Buying A Fountain Pen Guide
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- In today's video we dive into the topic of buying a fountain pen. The basics such as the nib, the size of the pen and all the other important considerations you should make while buying.
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I was fortunate to write with fountain pens in school, and with a youthful mind considered using ballpoints an emotional type of graduation. But now, several years later, I rediscovered fountain pens and opted for a Leonardo gold. The experience was incredible!
Glad to read that you found the Leonardo fountain pens, they are amazing
Lots of great advice. Thank you!
Joost, thanks for series, they are very informative and enjoyable. Looking forward to the next installments.
Thank you Joost. Excellent advice.
I am about out of battery, so I will just say: “Loved your Guide!” Also, your new “Top 3” series.
Keith Whitney thank you for the compliments! We will try to upload more videos soon
As for my experience with buying my writing instrument, I initially bought an inexpensive but carefully chosen pen and proceeded to experiment with a couple of inks. A few months later, I had a fuller idea of what my preferences were. I then made a decision, upon having had researched, to buy a model that would satisfy all of those preferences to a satisfying degree: Montblanc 149. For two years, it has been my greatest friend. If ever I choose to buy another to keep as a backup, I would favour your online store - the prices for modern 149s at your store match those that we typically pay for vintage models.
Well , if you really bought only 2pens , one cheap , and one top tier 149 that's really good job , you must have saved a ton of money .Though probably one pen can't fit all the criteria of the perfect fountain pen , I reckon that you should have something extra fine in your collection ,like japanese extrafine , and also something flexy , And also something which changes lane width depending on an angle like sailor nibs or pilot waverly , atleast one stub would be fun too , +if you like to sketch a fude or concord nib is a must (no matter the price).
C- I agree that one pen can in no way be called the perfect pen, but I don’t feel like having too many options at hand - I am one of those people who get confused when offered options. I would never be able to write another passage if I had to choose between, say, six excellent pens before beginning the writing session. 😅
Every bit of this is sound advice. However, sometimes, conventional wisdom does not prove effective: for instance, despite having truly small hands, I could never write with a pen as thin as a Mozart without getting cramps in my wrist within five minutes; the 149 suits me regardless of whether I am to write down a story idea or a novella (at a single stretch). This is not to disprove any piece of advice you give, it is just a curious observation I make. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video and am sure that anyone looking for buying their first fountain pen would be better equipped to get optimum joy and utility out of their acquisition if they pay heed to your advice.
Excellent and thorough coverage of an often ignored topic. I only wish I'd seen this before a bought my first dozen pens, although in some regards I seem to have instinctually made good choices. Thanks to Appelboom.
Very interesting video. Thank you!
Great video, but I disagree with you on one point. I have small hands and short fingers but I absolutely love my Pelikan M1000. I think the user becomes accustomed to the pen, and I got to like large pens a long time ago. I find slim or short pens difficult and uncomfortable to use. On everything else you say, I'm in agreement with you.
You are right, I have, in my opinion, small hands, and my first pen was a LAMY 2000 which is a short pen, and one I need to post so I can write comfortably. Let's be clear, if you want it, get it, and enjoy. I agree this is a great video, and much appreciated. Also; I just ordered from Appelboom the Pelikan m1000, a really BIG pen, waiting with exuberant impatience.
I love my copper VP LE for ease. My TWSBI Vac 700 fort long long writing sessions. And my L2k for that amazing timeless, understated, style and utility.
Love the clown, with large shoes. But your so correct and large hands that buys small pen to me it looks silly cause I’ve seen large hand people that have small pens and they have problems holding the pen to fit their hand, or they tell me this pen sucks I shouldn’t buy it,so I asked why did you buy it? Cause it looks great.
