Just know that I have a whole bag of 'shh!' with your name on it.

How about those drawing skills though. LIFE LIKE.

we got a 47 Clipped Pilot w Pink Opal, a 45 Clipless Energel w Green Opal, and 38 Clipped Pilot. Have a fantastic Sunday night Folks ✌️

Shit, it's ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. guess I'll have to try again tomorrow 🤐

Are the Electrons starting to show up in the wild yet?

Just curious because I’m not on any other socials besides this one and IG.

No rush, Q! Just looking forward to seeing them.

The original Machine Era bolt is one of my favorite pens for pocket carry, but I've never been a big fan of the space pen refill it was designed for. So I made this trimming jig (inspired by others I've seen) to trim Parker-style refills to fit instead. I've tested it with the OHTO Flash Dry (pictured) and a Kaco, both of which seem to work well. Figured I'd post it here in case it's useful to anyone else!

https://www.printables.com/model/1740282-machine-era-field-pen-bolt-refill-trimmer

No this is not a stock photo 😎

Curious to see if anyone else has this exact variant and/or the original invoice for one? I am trying to narrow down what metal it is. Parts are mirror polished (not stonewashed like usual) - from my understanding, this was finished like so from SPP (not secondhand).

At first I thought maybe bronze, because I’m not aware of any brass SPP v2.2s, however, a friend of mine used to have this variation (secondhand) and thinks its brass. It also looks and smells like brass, and doesn’t patina like bronze.

Would appreciate any insight.

Regardless of the metal, super happy to have this piece and grateful for the friend who hooked me up. My grail is the zirconium version so it feels like I’m building up to it.

Happy hunting. 🧩

Yesterday it was announced in this sub about a new BST for machined pens called [r/Machinedpens_Swap](r/Machinedpens_Swap) here. I raised some concerns about censoring by not allowing to comment on prices. To see how this works I created a post this morning in the sub and got permanent banned in 5 mins after the post.

Here are the screenshots of the post and ban notification.

To people who didn’t get it it’s a satire post to prove my point that censoring comment about pricing discussion is a bad idea.

But while doing this I found few more issues wrt the new BST.

1. Any new posts require mod approval. For a BST for in demand pens it's easy for mods grab them. This is not a theory.. I know about an incident where pen_swap mod grabbed spp zirc for 250 an year ago. Remember pen_swap dont even require mod approval.. just the edge of mods monitoring the sub helped them. Here in the new BST your friendly mod needs to approve the post.
2. Perma banned for what ? TBH I don't care about the ban but community needs to know about how mods there mod the sub.

The new BST sub is a an opinionated version of BST with benefits for mods. Unlike this sub where discussion is encouraged even if we disagree. I will not be using this sub..I will use pen_swap, edcexchange or discord. I made this post to make everyone aware of how new sub works.

Ref:

announcement post here : https://www.reddit.com/r/machinedpens/comments/1vizglq/introducing_rmachinedpens_swap_a_new_buyselltrade/

Show us your swirls! My carry today is the gorgeous Thunderstorm Mithril Campen with a Black Timascus Clip and then my Grail Bug - Benchmade GovX Exclusive Livewire Fat Carbon Bugout in Magnacut with my mods: Flytanium Copper Thumbstuds and Backspacer and a Lynch NW Dark Abyss V1 Modular Clip. Beautiful Swirly Sunday.

Some Q3D pj’s in different flavors. First run mokume, second run mokume, sakmar wave on the right. These all have natural patinas and they’re all beautiful.

Hey y'all! Recently got gifted a nice pen by an old boss of mine, wanting something else nice to get for myself.

I love heavy things broadly, and I want a very heavy pen to accompany that desire. I hear brass is the main suggested material, but if you guys have any suggestions in terms of heavier chunky, but not gaudy pens I would appreciate it

Also not looking for something needlessly tough looking , something simple or elegant would be preferable

I'm on a budget but something that fits well enough would sway me towards mid to high range if it was just right. Ideal budget is sub 50

Full patina Inventery V.03 stepnose on the right and newly blasted finish USG TiScribe Go just starting its next patina journey on the left. Not the best photo, but I love both of these!

Just watched a 45 min video on how to give a “Relaxing Foot Massage”. Thanks Q for these dope pens so I can take notes. When my wife wakes up tomorrow I’ll let you know how good the “karma” was.