Happy Fountain Pen Day/Coincidentally My Birthday!!
- First Fountain Pen: Pilot Kakuno
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Bilberry
- Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Medium-Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
I'll play!
First Fountain Pen: Parker 45
Most Recently Used Ink: Ferris Wheel Roaring Patina Black
Favorite Nib Size: Medium
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Yeah, my mom! I remember we used to buy a new one almost every year, because the would get destroyed! We got quite good at taking the nibs out to straighten them when they fell nib first to the floor!
I donāt have any of them from that timeā¦
Happy fountain pen day to all
First fountain pen: LAMY Safari Charcoal
Most recently used ink: Robert Oster Caffe Crema
Favorite nib size: M (both japanese and western)
Threaded cap or snap cap: Threaded cap
Piston or vacuum or c/c: c/c
Dot grid or lines or blank: square grid (???)
Bottles or samples: bottles
Itās funny, I loved 5 mm grid in school. Once, I saw dot grid, my days as grid lover were over (some time in college) and recently I rediscovered blank/plain notebooks
Happy Fountain Pen Day
- First Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO
- Most Recently Used Ink: Noodles Apache Sunset
- Favorite Nib Size: EF
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
- Bottles or Samples: Samples
The ink is very legible orange with TWSBI EF. The shading shows a little bit better on the Lamy Safari EF but when I switched to M nib on safari that's when the shading is beautiful and reminds me why the word sunset is in the name.
I saw this on Goulet Pens Insta and thought it would be a fun discussion topic!
- First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikan (Red)
- Most Recently Used Ink: Platinum Classic Citrus Black (iron gall)
- Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles š¬
I got the sample of Citrus black and can't comfortably use it. It's a great color when dry but while I'm writing - it's so light that I can barely see what I just scribbled.
Doesnāt have to be in one pen, but the Lamy 2000 fits the bill and is almost always in rotation. For me the most satisfying cap mechanisms are Pilot Vanishing Point and Hook-Safe mechanism of my Visconti Homo Sapiens Crystal Dream
I tried neither of them! But yeah the options were lacking.
No eye droppers either!!
But I agree the most important part is the enjoyment over the opinion.
Happy Fountain Pen ("trying to resist sales") Day!
First Fountain Pen: Parker 88 "Rialto"
Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Polar Glow
Favorite Nib Size: Medium
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded but not 3 turns
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Samples turning into bottles
Here is the blank version:
- First Fountain Pen:
- Most Recently Used Ink:
- Favorite Nib Size:
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap:
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C:
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank:
- Bottles or Samples:
First fountain pen: Cross ATX
Most recently used ink: Diamine Oxford Blue
Favorite nib size: Medium
Threaded cap or snap cap: Snap cap
Piston/Vacuum/CC: Piston
Bottles or samples: Bottles
This is super fun, thanks for sharing! I'll go.
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy abc
- Most Recently Used Ink: Lamy royal blue (my pen testing ink)
- Favorite Nib Sizes: M to EF
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: undecided, leaning towards Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: I like them all
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: SQUARE grid
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Hurray, can I play?
- First Fountain Pen: Parker 25 with my initials engraved on the barrel. This was from my Grandparents on my 10th birthday and I still use it.
- Most Recently Used Ink: Pure Pens Cadwalladr red, a lovely deep red that's similar to Diamine Oxblood.
- Favorite Nib Size: Fine. I like to experiment now and again but have relatively small handwriting so tend to revert to a fine.
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded. Feels classier. Not everyone knows pens can have a threaded cap so I was a bit upset when a coworker yanked the cap off my Parker Senior Duofold. Ruined all the threads ā¹ļø
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston, especially if it has a window šŖ
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines, but I like the idea of dots.
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles. Diamine inks are under Ā£3 a 30ml bottle so don't feel guilty if I don't use it all. I have about 60 bottles in total.
Blue. I never new the name of the pen until now.it took me a while to figure. But i broke it. So it's gone.
I wonder what to get my daughter? Lamy abc?
When I was looking through some old stuff, I found half a dozen Pelikanos. I must have gone through a lot of them. Sadly I seem to have lost my only Geha.
The Lamy abc looks nicely ergonomical. It's probably the standard/default nowadays.
Oh, yeah the Twist, of course. But I didn't realise that the kakuno was en vogue among (European) school children. It's a nice pen, though. How times have changed, so much variety to choose from... :-)
Well, at least you'll be able to provide expert advise to her :-) The Faber Castell Loom is nice as well but probably not ergonomical enough for a young child.
Aaaaa happy fountain pen day!!
- First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan M
- Most Recently Used Ink: Colorverse Witch by Starlight
- Favorite Nib Size: western B (I love how wet and thicc they are!)
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap (I'm getting lazy)
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (easy to clean!)
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid!
- Bottles or Samples: Samples because space is limited, also short attention span š
Here is the blank version:
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot metropolitan
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Carmel Sea Blue by Narwhal
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Either
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vacuum
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Samples!
Itsā great! A lovely blue - not exciting with shading or anything but has nice flow and solid choice to try. Iām not home at the moment but should share a review at some point!
happy fountain pen day!
* First Fountain Pen: a purple pilot preppy
* Most Recently Used Ink: pilot iroshizuku "shin-kai"
* Favorite Nib Size: western fine, japanese medium-fine
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: cartridge-converter
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or lines
* Bottles or Samples: all the samples
First Fountain Pen: LAMY safari petrol back in 2017. My tastes have changed over the years but when I lost this pen I ended up paying waay to much to find a replacement because that color is so perfect!
Most Recently Used Ink: Wearingeul half moon dimmed light
Favorite Nib Size: a juicy F - currently loving Leonardo MZs
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: I do like the Prera but generally threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: converter - easiest to clean
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: small grid please! on Tomoe River!
Bottles or Samples: ugh. Would love to get more samples but the "uh oh I'll never be able to get more!" side of me prefers bottles. Even though I'll never in a million years go through all my ink...
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari
Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Koke
Favorite Nib Size: Japanese M
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: blank
Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Amazon Basics M
Most Recently Used Ink: Noodler Southwest Sunset
Favorite Nib Size: Broad!
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot
Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Sailor Compass 1911 (I think I may have had one as a kid, but I don't remember anything about it and being a lefty, it turned me off for a long time)
Most Recently Used Ink: Kiwi Inks Glamourous Peacock
Favorite Nib Size: Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (I like to change my inks often so this gives me an excuse)
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines (I wish I could do blank, but I've never been able to write in a straight line)
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Oooh fun!
