Dan R

Recently lucked into a few dollars and decided to treat myself to a Delta Dolce Vita. It is the piston type and made of orange resin. I've never had a "phat" pen decided this was to be the one. Got it from Mottishaw who tweaked it to my preferences. But no grinding!

When I got it, I inked it up with Swisher's Intense Purple. I've had the color for a couple of years, but keep forgetting to use it. I took it on a couple of work assignments and was disappointed on how wet the pen wrote. I use cheap notebooks provided by the company, so I know that did not help. Lots of bleed through.

Instead of getting irritated, I emptied the Intense Purple back into the container and rinsed the pen out thoroughly. After some drying, I loaded it up with Mont Blanc Oyster Gray. That ink is drier and it writes wonderfully on the cheap noted books. It's a great pen!

Moral of the story, change inks to get the results you want. The pen is not always at fault (especially if it is not scratchy)).

Cheers,

Dan