Thread: Any Fountain Pen Users?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Whats wrong with yer homemade squashed cardboard idea?, you will always be able to replicate it size wise. Will you put a few pen straps/ pockets on the inside of your case?
And how do we know what size yer pockets are big mick?

Nothing wrong with making my own notebooks except I figure time ways it's cheaper to buy the buggers if you can find a style that suits. Easy enough to a point if you like buying Moleskine for their inflated prices, but I'm a reasonable man who like reasonable prices . And my pocket size is the same as your average man sized wrangler/levi jeans back pocket.

I'm keeping this notebook case dead simple Ed. I stick the notebook in my back pocket which is just not the place for a FP to be. My bush notebook case has a loop for a pencil and a pouch with a little penknife to sharpen the pencil with.


Mick

Anyone got any tips for a left handed fountain pen born again virgin?

I used fountain pens decades ago, and it was quite messy, being a left handed 10 yr old i dont think i made the best candidate for their use. I am now a mid 30's lefty.
I have read about left handed nibs and such, but itis a bit late for that as i have already ordered a cheap jinhao x450.
So other than "always carry good soap" can anyone give me some useful advice.

I have also ordered some toucan ink, in black and purple.

I'm a lefty. Trick is simply not to wipe your hands over what you've written. I write with my hands above what I'm writing.

I've also seem people write with their hand underneath what they're writing.

I've never had a problem with smudging.

And I suspect you'll like that Jinhao. We one we have at home is filled with Waterman ink and it's an excellent writer.

You might want to flash it with soap and warm water before using it though. The cheaper pens tend to have some oil residue in them from manufacturing and that hurts the ink flow.

Just man-up Ed. This left handed lifestyle choice has gone on long enough. Time to settle down and learn to write right handed.

James.

Hey! A challenge to EdHewitt. Not necessarily using a fountain pen I challenge Ed to learn to print and write right handed and I will learn to print and write left handed. I would like to appoint Jimbo as the recipient of our efforts by sending him the pages of effort to judge till he says one of us has been more successful than the other. I am willing to spend the cost of postage from the states to achieve this task. If I win I want Ed to make me an honorary member of the lefty group. If he wins we'll make him an honorary member of the human race.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Hey! A challenge to EdHewitt. Not necessarily using a fountain pen I challenge Ed to learn to print and write right handed and I will learn to print and write left handed. I would like to appoint Jimbo as the recipient of our efforts by sending him the pages of effort to judge till he says one of us has been more successful than the other. I am willing to spend the cost of postage from the states to achieve this task. If I win I want Ed to make me an honorary member of the lefty group. If he wins we'll make him an honorary member of the human race.

Stay away from this challenge Ed. Besides changing hands remember that you are upside/down. That is his advantage!

Well i can say the alphabet backwards already, so writing with my off hand shouldnt be too hard, it might be illegible but none the less not too hard, and probably not much less legible than that which i produce with my on hand.

We gonna write "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" in our best victorian cursive

No, seriously, i will give it a go richard, assuming jimbo is game.

Jimbo, school tried to make me right handed, and they failed, so unless this competition teaches me the error of my ways i doubt i will convert to rightism

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

I'm a lefty. Trick is simply not to wipe your hands over what you've written. I write with my hands above what I'm writing.

I've also seem people write with their hand underneath what they're writing.

I've never had a problem with smudging.

And I suspect you'll like that Jinhao. We one we have at home is filled with Waterman ink and it's an excellent writer.

You might want to flash it with soap and warm water before using it though. The cheaper pens tend to have some oil residue in them from manufacturing and that hurts the ink flow.

Cheers, i am an "underwriter", whereas another left handed coleague of mine is an "overwriter" so we can both fill in the same paperwork at the same time.
I will just have to see how it goes.

Jimbo, if you are game, send me a PM with your snail mail address. I'm delighting in this since Ed seems game for it.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Jimbo, if you are game, send me a PM with your snail mail address. I'm delighting in this since Ed seems game for it.

There are only lyrics 1584 men in maleny and 1857 women, I will bet you could put " the moustachioed mathematician of maleny" on the envelope and it would get there. Unless everyone is a Maths professor and all the ladies have facial hair. Or just draw a picture of him on the envelope.