PhotonThief

I was so fucking angry after seeing the way Trump and his pitiful piece of shit sidekick Vance treated Zelenskyy today, I was fucking shaking. When my partner asked me what was up and I tried to explain it to her, I started to cry. I've sat on it for the last 12 hours, and I'm still fucking furious.

This week has been nuts, super busy, long hours, average sleep, and very little time for fun stuff. At about 11:45pm a couple of nights ago, I thought to myself, should I go to bed, or should I fix the Lamy Safari stub nib I bought ages ago and never really loved? Of course, the fountain pen won.

In a sleep deprived state on the first night, I had damaged the feed 🤦 It looked OK but clearly wasn't giving my nib what it needed. I grabbed a feed from a spare Safari, fitted it to my pen, inked up and crossed my fingers 🤞 OMG it works flawlessly!!! I was stoaked!

This week has been nuts, super busy, long hours, average sleep, and very little time for fun stuff. At about 11:45pm a couple of nights ago, I thought to myself, should I go to bed, or should I fix the Lamy Safari stub nib I bought ages ago and never really loved? Of course, the fountain pen won.

I quickly got the nib in to a shape that liked and started polishing. By 1am the nib looked great, but just would not write... Blergh! It would hard start, then write ok for a couple of words, then run lean and write really thin before choking out completely. I threw the towel in and went to bed.

This week has been nuts, super busy, long hours, average sleep, and very little time for fun stuff. At about 11:45pm a couple of nights ago, I thought to myself, should I go to bed, or should I fix the Lamy Safari stub nib I bought ages ago and never really loved? Of course, the fountain pen won.

Spending the evening watching YouTube while polishing my new (to me) Montblanc 24 fountain pen. I picked this up on eBay a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived yesterday. It's in great shape overall, but someone left ink in it many years ago, which had dried and glued everything together.

All the parts have spent time in my ultrasonic bath today and have come up great! It should look and work like new once it's polished, greased and reassembled! Not bad for a pen that was made about 60 years ago 😊

My fountain pen is full of molten gold (said in the voice of Goldmember from Austin Powers) 😂 I had a couple of new inks arrive today and had to give this one a go before I went to bed. The shimmer is just insane! It's Van Diemen's Greek Heros Alexander. So cool 😍

So pretty! This bottle is going to have to live on my desk for a while so I can play with it. I hope everyone on the fountain pen feed is having an awesome day! ☺️

I won an auction for a vintage Montblanc set this morning, including a Montblanc 24 fountain pen, 28 ballpoint, and 26 mechanical pencil. The seller is in Serbia and didn't have a lot of feedback... The price was just too good to pass up, though 😆

I figured everything looks good in the pics, and eBay's buyer protection is pretty good, so why not take a chance? I've wanted a 24 for ages but just hadn't pulled the trigger on one. If everything is in good condition, it will be really nice to have the matching set 😊