Thread: Any Fountain Pen Users?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!