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New Member - oblique calligraphy pens

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Goggomobile

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Hi all,
I'm new to UK wood forum. I'm a member of wood and metal forum in Australia.
Ive been turning for about 15 years and pens for about 10.

I mostly turn Aussie timbers and plastics. I cast some of my of my own in moulds with polyester resin and also make decals. Fairly new to this. I have some great mentors where I live in Queensland, Gold Coast.

Most of my timber comes locally where I dry and mil to suit. Bit spoilt really.

Recently, a friend of mine, whom is a Calligrapher, asked me to make some oblique calligraphy dipping pens and flanges.

I said what ? I've never heard of such a thing. I missed that one .. perhaps when I was wagging School that day.

I did some internet research and didn't find much. I put up a post on Aust Wood Forum with little response until PENPAL suggested I try the UK forum. I must say I have found the posts interesting and helpful ... great work :thumbs:

Oh forgot .. I found A Guy in the US with Utubes ... Yoke Pen Company .. not bad.


Regards, Randal
 
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Hi Randal - Welcome aboard. There's a member here with the moniker Fingwe - She's called Malanie and she specialises in calligraphy pens. She might pop along later if she spots this post, but if not you could always look her up from the member's list and send her a message.
 
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Hi Randal welcome to a great forum I am sure you will find some very useful info regards pen turning in general.

I read your post on the Australian site as I spend quite a bit of time in the toymaking section under the same name I use here
 
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Goggomobile

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Thanks for all of the good wishes.
I forgot to mention. I'm a Goggomobil Nutter as well. I'm currently resorting a 1958 Dart which is kind of like a small small Goggomobil sports car. I know this is not the forum but I just love little guys. The cat is Hersche .. English Short hair puss.

These are some of my Decals.. The wrap around orange Dart is my favourite.

Randal
 

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Welcome over here Randal enjoy the forum.Loved the three pens bet the cat was careful on that car body. Kind regards.

Peter.
 
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Hi Randal, welcome to the forum, not sure but the pen nibs you mean might be like the dip pens I used when I dabbled a bit in the fancy writing, Just a nib but sort of cut across at an angle. I did buy a copperplate nib with a very bent to one side nib, never got the hang of that one. Someone on here will help I am sure. Good wishes.
 
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Goggomobile said:
Hi all,
I'm new to UK wood forum. I'm a member of wood and metal forum in Australia.
Ive been turning for about 15 years and pens for about 10.

I mostly turn Aussie timbers and plastics. I cast some of my of my own in moulds with polyester resin and also make decals. Fairly new to this. I have some great mentors where I live in Queensland, Gold Coast.

Most of my timber comes locally where I dry and mil to suit. Bit spoilt really.

Recently, a friend of mine, whom is a Calligrapher, asked me to make some oblique calligraphy dipping pens and flanges.

I said what ? I've never heard of such a thing. I missed that one .. perhaps when I was wagging School that day.

I did some internet research and didn't find much. I put up a post on Aust Wood Forum with little response until PENPAL suggested I try the UK forum. I must say I have found the posts interesting and helpful ... great work :thumbs:

Oh forgot .. I found A Guy in the US with Utubes ... Yoke Pen Company .. not bad.


Regards, Randal
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Hi Randall and welcome to the forum this is what you seem to be looking for Oblique Penholder | Scribblers best of luck trying to turn that in one piece!!

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Hi, I've only just spotted this thread, as I've been offline for a while (long story). Anyway, I make oblique pens, so if you need any help, please get in touch.
 
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Hi Randal, and welcome.
I use oblique nibs on an everyday basis, let me share my experience. Very partial, cause I am a leftie, but this is exactly why I use oblique nibs.

If you are unlucky enough to be right handed, :face: and while using a stub nib (something like italic, sort of a wide perpendicular cut nib, not oblique), if you draw a line from upper left to lower right (or LR to UL, the same), it will be wide. If you draw it from upper right to lower left (or LL to UR), it will be thin. So an O will look like that :
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It is easy to understand, even for a poor rightie :face:, that an O made with a left hand will look completely different. Nicer for sure :face:, but the righty power is so strong that nearly every one except the happy few :face: :face: will think it is ugly.
So, if I want to make the same O as a rightie (dumb idea of course :face:, but I am a good guy :praying: ), my way is to use an oblique italic (similar to my or your right foot), to hold the pen in the good hand (i.e. the left one :face:), to turn it a bit on the right side, and that's it!
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Leftie or rightie, using oblique nibs allows you to change the width of the line according to the direction of you hand.
This will be clear for any leftie, but I can understand it is difficult for a poor right-handed individual. :ciggrin:

Cheers.




PS : Phil from Beaufort Ink sells a "left handed nib" I didn't even try, shame on me. Phil, can you tell us more about it?
 
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