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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.
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.
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Oh, no, pretty sure it wasn't from lending them (even if I didn't know it was a rule, but it does make sense
)- people I know are actually a bit scared about using a fountain pen, how to grab it and so on. Which is kind of weird. Anyway, I'm quite possessive of them too
which is strange, given that I never have this kind of feeling with any other kind of writing implement. (Apart from the dip pens- but then I hardly use them anymore, and nowadays people of my age wouldn't usually know where to begin with them, and older people, i.e. parents, would scream at the
memory.)
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Originally Posted by Slite
Penna being the word that is still used in Sweden |
The same in Italian. Penna is a pen.
As for disposable pens, er, ugh. No. A fountain pen is forever- cheap or not. Actually I think that if the product is good (time- and stress-resistant) one can save money. I'm not talking about the 50 euro range of pens, even the 10 euro range can last for years and years of intensive note-taking!