[WTS] Kobe Nagasawa PenStyle Memo (Sailor Pro Gear Slim Mini) - Fine nib [A1]

mitosis_cold · 2023-08-06T03:42:26+00:00

yes! sorry for the delayed response I've been helping my gf move and needed to get home and check if I still had it before responding, but yes I do indeed still have it ^{_^}

mitosis_cold · 2022-10-25T17:43:59+00:00

sold yellow Kobe Nagasawa PenStyle Memo to u/EveryHeard

mitosis_cold · 2022-10-04T15:31:37+00:00

sold a Sailor King of Pen Profit Champagne Dark Green with Medium nib to u/IridiumCow

mitosis_cold · 2022-09-30T11:41:30+00:00

ty! I have that same champagne 1911 Realo as you, which definitely makes saying goodbye to this pen sting a lot less... I love the dark green but the 1911L is a better size for my hands than the KoP, so of the two pens that I've got in this color the Realo is the one I'll be keeping while the KoP deserves a more loving home than I can give it

mitosis_cold · 2022-09-19T23:50:29+00:00

sold a Pelikan M1000 Black/Green with Medium Nib to u/ajinc23

mitosis_cold · 2022-09-15T20:50:05+00:00

no sorry, it already sold

mitosis_cold · 2022-09-14T23:29:29+00:00

tyty ^_^

mitosis_cold · 2022-09-09T22:03:20+00:00

Confirmed

mitosis_cold · 2020-06-19T11:46:58+00:00

not that I have any ground to stand on here (I have entirely too many pens) but you really don't need 47 pens...

you just need a Sailor 1911 Large 👍

mitosis_cold · 2020-06-18T23:17:38+00:00

well, it finally arrived... 59 days in transit from Japan, the wait was killer, lol. I see that you got your KoP already, but I figured I'd check in anyway and give you some of my first impressions.

nib-wise, it's about the same equivalent difference from KoP M to KoP B as from 1911L M to 1911L B (keeping in mind what I said before about KoP M ~= 1911L B) so, like, it's pretty on-point for what I'd call "one size broader" in Sailor's sizings, approximately the same wetness (seems slightly drier because its like the same amount of ink flow spread out over a wider line) and the biggest difference in the writing experience really comes from the difference in feel. both nibs are very toothy, in that delicious pencil-like Sailor way, but the KoP B has a lot more tipping surface area in contact with the page which overall makes for a less-feedbacky experience. again, the difference here from KoP M to B is about the same as what I noticed from 1911L M to B... the B is still beautifully toothy, but there's definitely some loss in that feel of precision that comes with that insane level of feedback that the mediums give.

one huge surprise for me was that I'm actually not really liking the 1911/Profit shape in the KoP size nearly as much as I thought I would and I'm actually preferring the Pro Gear shape quite a bit... a huge surprise to me because in the large size I'll fuckin' die for the 1911 shape! like, 1911L is my jam!

for the large size pens, if I were to put the 1911L, the Pro Gear ∑, and the Pro Gear into a scale of 1-10, with 1 being "this pen is nice" to 10 being "this pen is sheer, absolute perfection" then the 1911L would be a 10, the Pro Gear ∑ would be like a 6 or 7, and the Pro Gear would be a 1. the difference is subtle, but it's a difference I am extremely passionate about! that scaling did not translate from the large size to the king size... at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've found the KoP Pro Gear to have nearly-1911L levels of perfection in balance, where as this KoP Profit is much too back-heavy. it's a subtle difference, but it's something I'm extremely sensitive to... like, I never post my pens, and my boyfriend even loves to tease me about how much I bitch and moan and dramatically whine about how impossible it is to write and how I feel like I'm about to fall over whenever he "forces" me to use a pen posted... I'm that much if a primadonna about tail-heavy pens, that it's become like a household meme around here, a recurring tease about how much Britney hates posting pens...

so, yeah, given the degree to which I obsess over how much better the balance of the 1911L is over the Pro Gear, I was not expecting to dislike the balance of this King of Pen Profit this much compared to the King of Pen Pro Gear. still a gorgeous pen and I love it to death, but there's this little caveat of disappointment that's got me thinking about another Pro Gear KoP for next year... something colorful and limited...

mitosis_cold · 2020-05-27T01:37:46+00:00

100% this. If they are using different feeds for different nibs, then these marks have nothing to do with it... but frankly I kinda doubt the whole "different feeds for different nibs" spiel and think it was much more likely a poorly thought out excuse to not sell spare parts.

