This music is my very favorite that you've test run!!!! I missed your livestreams but I'm going to watch/listen to them while I'm catching up my pen desk! One subject, I'd like to see you do a video about it's hard to describe ... but related on how to get the best line variations & show off ink ... this is because I am such a fan of how your writing looks and at the same time I'm not good with flex nibs or vintage but would like to learn!

This new BG music is pleasing. On Kaweco’s reliability and quality issues, I realized that I’ve 8 Kawecos and thankfully all of them write well with no issues. There’re many Penthusiast KZbinrs you can collaborate with and another commenter already suggested Ode who was my suggestion too ( I know that you swapped your Pilot Fermo with his Lamy 2000(?) ). On this subject of partnership, a watch enthusiast KZbinr got in touch with me and made a video on my 60+ Casio watch collection which surprisingly turned out to be quite successful with 150K views !

Rotring🤦in all the years I've owned their pens...... thank you, that should have been soooo obvious!! Love your content, happy new year 🎉!

Geha 708 CP (chromed) 😊

like the music

I hosted Typewriter Club LIVE for about three years, so I’d be reasonably comfortable being a guest. 😁 Erik Satie is one of my favorite composers, and that is one of the most beautiful pieces of music. I agree with others that it’s likely too sad. Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor is equally sad. I’m a sucker for sad music.

I liked your live streams! I hope you do more! Having grown up in Michigan the snowy road brings back memories I haven't seen for the 36 years I've lived in Hawaii! Nice music!!!

The music of Erik Satie is a perfect match.

Well if you want me to send you some ink you just let me know which ones you want to try and Ill send them to you I have prolly 4 or 5 hundred inks to choose from and Ill lete you know which ones only have a little bit left and which ones I dont have anymore cause either they got used up in the review or if they got taken at the Oc Pen Club of which I am the Ink Master :)

I would love to do a live with you sometime :)

Camera looks great!

I think you and ODE should do a video together. That will be great. 👍

What's different about the video -- the snazzy microphone? As for the music, it's lovely and haunting ...but it may be setting too sad a tone. It makes your North Dakota landscapes seem grim and deserted (in a bad way), which I don't think you want.

I love that music

Gymnopedie #1 is not so hard to play. It's been years, but maybe I'll put it back under the fingers. New microphone.

US 12 ran through Wisconsin, took it a few times to get to Madison. This brought back memories of driving in the snow, the roads do not look too bad.

Missed the Livestream but I'm glad to see it was so well received. I find Gymnopedies perhaps the most painfully sad pieces of music ever written, but I might be the outlier. I cannot bear to hear it.

2025 not 2024 in title! 😊

I was surprised to see you had a Omas 360 - I have a MaJohn V60 which I’ve enjoyed using with a fine nib. They are now offering 3 demontrators with medium nibs - in brown,grey and red.

I like Satie's Gymnopédies (and, yes, there are three), but it may be a bit too slow and soporific for your purposes.

Loved Red Roses on your recent videos and thought I ordered it until realizing I confused it with J. Herbin Scented Rose, oops 🌹

Loved your livestream! It is lovely to talk to you in real time. I don’t know if it is at all doable for you to have them during a school year, but it would be nice to see those from time to time.

Did you see Hemingway Jones' ink 'purge' video this week? 😂

Hey, Mr Squirrel.. Happy new Earth's rotation. Wrong title BTW, - 2025 not 2024...

What nib is on the Geha Boy? You mentioned how nice it is but never said what. The writing looked like a flex nib.

Great video! Man, I have to do a video of my paraphernalia and storage, too!

Happy New Year WaskiSquirrel. All best to you.

Blue Ghost is an ink for a journal.

Noodler's ink that was meant to feather might have been Blue Nosed Bear.

On cheap paper in the US, watch the country of manufacture, if it is one which has a lot of bamboo or sugar cane you might find some that works well.

Happy New Year, Waski! I'm just watching back to see the bit before I came in (and the bit after I fell asleep 😴)😂 I use J Herbin blotting paper. It's pretty effective. I buy it off eBay generally. 😱 Silvexa RIP 😢

I have found that Platinum cartridges that come with the Preppy and Prefounte actually work on lower quality paper. I have some old Moleskine and Field Notes notebooks I'm trying to use up and I can't write in them with my other fountain pens and inks because the feathering and bleed through is so bad. But the ink in the Preppy and Prefounte works fine, with no feathering or bleed through. It's not the nicest looking ink, but if you want to be able to write on cheap paper while still using a fountain pen, it's worth picking up a Preppy, especially given that they're so cheap. I suppose you could even put one of those cartridges in a more expensive Platinum pen if you're wanting to use a nicer pen.

Happy 2025 🎉

Thank you for all the videos you have made thus far, looking forward to more wonderful content in 2025. Happy New Year! :)

Thanks for the generous and candid tour. Best wishes for 2025.

Happy New Year! Sorry I missed it. I’m a bit old for 3am.

As was noted in a previous comment, the French word ciselé is indeed pronounced [see-zuh-lay] in slow, careful speech. However, the simpler and more common pronunciation is [seez-lay]. Why not drop a syllable if you can, right? Your Parker 75 “First Impressions" is a fun video-merci beaucoup [mehr-see boh-koo] ! 😉

Do you post or write unposted with the platinum 3776?

Never Pur India ink made with shalak in a fountain pen unless the bottle says on the bottle Fountain pen ink or safe to put in fountain pens

The Osmoroid was the first fountain pen I wrote with in prep 4 - plastic student pen made in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 only 6 hours late mate!

Woho, you really do have a lot of ink! Looking forward to the live streams,though sadly as replays -family stuff scheduled. All the best!

Great video... IA have started with the buy nothing new and go through the paper and inks I have... Excluding samples, you have more bottles of ink than me, lol, let's me feel a little better.

Dear Mr Waski...I so enjoyed the tour of your 'pen paraphernalia' we have all been here and mine was becoming quite suffocating so I worked very hard earlier this year and sold about 30-40% of pens, paper, ink and other related stuff. I now appreciate and look at what I have more so I feel better but I had to build myself up to doing it which was not easy either. Really enjoyed your personal storage options too, the chemistry set box was great and the shelf built by your grandfather- so memorable and touching. I was going to recommend Montegrappa Fuchsia ink which is beautiful but you might want to wait until you clear a few more bottles out- I have found their inks so well behaved and a joy in my older pens. Thank you ...Sweet Blessings Mand XOXO

Thanks. The joys of ownership!

I admire your commitment and focus on your 'hobby clutter'! At my age I will NEVER make it thru even a fraction of my ink... or books or fabric ...

Curious, what pen do you take on hikes instead of this one?

I am always amazed at how many bottles of ink some people have in this hobby. When someone told me they had over 300 bottles, it woke me up, and I've stopped buying. I have 50 bottles and some samples.

Nice

That was so much fun! I always enjoy poking through other people's stashes of this and that. The funny thing is that I was just reorganizing some of my pen paraphernalia before this video popped up. I have bottles of ink all over the place too. It's exactly as you said -- when I wanted a new treat and another pen seemed too expensive, a bottle of ink provided a modestly priced substitute. Now I've got enough to last three lifetimes.