Actually I did it only the one time we had the goose anyway and gave up because I was so unhappy with the results. I just looked at what directions I could find online back in the day ('99, I think) and set to work. Which, in retrospect, was probably the reason why my results were so shabby.
For really small calligraphy real quills are probably much better, it's sadly true. I gave up on that when I found I couldn't get the nib-cutting right, to be honest, and stick to bigger stuff.
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Actually I did it only the one time we had the goose anyway and gave up because I was so unhappy with the results. I just looked at what directions I could find online back in the day ('99, I think) and set to work. Which, in retrospect, was probably the reason why my results were so shabby.
For really small calligraphy real quills are probably much better, it's sadly true. I gave up on that when I found I couldn't get the nib-cutting right, to be honest, and stick to bigger stuff.