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Originally Posted by Juliette
That's why they're called fountain pens? 
While in school and in the first years of university, I had a couple of fountain pens whose nib was a bit crooked from some incident- which, against all panicky feeling, made writing with those pens easier. |
Getting a crooked nib could be from letting someone else write with it.
One of the 'rules' of using a fountain pen is that you never let anyone else use it...at all, ever. As i recall this is because the affect of your writing style (pressure, angle, etc.) as it becomes imprinted on the metal nib can be ruined by loaning it to someone else that presses harder or uses a steeper angle and thus flexing the tip differently and creating new metal memory.
Might just be tribal lore, but I never let anyone write with my main fountain pens. I keep a couple of nice ball point pens on my desk for the times someone motions for me to hand them the fountain pen I'm using so they can jot something down. I just point to one of those. For people who say they want to try writing with a fountain pen with the idea of using my Vanishing Point, I pull out a very nice fountain pen that I personally never use and let them write with that. I'm careful not to be rude, but very adamant about never letting anyone else write with my good fountain pens.