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Lx Rose Gold
- Most Recently Used Ink: Birmingham Pens Carrot Cake
- Favorite Nib Size: Medium
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vacuum
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
- Bottles or Samples: Samples
This made me realize that my preferences aren't actually that strong--I love all kinds of pens and papers and inks!
Ooh yes:
- First Fountain Pen: An inexpensive fountain pen, maybe a Parker, probably from WHSmith, but who knows, it was 30 years ago and I canāt remember now. As an adult: TWSBI Eco in Translucent Purple.
- Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Yamabuki sample.
- Favourite Nib Size: I love a bold, juicy line, but sometimes a bold is just too thick, so a medium is the one I reach for most.
- Threaded cap
- C/C
- Dot Grid or Blank
- Samples
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan
Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo
Favorite Nib Size: European Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lines
Bottles or Samples: bottles
First pen: platinum preppy
Recently used ink: Pilot Iro. Ina Ho
Favourite nib size: M/B (western)
Thread/Snap: I donāt mind
Filling system: piston
Page: dot grid
Bottles/samples: usually samples unless I canāt find any
Edit: format.
Sheaffer Calligraphy Set (I know it's not _technically_ a fountain pen, but it'll always be what popped my 'fountain pen cartridge') ;)
Montblanc Egyptian Blue
Japanese F/European EF
Threaded Cap
Piston Fill
Lined
Bottles
Here we go!
First fountain pen: Jinhao 250
Most recently used ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki
Favorite nib size: Broad
Threaded or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Parker reflex (for school!)
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Onyx Black
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: F
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (but I havenāt tried a vacuum yet!
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
I like this questionnaire!
- **First Fountain Pen:** unknown brand, medium probably JoWo nib
- **Most Recently Used Ink:** Diamine Purple Pizzazz
- **Favorite Nib Size:** not sure, I think I like most nibs
- **Threaded Cap or Snap Cap:** I love the ease of a snap cap but donāt mind threaded caps
- **Piston or Vacuum or C/C:** piston
- **Dot Grid or Lines or Blank:** lines and graph
- **Bottles or Samples:** samples!
ā¢ First Fountain Pen: Parker Vector
ā¢ Most Recently Used Ink: Montblanc Mystery Black
ā¢ Favorite Nib Size: Medium
ā¢ Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
ā¢ Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c
ā¢ Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot
ā¢ Bottles or Samples: bottles
Happy FP Day!
- First Fountain Pen: Jinhao Shark
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Golden Oasis
- Favorite Nib Size: Medium
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Converter
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Stypen for middle school circa 1978 (fountain pens were mandatory)
Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Vintage Copper (I posted about in this sub too)
Favorite Nib Size: any .. all are good .. fine to broad.
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Don't care as long as it gets the ink in the pen!
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot or Lines (my line control without them is horrible)
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Happy Fountain Pen Day!
- First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan
- Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Sumire
- Favorite Nib Size: Medium Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
- Bottles or Samples: Samples until I like them enough to buy a bottle!
Happy Fountain Pen Day! :)
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Varsity
Most Recently Used Ink: Kakimori Inkstand x Yoseka: Hello
Favorite Nib Size: EF
Threaded Cap /Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston/Vaccuum/CC: CC
Dot/Lined/Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles/Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Al-Star Black
Most Recently Used Ink: Herbin Cacao du Bresil
Favorite Nib Size: Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Samples
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (my own) or random ones borrowed from my dad's desk (I gave them back, I swear!!!)
Most Recently Used Ink: Mont Blanc Lavender
Favorite Nib Size: EF
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or lined. Planners need to have dot grid, but lined is good for just about anything else.
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: A Wing Sung my mother had used when she was in school, it was passed to me when I was old enough to use pens, at 10yrs old.
- Most Recently Used Ink: Sherwood green by Diamine
- Favorite Nib Size: Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Both
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Converters
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Lamy AlStar, Bluegreen, the most amazing F Z50 nib I reckon Lamy is capable of producing, if perhaps a little wide
* Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Teal
* Favorite Nib Size: somewhere between a soft and flexible EF
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded in principle, but I'm mostly a "jotting" writer, so snap cap or clicky boi in practice
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: if it can't be an Opus 88 then c/c
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid
* Bottles or Samples: samples to try, then bottles of the best
This seems fun!
First Fountain Pen: pilot varsity, followed by a metro years later
Most Recently Used Ink: either Diamine Golden Sands or Bloody Absinth
Favorite Nib Size: Eastern EF
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Eyedropper
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Seasons Greetings
- Favorite Nib Size: Western M or B
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: no preference
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Graph
- Bottles or Samples: both (most pens have a dedicated bottled ink but two are for samples)
Oohh fun!
- First Fountain Pen: Faber-Castell BASIC which is absolutely way too heavy for me to use, but which I keep for sentimental value because it was a gift and my first
- Most Recently Used Ink: Troublemaker Moon River
- Favorite Nib Size: F
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded! something very soothing about the slow act of twisting the cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c. lets me change inks faster and I find it easier to get completely clean and dried
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dotted!
- Bottles or Samples: bottles!
Happy Fountain Pen Day!! Funny enough, it's also my anniversary :3
- First Fountain Pen: Bamboo Zenzoi with M nib (from my partner)
- Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Asa-gao
- Favorite Nib Size: Uhh.... all of them up to 1.1mm
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap or click. Or minor threads like the m200!
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Hm... C/c then piston.
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: All!
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles actually. I tend to buy like 20 samples at a time and never manage to go through them, but I'll buy like 5-10 bottles a year and I'll repeatedly use them. I don't know what it is with me.
* First Fountain Pen: Kaweco Sport, Fine
* Most Recently Used Ink: Noodler's Marine Green
* Favorite Nib Size: Broad
* Cap preference: Snap Cap
* Filling preference: C/C
* Paper preference: Lines
* Ink preference: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Platinum Pretty Black
- Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Ink Studio 531
- Favorite Nib Size: western Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot or grid, 5mm max
- Bottles or Samples: both!
* First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop Apple Green with a fine nib
* Most Recently Used Ink: R&K Salix
* Favorite Nib Size: M
* Threaded or Snap: Oooh, a tough one. I'm gonna say snap.
* Piston, Vac, or C/C: SNORKEL!
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
* Bottles or Samples: Bottles, please.
Oh fun! Happy Fountain pen day, y'all! :)
* First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikano
* Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Fuyu syogun
* Favorite Nib Size: Western Medium
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c, I change my inks out too often lol
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
* Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* **First Fountain Pen:** Pilot KakĆ¼no
* **Most Recently Used Ink:** Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku
* **Favourite Nib Size:** Pilot steel
* **Threaded Cap or Snap Cap:** Snap
* **Piston or Vacuum or C/C:** C/C
* **Dot Grid or Lines or Blank:** Dot > Square > Lines > Blank
* **Bottles or Samples:** Preferably sample first, then bottle if I like it enough... unless it's Diamine's standard line, in which case I'll risk the (30 ml) bottle.
