Oh, how I missed my Lamy's!

Since I was flying to Houston instead of driving, I cleaned out all my fountain pens and stowed them away for the time I would be gone. I mistakenly thought they could not be taken on-board a pressurized airplane without severe leaking issues. (I have since read of Urban Sketchers who flew with fountain pens without problems . . .)

After arriving home, one of the first things I did was fill my favorite pens. I also love my Noodler's Konrad and Hero 86 pens, but the Lamy Safari pens are the ones I grab the most. My Noodler's polar black ink is almost empty (amazingly, the bottle has lasted for 4 - 5 years!), so I replaced it with Platinum Carbon Ink that I've heard so many rave about. I also replaced a couple of steel nibs with the black-coated nibs -- they write much smoother!

On this opposite page, I doodled with each of the inks in the pens . . . the far right section is using the Platinum Carbon with an old dip pen. The swath of wet brush run across each section of upper lines shows whether the ink is waterproof --- a bit unfair test on the Platinum ink as all the others had dried overnight before I did the water test and the new ink was still pretty fresh.