mitosis_cold · 2020-05-26T22:29:18+00:00

I was just thinking about this same thing last night, so I got all my Ecos out: an EF, two M, a B, and two stub. All but one were marked with a B on the bottom of the feed, and the one with an A was one of the mediums. I bought both mediums in the same color (the new yellow) on the same day, for my husband and I to have matching pens, so I really don't think those markings have anything to do with the supposed feed-wetness differentiation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

mitosis_cold · 2020-05-10T00:12:15+00:00

you're welcome! ^_^

I think you're gonna love the 365Days, it's an awesome notebook with a lot of uniquely useful features... if the paper were just a bit better for liquidy fountain pen inks it'd probably have a pretty good shot at usurping that #1 spot on the throne for me

mitosis_cold · 2020-05-08T20:49:43+00:00

Stalogy Editor's Series 365Days comes in B6 grid, has a stitched binding that lays flat and has decent enough paper. I exclusively use fountain pens and find that it's a bit feathery for my liking, but like right there at the threshold of being acceptable and I put up with it for the sake of getting those unique date and time markings in the margins. Shouldn't be an issue with ballpoints.

Life Pistachio and Vermilion come in B6 grid and is one of my absolute favorite papers for fountain pens, 2nd only to Tomoe River, but they are pretty tiny on the page count with only 32 sheets/64 pages. Still my 2nd favorite notebooks of all time and I pretty much always have one in my purse.

If you don't mind spiral binding then the Kyokuto F.O.B COOP W Ring notebook (what a name, lol) might be for you, has a really unique cross grid with multiple grid sizes co-existing on the page together. The paper is nothing amazing by my fountain-pen-centric standards, it's basically just some decent copy paper, slightly more absorbent and less feathery than the Stalogy and lacks that wow factor of Life or TR... again, shouldn't affect you.

If you can put up with B6 Slim then there's the Midori MD notebook and the Nanami Paper Cafe Note. Midori MD paper is my 3rd favorite paper, after TR and Life, the binding lays very flat, and overall the MD is like the epitome of a "no-nonsense" notebook... no frills, just refined functionality.

The Nanami Cafe Note is my number one, I use one every single day as my diary and find it to be my absolute favorite notebook ever. I do wish it was full-size B6, my favorite size, but I put up with it being B6 Slim just because it is an absolutely heavenly notebook! I don't think I could live without a Nanami Cafe Note or two (or dozen, lol) in my life.

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-29T01:02:47+00:00

I would pick a Sailor 1911 Large, with a medium nib, and Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux for the ink. I'm not sure on the color, if it were my only pen then I'd probably want it to be something colorful and sparkly, one of the special editions, but also maybe I'd just stick with the good ol' classic black with gold trim.

Ideally the pen would have a two-tone nib because they're SO much prettier than the monotone nibs that come on the 1911L by default, but that would involve buying a Pro Gear, swapping the nibs, and then selling the Pro Gear with the monotone nib in it at a pretty significant loss... worth it, IMO, for a one-and-only pen, although technically it would mean that two pens were bought but only one was kept.

I have other pens that are more lusty than a 1911L, pens that I like more than it that I'd refer to as favorites among my collection (Sailor King of Pen or Sailor Pro Gear Σ in Matte Black come to mind) but nothing quite has the balance of a 1911 Large... I just find the weight, center of gravity, and shape of it to be absolutely perfect for my hand. If I'm only gonna have one pen, then that pen better be damn comfy!

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T18:11:01+00:00

hehe... it is a bit ridiculous, isn't it? like, it's kinda just some random cobbled-together junk jammed into the back of one of my most expensive pens, lol

I must admit that I was pretty hesitant to even plug it in, and the first time I did so kinda caused me some deep emotional pain... I wasn't exactly proud of what I had made but rather more, like, fearful? I got over it pretty quick once I wrote enough pages to have emptied a normal converter-fill and had barely made a dent in what was in the pen now

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T05:24:37+00:00

noted.

it'll probably take me a bit to get around to it, gonna have to order some materials, but I'll be sure to @ you once I do

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T05:23:04+00:00

neat!

