I don't know about the fun part... but it sure was messy! :lol:

This is my latest, Staedtler triplus finelines.

The Staedtler Triplus Fineliners is what started my interest in pens. I ordered a set last May and before the summer ended, some of the pens were worn out to the stub, in turn, writing with some of them is nearly impossible. There is no way to refill the pens and compared to, lets say the .3 Hi-Tec-C (my favroite pen), the line width is really big.

Because of these problems, I have decided to not buy them any more. There are some colors (yellow, orange, sky blue) that I use to high light now.

I really like your handwriting. It looks very refined and the slant is very consistent. It looks beautiful with all those colours... I wish I had good handwriting!!

Hey I have a set of 12 colours! Recently I found that my green and orange pens were almost dried up as the plastic tips were very pale. I do get lots of ink flowing to the tip (sometimes filling the closed cap!) after flicking the pens vigrously. But the green pen appears to have 'died' again after some flicking and writing. I'm sure I'd closed the caps well as I'm very particular about that, and the rest of the colours are stored the same way, vertical in the plastic case. Does anyone have the same problems?

I haven't experienced that yet with the triplus but I have with other pens. What I do is remove the back cap and using an eye dropper I ad 2 or 3 drops of water to the cylindrical ink reservoir. If there is any ink at all left in the pen that will get it started again. Too much water and the ink flows out into the cap. It also may thin the ink so much as to change the color. But it beats having a dried up pen. 8)

Cool, I'll try that! Thanks! 8)

Another thing I have done is to put a few drops of liquid ink into the reservoir. This will re-energize the ink supply but unless you have "felt tip pen ink" it's liable to change the flow of the ink.

Something we used to do when I worked for an aerospace company was to bleed the fibrous ink reservoir of one pen to feed the other. We usually had a favorite, more expensive, porous point pen than the company supplied. In order to keep our pens running we would take the company pen and bleed the ink from it. This is rather messy as the outside of the fibrous tube is inky. We used flat nosed pliers, one to hold the tube and another to squeeze the tube to bleed the ink into the other pen. Sometimes we'd use rubber gloves without the pliers.

Now that I think about it, it was kind of a stupid thing to do! Why didn't we just swap out the ink tubes?????? :roll:

I got lost reading that.... LOL. I suppose the difficult way is more fun and messy? :D

That is a nice swatch sample above, onelonegunman. I like it when people do this - show all the colors, and do it with nice writing and on nice paper. :)

Thanks! I try and do my best! 8)

Didn't see this one before! Love the sample, the pretty handwriting really makes it stand out.