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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately, if you're left-handed like me, it's almost impossible to write with a fountain pen, since your hand smears what you've just written. I used to have enormous problems in English lessons in school, where we had to use fountain pens.
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I suffer the same lefty fate. I tried while in Junior High School, (US grades 7,8,9) with a fountain pen and 'South Sea Blue' ink. I loved the color! Good thing I did, as almost everything I owned eventually turned that shade. Smudging ink as I wrote colored all my papers blue, as well as the edge of my hand and my forearm. Leaking pen turned my shirts blue. And, as this pen was a Shaeffer Cartridge model, and I had this habit of chewing on the end of my spare cartridge... eventually turned my mouth, shirt front, pants, and the unlucky students sitting on either side of me blue too!
I gave up on fountain pens until I discovered the Pentel fiber nibed pen. It wrote like a fountain pen, allowing different thicknesses of line, dried before it smudged, and never leaked. It's only drawback was that it wasn't water resistant. This became a problem when I move to the Tropics, and I had to give up that pen.
Stitchawl