Most of the time on me for daily writing and in my notebook is a Waterman Hémisphère. But the prediction is correct my pens started to multiply rather quickly. The first one was the classical entry item with a Lamy Safari as I’ve known them from my school times. I’ve had my journey started a couple of years back and, in particular, to write my morning pages with them. Let me congratulate you on that decision, and welcome to the world of good fountain pens. But I am enjoying the experience thus far. I have yet to clean my fountain pen, so those virtues may be limited. In any case, I’ve now joined the insufferable ranks who incessantly praise the virtues of the fountain pen above all other pens. I try to slow myself down, and when I do that, I like how my handwriting looks, but it’s hard to keep going at the pace with my mind racing ahead. In truth, my handwriting varies by day, and by how fast or slowly I write. But something a little better than how mine currently looks. I’m not looking for handwriting that is quite as uniform as, say John Quincy Adams was in some of his diary entries. So far, it has not altered my handwriting in the least. I’m getting used to it, and I like the feel of it. The pen arrived on Thursday, and so far, I’ve written about 2-1/2 pages in my journal using it. Turning it around worked, and my-oh-my was that some smooth writing. When I tried writing, I assumed you held the pen so that the open part of the nib faced upward, but that didn’t work. I guess we have different definitions of “firmly.”) (“When using a fountain pen for the first time, squeeze the inserted cartridge firmly to get the ink flowing down to the nib” the instructions said. My first attempt at inserting the ink cartridge resulted in a splash of ink of my desk, and my pants. I also learned that I needed to clean the pen. It will last longer than way, he said, and it is a better experience. When I told this to my friend Ken, he suggested I order a bottle of ink next time and fill the pen myself.
I ordered the pen from Goulet Pens and had it in my hands just a few days after I’d ordered it.īeing a novice at all of this, I ordered it with box of a dozen Pilot Namiki black in cartridges. I got the gold nib because I was told it wrote more smoothly than the steel one. He asked me a bunch of questions and then gave me a detailed list of what to look for, what matters, what makes a good pen, along with some recommendations.įor my first fountain pen (I say my first because fountain pens are like books, and multiply rapidly, I am told) I bought a Pilot Custom 74 (black smoke in color) with a fine nib. And by research, I mean I called my friend Ken who collects fountain pens, and whose bullet journal looks like a work of art. I did what anyone would do in this situation: research. I guess I thought a fountain pen would make my handwriting look nicer.
“Are you using a fountain pen?” they asked. I mentioned to someone a while back how my cursive writing never looks as nice as other examples I see online. I’ve been using a Pilot G-2 0.7 pen for my journal since late 2017. I wanted it mainly for my journal writing.
I’ve been wanting a fountain pen for some time, but I didn’t know much about them. I bought myself an early birthday present: a fountain pen.
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