Thread: Any Fountain Pen Users?

I made a new oblique penholder. It's made of all danish wood. The brown wood are Thuja root while the light wood is a kind of hard pine. I made the flange myself and the nib is a Nikko G with is awesome for writing Spencerian script and copperplate.

And a writing test... The ink is Blots Iron Gall ink. Great ink for dip pens.

Originally Posted by Kristian

I made a new oblique penholder. It's made of all danish wood. The brown wood are Thuja root while the light wood is a kind of hard pine. I made the flange myself and the nib is a Nikko G with is awesome for writing Spencerian script and copperplate.

So you use a normal nib, but make it oblique by offsetting the flange(nib holder?)? is the flange made from flat brass sheet or something? You made a nice job of it anyhow.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

So you use a normal nib, but make it oblique by offsetting the flange(nib holder?)? is the flange made from flat brass sheet or something? You made a nice job of it anyhow.

Yes to all the questions :-)

The flange most be offset by 55 degrees that gives the best writing position. I have experienced with smaller angles thou sometimes giving great results.

Anyway, the first pen takes a very long time to make, while the next ones are made easier. It's the same thing about the flanges.

Gentlemen,

Sometimes when I need to get away from my home office to work on the novel, the local bookstore is the ideal place to go. Since I am working on the first draft of the third novel, and since I always write the first draft with a fountain pen, I take along two pens filled with black ink. Rather than taking them in their original boxes, which are a wee bit clunky, I transport them in my briefcase in Thiers-Issard straight razor leather cases. The cases sat around the shave den unused.

A 'new' ink pot from the garage sale of my son's girlfriend's father...

Already filled with Schaefer Brown and stopped with a trimmed wine bottle cork...

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen,

Sometimes when I need to get away from my home office to work on the novel, the local bookstore is the ideal place to go. Since I am working on the first draft of the third novel, and since I always write the first draft with a fountain pen, I take along two pens filled with black ink. Rather than taking them in their original boxes, which are a wee bit clunky, I transport them in my briefcase in Thiers-Issard straight razor leather cases. The cases sat around the shave den unused.

Nice and varied selection between the Parker, Montblanc, and Pelikans. Varied or uniform nib sizes? I tend to prefer the extremes from extra fine to stub...

I have a Parker duo fold, a Waterman and a Cross. The first two have bold italic nibs in gold. The duo fold is the most comfortable in the hand, being fat like a classic Mont Blanc, but the Waterman is the best for writing with.

I always use Pelikan Brilliant Green ink.

Part of my birthday haul was a new Parker, I am not sure of the model, and the refills were part of the present. I will probably take the converter out of my other Parker which isn't so comfortable to use when I have run the cartridges out.

I just got a few more myself. Probably the best is a 2004 mont blanc meisterstuck 149. Massive nib, writes quite nicely as well.

James