Mar 20, 2010
Got a new pen, new ink, wrote a letter
Today I went over to World Lux here in Seattle and met with Todd Craver, who sold me his personal Namiki / Pilot Vanishing Point (ca. 1994). Todd is a super nice guy and enthusiastically helped me pick out a couple of new inks to try (Midnight Blues and Orange Crush, both from Private Reserve) and clearly has a real love of pens. I have no affiliation with those guys except being in the same city and loving pens, I just wanted to make sure to mention how nice they are over there. Especially Todd, who practically read my mind when he said “I think you’d like a Vanishing Point…”
So not only was I able to ink up my old daily workhorse Estie J with Orange Crush (it has a broad-writing medium 2968 nib!), I got to use my new VP with the Midnight Blue too. I thought I would share a few pictures I took of the goods, and finally a letter I wrote to a dear friend with my new pen.
Click to jump to the larger flickr pages for these shots (cilck the [i]All Sizes[/i] button on the page for the two largest versions).
Sitting at Bauhaus Coffee Seattle inking my VP and Estie
New Vanishing Point and my Estie J
Last Midnight Blue for the Estie
Esterbrook J Nib closeup
Test page with my new Pilot / Namiki Vanishing Point and Private Reserve Ink’s Midnight Blues
Private Reserve’s Orange Crush, about to go into my Esterbrok J
This is how I know I’m having fun!
Forgive the quality of this one, it’s not from my LX-3, it’s my iPhone.
New color ink for my 1950 Estie J – Orange Crush by Private Reserve
A letter to my friend in Sacramento.
