RE: [lace] Fine pens
Jean Nathan wrote: I use rOtring technical pens, around GBP8.50 (around $13) each so not a cheap pen and intended for technical drawings. Guess I'm just ham-fisted. Okay, if you're using a technical pen (the "point" is a metal cylinder with a wire that shakes up and down to clear out the drying India ink) and it's getting too broad too fast, it's probably how you're holding the pen. Technical pens were designed to be held exactly vertical while drawing. If you tilt the pen they way you'd hold a pencil or regular pen, you will damage the cylinder's edge. Try it with a new crayon--it goes from a circular tip to an oval when you press hard while coloring. If you keep moving the crayon around in your hand, you'll wear down all sides of the tip and make a dull, rounded tip. But if you hold the crayon still in your hand it will wear at an angle and you'll have that ellipse of a point. This is what happens with a technical pen. Hope this helps. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com Parvum leve mentes capiunt (Little things amuse little minds) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
RE: [lace] Fine pens
Adele wrote:
>
> I guess you must be using a soft-tipped pen? There are some that are
hard-tipped - I think the one I found was from Staedtler ("pigment liner"). It
made very fine line (.05) and the ink was permanent. I think it was pricey,
though - maybe $10.
I use rOtring technical pens, around GBP8.50 (around $13) each so not a cheap
pen and intended for technical drawings. Guess I'm just ham-fisted.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Re: [lace] Fine pens
I guess you must be using a soft-tipped pen? There are some that are
hard-tipped - I think the one I found was from Staedtler ("pigment liner"). It
made very fine line (.05) and the ink was permanent. I think it was pricey,
though - maybe $10.
Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
On 2013-11-22, at 10:18 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
> Is anyone else as ham-fisted as me? I can turn a 0.1mm drawing pen into at
> least a 0.3mm one in the time it takes to put the markings on one pricking?
>
> Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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