I don't get it I have small hands and a huge pen like the Namiki Urushi #50 looks fine in my hand - about what most posted pens would look like (I don't post only an idiot would post a lacquer pen). Or maybe people are laughing behind my back :D
Thanks for an amazing advice, do we have an ink pen for left handed or ink pen goes for both ways, left and right hand , thanks
Well, there is one fountain pen which I bought exclusively for the functionality of it, just as it used to be when fountain pens were all around. An everyday pen. This fountain pen is the Lamy 2000; it always goes with me wherever I go, it's sturdy and durable, it's not a tragedy if it gets a knock or two, and just such a convenient, dependable, comfortable to use, "no nonsense" pen. I feel it will last several generations. I have other, fancier pens, which are indeed also a pleasure for the eye and with which I am careful, especially my Montblanc 146 and 149 which I inherited from my father, who sadly recently passed away. But the Lamy 2000 is the quintessential fountain pen for me. If I could have only one, it would be undoubtedly this.
I have 2 m400 both have a f nib but one write broader than the other
It is hand made, and those products always have little misperfections
It's a good idea to call someone a clown ;)
Excellent video, but I get tired of hearing that metal pens are too heavy for long writing sessions. That's a complete myth, and incredibly silly. I know a number of average, and less than average, sized women who write nearly all day with metal pens. They have no trouble, and certainly do not bulge with muscle.
I spent forty years writing for a living, and wrote most of my first drafts with a fountain pen. Even in retirement, I still write several thousand words per day, all of it with metal pens. The simple fact is that with very rare exceptions, metal pens simply are not very heavy. In fact, the weight they do have makes it easier to control how the pen moves. You can relax and allow the pen to do the work.
Light resin/plastic pens are so light they half to be controlled every second, and this is what causes hand cramps. Most hand cramps come when using a pencil, which is about as light a syou can get. The large majority of metal pens simply are not very heavy, excepr in relation to some form of plastic pen. Metal pens certainly are not heavy enough to bother any adult who knows how to hold and use a fountain pen.
Good grief, thousands of people use heavy tools for eight hours at a stretch. Truly heavy tools that weigh forty to fifty times as much as a metal fountain pen. If you can't handle using something that weighs a couple of ounces. especially if you know enough to let the pen do the work, you're a little child, not an adult, male or female.
I have one massive metal pen that's intentionally thick, heavy, and gaudy. It's really made as a joke pen, and it weighs four and a half ounces. But I've written 2,500 words at a stretch with it, and ha dno problems, no fatigue, no cramps.
I strongly suspect that those who say a metal pen is too heavy for a long writing session have never actually tried it, or simply don't know the correct way to hold and control a fountain pen.
And seriously, my favorite pen in all the world is the Parrot and the Peach Maki-e pen by Namiki. It has a brass barrel. Are you saying you wouldn't use such a pen as often as possible, and for as long as possible?
Understand, that pen collecting, and pen use are worlds apart. As an investment, no, worse than watches, as it is a smaller niche. Go to a pen show, and you can see the many booths trying to sell away their vintage pens. Not to mention nib maintenance, and nib meister servicing. As indicative of times, there is above norm hot market that will drop dramatically as the post-pandemic begins. Modern FPs tends to function over form, high QC and made of materials that can make them legacy choices, even outperforming high priced pens.
Large pen looks ridiculous in small hands? No. 1: I disagree. Even so-called large pens like Montblanc 149 or Visconti Homo Sapiens are not that big that they would look ridiculous. No. 2: Even if they did, who cares! I choose pens according to what I like and what I feel comfortable with. I have small hands but the Montblanc 144 feels too thin for me, I much prefer the 146. I love the Visconti Homo Sapiens for its performance (the 18 ct gold nib is absolutely fantastic!), for its looks, for how the material feels and for the thought of it containg lava. I love it despite the fact that it is slightly too big for my hand. I still enjoy using it, even when writing several pages.
My advice: Go by the looks (do you feel attracted to it? Do you enjoy looking at it?), then try it (does it feel good? Do you enjoy holding it and don't want to put it down?). And if it looks good and feels good, then it is good for you. Buy it or save up the money until you can buy it!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts
//bigger pen = bigger ego???? was that intended.
So, it's a "buying a fountain pen"-guide and not buying a "fountain pen guide" ... ;-)
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