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neil rose

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Is it just me who ends up wearing much of the ink from these pens. I like the flow from them and that they are impervious to water colours & water based inks. They just seem a bit too free flowing . Maybe I shouldn't keep them in the car, last week end being our summer and all.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Pigment ink pens never last as long as you'd like - and when they start to run out they're pretty well useless. I don't know that these pens are any worse than any others, but the more free-flowing they are the quicker the ink is likely to run out. Try Uni-pens - made in Vietnam. They last at least as long as most, and even the finest of them don't get clogged too easily - one of the major manufacturers, whose products are generally excellent, makes pigment ink pens I now avoid because the finer nibs reliably clog and become useless within a very short time.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Crows are indigenous to just about everywhere.
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The carrion Crow (corvus corone) is described as being a rare/accidental visitor to the Teneriffe - as they are therefore unlikely to be crows perhaps they are very large Canaries.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I love the "accidental" visitor - "damn', we've got on the wrong plane!". "I TOLD you we should have turned North at Stevenage!" "Still, it's nice here, isn't it? Look at those huge black canaries...."

Ever Bla

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Eh? Pentel or Sakura? I believed those are two different ones. Pentel has colour brush and Sakura has pigma brushes, no? Sorry, might have it confused. Have the pentel ones (only use those in black) and they are very neat and tidy. Not a drop for me from them (although messy when adding new ink). Don´t use Sakura ones, so can not judge there.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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All I know is I shook one of these pens - a Staedtler, why not name and shame? - because it had clogged and become useless. And all right, I was stupid. I was also spotty and stupid - fortunately I was wearing an old shirt, waistcoat and ancient pair of corduroy trousers, but they're all spotted with pigment ink now, like a nasty dose of acne. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Adele Elgood

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Not so good suffering from acne at our age Robert.