Do you write with a fountain pen?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by krisk

well the Mont Blanc uses cartridges! and of late I've only been able to find the cheap plastic ones that someone else talked about.


....actually come to think of it... I think the MontBlanc has the ability to refill or use cartridges... or Dad had two different pens and I didn't realize it

Mont Blanc sells refillable cartridges or disposable cartriges for their pens. Usually they come with the refillable ones, and if you want to use disposable ones you have to buy the separately.

[krisk]

I'm guessing that Dad has used both over the years

[ravenne]

I picked "occasionally" since I only use fountain pens when I'm writing letters. And that does not happen often anymore. Usually once a year, right before Christmas

[Tattncat]

Yes, when it's appropriate.

[pking36330]

Originally Posted by krisk

I LOVE fountain pens, but voted occasionally. I have such a hard time finding refills!

Look for refills and pens at Joon Pens of New York (CAUTION: do NOT go to this website if you really enjoy pens like people in this forum like ebooks and ebook readers. This site WILL cost you money!)

I have a couple of good fountain pens I write with when I write letters on occasion. I have a very nice pen I use for signing important documents in meetings and on special occasions. But I settled on the Namiki (Pilot) Vanishing Point fountain pen as my daily writer because it lets me use a fountain pen with the convenience of a ballpoint. I've carried it for the last two years and used it every day at work and it has never leaked or let me down. I got the carbon-fiber body version (just because I'm not willing to spring for carbon-fiber hood and fenders for my rocket sled).

I've bought several times from Joon with prompt service and no glitches, and wish I hadn't seen this thread that made me think of their site because I think I see a new Graf von Faber that would look good on my desk.

[PDS]

Hi, I use a fountain pen most of the time, I love them. I am left handed and find that the ink dries a lot faster than a smudgy biro.

I also collect them, my favourites are my Mont Blanc Starwalker, the Namiki VP, Parker Duofold and the Sailor 1911.

I dont do much writing apart from a little journalling, but I use my pens day to day at work, shopping lists etc, for everything really.

[Juliette]

I am on the "ALWAYS" column, with four Lamy (fell in love with them recently), three Waterman and a number of others (mostly Pelikan) I acquired over the years- remember never to buy the Bic ones, they will have something that will make them unusable (losing the cap, collapsing -if collapsable- at the wrong moment, and so on).

[Juliette]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

(As an aside, one of my pens is a 1935 lever fill, and at one point it really did demonstrate one reason they might be called fountain pens . It was being a temperamental and not putting ink to the nib properly. What I usually do in these situations is squeeze or twist the sac or plunger. You can't do that with a lever fill, you have to pull the lever on the side. Which I did, without thinking. And a fountain of ink shot upwards and everywhere! I ended up sorting the problem out by attacking the nib slightly with some pliers)

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.

[acidzebra]

I'm in the same boat as Harry, and my small-town school teacher actually tried to force me to write with my right hand. As a result I am ambi-disastrous in writing. But on the other hand, I can't recall the time I wrote something more than a post-it note by hand.

[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.

[Jaime_Astorga]

I have seen fountain pens before, though only occasionally. Never used one. I consider them archaic devices, like typewriters or feathers and inkwells.

[Slite]

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.

which is the exact same reason why I don't use Fountain Pens. Tried to once, but being lefthanded makes it a pain. Also the reason basicly I do not like handwriting at all. Most writing regardless of what type pf pen you use does get smudged by writing lefthanded.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga

I have seen fountain pens before, though only occasionally. Never used one. I consider them archaic devices, like typewriters or feathers and inkwells.

You do know that the word "pen" comes from Latin "penna", which means "feather"? A pen originally was a feather .

[Slite]

Originally Posted by HarryT

You do know that the word "pen" comes from Latin "penna", which means "feather"? A pen originally was a feather .

Penna being the word that is still used in Sweden

[HarryT]

That's interesting! Presumably "penna", though, is not the Swedish word for "feather"?