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Originally Posted by sherkanner
I love to write with a fountain pen, it slides over the paper, love it.
Nowadays I don't use it so much as I'm writing almost everything on computer.
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i agree. i have several fountain pens including some really cheap ones which are actually among my favourites, which you can see in this picture (the black rocket-shaped ones with the orange fins on the cap) :
but i also like pilot V ball pens and at some point i started using them more than my fountain pens. but now i'm feeling the urge to go back...
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Originally Posted by Slite
Nope, the swedish word for Feather is "Fjäder", and the original type of pen you refered to is here called a "Fjäderpenna", so basicly it's a "FeatherFeather"  |
in french, pen is "stylo" but a fountain pen is a "stylo plume" which means "feather pen".
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Originally Posted by pking36330
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.
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yep, i've heard the same, and i never let anyone write with my fountain pens either. that's why i started carrying a non-fountain pen with me at first too, specifically to lend it out.