This looks like a pen that the people of Arrakis would use. If they could afford the moisture for the ink.

Indeed!

Your handwriting is really good btw

I can do much better. :)

He did a whole video about it a month ago: The 3D Printed Fountain Pen Project Has Begun!.

I just emailed him a table from my ink collection which I put together per-unit pricing. There were a couple of surprising things I found. Given his recent video about inks I thought he might find it interesting.

Maybe Dooblebud would be interested – he’s been messing around with 3D printing his own pen.

I have precisely zero knowledge of anything 3D printed, so something like this would be lost on me.

Yeah, a Jinhao nib / feed makes sense. (Although I’d personally probably go for an Asvine or Hongdian nib / feed combo.)

I wonder how you’d go about figuring out how to slow down the capillary action… That’s really the most technical part of designing a fountain pen…that’s really the most critical part of the pen - or at least it is the "magic"of fountain pens.

I’ll ask him later when, hopefully, things will have had some time to cool down.

That’s pretty cool.

Did you design a feed to go with your pen, or were you trying to use it more like a drip-style pen? I see the Kaweco Sport in the photo above, did you use the nib and feed from it?

Have you done any geolocation checking on the IPs? That might start to paint a better picture of the actor(s) behind the attack.

If we ever wanted more evidence that we’re allowing the racists to run ICE, we have it right here:

“After I was violently dragged from my car, I was put in the back of a car with three federal agents, where they laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Rahman said.

Thanks - but I can do much better. This was just me trying out the pen, the idea to take the photo didn’t come until I was writing the 3rd paragraph - so then I started making all sorts of mistakes. ;)

I’m guessing it’s supposed to look like a Monoc, but really it’s just a hooded nib.

Welcome - glad you are enjoying the community.

I’m assuming it’s some kind of chinese nib. I haven’t been able to remove the hood – don’t think it comes off. But it’s a surprisingly good writer… No railroading, no hard starts or skips. The ink just flows – as it should.

Actually, it sounds like you got journaling just fine. The idea is to write whatever is on your mind, and just keep going. Over time you will find that what you write about will change – you’ll have different thoughts and things that you want to think about on the page, and not have conversations about.

My earlier journaling work is filled with all sorts of ramblings about projects I was working on, or ideas about things that I would like to see created. Over time that has given away to thinking about other things that are more reflective of where I am in my life.

I know that one too - used to overextend myself all the time… Took years to learn how to balance things.

I might as well get into it here, since I left it due to personal reasons (thankfully, not health related this time):

I was going to DM you, but thought you’d talk to me about it if you wanted…

Pain Peko indeed. ;)

Yeah, Feddit is the origin of the group, so you should be good here.

lol - I saw that Urban Dictionary has it that way too… Dunno why, and their attribution of it to 2006 is silly. 5318008 has been around since the 80’s. (And yeah, I remember that…)

Yup, random indeed… ;)

Ahh - really need the right font for this one:

Actually, it’s supposed to be 5318008.

Very nice… Don’t think I could attain that level of consistency and precision without using a computer or a stencil. :)