I Love Fountain Pens Stories of Experiences

Just love beautiful writing instruments. Have such a weakness in this area, that I try to ignore the catalogs I get from folks like Levenger.com (where I have purchased a number of things besides pens). However, a week or so ago I got...

I love fountain pens because of the smooth way that they write, and how elegant they look in general. I don't care much for the price of them, but I love how they write in a similar way that quills did in days long past. But then...

I have liked stationary since I was a child, I would browse stationary stores for hours, mainly I bought pencils, rubbers and paper. I still have a few pens from when I was young but most of my fountain pens I have collected over the...

I write with a Parker fountain pen, with blue ink drawn from a bottle.

I have some very nice pens that I bought over the years. I have a liking for Waterman, Sheafer, and Esterbrook. I'm also good at rebuilding pens and have rebuild a few of my all time favorites the Sheafer Snorkel pen from the 50's. They...

with the way they write can you see kids to day trying to use fountain pens for school work

we had a teacher growing up if you use any thing other then a fountain pen it was an F

to me there are like slide rules and using them a skll...

I adore pens! Such beautiful objects!!
Guess you could say I am a collector of pens in one way or another. I keep special pens in my Oak and Walnut antique chest boxes.
Some pens have been gifts - I have "bridesmaid" gift pens, gifts of...

I asked about inks, now what are/were your favorite ink bottles regardless of the ink's quality?

Along with fountain pens comes ink. I happen to like all the shades Noodlers has to offer. So I ask, Do you use Noodlers and what is your favorite color?

For me it all started with $1.00 Sheaffer pen. If you are old enough, you remember them; a pen and 5 cartridges for a dollar, Tranluscent bodies for the most part with medium steel nips. My mother used them to do permenant ledger...

it's just a pen.. there's a actual group about pens? cool...actually not really.. lmao. I'm new to this thing and added myself into this group by mistake when I hit the "Recomend a song" to the group thingy.. ever since I've been...

What have been some of my favorites are the technical pens made by Koh-I-Noor, Pelikan, Rotring and Staedler.  I had a Rapidograph set in college and enjoyed many years of using them on my drawings...

I love the ink. Its so much better than having to press really hard onto a piece of paper, and making the writing look scruffy and not nice to read. My parents have often asked me: "Do you want your eyes tested? You keep...

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FOuntain pens intrigue me.  I like the fact that the ink flows freely, without you having to press down on the paper.  I like the character that the nib gives your writing.  Howevere, I have no idea what I am doing...

held loosely while it glided across the hand made paper, I watched the black ink slither from the point and glisten in the moonlight as I signed my name to the good bye note.

Today I'm ink-spotted after refilling my most-used fountain pen--a slim, silver Cross that I've had for years. Refilling a pen is a very soothing, ritualistic chore. This time, I filled it with tobacco-brown ink, which looks wonderful...

I have been interested in the Namiki retractable fountain pens since they came out, with their clickability so that you could retract the nib....but I am wondering...do they realy keep the ink from drying out on the nib?
Has anyone...

It has been my experience that, when it comes to fountain pens, people are either FOR them....or AGAINST them....using a fountain pen in public brings out more reactions from strangers than voicing a political opinion.....other people...

I like their somewhat archaic nature.  The feedback of a medium or wide nib on heavy paper.  The sense of classiness.  The defiance to disposable consumer crap.  They are made by craft; Collectible; Beautiful. ...