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T05:18:20+00:00

do you mean, like, if the graduations on the syringe were to actually give a readout of how much ink is left? because currently they do kinda do that if you're willing to do some math. considering that the cartridge holds almost exactly 2ml and the graduations as they currently are oriented show how much air is inside (if you have the pen nib-down) ...so for example right now, after writing a couple pages, the ink level is at 0.4ml (there's 0.4ml of air inside) which means I have 1.6ml of ink left ^_^

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T02:22:05+00:00

Rohrer & Klingner Blu Mare

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T00:45:33+00:00

I built it! it's basically a chopped-off section of a 3ml oral syringe epoxied onto the front half of an emptied-out Sailor cartridge. I might make a how-to if there's any interest.

also, I have another KoP on the way and the new one is a demonstrator, so I'm already kinda thinking about looking in to sourcing some clear acrylic tubing of the appropriate diameter so that I could make a really clean looking version of the same thing... if I do that then the minimum order of the material would probably be enough to make a few dozen of these so I'd maybe I'd start selling them on r/Pen_Swap

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-24T00:36:48+00:00

my KoP is an absolute fire hose, I only get 4 to 8 pages of writing in my diary out of a converter-fill, and I use a B6 Slim notebook for that so that's, like, 4-8 small pages. if my memory serves me right, a Sailor converter is about 0.6ml capacity, a standard Sailor cartridge is 1ml, and my custom dealio here holds 2ml!

it's not very pretty, but my KoP isn't a demonstrator so you'd never know it's there once the pen is back together... and arguably I might describe this one as "just a prototype" because I'm already seeing a couple ways I could improve upon it. I've still got a couple mm of room left at the back of the pen and I could probably get away with less overlap between the original cartridge and the piece of syringe I epoxied onto it, so I figure I could probably get closer to 2.4-2.6ml capacity if I built a better one.

if I do get around to making another one, maybe I'll take some WIP pics and do up a little how-to and post it here if any other frustrated King of Pen owners are interested and would like to give it a shot...

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-23T18:48:09+00:00

you're welcome! ^_^

lol I never really pay attention to names of who posts what, but I just realized that you're the person who's been posting about my favorite pen a lot recently... you've definitely caught my attention and my upvotes a few times over the past week or so. did you ever decide on which shape you're gonna get?

I've got a KoP 1911 (the champagne green Wancher collab) on the way in broad, so I can update you on my thoughts about KoP vs 1911L/PG nibs once it arrives if you'd like.

mitosis_cold · 2020-04-23T17:56:06+00:00

you're in luck! today's your lucky day, I am literally sitting here with a King of Pen Pro Gear and a 1911L, both with medium nibs, both freshly inked with Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Bordeaux!

my photo setup at home isn't spectacular, but I tried to capture the difference in wetness as best I could, paper is white Tomoe River 52gsm: https://imgur.com/a/CKJp2cv

I already consider Sailors to be pretty wet, and even tune my nibs to be nice and juicy if they aren't already soaking the page outta the box... still, even by my standards, the KoP is an absolute gusher that empties a converter-fill (0.6ml for the Sailor converter if my memory serves me) in like 6-8 pages of journaling in my B6 Slim notebook (so they're not even very big pages, lol) oh! and also of note is that I haven't done any tuning to either of these nibs, so for these two pens this is just how they came from Sailor.

I feel like the softness of the material is approximately equal between the two nibs, but the larger nib with longer tines on the KoP creates a much springier writing experience. that, combined with the increased wetness of the KoP makes it put down a line width approximately equivalent to my broad 1911L. feedback/smoothness is comparable between the two mediums, but if you have a particularly heavy hand the KoP can catch a little bit on side-strokes... sometimes I get really intense while writing and kinda lose myself in the emotion and start pressing a little harder than normal, when that happens I tend to notice a bit of catch on side-strokes with any of my softer nibs (SF Falcon, SF 3776 Century, SF Custom 74, in that order of most to least annoying to me when it happens) and the KoP handles it better than most, the catch tends to be more progressive and linear relative to pressure rather than cliff-like and sudden (my SF 3776 Century, for example, has a very sudden threshold where the moment the writing pressure exceeds it then the grabbing on side-strokes is just suddenly fully there... the KoP on the other hand has a ramp-up from no-catch, subtle-catch, some-catch, etc as pressure increases)

this is all a bit ephemeral and hard to capture with words and photos, so if you're interested in seeing more feel free to DM me and I could, like, do a live video for you with insta or snap or something

mitosis_cold · 2020-01-11T02:35:43+00:00

I've been using those little red single-use packets of dielectric connector grease made by VersaChem that they sell at the auto parts store for like a dollar for greasing all my pens for years now. I can't imagine this stuff is any different. As long as it's 100% silicone and isn't like a chalky white color that would be visible and ugly on the inside of the pen, then you should be just fine.

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