Fountain Pens

[neocaligatio]

Oh come on - you grabbed yourself a nice Harlequin!

[N_Architect]

The beauty with having the piston filler (or whatever your fp uses) is that you can use different brands and colours of bottled ink.
There are a few ink manufacturers that produce really nice inks (in flow, quality and colours), but again it depends on the particular pen and nib as well.

The advantage with using a ready made cartridge is convenience of changing cartridges when one has run out, the ability to take the pen with you when travelling, etc.
But you are have to put up with the Parker or Lamy or whatever inks if you choose this option for your pen, and some people find this limiting.

Overall these easily available inks are doing a pretty good job.

[sunburyboy93]

Oh come on - you grabbed yourself a nice Harlequin!

i grabbed both those pens for £7.00 fronm a Car Boot i go to in Guilford every sunday.....so yeah i can't complain
i'm only messing with ya mate, fair play to you, you got a nice pen for a good price, enjoy it matey.

i'm gonna keep the two i got on sunday, got them both working , very nice two, i think i will be on the lookout for pens
as i really like some of the designs on the Parkers from the Fifties & Sixties.

Steve

[JohnnyO]

I guess I'll just wait the resurgence of the Quill Damian , these modern breakthroughs are indeedly too complex for such non digital oldies such as I. As for you Sunster ................. you nearly provoked me into one of my senior moments at the thought of expanding my profligate ways into pens as well as shaving.

JohnnyO. (Still game though).

[hunnymonster]

JohnnyO. (Still game though).

Hmmm - Jack or Victor... or Winston?

[neocaligatio]

My dear wife has just nipped into an Asda near her office and picked up one of these for me:

http://future-nostalgic.blogspot.com/20 ... ebook.html

The Asda Moleskine copy... potentially quite a bargain! I shall be trying it out and reporting back some point later on...

[beejay]

My dear wife has just nipped into an Asda near her office and picked up one of these for me:

http://future-nostalgic.blogspot.com/20 ... ebook.html

The Asda Moleskine copy... potentially quite a bargain! I shall be trying it out and reporting back some point later on...

I've been using them for a while now and they're really very good. No bleeding through or feathering to speak of, and the weight is excellent.
regards, beejay

[JohnnyO]

I kinda picture myself as more like the somewhat seedy, past it bartender HM ............... the one with the grey chest hair & one button too many unbuttoned on the worn once too often shirt. He jist looks like the kinda stand up guy who would also still wear industrial quantities of Brut. Oops, maybe a wee shade too much info there !

JohnnyO.

[Arrowhead]

Ha ha, got meself a fountain pen: swish or what?

Also a notebook as per Neo's link: thanks for that. Total price a fiver from Asda ...

... with a free razor tin thrown in.

[beejay]

Nice pen Arrowhead
Is that the one that used to 'come with a high quality metal case'
regards, beejay