{"id":207,"date":"2006-03-04T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T11:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2006-03-04T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T12:00:30","slug":"visconti-fountain-pen-and-moleskine-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Visconti fountain pen and Moleskine notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my birthday came a wonderful gift from <a href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/blog\/index.php\">Sharon<\/a> &#8211; a Visconti Van Gogh (vanilla colour) fountain pen and three of my favourite Moleskine squared paper notebooks \ud83d\ude42 The pen came with an ink converter so I was eager to test this pen, with its broader medium nib as against the Waterman Apostrophe&#8217;s fine nib to see what the difference would be on Moleskine paper &#8211; especially given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleskinerie.com\/2006\/01\/fountain_pens_a.html\">the extended discussion on the use of fountain pens with Moleskine notebooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/viscontipen.jpg' alt='Visconti Van Gogh fountain pen' \/><br \/>\n<strong>Visconti pen and Moleskine notebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I filled the Visconti with Parker Quink blue-black and gave it a try:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/viscontiquink.jpg' alt='Visconti with Quink ink' \/><br \/>\n<strong>Visconti with Quink ink on Moleskine paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the Moleskine soaked it up like blotting paper! Noting that the Waterman has never had problems, I thought perhaps the issue might be the type of ink, or the ink flow. So I removed the converter by gently unscrewing it, and inserted a Ryman cartridge &#8211; same as I use on the Waterman.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/viscontiryman.jpg' alt='Visconti pen with Ryman cartridge' \/><br \/>\n<strong>Visconti pen with Ryman ink cartridge on Moleskine paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> What a difference! Yes there are still a couple of minor whiskers, but nothing like the quink! The rest I guess is down to the greater ink flow of the medium nib &#8211; I have the fine nib on order and hopefully it should arrive in a week or two.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that the young lass in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepespaperie.com.au\/\">Pepe&#8217;s Paperie<\/a> gave me a stern warning: &#8220;For heaven&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t take it on an aircraft&#8221; I astonished her by saying that I have never had leakage problems using the Waterman pen &#8211; are Visconti pens so vulnerable? or is it just the ink they have been using?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the pen is beautifully balanced, fairly light (only slightly thicker and heavier than the Waterman Apostrophe) and has a very smooth glide over the paper &#8211; it is a real delight to use!<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Viscontimoleskine.jpg' alt='Visconti fountain pen with Moleskine notebook' \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my birthday came a wonderful gift from Sharon &#8211; a Visconti Van Gogh (vanilla colour) fountain pen and three of my favourite Moleskine squared paper notebooks \ud83d\ude42 The pen came with an ink converter so I was eager to test this pen, with its broader medium nib as against the Waterman Apostrophe&#8217;s fine nib [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}