So I am doing a bunch of note taking on some journal articles and thought to myself wonder how many of you guys write with fountain pens still. Being a young person, 23, not many of my friends have even written with one nor even see one for the most part. I always get bunch of questions and crazy looks when I use it in classes as it is my primary pen I write with all the time. I use to have many Fountain Pens but have sold them all and kept my Rotring 600. Little back story this use to be the pen of engineers back in the day and the design is so that it would not roll down a drafters desk, so being a engineer it has somewhat of a special meaning to me. Anyways here it is: The nib, point that you write with, has bee custom ground by a very well known nib grinder to make the point from XF to a XXF (I like to write rather small...) Some of my Inks, tend to use J. Herbin alot as it drys fast and being left handed it is a nice feature. Use to have over 30 different inks but sold most of those as well. So who else uses fountain pens on a daily basis?
never used one. had one of 2 somehow but didnt had inks for it. but pretty cool. do you get chicks with that pen? lol
i tried my hand at it a long time ago, when I was more into drawing and stuff. never dabbled in it again. but in a way, I consider it almost like a lost art.
You know Ankeet, I did for years when I was in the car business. I always thought it was kinda cool and a bit more formal for signing the bills of sale (I was a sales manager at the time). I used to use the plastic cartridges. Is that what you use? Do you refill yours with your ink supply? I still have mine in the basement. When I started as a police officer, we used to hand write our reports (OK, I KNOW I sound old saying that) and the reports had many copies to go through so I switched to ball point and just never seemed to go back. I may have to dig up mine and see if I can get some more cartridges for it...I always enjoyed how the ink flowed from them. (Betcha Ken used one with a feather!!!)
thats a nice looking pen. i have a mont blanc mechanical pencil i found at the airport one time. thats about as good as it gets for me. i do really appreciate really nice pens though. its like this little things of mine...i just love a good pen that writes well.
haha, well it does get there attention and start asking about them. It does take some a bit of time to get use to writing with them and how you dont press hard at all and just let it glide over the paper. I fill my own cartridge that looks like the one below: So I can use bottled ink, I do have some spare cartridges of my favorite ink (J. Herbin) just in case I forget to fill up or run out mid day. As I said above you cant put too much pressure on them so the nib starts to split open and that is no good so not good for the carbon copy papers. Funny thing is I did have a old school glass dip pen when I had a lot.
That is like me, I have always had a issue with gripping my pens hard and would make my arm start hurting, and was looking everywhere for a nice pen and found a fountain pen and started using it and learned to have light pressure so it helped me not grip so hard. Friends make fun of me because when I bought the pen it was $110 and the custom nib was another $50; but now that pen is worth around $250-275 as they are getting rare.
I really liked fountain pens and I'm thinking of finding a rarely inexpensive one to start with. I googled fountain pens and came across xfountainpen dot com(didn't want to advertise or whatever for them). They emphasized how they make very good pens and charge for very cheap What do you guys think about their pens? It seems like at around 20 bucks it's a reasonable amount for me to start on this fountain pen addiction...
They are pretty decent starter pens, also look at the Lamy Safari little more modern style pen but still a nice starter.
Jetpens.com has some imported ones. I like to write small too but never used a fountain pen. I ranged from .25 to .4 gel ink from that site.
Yep that is another great site. Jap pens tent to run smaller because of the type of characters they have to write.
