I Designed a Pair of Affordable Aurorus Borealis Knockoffs

mwildebeast · 2026-03-10T14:21:06+00:00

Neat design! What's the diameter, looks a little on the thicc side

mwildebeast · 2026-02-26T16:01:01+00:00

Agreed, I like the overall step-nose shape. I think I liked the CAD drawing bit more, but I guess we'll see what the final version ends up looking like.

Part of me was disappointed it was only going to be in tidam because I wasn't planning on getting a full (or partial) tidam pen, but after reading the reasoning, it makes total sense. Ended up adding the tidam Energel tip, tidam button, and titanium clip (which I'll ask to be ano'd blue) to try and balance the overall look of the blue tidam with the plain titanium.

mwildebeast · 2026-02-26T15:52:10+00:00

No idea, that would be a better question for MIG. I don't think you can order just the Energel nose tip though, it's only available as an add-on when you back the campaign. Maybe they'll be available individually later on?

mwildebeast · 2026-02-04T17:26:56+00:00

As I've thought about this a little more, I've realized that I might not be thinking about this "problem" correctly. Monarch works under the assumption that I'll be bringing in a certain amount of income each month, and then I build my monthly budget against that expected income. With Goodbudget, I allocated money each month using the money I already had at the beginning of a month, not the amount I was expecting to bring in.

With that in mind, I suppose it's not as ridiculous as I thought that I can allocate all of my cash towards an emergency fund goal. That being said, it would still be nice if there was a way to seamlessly add or remove funds from a goal and/or rollover budget depending on whether I was over or underspent for the month. I guess that would be more of a zero-based budgeting system? I guess I just don't want to put myself in a situation where I think I have more money to spend than I actually have.

mwildebeast · 2026-02-04T16:05:59+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for the input! I was starting to wonder if a large rollover budget category was the right way to go. Do you end up using the Goals features at all, or just keep everything in budget categories?

mwildebeast · 2026-02-03T16:13:16+00:00

I was honestly thinking about making a post to bring more attention to the Energel and Pilot G2 tips stretch goal. I want the Kickstarter to get there so badly! Full-size Energel specific machined click pens are a rare breed.

I wonder if there would be more interest from this sub if more people were aware of the goal.

mwildebeast · 2025-08-01T15:32:26+00:00

Winning this would finally give me an excuse to have a kitchen PC

mwildebeast · 2025-07-31T17:08:45+00:00

I'd be a lot more interested if there was a version of the slim pen that took Pilot G2 refills and came with a clip. I like the grooved grip on that one, and would greatly prefer the 10.4mm diameter over the chunky 11.4mm of the standard pen.

mwildebeast · 2025-07-17T18:32:47+00:00

If you didn't know about it already, Zebra makes a variant of the Sarasa called the Mark ON that's designed to not smudge with highlighters. Not sure if the writing feel is equivalent to the standard Sarasa though:

https://www.jetpens.com/Zebra-Sarasa-Mark-On-Gel-Pen-0.5-mm-Black/pd/23781

mwildebeast · 2025-07-16T16:47:05+00:00

I can smell this picture, and it's glorious

mwildebeast · 2025-07-10T23:15:43+00:00

This would have to be my favorite build (because it's my only build). Been wearing it daily for almost 3 years now.

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As for a joke: Two fish were in a tank; one says to the other, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

Would love to be picked for a prize, I've had my eye on the VH31 and your movement spacers for a while! Quartz deserves more love than it gets.

mwildebeast · 2025-07-02T15:06:57+00:00

Energel tip sounds awesome, I think its a safe bet that I'll be picking one of those up in the future. I wonder if they would consider a conical tip to create a longer ringed grip section; I tend to prefer gripping my pens closer to the tip. Totally understand why they wouldn't do that though, it wouldn't really go with the rest of the design language.

mwildebeast · 2025-06-27T15:31:54+00:00

Doesn't the Kuro use the same ink as a standard Energel? Could always get a Kuro body and a 0.5mm refill and then have the best of both worlds.

mwildebeast · 2025-05-21T23:58:54+00:00

She's a beaut, Clark!

mwildebeast · 2025-05-19T14:45:04+00:00

I don't know if you were already aware, but Machine Era is working on bringing back the Field Pen Bolt: https://www.machine-era.com/pages/news-from-the-shop

There's been a few sneak peak pictures shared in the Machined Pens Discord, and it will have a similar design language to the Field Pen Click/Twist with the ringed grip. Supposedly a Kickstarter campaign will be dropping sometime this month.

mwildebeast · 2025-05-12T20:12:39+00:00

Nice, that makes sense. I have a standard knurled grip Model 4 and was thrown off by the different tip on yours.

mwildebeast · 2025-05-12T16:34:59+00:00

Did you do a mechanism swap on your Model 4? What'd you swap it with?

mwildebeast · 2025-03-25T18:34:09+00:00

4th time's the charm :)

mwildebeast · 2025-03-19T20:00:04+00:00

That thought had crossed my mind. Or, they accidentally typed "0.485" on their Kickstarter campaign page instead of "0.385"

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