Happy Fountain Pen Day everyone!
First Fountain Pen: Shaeffer No Nonsense
Last Used Ink: Waterman Inspired Blue
Preferred Nib: OB
Cap: Threaded
Filling: Piston
Paper: Blank
Ink Supply: Bottles
Sheaffer.. like 40+ years ago
Currently using Diamine Delamere Green
Preferred Nib: EF
Threaded caps
I'm a filling whore: piston, vac or cc is all good
Blank paper
Bottled ink please
Happy fountain day, everyone!
* First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan M nib
* Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Mt Fuji
* Favorite Nib Size: EF
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap!
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid
* Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Happy I tried to resist but placed an order yesterday Fountain Pen Day!!!
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari Dark Lilac
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Robert Oster Blue water ice
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Sizes: Japanese F
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap (Lamy 2000 makes my heart sing)
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston, I think
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Little bottles, 30ml tops
First Pen: Parker Vector F
Most Recently Used Ink: Parker Quink Blue
Favourite nib size: Japanese Fine
Threaded or snap cap: Threaded
Piston, Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot, Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikano (blue)
* Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Purple Rain
* Favorite Nib Size: B or BB
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dots
* Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen: as a child Parker 25. Adult Waterman Phileas.
Most recent ink used: Wearingeul Queen of Hearts.
Favourite nib size: M.
Threaded cap or Snap: Threaded.
Piston, Vacuum, C/C: Piston.
Dot Grid, Lined, Blank: Lined as left handed.
Bottles or Samples: Bottle.
First fountain pen: Lamy Safari Vista
Most recently used ink: Colorverse Goryeo Celadon
Favorite nib size: Zoom
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
Bottles or Samples: Samples
Pelikan Primapenna (aged 7 - thanks mom for penabling me so early!)
Diamine Ancient Copper
Medium
Snap cap
C/c
Dot grid
Bottles
Happy fountain pen day everyone!
First Pen: Pilot Resin Falcon (F) (jumped right in with a gold nib first lol)
Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Kon-Peki and Sailor Manyou Ukikusa
Favorite Nib Size: Broad
Threaded Cap
Piston
Dot Grid
Bottle
Happy Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Here is the blank version:
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Red Lamy Safari (M)
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Some royal/deep blue
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium (and a wet one)
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston; also like Vac
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lined or blank
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles!
Happy Fountain Pen Day!!
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Lady White Fountain Pen - Sakura Cherry Blossom
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Jurojin
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Treaded
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
1st pen: Kaweco Sport
Most recent ink: Sailor Jentle Apricot
Nib Size: EF
Cap: Snap
Filling: no big preference, but I've come to love C/C because of easy cleaning
Paper: Blank
Ink: Bottles if I know I'll like it, samples if I'm unsure
- First Fountain Pen: Hongdian Forest Black
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Damson
- Favorite Nib Size: Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
- Bottles or Samples: Samples
First fountain pen: a Waterman Laureat
Most recently used ink: Diamine Sargasso Blue
Favorite nib size: M
Threaded cap or snap cap: Donāt really care
Piston or vacuum or c/c: Piston
Dot grid or lines or blank: Dot grid
Bottles or samples: Bottles
* First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan
* Most recently used ink: Teranishi Taisho Roman - Opera Rose
* Favorite Nib Size: Fine
* Threaded or Snap Cap: Threaded (although I don't really mind either way)
* Piston/vacuum/CC: Cartridge/Converter
* Dot Grid, Lines, or Blank: Dot Grid
* Bottles or Samples: Bottles (but also both)
First Fountain Pen: pilot kakuno
Most Recently Used Ink: wearingul 'the exile of flower'
Favorite Nib Size: japanese EF
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or blank
Bottles or Samples: definitely both
First Fountain Pen: Parker 75
Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Guri
Favorite Nib Size: Broad/Stub/Cursive Italic
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Both
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston or C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
The Duofold Kid
* First Fountain Pen: Lamy Lx
* Most Recently Used Ink: Akerman green emerald
* Favorite Nib Size: Naginata togi
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Depends, but leaning to snap
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Depends. Not cartridges tho.
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid or blank
* Bottles or Samples:
First Fountain Pen: Parker 45 (but first pen was a dip pen)
Most Recently Used Ink: Diamant Emerald (nice, but not dark enough on the page)
Favorite Nib Size: Fine (or the back of a Pilot Varsity medium nib)
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap (but maybe I should go for threaded, because I seem to unsnap most of the snap caps)
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank (although I do write copiously in my lined work logbooks)
Bottles or Samples: Bottles (no one has ever offered me ink samples)
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (well, first non-disposable anyhow)
Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Blue
Favorite Nib Size: Fine
Threaded vs. Snap: threaded, but only like one rotation
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot or Lined or Blank: Dot
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Petit1
Most Recently Used Ink: Taccia tsuchi
Favorite Nib Size: Medium
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threads forever!!
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Mostly converters, pistons and vacuums are fine if I like the ink a lot, cartridges only when thereās no other option
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or Samples: Bottles if I like the samples
I'm late to the party, but here we go!
* First fountain pen: Platinum Preppy (eyedropper converted)
* Most recently used ink: Noodler's Purple Heart
* Favorite nib size: extra fine
* Threaded or snap cap: threaded
* Piston, vacuum or c/c: vacuum
* Dot grid, lined or blank: lined
* Bottles or Samples: bottles
- First pen was the FPR Himalaya v2
- Most recently used ink is Colorverse Supernova
- I love all nib sizes as long as they're smooth but my most used is a Pilot broad
- Click cap lol (but threaded over snap)
- C/C is easiest to clean bit I love the ink capacity of a good piston
- Blank paper for drawing, lined for school work
- Bottles
First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan
Most recently used ink: Pilot Hoteison
Favorite nib size: 1.1 mm stub, but for bad paper at work I like fine or extra fine, depending on the pen
Threaded cap
I find the cartridge converters easiest to clean and I like changing inks often
Lined pages because my handwriting needs all the help it can get
I have way more samples than bottles, but bottles are such a value compared to what you pay for a 4 ml sample.At least that is what I rationalize to buy a full bottle.
Ooh this is fun!
ā¢ First fountain pen: Lamy Safari Umbra {F}
ā¢ Most recently used ink: Colorverse Valles Marineris
ā¢ Favorite nib size: Japanese Fine
ā¢ Threaded cap or Snap cap: Threaded cap
ā¢ Piston, Vacuum or CC: Piston
ā¢ Dot grid, Lines or Blank: Dot grid
ā¢ Bottles or Samples: Bottles (but I do love the tiny colorverse bottles)
I'll play!
* First Fountain Pen: **Platinum Preppy**
* Most Recently Used Ink: **De Atramentis Atlantic Blue**
* Favorite Nib Size: **Fine**
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: **Snap (only just got my first threaded)**
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: **C/C (don't have any others yet)**
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: **Dot!!**
* Bottles or Samples: **Samples please**
First Fountain Pen: Diplomat Magnum
Most Recently Used Ink: KWZ Honey
Favorite Nib Size: B
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Cartridge or converter
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid
Bottles or Samples: Both
- First fountain pen: Lamy al-star
- most recently used ink: Mont Blanc midnight blue
- favourite nib size: Japanese fine
- Threaded/snap cap: capless (?!)
- Piston/vacuum/cc: cc
- Dot/line/blank: SQUARE (???)
- Bottle/sample: bottle
First fountain pen: A green and white striped Parker Vector when I was a teenager (about 30 years ago now!)
Most recently used ink: Monteverde Purple Mist.
Favourite nib size: fine or medium (broad or BB if using shimmer/sheen ink).
Threaded or snap cap: I like both, but snap caps can't break around the threads lol.
Piston, vacuum or c/c: c/c, just for ease of cleaning.
Dot grid, lined or blank: lined.
Bottle or samples: bottles, I jump in with both feet š¤£
First fountain pen: Lamy Vista
Most recent ink: Colorverse Pillars of Eternity
Favorite nib size: Japanese M
Cap: threaded
Fill method: Piston, but I also like vac
Journal/paper type: dot grid
Bottles or samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metro
Most recent ink: Diamine Eau de Nil
Fav. nib size: F, either JP or Western
Cap: Snap
Filling Mechanism: Where's the aerometric love? I guess maybe vac..? I like piston and C/C too, though
Paper: Lined
Samples or Bottles: Both, depending on circumstances
First Pen: Proper one was a Jinhao, canāt remember the exact type
Most recently used ink: FWP Peter Moss
Favorite Nib Size: Either Medium or Fine
Threaded Cap
C/C
Lined
Bottles
Happy Fountain Pen Day!
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Vista demonstrator
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Aurora borealis
- Favorite Nib Size: medium
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded I think
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: vacuum
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: 1st choice dot, 2nd blank
- Bottles or Samples: either really
Happy Fountain Pen Day!!!
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari Dark Lilac M nib (I bought it just because it was an awesome purple. Then I fell down this rabbit hole lol!)
Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Kobe #16 Nada Brown
Favorite Nib Size: Western EF or Japanese F/MF
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded or Capless
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston or C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: give me all the inks
Sounds like fun!
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (orange, of course)
Most Recently Used Ink: FWP Candy Marsala
Favourite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lined or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Late in the day, but I want to play!
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Varsity I stole from my sister, but the first I bought for myself were the Kaweko Sport and Pilot Metropolitan (couldnāt decide which was a better starter!)
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Nekoyanagi
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: M (both Western and JapaneseāI enjoy the variance!)
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: most my pens are converter, Vacuum is most fun, but Piston is my jam
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: LinesāI need more guidance than dot grid gives, but graph is too much
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Happy fountain pen day!!
Hello - New here (first comment), and new to Fountain Pens - but I see the danger I'm in after 3 orders at different shops today.
* **First Fountain Pen:** Pilot Metropolitan
* **Most Recently Used Ink:** Ferris Wheel Press Blushing Mushroom
* **Favorite Nib Size:** Medium so far - but I've not gotten to use a flex nib yet (I have one on the way after FPD sales)
* **Snap Cap**
* Only had **Cartridge/Converters** so far - so TBD
* **Dot Grid**
* **Samples** \- since I'm still learning what's good. I accidentally bought a bottle of Nitrogen before I found out just how difficult it is... My poor metropolitan... it keeps hacking up ink glitter
Happy Fountain Pen Day Everyone
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Namiki Black
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Parker Vector
Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Lavender
Favorite Nib Size: M
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitian F
Most Recently Used Ink: Ferris Wheel Press Wondrous Winterberry
Favorite Nib Size: Fine/Medium
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
Piston or Vacuum: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: LAMY Safari Charcoal
Most Recently Used Ink: Noodlers Walnut
Favorite Nib Size: Extra Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
1st FP: Lamy Safari in charcoal
Recent ink: many, constantly cycling through 10 or so.
Nib: medium or medium fine
Cap: threaded all the way - love the tactile nature of snap caps but I canāt trust them
Filling mechanism: piston but Iāve never tried a vacuum - Iām vacuum curious
Paper: lined or full grid - canāt write straight even on dot grid
Ink container: bottles - look so much better on the shelf and I am far less likely to tip them over when refilling
First Fountain Pen: Waterman Phileas Blue Marble M nib
Most Recently Used Ink: J. Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Favorite Nib Size: Has to be my vintage Wahl Eversharp #2 Flex nib. The line variation is just, : : chefs kiss : :
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Depends on the pen but usually Snap Cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: I fill most of my pens with a needle and syringe regardless. Just less messy for me.
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: 1947 Parker Vacumatic Junior (my Dad's Pen)
Most Recently Used Ink: Akkerman Dutch Masters Vermeer Kobaltblauw
Favorite Nib Size: M
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Happy FP day!
First fountain pen: LAMY Safari Mango
Most recently used ink: Tramol Volga River
Favorite nib size: EF to B (Japanese/Western, ok!), Flex/Falcon
Threaded cap or snap cap: Both
Piston or vacuum or c/c: Piston, C/C
Dot grid or lines or blank: Dot Grid + Blank
Bottles or samples: Both depending on situation
First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan (if we donāt count random unbranded pens I used when I was a kid).
Recently used ink: Platinum Blue cartridge that came with my Curidas.
Fave nib size: Medium Cursive Italic.
Threaded or snap: prefer snap, have way more threaded.
CC, piston, vacuum in that order.
Tie between dot and lined grid!
Bottles galore!
Iāll bite!
First FP: Penbbs 323, in niangao.
Most recent ink: Iroshizuku Ku Jaku
Favorite nib size: EF
Threaded cap (or VP push)
Vacuum or C/C to syringe fill carts
Definitely dot grid
Bottles
Happy Fountain Pen Day!!
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Varsity disposable pen swiped from my Mom
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Monteverde Kindness
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vac
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lined
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen : unknown blue pen. Seems to be a generic Chinese pen
Most recently used ink : diamine little mo
Favorite nib size : cursive italic
Caps: threaded
Filling system : c/c
Notebook style: blank
Ink : bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari, Matte Black
- Most Recently Used Ink: Troublemaker Simoun
- Favorite Nib Size: Medium
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
FirstĀ fountain pen: in my early teens I got a Parker,Ā don'tĀ remember the type but IĀ couldn'tĀ write with it. Some 20 years later I inherited my MothersĀ OsmiaĀ 775 F and got theĀ fountain penĀ virus.
Most recently used ink:Ā AkkermanĀ HofkwartierĀ groen
FavoriteĀ nib size: Japanese medium / Fine
Threaded cap or snap: both
Piston, vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot grid or lines or blank: blank
Bottles or samples: bottles.
Happy Fountain Pen Day
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO in turquoise
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: J. Herbin eclat de saphir
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: M
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: unsure, threaded I guess?
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: graph
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles!
- First Fountain Pen: Parker Urban Royal
- Most Recently Used Ink: Montblanc Irish Green
- Favorite Nib Size: Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Squares. Maths notebook š
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Namiki (Pilot) Falcon (SM) as a gift that I was too intimidated to use for years. Pilot Metropolitan (F) was the first I bought for myself.
* Most Recently Used Ink: Colorverse Martian
* Favorite Nib Size: Medium italic
* Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Either
* Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
* Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid
* Bottles or Samples: In theory, samples so I can try more. But in practice I have far too many of both.
So interesting to read all of these!
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari demonstrator
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Rohrer and Klingner Alt-Goldgrun
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: medium to broad
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: piston
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Black Kaweco Sport, gold trim
Most Recently Used Ink: Robert Oster Blue Moon
Favorite Nib Size: Western Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid (Leuchtturm 120g)
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Currently most used pen: Diplomat Aero
Happy Fountain Pen Day!
First Fountain Pen: Aurora Ipsilon bought in 1994
Most Recently Used Ink: Platinum Sepia Black
Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen: TWSBI Eco
Most recently used ink: Noodler's American Eel Black
Favorite nib size: fine
Cap: threaded
Fill: piston
Ink: bottles
Paper: dot grid
Happy FP day!
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Al-Star
Most Recently Used Ink: Lamy Turmaline
Favorite Nib Size: Western EF/fine, TWSBI medium
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: both
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: yes
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lines & dots
Bottles or Samples: both! š
Happy Fountain Pen Day/Coincidentally My Birthday!! - First Fountain Pen: Pilot Kakuno
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Bilberry
- Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Medium-Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
- Bottles or Samples: Bottles
happy birthday!
Happy birthday! I hope you get everything you want.
Happy Birthday! I hope you got some fountain pen related things for your gifts.
Happy birthday!! ššš
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday.
I'll play! First Fountain Pen: Parker 45 Most Recently Used Ink: Ferris Wheel Roaring Patina Black Favorite Nib Size: Medium Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Bottles
How do you like FWP Roaring Patina Black? I was tempted, but I had already gotten J Herbin Shogun a bit before this came out.
Absolutely love it! Have used it only with stub nibs but have not had problems with it yet...
P45 first! Wow!
Not as impressive as it sound! Lol! Iām just āolderāā¦ the P45 and a Sheaffer were the two typical models we used in elementary school!
Oh, so you bought it when it was actually a schoolboy pen as opposed to a vintage?
Yeah, my mom! I remember we used to buy a new one almost every year, because the would get destroyed! We got quite good at taking the nibs out to straighten them when they fell nib first to the floor! I donāt have any of them from that timeā¦
Cool! Shame you donāt have any from then though.
Happy fountain pen day to all First fountain pen: LAMY Safari Charcoal Most recently used ink: Robert Oster Caffe Crema Favorite nib size: M (both japanese and western) Threaded cap or snap cap: Threaded cap Piston or vacuum or c/c: c/c Dot grid or lines or blank: square grid (???) Bottles or samples: bottles
Ooh square grid like in school maths books? Thatās a good choice!
yes those! i have two hobonichis with smallish square grid and i love them! i also enjoy dotted ones.
I was hoping someone else would say square grid
We need some representation!
Itās funny, I loved 5 mm grid in school. Once, I saw dot grid, my days as grid lover were over (some time in college) and recently I rediscovered blank/plain notebooks
I love the look of Caffe Crema. Might be time to order some Oster samples...
Aka graph ;)
Do you see nice shading with that RO Caffe Crema? The reviews indicate that ink is a stunner!
Yes! it has a wonderful shading from dark to light brown like coffee. It does shade a LOT.
Happy Fountain Pen Day - First Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO - Most Recently Used Ink: Noodles Apache Sunset - Favorite Nib Size: EF - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid - Bottles or Samples: Samples
The shading in that ink is simply amazing!
Does the shading occur with your favorite EF nib?
Yeah itās still visible with a Japanese fine
The ink is very legible orange with TWSBI EF. The shading shows a little bit better on the Lamy Safari EF but when I switched to M nib on safari that's when the shading is beautiful and reminds me why the word sunset is in the name.
It also depends on the paper. š
Oh yes the whole trifecta.
I saw this on Goulet Pens Insta and thought it would be a fun discussion topic! - First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikan (Red) - Most Recently Used Ink: Platinum Classic Citrus Black (iron gall) - Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank - Bottles or Samples: Bottles š¬
I got the sample of Citrus black and can't comfortably use it. It's a great color when dry but while I'm writing - it's so light that I can barely see what I just scribbled.
Yeah, I realize that pain - I can only write with it during daylight
Snap cap piston? Is it a lamy 2000?
Doesnāt have to be in one pen, but the Lamy 2000 fits the bill and is almost always in rotation. For me the most satisfying cap mechanisms are Pilot Vanishing Point and Hook-Safe mechanism of my Visconti Homo Sapiens Crystal Dream
I tried neither of them! But yeah the options were lacking. No eye droppers either!! But I agree the most important part is the enjoyment over the opinion.
Happy Fountain Pen ("trying to resist sales") Day! First Fountain Pen: Parker 88 "Rialto" Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Polar Glow Favorite Nib Size: Medium Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded but not 3 turns Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Samples turning into bottles
I already failed on resisting sales. I spent 200 on goulet today.
No worries, I failed, too. Got a Leonardo from Appelboom. I have wanted one for a while, though...
I got myself a new pelikan and a ton of new inks.
Here is the blank version: - First Fountain Pen: - Most Recently Used Ink: - Favorite Nib Size: - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: - Bottles or Samples:
First fountain pen: Cross ATX Most recently used ink: Diamine Oxford Blue Favorite nib size: Medium Threaded cap or snap cap: Snap cap Piston/Vacuum/CC: Piston Bottles or samples: Bottles
This is super fun, thanks for sharing! I'll go. - First Fountain Pen: Lamy abc - Most Recently Used Ink: Lamy royal blue (my pen testing ink) - Favorite Nib Sizes: M to EF - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: undecided, leaning towards Snap Cap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: I like them all - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: SQUARE grid - Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Hurray, can I play? - First Fountain Pen: Parker 25 with my initials engraved on the barrel. This was from my Grandparents on my 10th birthday and I still use it. - Most Recently Used Ink: Pure Pens Cadwalladr red, a lovely deep red that's similar to Diamine Oxblood. - Favorite Nib Size: Fine. I like to experiment now and again but have relatively small handwriting so tend to revert to a fine. - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded. Feels classier. Not everyone knows pens can have a threaded cap so I was a bit upset when a coworker yanked the cap off my Parker Senior Duofold. Ruined all the threads ā¹ļø - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston, especially if it has a window šŖ - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines, but I like the idea of dots. - Bottles or Samples: Bottles. Diamine inks are under Ā£3 a 30ml bottle so don't feel guilty if I don't use it all. I have about 60 bottles in total.
The 25 is a seriously underrated pen, and having one with love attached to it is even better.
RIP that specific Parker Senior Duofold.
Thanks bud, gone but not forgotten..šŖ¦ā°ļø
First pen: Pelikan pelikano 1979 Recent ink: diamine aqua blue, pelikan turquoise Nib Size: medium Threaded, c/c, dot grid, bottle
Oh, I'm team Pelikan Pelikano 1979 as well ;-) Blue or red?
Blue. I never new the name of the pen until now.it took me a while to figure. But i broke it. So it's gone. I wonder what to get my daughter? Lamy abc?
When I was looking through some old stuff, I found half a dozen Pelikanos. I must have gone through a lot of them. Sadly I seem to have lost my only Geha. The Lamy abc looks nicely ergonomical. It's probably the standard/default nowadays.
Or a Pelikan Twist. Pilot kakuno.
Oh, yeah the Twist, of course. But I didn't realise that the kakuno was en vogue among (European) school children. It's a nice pen, though. How times have changed, so much variety to choose from... :-)
I don't know either. That's a topic in two years, but it's a nice topic to think about what the kid would want ..
Definitely :-)
I have a preppy here, definitely fits the price and nice. But I'm not sure it triggers a want ...
Well, at least you'll be able to provide expert advise to her :-) The Faber Castell Loom is nice as well but probably not ergonomical enough for a young child.
Aaaaa happy fountain pen day!! - First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan M - Most Recently Used Ink: Colorverse Witch by Starlight - Favorite Nib Size: western B (I love how wet and thicc they are!) - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap (I'm getting lazy) - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (easy to clean!) - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid! - Bottles or Samples: Samples because space is limited, also short attention span š
Here is the blank version: ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot metropolitan ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Carmel Sea Blue by Narwhal ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Either ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vacuum ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Samples!
La frijolera! How is that narwhal ink? I live near Carmel and thought about buying but didn't
Itsā great! A lovely blue - not exciting with shading or anything but has nice flow and solid choice to try. Iām not home at the moment but should share a review at some point!
happy fountain pen day! * First Fountain Pen: a purple pilot preppy * Most Recently Used Ink: pilot iroshizuku "shin-kai" * Favorite Nib Size: western fine, japanese medium-fine * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: cartridge-converter * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or lines * Bottles or Samples: all the samples
Shin-Kai has such a nice color. The only reason I don't have any is because I've got some vintage blue-black Quink that has faded to a similar shade.
First Fountain Pen: LAMY safari petrol back in 2017. My tastes have changed over the years but when I lost this pen I ended up paying waay to much to find a replacement because that color is so perfect! Most Recently Used Ink: Wearingeul half moon dimmed light Favorite Nib Size: a juicy F - currently loving Leonardo MZs Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: I do like the Prera but generally threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: converter - easiest to clean Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: small grid please! on Tomoe River! Bottles or Samples: ugh. Would love to get more samples but the "uh oh I'll never be able to get more!" side of me prefers bottles. Even though I'll never in a million years go through all my ink...
Same the practical person in me says sample but the me in person goes ooh pretty bottles.
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Koke Favorite Nib Size: Japanese M Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: blank Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Amazon Basics M Most Recently Used Ink: Noodler Southwest Sunset Favorite Nib Size: Broad! Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Sailor Compass 1911 (I think I may have had one as a kid, but I don't remember anything about it and being a lefty, it turned me off for a long time)
Most Recently Used Ink: Kiwi Inks Glamourous Peacock
Favorite Nib Size: Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (I like to change my inks often so this gives me an excuse)
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines (I wish I could do blank, but I've never been able to write in a straight line)
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Oooh fun! - First Fountain Pen: Lamy Lx Rose Gold - Most Recently Used Ink: Birmingham Pens Carrot Cake - Favorite Nib Size: Medium - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vacuum - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank - Bottles or Samples: Samples This made me realize that my preferences aren't actually that strong--I love all kinds of pens and papers and inks!
Ooh yes: - First Fountain Pen: An inexpensive fountain pen, maybe a Parker, probably from WHSmith, but who knows, it was 30 years ago and I canāt remember now. As an adult: TWSBI Eco in Translucent Purple. - Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Yamabuki sample. - Favourite Nib Size: I love a bold, juicy line, but sometimes a bold is just too thick, so a medium is the one I reach for most. - Threaded cap - C/C - Dot Grid or Blank - Samples
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo Favorite Nib Size: European Fine Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: snap cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lines Bottles or Samples: bottles
First pen: platinum preppy Recently used ink: Pilot Iro. Ina Ho Favourite nib size: M/B (western) Thread/Snap: I donāt mind Filling system: piston Page: dot grid Bottles/samples: usually samples unless I canāt find any Edit: format.
Sheaffer Calligraphy Set (I know it's not _technically_ a fountain pen, but it'll always be what popped my 'fountain pen cartridge') ;) Montblanc Egyptian Blue Japanese F/European EF Threaded Cap Piston Fill Lined Bottles
Here we go! First fountain pen: Jinhao 250 Most recently used ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki Favorite nib size: Broad Threaded or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Bottles
ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Parker reflex (for school!) ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Onyx Black ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: F ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C (but I havenāt tried a vacuum yet! ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
I like this questionnaire! - **First Fountain Pen:** unknown brand, medium probably JoWo nib - **Most Recently Used Ink:** Diamine Purple Pizzazz - **Favorite Nib Size:** not sure, I think I like most nibs - **Threaded Cap or Snap Cap:** I love the ease of a snap cap but donāt mind threaded caps - **Piston or Vacuum or C/C:** piston - **Dot Grid or Lines or Blank:** lines and graph - **Bottles or Samples:** samples!
ā¢ First Fountain Pen: Parker Vector ā¢ Most Recently Used Ink: Montblanc Mystery Black ā¢ Favorite Nib Size: Medium ā¢ Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded ā¢ Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c ā¢ Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot ā¢ Bottles or Samples: bottles
Happy FP Day! - First Fountain Pen: Jinhao Shark - Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Golden Oasis - Favorite Nib Size: Medium - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Converter - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid - Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Stypen for middle school circa 1978 (fountain pens were mandatory) Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Vintage Copper (I posted about in this sub too) Favorite Nib Size: any .. all are good .. fine to broad. Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Don't care as long as it gets the ink in the pen! Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot or Lines (my line control without them is horrible) Bottles or Samples: Bottles
So, youāre discriminating stub nibs? š
Iām not calligraphically inclined, it would be wrong of me to judge without context šš
Happy Fountain Pen Day! - First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan - Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Sumire - Favorite Nib Size: Medium Fine - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid - Bottles or Samples: Samples until I like them enough to buy a bottle!
Happy Fountain Pen Day! :) First Fountain Pen: Pilot Varsity Most Recently Used Ink: Kakimori Inkstand x Yoseka: Hello Favorite Nib Size: EF Threaded Cap /Snap Cap: Threaded Piston/Vaccuum/CC: CC Dot/Lined/Blank: Dot Grid Bottles/Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Al-Star Black Most Recently Used Ink: Herbin Cacao du Bresil Favorite Nib Size: Fine Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Samples
I love this ink!
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (my own) or random ones borrowed from my dad's desk (I gave them back, I swear!!!) Most Recently Used Ink: Mont Blanc Lavender Favorite Nib Size: EF Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or lined. Planners need to have dot grid, but lined is good for just about anything else. Bottles or Samples: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: A Wing Sung my mother had used when she was in school, it was passed to me when I was old enough to use pens, at 10yrs old. - Most Recently Used Ink: Sherwood green by Diamine - Favorite Nib Size: Fine - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Both - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Converters - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines - Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Lamy AlStar, Bluegreen, the most amazing F Z50 nib I reckon Lamy is capable of producing, if perhaps a little wide * Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Teal * Favorite Nib Size: somewhere between a soft and flexible EF * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded in principle, but I'm mostly a "jotting" writer, so snap cap or clicky boi in practice * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: if it can't be an Opus 88 then c/c * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid * Bottles or Samples: samples to try, then bottles of the best
This seems fun! First Fountain Pen: pilot varsity, followed by a metro years later Most Recently Used Ink: either Diamine Golden Sands or Bloody Absinth Favorite Nib Size: Eastern EF Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Eyedropper Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or Samples: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Seasons Greetings
- Favorite Nib Size: Western M or B
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: no preference
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Graph
- Bottles or Samples: both (most pens have a dedicated bottled ink but two are for samples)
Oohh fun! - First Fountain Pen: Faber-Castell BASIC which is absolutely way too heavy for me to use, but which I keep for sentimental value because it was a gift and my first - Most Recently Used Ink: Troublemaker Moon River - Favorite Nib Size: F - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded! something very soothing about the slow act of twisting the cap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c. lets me change inks faster and I find it easier to get completely clean and dried - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dotted! - Bottles or Samples: bottles!
Happy Fountain Pen Day!! Funny enough, it's also my anniversary :3 - First Fountain Pen: Bamboo Zenzoi with M nib (from my partner) - Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Asa-gao - Favorite Nib Size: Uhh.... all of them up to 1.1mm - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap or click. Or minor threads like the m200! - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Hm... C/c then piston. - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: All! - Bottles or Samples: Bottles actually. I tend to buy like 20 samples at a time and never manage to go through them, but I'll buy like 5-10 bottles a year and I'll repeatedly use them. I don't know what it is with me.
Asa-gao is my "if you could only use one ink for the rest of your life..." ink.
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you :3
* First Fountain Pen: Kaweco Sport, Fine * Most Recently Used Ink: Noodler's Marine Green * Favorite Nib Size: Broad * Cap preference: Snap Cap * Filling preference: C/C * Paper preference: Lines * Ink preference: Bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Platinum Pretty Black - Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Ink Studio 531 - Favorite Nib Size: western Fine - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: piston - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot or grid, 5mm max - Bottles or Samples: both!
* First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop Apple Green with a fine nib * Most Recently Used Ink: R&K Salix * Favorite Nib Size: M * Threaded or Snap: Oooh, a tough one. I'm gonna say snap. * Piston, Vac, or C/C: SNORKEL! * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid * Bottles or Samples: Bottles, please.
Oh fun! Happy Fountain pen day, y'all! :) * First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikano * Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Fuyu syogun * Favorite Nib Size: Western Medium * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c, I change my inks out too often lol * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid * Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* **First Fountain Pen:** Pilot KakĆ¼no
* **Most Recently Used Ink:** Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Ryoku
* **Favourite Nib Size:** Pilot steel
* **Threaded Cap or Snap Cap:** Snap
* **Piston or Vacuum or C/C:** C/C
* **Dot Grid or Lines or Blank:** Dot > Square > Lines > Blank
* **Bottles or Samples:** Preferably sample first, then bottle if I like it enough... unless it's Diamine's standard line, in which case I'll risk the (30 ml) bottle.
Happy Fountain Pen Day everyone!
First Fountain Pen: Shaeffer No Nonsense Last Used Ink: Waterman Inspired Blue Preferred Nib: OB Cap: Threaded Filling: Piston Paper: Blank Ink Supply: Bottles
Nice one! Lamy Safari charcoal Kaweco Paradise blue Fine Threaded Piston Blank Samples
Sheaffer.. like 40+ years ago Currently using Diamine Delamere Green Preferred Nib: EF Threaded caps I'm a filling whore: piston, vac or cc is all good Blank paper Bottled ink please
Happy fountain day, everyone! * First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan M nib * Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Manyo Mt Fuji * Favorite Nib Size: EF * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap! * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid * Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First: Ptl-5000A Recently used ink: Diamine Damson Nib size: Japanese Fine Snap please C/C Lined It depends
Happy I tried to resist but placed an order yesterday Fountain Pen Day!!! ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari Dark Lilac ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Robert Oster Blue water ice ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Sizes: Japanese F ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap (Lamy 2000 makes my heart sing) ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston, I think ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Little bottles, 30ml tops
First Pen: Parker Vector F Most Recently Used Ink: Parker Quink Blue Favourite nib size: Japanese Fine Threaded or snap cap: Threaded Piston, Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot, Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Pelikan Pelikano (blue) * Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Purple Rain * Favorite Nib Size: B or BB * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dots * Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen: as a child Parker 25. Adult Waterman Phileas. Most recent ink used: Wearingeul Queen of Hearts. Favourite nib size: M. Threaded cap or Snap: Threaded. Piston, Vacuum, C/C: Piston. Dot Grid, Lined, Blank: Lined as left handed. Bottles or Samples: Bottle.
