OX Blood ink. The J isn't as perfect but for the first time my F is completely on point.

Major improvements I think.

Me trying to practice my handwriting, specifically cursive, using my new pen. Its an extra fine stiff steel nib. So while it gives me less control over varying line width it does let me focus on my form instead. I'm seeing some improvement but I have a long ways to go until it looks "nice". Keep in mind I havent even attempted to write cursive in several decades too, when I do write its always print.

Its batcat!

by the explanation I just gave then pursuit in any knowledge is always pursuit in the divine, since the divine is everything.

#linux users I need some help. On your main desktop linux box, if you open up a new terminal (and if in xwindows maxamize it), what is your row and column count? I'm asking for a game im building to get an idea of just how large i want to support up to.

I normally have pretty atrocious handwriting. I've been spending some time lately trying to practice and improve my hand writing and decided to start with my signature. I wanted to try to come up with a slightly fancy prettier version of my signature. This is finally what I came up with. Not entirely happy with the F but its the best I could come up with so far.

I also included a picture of my old signature for comparison.

So finally got the more expensive fountain pen in made by TWSBI, All the others I showed before were knock offs, much cheaper, by wings. The knock offs were nice but the original certainly writes way better. Here are the two side by side, both using the same ink (OX Blood). Not only was the flow much more consistent from the TWSBI but the ink actually looks noticeably darker despite having the same stroke width. Both pens use Extra Fine Nibs. The TWSBI is the clear winner even at 5x the cost.

The difference in color was so significant I thought maybe I just didnt mix the ink before filling the cheaper pen. Nope, even after dumping the ink and refilling it with freshly mixed ink the color is exactly the same.

lol, its funny cause it is true.I've seen so much horrible stuff to come out of ANTIFA. What scares me is how much more common they are than literal Nazis.

While I find truth in this statement I'm not sure many others would.