Any Fountain Pen Users?

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Originally Posted by Dieseld

Just to let you know, some of the 11 Master Penmen alive right now are lefties :)

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Oh great. Thanks a lot Dave: I had no idea "Master Penmen" was even a thing, and now after having checked out their site I feel even worse about my own impressionistic scrawls!

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Originally Posted by TheGeek

I manage it without that mess lol. Just keep your hand out of the ink ��

Geek

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Why didn't I ever think of that. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Cangooner

Oh great. Thanks a lot Dave: I had no idea "Master Penmen" was even a thing, and now after having checked out their site I feel even worse about my own impressionistic scrawls!

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You are very welcome!! :tu

I'm telling you they have some amazing talent and skill without a doubt.
I enjoy looking at their work, there are so many little details to notice many times

I have just updated myself with this threads most recent posts. I also regret the loss of cursive writing. I have looked at my grandfathers and his peers writing and they were not that great.....

I have had fun at work carrying a fountain pen and when someone asks to borrow it I watch their reaction.

Mostly "older" ones don't miss a beat but I have been pleasantry surprised by a few younger ones. Of course I don't give them an expensive pen!

This post has been corrected many times by a spell checker...............:gaah::roflmao

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I have a relative that likes using the nicer uniball pens. To keep from losing them he always keeps the cap when someone asks to borrow them.:hmmm:

I’m old enough to remember inkwells in student desks and nibbed pens in elementary school - no fountain pens since they thought that would make us lazy. We were given a liner to guide our writing on line free paper - you got one liner for the entire school year.

The big debate when I was in grade 6 was the introduction of ballpoint pens and lined paper in schools. They thought that would really make us lazy and detract from our work ethic as adults. I missed my chance at being ink monitor for my class because of ballpoint pens.

You could always tell who was left-handed by the ink smudges on their hands. The contortions they had to do to drag their pens across the page were painful to see.

Damn I guess I,m nit that old, no ink jar on my desk and the Big Chief note pad had lines if I remember correctly. But no ball point pens either, only pencils. Tc

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Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Damn I guess I,m nit that old, no ink jar on my desk and the Big Chief note pad had lines if I remember correctly. But no ball point pens either, only pencils. Tc

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Guess I'm not that old either. Always wondered why if you have little hands you get a big fat pencil, when your hands get bigger you got a smaller pencil. My first three grades had grades 1-5 in the same room.

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Originally Posted by Diboll

Guess I'm not that old either. Always wondered why if you have little hands you get a big fat pencil, when your hands get bigger you got a smaller pencil. My first three grades had grades 1-5 in the same room.

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i think to have an idea but i think it's not politically correct....:rofl2:

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Originally Posted by DZEC

You could always tell who was left-handed by the ink smudges on their hands. The contortions they had to do to drag their pens across the page were painful to see.

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I'm left handed, the contortions aren't really that painful. You just have to adjust living in a right handed world :)

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Originally Posted by Dieseld

I'm left handed, the contortions aren't really that painful. You just have to adjust living in a right handed world :)

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They were painful to watch.

I'd imagine so, but being in our right mind we figure it out lol

I can see a leftie manipulating a fountain pen, but we had dip pens.

The class had an ink monitor who mixed powdered ink with water and used a small watering can to fill the inkwells in each desk at the start of the day.Desks were mounted on wooden rails so that if anyone moved, everyone felt it.

AH the good old days. Glad they are done.

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Thanks for that info, waayyyy before my time.
But I also use dip pens. A bit more of a challenge as the ink doesn't dry very fast.
Turn the paper more and write more from above than I usually do.

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Originally Posted by Dieseld

I'm left handed, the contortions aren't really that painful. You just have to adjust living in a right handed world :)

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Hope you've adjusted better than me.
I'm right handed and folks tell me I still need to adjust!!:aargh:

I do my best. And you’re very spot on about the dip pens. It is quite the challenge to not turn my hand black and ruin a letter or certificate I am working on. It adds some serious hours sometimes

I have a Waterman and several Parker Sonnets.

I recall back in my elementary school, some of the desks still had grommets for ink, but we didn't use them. We brought our fountain pens filled...
The only reason I started writing with fountain pens was my teacher, she couldn't grade my papers when I wrote an assignment with a ball pen.
She suggested a fountain pen , which in theory would slow down my hand. In practice, it did and the pens stuck with me to this day.
Keep writing my friends!