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In Japan numbers have meaning. Haiku have a 5-7-5 pattern - which gives you 17 as a sum. And saying the number 17 in Japanese sounds like youth and vitality. Might not be so odd after all.
Well, it will always be odd ;)
Thank you!
I have a bunch of these pencil brands Tombow, Mitsubishi. I usually buy them on ebay. Its an amazing experience to write with them... I usually use the H, HB to write, and its fascinating, how the premium ones H differs from an ordinary H. There is some paraphernalia that goes with it - sharpners, erasers. I had lost the writing habit..coding invariably takes you to the keyboard. Gradually I'm writing more, and it sl…
Next step: fountain pens.
Want to buy some pens?
> Masaki had the idea to register a three-diamond trademark, along with the "Mitsubishi" name, which means 'three diamonds.' (It may surprise you to learn that this was ten years before the much better-known Mitsubishi Group of heavy industry companies registered its name and identical mark. Mitsubishi Pencil has no connection to the numerous other Mitsubishi companies in Japan; it is and has always been a manufactur…
Upon learning of a third Asahi branded thing, I once made the observation that Asahi must make everything. There's Asahi Pentax cameras, Asahi beer, and now this forgotten other thing. At which point someone kindly informed me that Asahi means rising sun, and seeing it in a company name is roughly equivalent to seeing "federal" or "national" in a US company name.
This article reminded me of another great website which sadly has been offline for several years now. Thankfully it seems to be pretty well archived. Leadholder - The Drafting Pencil Museum: https://web.archive.org/web/20170617140127/http://leadholder... Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20160629142925/http://leadholder...
One interesting thing about your archive is that I notice the site got hacked and used to distribute spam. The line " A special shout to our limo service San Diego for that one! " is a spammer insertion in https://web.archive.org/web/20170430095756/http://www.leadho... which makes no sense, and indeed, if you jump back over the gap of a few months to https://web.archive.org/web/20170121041802/http://www.leadho... , i…
I wish I had found them sooner to express thanks. If it's possible to reach their family I'd still like to revive the site another way; for a drafting junkie it really was one of the best things on the web.
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I tried a plastic body light one a long time back but haven’t returned to it. I think in part because I found the roller ball point pens to be smoother writing and less ‘scratchy’. But maybe I am not using it properly or didn’t get the right model.
A well-tuned fountain pen should write with only the weight of the pen, and then it can take time to learn to relax the hand and shoulder. I can type for longer without pain than I can write with a ballpoint or a pencil, but a fountain pen exceeds them both.
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I exclusively use Japanese writing implements, and hand-wrote all of my notes when I was in college. (Saved carrying a laptop around, and some professors were sticklers about not having laptops out during lectures.) * Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen and Namiki ink * Pilot G2 is my "minimum" pen, though I vastly prefer roller ball pens. * Uniball Air Micro * Pilot Precise V2 * When I need a pencil, I use the Uni Kuru…
> * Pilot Precise V2 I've only ever heard of V5 (0.5 mm) and V7 (0.7 mm), and Googling doesn't turn up a V2. Is there one, or was this a typo?
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A well-tuned fountain pen should write with only the weight of the pen, and then it can take time to learn to relax the hand and shoulder. I can type for longer without pain than I can write with a ballpoint or a pencil, but a fountain pen exceeds them both.
Maybe I just have bad technique. I feel like I can’t relax the hand but have to actively use it. Longer writing is definitely painful.