Building off Jon Szanto's thread about finicky pens we can't part with, what are your go-to troubleshooting techniques when a pen isn't writing well enough for you?
I'll juice the feed with a drop of water first.
Then I'll check the ink supply: If it's a cart I'll give it a squeeze, if it's a piston or a converter I'll advance the piston (a little or a lot) to goosh the feed.
If that doesn't work I'll clean the pen and ink it with one of my more cooperative inks (Pilot Blue-Black, Waterman Serenity Blue, something Aurora if it's really giving me trouble.)
I should probably slip in an alignment check before the reinking but I can usually tell if something's misaligned by writing with it (or so I believe.)
What's your process?
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