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Writing our Destiny aka Andrew
@planecrazy.bsky.social

Quite interesting. Of course I kept referring in my own mind back to cutting quills, and the steel pens that replaced them. Here are some resources you may find interesting for comparison. Terms and anatomy: thesteelpen.com/2017/10/14/d... Stub pens: thesteelpen.com/2018/02/05/s...

thesteelpen.comBasic steel pen anatomy.There’re not a lot of authoritative documents on terminology, so I figure we should get some basic vocabulary defined up front. That includes the parts to a pen, and how we identify a pen. No…
Writing our Destiny aka Andrew
@planecrazy.bsky.social

I actually found it fairly easy to follow the instructions, though why one tine (tooth) would be thinner than the other is still a mystery to me. And in a reed, as in a quill, and in steel, the slit is the last step after shaping.

Joumana Medlej
@majnouna.com

From the different remarks about the flesh (or pulp) in the cane, I gather it's somewhat spongy and needs to be managed as described. And logically that's just a gradient of thinner to thicker from from the left to right tine, before slitting. But it sounds strange and I need more sources for this

Writing our Destiny aka Andrew
@planecrazy.bsky.social

I'm struggling to figure out a reason. I could understand changes in thickness from front to back or back to front, but left to right? Unless you use the left and right tines differently? The pens that I'm used to, including quills, the object is to use the tines as consistently as possible. Hmm

Joumana Medlej
@majnouna.com

Thanks! English terminology is useful (as opposed to just translating the arabic verbatim), so that readers familiar with pens know what part I'm talking about.