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Very interesting. Speaking personally as one who desperately wants his small grandsons to be able to write properly, I'm all in favour of someone who is bringing affordable, and, more importantly, useable fountain pens to the market. Whilst some expensive pens have some advantages over the cheap'n'cheerfuls, it's possible to write well with modest equipment. I started writing at about 5 with dip pens, and my earliest fountain pen was a Platignum of schoolboy grade.I'm looking to get one of these but not sure if I would like a flex nib (though you can easily swap it for a #6 standard nib). I know he is a divisive figure but I am one of Nathan Tardiff's supporters. I don't care about his politics but I appreciate his desire to bring affordabilty and value for money to the market place. I think this is why so many of the big boys and the pen establishment have it in for him even though he is a one man artisan like Darron and Kerry of Wickham and Phoenix and Beau.I don't use expensive pens as I am interested in tactile writing rather than hoarding pens in a box. However I have never had a problem. Here is a fascinating interview with him.
noodler's roller ball that uses fountain pen ink is actually pretty nice. I used it with my bay state blue and i loved it.Very interesting. Speaking personally as one who desperately wants his small grandsons to be able to write properly, I'm all in favour of someone who is bringing affordable, and, more importantly, useable fountain pens to the market. Whilst some expensive pens have some advantages over the cheap'n'cheerfuls, it's possible to write well with modest equipment. I started writing at about 5 with dip pens, and my earliest fountain pen was a Platignum of schoolboy grade.
Having bought the Ahab, I think I might purchase one apiece of the other low-cost models, Konrad and Nib Creaper.
And for any of our Hartlepool Member's I see Noodler's do a nice shade of blue bottled ink entitled "Monkey Hanger" , called that after the owner was told the tale about the washed up monkey in Hartlepool during the Napoleonic War's , I might have to buy some , interesting that a American company used an English tale to name a pen ink though .
I wondered when you would see it !hahafar out!! ill have to get me some of that!! ill pass it off as bespoke
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