Fountain Pens

I have a Hongdian Black Forest EF and I love the EF nib in particular. I find the Black Forest a little too slender in my hand to be comfortable for long writing sessions, so I’m wondering what other Hongdian pens (with an EF nib) people would recommend I try?

I figure we need something to get the conversation going.

We hear a lot about popular inks like Iroshizuku Kon-Peki, Noodler's Black, and Waterman Serenity Blue all the time. Let's start talking some inks that sadly don't get as much attention as they actually deserve.

What's your favourite underrated ink?

I think workhorse type inks are some of my favourite underrated inks. Aurora Black doesn't get as much love as it actually deserves. It's a great workhorse ink. Nothing really fancy, but it just works. I like Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue way more than I thought I would. It's very dry and does a great job of controlling some of the firehose pens in my collection.

Hi, I use fountain pens for several months now to write my journal and I love it. However I always do that in the evening at a desk.

Writing with it on the go always felt a bit off which is why I'm still using a rollerball for that.

Do you have any tips for being able to better use it on the go?

Couldn't fill my pen from the last bit, as it doesn't reach to the collar of the pen. So it mostly sucks up air. Transferred the last bit to a long skinny tube. Works well!

Have been trying to get some nice photos of my pens - here's one of them :)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/927840

[Image description: A white fountain pen with a silver clip on the cap and a silver zebra stripe band around the middle lies on a blue dotted grid desk pad.]

I impulse bought a Pilot Metropolitan (F) about a month ago and have had the worst experience so far. First it took 3 days of experimenting (squeezing the cartridge, flushing, cleaning, shaking, incessant scribbling) to get it to write at all. Then I noticed the nib was a bit off-center in the feed so I aligned it and it wrote pretty well for a while. This morning I grabbed it to take some notes and it won't start, even after a flush with water and re-seating the cartridge. This isn't my first fountain pen (not even my first Pilot!) but I'm really disappointed because the Metro seems to be such a popular recommendation as a solid, inexpensive starter pen. Did I get a dud?

i am very picky about my paper, and i have absolutely loved leuchtturm1917’s notebooks lately.

what paper y’all putting ink on these days?

Hello everyone,

I've got a pen I only use to write in a journal dedicated to my mother who passed away. When I wish I could still talk to her I get that journal and write whatever discussion I'd like to have with her. I have a Pilot Cavalier that is only used for this.

I'm worried the irregular use might damage the pen. Sometimes I write everyday, but not everyday I have ideas of what to say so sometimes I go a couple of days, even weeks without writing much if at all.

Can it be bad for the pen and what is the proper maintenance I should do on such a pen with such irregular usage?

I'm starting thinking about using it more for other occasions and let it loose its "sacred" aspect, but I'm not sure yet.

I found this, of course, at an antique store. The celluloid of the cap and blind cap are gray/silver and black, and the barrel is gray/silver and clear. The nib is terrible, and after this pic I swapped it for a FPR flex. There is no branding anywhere, and I'd really love to know who made it so I could find some of their other pens. In my experience, cheap pens typically use lever fillers. So, this is an unusual one for me.

I love the materials used in old Wearever pens. They had some absolutely beautiful celluloid. And if you're into restoration, you can find them very cheap in varying stayes of disrepair at most antique stores.

I bought this set for around $10. The hardware was completely tarnished, the celluloid scratched and hazy, nib missing, and the barrel and cap were cracked.

I solvent welded the cracks, used all three levels of Novus polish, then buffed with jewelers rouge. I have a tiny Jinhao nib in there currently, it's nicer than most Wearever nibs I've used. And, of course a new sac.

This is on duty today - an Endless Creator retractable pen. Filled with Iroshizuku Yama Budo - what an irresistable purple it is for me. My everyday carry and use book this year is the Hobonichi Weeks Mega - though I am not using it as much as I would like to.

Kicking off my appreciation of this new community with my Sheaffer's collection. I absolutely love the Snorkel. It's a little bit of a pain to work on, but so cool and easy to use.

My faves here are the blue Statesman and the red vein Balance. Not pictured are any of my modern Sheaffer's, or later cartridge based student pens.

Maybe I'll post my Wearevers soon. Such cheap pens, but they had lovely celluloid.

My favorite pen. A Montblanc Le Grand (146) with an oblique broad nib.

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