Misfill, Color in Quarantine Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— Free Coloring Pages for All (Doodlers Anonymous)

— A look at the Visconti Van Gogh Starry Night fountain pen (Fountain pen blog)

— The Internet Is Restaging Famous Paintings While Museums Are Closed (Hyperallergic)

— Quarantinely Inked (Weirdoforest Pens)

— The Best Paper for Everyday Writing, Part II: Top Five Slim Softcover Notebooks (The Gentleman Stationer)

— Locked Down,Writing, & Blogging (dapprman)

— The McQueen show that changed the future of fashion (Dazed)

— The 25 Best Board-Game Mobile Apps to Play Right Now (Vulture)

— Luisa, Chilean Textile Artisan (RAD AND HUNGRY)

— Pocket Size Review 42: Yookers Metis, Waterman Serenity Blue (Penquisition)

— Too Many Words about Blackwing Pencils (The Cramped)

— Iris van den Akker on pushing diversity in animation, coping with a crisis and living with an ADHD brain (Creative Boom)

— Current Mood(s) (From the Pen Cup)

— Ink Review: Colorverse Goldspot Special Edition Aurora Borealis (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— KWZ Grey Plum (Inkdependence!)

— Journaling: The Last Page (Writing at Large)

— Disassembly Line: TWSBI Go (SBREBrown)

— Professional Fashion Photographer Now Taking Snaps In Animal Crossing (Kotaku)

— Ink Review #1122: Diamine Denim (Mountain of Ink)

— Chris Russell's Humanity Notebooks (Notebook Stories)

— Transmissions : A Conversation With Patterson Hood (Aquarium Drunkard)

— Gourmet Pens: Vinta Inks Blue Floss Perya Stole My Heart. (Gourmet Pens)

— Endless Works Recorder Notebook Review (Notebook Joy)

— Give a Sheet? Then take a look at these artworks on toilet paper (It’s Nice That)

— A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine (Hyperallergic)

— Just the ticket (Present & Correct)

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Sailor Fountain Pen Maintenance Kit Review

(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)

The Sailor Fountain Pen Maintenance Kit arrives in a small blue cardboard box. Inside are a 3ml plastic syringe with two attachments: a blunt metal syringe pipette and a plastic nozzle attachment for cleaning. In addition there’s a soft cleaning cloth.

The attachments serve two different purposes. The metal syringe pipette is used for drawing up ink from near-empty bottles. You simply screw the pipette onto the syringe and stick the unit into the ink bottle.

The syringe pulls a full 3ml of ink into the syringe. You can use this to fill your converter or an empty, clean cartridge (just be careful not to press the syringe too hard or too quickly or you’ll have a mess on your hands).

The cleaning nozzle also attaches to the syringe. After rinsing your nib unit thoroughly, fill the syringe with clean water.

Insert the nozzle into your nib unit and press gently. The water will flow through the nib unit and clean out any remaining ink.

Although you can use a baby nasal aspirator (what I call a “nose sucker”), you don’t have as much control over the flow of water through your nib. The syringe/nozzle unit works much better because it allows you to apply gentle pressure.

The cleaning cloth is just a simple, soft cloth for wiping your barrel or mopping up leftover water.

Keep in mind that the Sailor Maintenance Kit is intended only for Sailor or Nagasawa brand pens. Although you can certainly use the metal syringe with any ink bottle and cartridge/converter, the cleaning nozzle is made to fit Sailor nib units only.

You can purchase the Sailor Fountain Pen Maintenance Kit from JetPens for $16.00, which seems a bit expensive to me. You can purchase ink syringes with metal pipettes pretty inexpensively from other retailers. However, if you have a large Sailor collection, this kit might be worth the cost since it comes with a nozzle sized specifically to clean Sailor nibs.

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)

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