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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: grapefruit on Tue, 21 July 2020, 13:21:21
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Thought this might be fun to ask. I feel like there might be a connection between liking fountain pens and liking certain sorts of switches...
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I use Parker pens and I prefer Matias or buckling spring.
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what do you guys write these days ?
haven't required a pen in a while. except signatures and small forms.
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Interesting question! I hope you can accumulate sufficient data to generate some meaningful correlations.
I have a Kaweco Liliput fountain pen.
My current favorite keyboards (for typing; I do not game):
+ F62 (Model-F switches), mapped to HHKB layout
+ HHKB Pro Hybrid Type-S (Topre 45g silenced switches)
+ Northgate Omnikey 101 (white "pine" Alps switches), mapped to HHKB layout
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I don't use fountain pens, as I find them too scratchy in general, and the smooth fine nibs kind of defeat the purpose IMO.
I do however have a Tactile Turn Mover (in Ti), a Karas Kustoms Retrakt, Uni Jetstream Oily or Prime (a japan only version that is pretty amazing), and I always have a Sarasa Grand with either a Juice UP 04 or Energel LRN5 refill depending on mood in my Leuchtturm loop for work.
I'm a big fan of high quality retractable gel pens and pens that can take Pilot G2 sized refills. Gotta be retractable for work!
For parker style refills, I actually have a Parker XL with the OHTO Flash Dry refill. Absolutely the best fine tip refill for Parker style hands down IMO.
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I don't use fountain pens, as I find them too scratchy in general, and the smooth fine nibs kind of defeat the purpose IMO.
I do however have a Tactile Turn Mover (in Ti), a Karas Kustoms Retrakt, Uni Jetstream Oily or Prime (a japan only version that is pretty amazing), and I always have a Sarasa Grand with either a Juice UP 04 or Energel LRN5 refill depending on mood in my Leuchtturm loop for work.
I'm a big fan of high quality retractable gel pens and pens that can take Pilot G2 sized refills. Gotta be retractable for work!
For parker style refills, I actually have a Parker XL with the OHTO Flash Dry refill. Absolutely the best fine tip refill for Parker style hands down IMO.
And what keyboard(s) do you type on?
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I don't use fountain pens, as I find them too scratchy in general, and the smooth fine nibs kind of defeat the purpose IMO.
I do however have a Tactile Turn Mover (in Ti), a Karas Kustoms Retrakt, Uni Jetstream Oily or Prime (a japan only version that is pretty amazing), and I always have a Sarasa Grand with either a Juice UP 04 or Energel LRN5 refill depending on mood in my Leuchtturm loop for work.
I'm a big fan of high quality retractable gel pens and pens that can take Pilot G2 sized refills. Gotta be retractable for work!
For parker style refills, I actually have a Parker XL with the OHTO Flash Dry refill. Absolutely the best fine tip refill for Parker style hands down IMO.
And what keyboard(s) do you type on?
Ah--forgot about that little tidbit. Silenced CM Novatouch at work, and my home KB is a temporary garbo chinese hotswap (non kailh as I found out) with speed coppers while I wait for the KB I want to actually be manufactured during this crazy covid lol. Also got an Apple M0116 with orange alps that will sit until I find a KB I find worthy of transplanting the switches into, a Pok3r with ergo clears that I only use for travel, an infinity with Matias Quiet Clicks, and of course a Model M. Pretty much the whole spectrum!
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I like TWSBI with F or EF nib for my pens, and BOX Navy, Topre, and Capacitive Buckling Spring (in that order) for my keyboards.
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When I have something to write (which is not often, as tp4 suggested) I love fat fountain pens (the actual pen) and I use an ancient Parker Duofold with a wide reverse oblique nib and a Sailor 1911 with a Naginata Fude De Mannen (which I've never really mastered the variable thickness of)
My favourite keyboard at the moment is an acrylic 1800ish CP-SQ with heavy linear Zealios.
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I like TWSBI with F or EF nib for my pens
Ick. Why? :P