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itsawaldo Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, May 11 2018, 10:24 AM EST
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Some may recall that I now manage a fountain pen specialty store in downtown Chicago. We offer modern pens - over 1100 writing instruments with less than 100 ballpoints and rollerballs! Fountain Pens are here to stay it appears.

I am an admirer of FP's, I collect not to write with as much as to admire. My daily writers are all modern as I just don't trust older pens, I wear suits again and I will not risk my suits and ties to any chance of leaks!

When I write with my older pens, I dip them and use them only at my desk.

I picked this pen up last weekend, I love the lines of this pen!

Its an Eversharp Skyline from the mid 40's, you may notice the modernistic similarities between this pen cap/clip and the 20th Century steam locomotive; both were designed by Henry Dreyfuss.

I just dipped it and wrote with it, really smooth on good paper.
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Buckwheat Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, May 11 2018, 1:27 PM EST
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Classic. I love it. fog
frankj1 Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, May 11 2018, 4:36 PM EST
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very cool.
many years ago it became customary to gift a fountain pen to a boy on his bar mitzvah.

How long until the ice cube holder melts?
Gene363 Online
#4 Posted: Fri, May 11 2018, 8:09 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
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Classic beauty!
delta1 Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, May 12 2018, 4:00 PM EST
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My Mom used a fountain pen when she wrote her autobiography between the 60's-70's...RIP
Ewok126 Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, May 13 2018, 1:10 AM EST
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Rest in peace Mom!

The only expensive pen I have is a roller ball custom made from olive wood out of Israel. Its the only pen that I use for my cigar journal. I have to heavy of a hand for fountain pens.
MACS Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, May 16 2018, 11:58 AM EST
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Parker Jotter...
dstieger Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, May 16 2018, 12:21 PM EST
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Could never operate a fountain pen....at all....even if I could get past the 'scratchiness', my warped-azz left handed writing brings my hand down through everything recently put to paper....its a mess with any instrument. But, simple fact is that philistine that I am, I never gained the appreciation for the form, much less the function. Give me 1 each Skilcraft U.S. Government Retractable Black Barrel Medium Point Ball Point Pen, Black Ink, and I am good to go
Ewok126 Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, May 17 2018, 4:01 AM EST
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dstieger wrote:
Could never operate a fountain pen....at all....even if I could get past the 'scratchiness', my warped-azz left handed writing brings my hand down through everything recently put to paper....its a mess with any instrument. But, simple fact is that philistine that I am, I never gained the appreciation for the form, much less the function. Give me 1 each Skilcraft U.S. Government Retractable Black Barrel Medium Point Ball Point Pen, Black Ink, and I am good to go



Man I know what you mean about that "scratchiness" feeling. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up like when you rake your teeth across them old ice cream wooden spoons or rake nails across the chalk board. Damn I cant stand it just thinking about it.
NapalmMan67 Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, May 17 2018, 2:30 PM EST
Joined: 05-22-2015
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Nice pen Chris.

My grandfather was a draftsman at a Patent Office in Chicago many years ago, and they used to draw their prints with FPs.
bgz Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, May 17 2018, 3:16 PM EST
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Such an instrument would be wasted on my awful chicken scratch.
itsawaldo Offline
#12 Posted: Fri, May 18 2018, 3:59 PM EST
Joined: 09-10-2006
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Don’t let your handwriting keep you from trying a fountain pen.

Get yourself a Lamy or a Pilot Metropolitan with a medium nib to start, both under $20. You’ll find that you may enjoy it. Both use cartridges so it’s easy to get started.

Of course knowing how to spell helps!

Cursive is a lot like riding a bike; you’ll fall but it doesn’t hurt!

What you may find out is that it’s like preparing your cigar. You take a moment to take off the cap, post it (putting the cap onto the other end of the pen), compose in your mind what you want to write and start.
It’s like cutting and lighting your smoke. Contemplation and anticapation leads to gratification.

Dang was that an illiteration?

Handwriting with a fp slows life down and it will give you a tactile connection to your words as well as reflect your mood and personality. It does this due to the pressure you apply as you write, you’ll get feedback through the nib and pen as you write.

Of course I write this pecking away on my phone with my thumbs and smoking a cigar!


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