Growing pen obsession.

[DrBadStrings]

I've recently seriously gotten into collecting pens. I've always been obsessive about my pens not letting others use them and always on the look out for a new good pen though it was always disposable pens. But over the last few months I've started collecting reusable pens, rollerballs and now I've started down the fountain pen rabbit hole. I plan to use this thread to share my pen finds and provide samples of how they write. If anyone out there is into pens and wants to share here please do.

This is my first real fountain pen I got today. An entry level pen at $35 Cad. An Ellington which is a noname brand.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

sixty years since I used a fountain pen.

 

[Gerontius]

Try FPR out of Texas. Fountain Pen Revolution has some really nice imported Indian pens that are super cheap and feel close to the old antique pens. I have a FPR Jaipur v2 in orange vegetal resin and it's nice, got it for $12 on sale.

Osprey Pen is a more premium cheapie, if such a thing exists. $30ish for the Osprey Scholar. Acrylic, turned on a lathe, converter/cartridge, simple and comes in fun colors. I got my girlfriend one and she seems to like it very much. It doesn't leak.

Fountain pens are awesome, usually do not need to be thrown away, and make practical ways to write. I like them a lot.

 

[Misery]

Ooh, pens.

Look at this:

This is just some of it. Certain things are easy to deal with, others are not.

That blue one in front, that one needs to be completely disassembled in order to refill it with ink, typically makes a hideous mess. Lovely pen though. The weird looking metal one next to it was my very first one, much easier to refill. I use a converter for both.

Got various dip pens too, different inks, and a variety of cleaning supplies offscreen (bought from Goulet). Stuff like cleaning fluid, syringes, weird bulb thing.

I have A LOT of stuff like this. Who knows how many random pens and pen-related things in the hideous disaster that is my art supply area. Though, the fountain pens and dip pens are always kept separate from the mess.

I dont know if brush pens count, but those are what I actually use most. Have a bazillion of those things. Lettering is my specialty, brush pens are practically made for that. That's very different from how fountain pens and such are used though.

I have various books on lettering and fonts and such, useful with all of these. Different pen types are good at different things, when it comes to lettering and calligraphy.

 

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There was usually a companion to the fountain pen too, and sometimes they came together in sets - the clutch pencil.

 

[Raggamuffin]

I enjoyed using fountain pens at school.

I use a Pilot V-ball foe my art. Liquid ink is lovely and smooth to write and draw with.

Compared to a scratchy, inconsistent roller ball biro. I find my handwriting is so much neater using flowing, liquid ink, rather than that congealed gunk used in biros.

Ed

 

[DrBadStrings]

I enjoyed using fountain pens at school.

I use a Pilot V-ball foe my art. Liquid ink is lovely and smooth to write and draw with.

Compared to a scratchy, inconsistent roller ball biro. I find my handwriting is so much neater using flowing, liquid ink, rather than that congealed gunk used in biros.

Ed

Always been a big fan of those particular Pilot pens. As a lefty I always had issues with ballpoints, and could only use either the liquid ink pens like that or pricier rollerballs.

Fun fact for you, by design ballpoints and rollerballs are right handed instruments. As a write you drag the pen across the page pulling the ball away from the tip allowing for proper ink flow. A left handed person pushes the pen across the page pushing the ball up into the tip which then causes the pen to jam and stop flowing.

I guess us lefties should all learn one of the right to left writing languages like Hebrew or Arabic. Then we'd be able to use a ballpoint properly and the righties would feel our pain.