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Thread: Fountain Pens?
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11-12-2010, 09:08 AM #21
I used to be there alot, all I looked at was the ink and Japanese pens... Just to much info and all for me
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11-12-2010, 11:45 AM #22
Left handers don't do well with fountain pens...We have the tendancy to wipe the ink as we write But I thnk they are beautiful pieces...I jst wish i could use one.
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11-12-2010, 12:30 PM #23
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11-12-2010, 01:36 PM #24
It's all in the technique... over-writing, under-writing... paper vertical, horizontal or tilted.
A "dry" ink that dries quickly is nice... but much like using a straight razor; it's all technique.
Note: I'm right handed... but teaching myself to write with my fountain pens left handed so that I might pass them onto my daughter (a lefty) when she's big enough.
And for pens in the OPs price range?.... Lamy 2000, Pelikan M200/M205, Parker '51, Many Touchdown Scheaffer's, TWSBI (A new Asian import piston filler... 40$ish, and suprisingly nice)
I'm a member of the FPN as well... I post under the same name there as here.
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11-12-2010, 01:56 PM #25
Fuliwen White Woven Carbon Fiber
I'm thinking about picking this one up...
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11-13-2010, 04:25 AM #26
I do like my Lamy. It is not expensive and has
a smooth steel nib. It is a great pen for work. There
are a couple of Lamy models some look very bold and
"manly" yet they do not have a solid brass (heavy as heck) body.
A good starter is the Waterman Phileas. The nib is
well polished and writes well from day one. I have
seen them at promotion prices that are hard to pass up
and like them.
Fountain pens are like strops. It is easy to ding them
and trash the nib while you learn to use them. For this
reason get a modest one early on.
The good ones do last for years so other than the
first one have at it.
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11-13-2010, 04:38 AM #27
Fountain pen ink is wet.
Desks commonly had blotters so the ink would not smear while wet.
Find a sheet of blotter paper and cut it to fit your notebook.
Cut it so it can work like a page size book marker. Blotter paper comes
in 8x11 or the big sheets for a desk top blotter.
Enjoy....
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11-13-2010, 09:24 AM #28
When I started school in the 1950s all the school desks had inkwells.
Until recently, tablets of good quality letter writing paper came with a pre-cut sheet of blotting paper.
"He's blotted his copybook" is an expression used to this day in Britain when someone makes a mistake.'Living the dream, one nightmare at a time'
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11-14-2010, 01:29 AM #29
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11-14-2010, 01:48 AM #30"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain