Any fountain pen users out there?

[Dan Bissonnette]

I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.

???

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DragonQueen42 - you're never going to win that argument."
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[Julian Macassey]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette <dangbis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.

I like the Lamy logo model. Mostly used with green ink.



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- George Orwell

[Mike Causer]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400

Dan Bissonnette <dangbis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.

Waterman with my name on it in rather faded gold.


Mike

[Richard Bos]

Mike Causer <m.r.c...@goglemail.com> wrote:

> Dan Bissonnette <dangbis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.
>
> Waterman with my name on it in rather faded gold.

Parker ditto with a fine-ish point; Waterman with a thicker one; a very
cheap plastic Parker, also fine-ish; and an even cheaper brandless one
from a box set. I also recently found my old school Papermate again,
which to my surprise still worked. Oh, and I have a round-line nib for
my Osmiroid calligraphy set which I never used and now probably never
will, and which I suppose I could use as a normal fountain pen.

They improve my handwriting from "horrendous scrawl" to "acceptably
legible".

Richard

[David Scheidt]

Richard Bos <ral...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

:They improve my handwriting from "horrendous scrawl" to "acceptably
:legible".

They imrove mine from "horrendous scrawl" to ad;sfjknvsd;'clxnz;vkn
wesdklfcj

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[Mike Causer]

n Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:34:27 GMT

ral...@xs3all.nl (Richard Bos) wrote:

> Parker ditto with a fine-ish point; Waterman with a thicker one; a very
> cheap plastic Parker, also fine-ish; and an even cheaper brandless one
> from a box set. I also recently found my old school Papermate again,
> which to my surprise still worked. Oh, and I have a round-line nib for
> my Osmiroid calligraphy set which I never used and now probably never
> will, and which I suppose I could use as a normal fountain pen.

I've omitted all my draughting (drafting) pens [1], "art" pens, and
the rather nice Shaeffer I picked up in Singapore. Which when I got it
out of the pen reservoir just now worked right away.

> They improve my handwriting from "horrendous scrawl" to "acceptably
> legible".

Too many years on the keyboard here....


[1] My job for a few years until I got into computers in 1973.
Draughtsmen (there were no women) had to supply their own pens.



Mike

[Peter H. Coffin]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette wrote:
>
> I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.

I had a couple of inexpensive Cross ATX fountains. The Mont Blanc pens
may be horribly overdone and overpriced, but their ink is like velvet.

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Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven! (Hrm, parroty error)

[John F. Eldredge]

This reminds me of a cartoon that my mother had stuck on her refrigerator
for years. A little boy was showing his report card to his mother. She
commented, "An 'A' in handwriting? How do you expect to get into medical
school with grades like that?".

[alt]

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette wrote:

> I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.
>
> ???

As a lefty, I find that I keep breaking the nibs or smudging the ink....
I'll have to settle for a G-tec 0.2mm Gel pen so that my writing has at
least a passing resemblance of legibility.

[Richard Bos]

alt <kaith...@lazymail.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette wrote:
>
> > I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.
>

> As a lefty, I find that I keep breaking the nibs or smudging the ink....
> I'll have to settle for a G-tec 0.2mm Gel pen so that my writing has at
> least a passing resemblance of legibility.

I believe there is a solution for that problem, involving specialist
nibs and keeping the paper at a skewed angle. Not being sinister myself,
I can't comment on how effective it is.

Richard

[David Scheidt]

Richard Bos <ral...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
: Not being sinister myself,

Then why are you posting here?

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[c...@post.netunix.com]

The problem is that you are pushing rather than pulling the pen across
the paper. The solution is to write each word backwards from right to
left IYSWIM. This does, of course, require spelling each word
backasswards in your head before writing.

[John F. Eldredge]

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:57:08 +0000, Satya wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette wrote:
> [see subject]
>
> I write with whatever's handy: ballpoint, crayon, matchstick, permanent
> marker,
> apple juice....

blood extracted from lusers...

[mikea]

John F. Eldredge <jo...@jfeldredge.com> wrote in <d7m44g...@mid.individual.net>:

The tears of manglement ...

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infrastructure. They'll soon have us back on our feet!
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[En Hest]

I *own* one. I quite like writing with it, it's much nicer than biros, pencils,
etc. Even my handwriting improves. Only problem is I write so little by hand
that the ink has a tendency to dry out between uses.

Maybe I should just do what I hear the Japanese do: get a stamp for my
signature.

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TODO

[Mike Causer]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 09:43:21 +0000 (UTC)
En Hest <he...@wait.what> wrote:

> Maybe I should just do what I hear the Japanese do: get a stamp for my
> signature.

Like this (except mine's Chinese)?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/21800455261/in/photostream


Mike

[Dan Bissonnette]

In article <56142103...@news.xs4all.nl>, ral...@xs4all.nl says...

> They improve my handwriting from "horrendous scrawl" to "acceptably
> legible".

That's why SWMBO bought me my first one; she noticed that I couldn't
read a note I myself had written an hour before.

[Dan Bissonnette]

In article <slrnn18mf4....@nibelheim.ninehells.com>,
hel...@ninehells.com says...

>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:28:23 -0400, Dan Bissonnette wrote:
> >
> > I've been using them for years. My favorite is a Visconti.
>
> I had a couple of inexpensive Cross ATX fountains. The Mont Blanc pens
> may be horribly overdone and overpriced, but their ink is like velvet.

I like the Cross "Bailey" models, but some of their pricier pens have
spotty quality control; I've returned several because of unacceptably
scratchy nibs.

[Richard Bos]

Never - it clots inside your pen, ruining it forever.

Oh, you mean using the fingernails you extracted it with? Carry on,
then.

Richard

[Maarten Wiltink]

"En Hest" <he...@wait.what> wrote in message
news:slrnn1f35...@localhost.localdomain...

> I *own* one. I quite like writing with it, it's much nicer than biros,
> pencils, etc. Even my handwriting improves. Only problem is I write so
> little by hand that the ink has a tendency to dry out between uses.

Pencils are already much nicer than biros, and they convey a pleasing
sense of sketchiness and impermanence to notes and drawings. At work, I
like to make notes, and draw diagrams, in pencil, but while my backpack
contains many things[0] including a fountain pen, it does not contain a
pencil, and offices nowadays often don't, either.

The fountain pen is a Parker with a piston cartridge that was a gift
from my parents many years ago. Before this one, I usually broke them
after a few years at most through screwing them closed too tight. Middle
age hath its advantages.

I make fewer notes at work than I used to. This is mostly due to not
having to keep a timesheet (for which I would jot down starting times
for every new task during the day, then tally before leaving).

Not having to keep time is wonderful. I had forgotten just how wonderful,
because the last time that happened was ten years ago.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

[0] Like half a roll of toilet paper and dry socks[1], but not, at the
moment, chopsticks. They were confiscated at an amusement park,
because I might take someone's eye out with them. I decided not to push
my argument that this can be done without chopsticks, too.

[1] No, I am not homeless. I just like to put on dry socks after dance
class. And often a dry T-shirt, and sometimes dry shoes for the next
class.

[Mike Causer]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:20:08 +0000 (UTC)
Roger Bell_West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:

> I have found the perfect pencil for me, the Kuru Toga Roulette in
> 0.5mm.

Pentel in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 with 4B leads [1]. The 0.7 gets the
most use. No-one else can use them, the leads are so soft that they
break in most people's hands.

[1] Ex-draughtsman.


Mike

[John Burnham]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:20:08 +0000, Roger Bell_West wrote:


>
> I have found the perfect pencil for me, the Kuru Toga Roulette in 0.5mm.

<looks down at the two in his shirt pocket> Yeah. Nice aren't they ?

[En Hest]

* On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Roger Bell_West

<roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
>> I have found the perfect pencil for me, the Kuru Toga Roulette in
>> 0.5mm.

* (2015-10-16 12:27+0000) Mike Causer:

> Pentel in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 with 4B leads [1]. The 0.7 gets the
> most use. No-one else can use them, the leads are so soft that they
> break in most people's hands.
>
> [1] Ex-draughtsman.

Ooh, I'm a breaker. I have 0.9 and a 2mm pencil; the latter being the kind with
three claws gripping the lead and when you push the other end it doesn't click
forward a step, it just lets go.

Friend of mine also bought one, then got some leads in the H..4H range.
Finally, someone that grinds their pencils against the paper harder than me!

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TODO