Noodler's up in here.

[LagNut]

Jon

Thanks much!

Thread hijack was entirely my fault, but fantastic info.

As an effort towards re-railing the train of the thread, let me second your suggestions to say that when I did get some pens with old nibs after long trolling eBay for these, they are something to be experienced. I have a waterman 52 1/2 and an old duofold Jr. The experience of writing with either is a joy, and unlike anything I've experienced with modern nibs. I don't use these everyday, because they slow down my writing, and though pretty to look at, I lose my train of thought.

Right now, I do have the duofold inked with quink and it is my doodle pen.

[LagNut]

Tsuki Yo,

Your pictures are very nice, much better than I've been able to achieve. I am intrigued with the idea of the old nibs in new pens, also.

Your nom de plume is my favorite ink, BTW.

Cheers
Mike

[Tsuki yo]

catfish.jpg

Did a little drawing last night. To keep the Noodler's theme I only used pens that had Noodler's inks in them, my Safari is loaded up with X-feather, the yellow piston Creaper with Red-black, and the eyedropper Creaper with a mix of three drops Red-black to one barrel full of Dragon's Napalm. It didn't come out as smoothly as I wanted, my thumb was twitching the whole time due to muscle fatigue from one of my other hobbies, and it was super-late.

[Bogon07]

Very nice catfish. The stippling is very effect & the red-black ink really makes your drawing pop.

[LagNut]

Beautiful! I'm always amazed at art done with fountain pen. These skills are something I always wished I had, but don't (at all).

I really zoomed in to see the stippling and I saw that, but failed to see the non smoothness you describe. It works for me. I can almost feel the skin.

[Tsuki yo]

Thanks for the compliments! I'm not much of an artist myself, this was the first time I ever used my FPs for drawing. My husband is a fantastic artist though, maybe I absorbed some of his vast talent through osmosis. Most of the roughness from my shaky hand I managed to hide with the stipples, or hatching, or in one case, a large field of black. Fish are by far the easiest thing to draw, because if you screw up the proportions, they just tend to look more life-like.

[Michele Harvey]

[QUOTE=Jon Szanto;72673]Ok, I'll just blurt this out:

"As to the Noodlers, what can I say? I'm equally happy for you, as well as still finding them butt-ugly and not worth the trouble. The problem is this: when people say "I buy Noodlers pens because I want flex but I'm on a budget", I look at my pen case and see a bunch of vintage pens that cost that much OR LESS and write and perform a hell of a lot better."

Coming VERY late to this; but can you say which vintage pens you are referring to in this quote?
I haven't strayed into the vintage field yet, as I'm a little nervous to do so, even though I've done some homework, the jury's still out on what exactly to look for.