Pen Holder

[**Shirley**]

Good Morning Everyone. Have spent all day yesterday looking for my pen holder. I keep it in the same place all the time so I really can't understand. I have been awake half the night thinking 'where can it be?'.

I now think it is time to give up and buy a new one. Should I go for the dearer one? I have heard they take Sakura pens - I thought these would smudge!

Shirley

[cathnoon]

I have the bigger one which my husband adapted from the original one by drilling the centre out but I find the sakura pens do smudge. I have been told it is because the pressure is too high. I do use the bigger pen holder a lot with a different metallic gel pen. Cath.x.

[**Shirley**]

Hi Cath, Kind of thought they would smudge. So I am probably better going for the cheaper one. Shirley

[JennyAnne]

I find that the Sakura pens only smudge if the writing is under one of the rollers, otherwise they are fine. There are a greater range of other pens that you can use if you have the bigger pen holder. If I was in the position of needing to buy a new one, I would go for the more expensive pen holder.

Jenny

[**Shirley**]

Thanks Jenny, You are probably right. I think I should go and order now and stop waisting my time for hunting the old one.

Shirley

[dozyrosy]

It'll turn up as soon as you place your order ! My stuff always does.

I've used Sakura pens without problem - do a test drive and adjust the pressure to suit; if this is too high the "basic" gel pens can go blobby, but I have no problem at all with the stardust ones.

Rosemary

[**Shirley**]

Thanks Rosemary, I have ordered and will now wait patiently.

Shirley

[Craftyhels]

I'd definately go for the bigger one as it takes smaller ones too. The only problem I've had so far with my Sakura pens was when Robbie stopped for quite a few minutes "to get his head round the information overload I'd given him" and because the pen was just hanging around in suspended animation it blobbed a little bit but I've had no problem with them smudging when going under the rollers as I thought this may be a problem so watched carefully what was going to happen, the rollers came into contact quite a bit with the drawing but didn't smear or smudge the image.
Hels