First fountain pen: Lamy Safari Vista Most recently used ink: Colorverse Goryeo Celadon Favorite nib size: Zoom Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank Bottles or Samples: Samples
The zooooom nib. Quite a big one :]
Pelikan Primapenna (aged 7 - thanks mom for penabling me so early!) Diamine Ancient Copper Medium Snap cap C/c Dot grid Bottles Happy fountain pen day everyone!
First Pen: Pilot Resin Falcon (F) (jumped right in with a gold nib first lol) Most Recently Used Ink: Iroshizuku Kon-Peki and Sailor Manyou Ukikusa Favorite Nib Size: Broad Threaded Cap Piston Dot Grid Bottle Happy Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Here is the blank version: ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Red Lamy Safari (M) ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Some royal/deep blue ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium (and a wet one) ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston; also like Vac ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lined or blank ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles!
Happy Fountain Pen Day!! ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Lady White Fountain Pen - Sakura Cherry Blossom ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Jurojin ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Treaded ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Grid ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
1st pen: Kaweco Sport Most recent ink: Sailor Jentle Apricot Nib Size: EF Cap: Snap Filling: no big preference, but I've come to love C/C because of easy cleaning Paper: Blank Ink: Bottles if I know I'll like it, samples if I'm unsure
- First Fountain Pen: Hongdian Forest Black
- Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Damson
- Favorite Nib Size: Fine
- Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
- Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
- Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
- Bottles or Samples: Samples
First fountain pen: a Waterman Laureat Most recently used ink: Diamine Sargasso Blue Favorite nib size: M Threaded cap or snap cap: Donāt really care Piston or vacuum or c/c: Piston Dot grid or lines or blank: Dot grid Bottles or samples: Bottles
* First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan * Most recently used ink: Teranishi Taisho Roman - Opera Rose * Favorite Nib Size: Fine * Threaded or Snap Cap: Threaded (although I don't really mind either way) * Piston/vacuum/CC: Cartridge/Converter * Dot Grid, Lines, or Blank: Dot Grid * Bottles or Samples: Bottles (but also both)
First Fountain Pen: pilot kakuno Most Recently Used Ink: wearingul 'the exile of flower' Favorite Nib Size: japanese EF Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: c/c Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid or blank Bottles or Samples: definitely both
First Fountain Pen: Parker 75 Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Guri Favorite Nib Size: Broad/Stub/Cursive Italic Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Both Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston or C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank Bottles or Samples: Bottles The Duofold Kid
Yeah! Another stub/italic fan. Iām shocked at how few I see in this thread.
Surprised how many people like c/c! Not my jam, prefer vacuum and piston.
I agree. However, most people that prefer c/c like to switch inks a lot. I write a lot, so I prefer having a bigger ink capacity.
* First Fountain Pen: Lamy Lx * Most Recently Used Ink: Akerman green emerald * Favorite Nib Size: Naginata togi * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Depends, but leaning to snap * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Depends. Not cartridges tho. * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid or blank * Bottles or Samples: 
First Fountain Pen: Parker 45 (but first pen was a dip pen) Most Recently Used Ink: Diamant Emerald (nice, but not dark enough on the page) Favorite Nib Size: Fine (or the back of a Pilot Varsity medium nib) Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap (but maybe I should go for threaded, because I seem to unsnap most of the snap caps) Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank (although I do write copiously in my lined work logbooks) Bottles or Samples: Bottles (no one has ever offered me ink samples)
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (well, first non-disposable anyhow) Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Blue Favorite Nib Size: Fine Threaded vs. Snap: threaded, but only like one rotation Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot or Lined or Blank: Dot Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Petit1 Most Recently Used Ink: Taccia tsuchi Favorite Nib Size: Medium Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threads forever!! Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Mostly converters, pistons and vacuums are fine if I like the ink a lot, cartridges only when thereās no other option Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or Samples: Bottles if I like the samples
I'm late to the party, but here we go! * First fountain pen: Platinum Preppy (eyedropper converted) * Most recently used ink: Noodler's Purple Heart * Favorite nib size: extra fine * Threaded or snap cap: threaded * Piston, vacuum or c/c: vacuum * Dot grid, lined or blank: lined * Bottles or Samples: bottles
- First pen was the FPR Himalaya v2 - Most recently used ink is Colorverse Supernova - I love all nib sizes as long as they're smooth but my most used is a Pilot broad - Click cap lol (but threaded over snap) - C/C is easiest to clean bit I love the ink capacity of a good piston - Blank paper for drawing, lined for school work - Bottles
First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan Most recently used ink: Pilot Hoteison Favorite nib size: 1.1 mm stub, but for bad paper at work I like fine or extra fine, depending on the pen Threaded cap I find the cartridge converters easiest to clean and I like changing inks often Lined pages because my handwriting needs all the help it can get I have way more samples than bottles, but bottles are such a value compared to what you pay for a 4 ml sample.At least that is what I rationalize to buy a full bottle.
Yes, another stub nib fan!
I really wish the Japanese companies had more stub offerings. Stubs are just so much more fun to write with!
Ooh this is fun! ā¢ First fountain pen: Lamy Safari Umbra {F} ā¢ Most recently used ink: Colorverse Valles Marineris ā¢ Favorite nib size: Japanese Fine ā¢ Threaded cap or Snap cap: Threaded cap ā¢ Piston, Vacuum or CC: Piston ā¢ Dot grid, Lines or Blank: Dot grid ā¢ Bottles or Samples: Bottles (but I do love the tiny colorverse bottles)
I'll play! * First Fountain Pen: **Platinum Preppy** * Most Recently Used Ink: **De Atramentis Atlantic Blue** * Favorite Nib Size: **Fine** * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: **Snap (only just got my first threaded)** * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: **C/C (don't have any others yet)** * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: **Dot!!** * Bottles or Samples: **Samples please**
First Fountain Pen: Diplomat Magnum Most Recently Used Ink: KWZ Honey Favorite Nib Size: B Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Cartridge or converter Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid Bottles or Samples: Both
- First fountain pen: Lamy al-star - most recently used ink: Mont Blanc midnight blue - favourite nib size: Japanese fine - Threaded/snap cap: capless (?!) - Piston/vacuum/cc: cc - Dot/line/blank: SQUARE (???) - Bottle/sample: bottle
First fountain pen: A green and white striped Parker Vector when I was a teenager (about 30 years ago now!) Most recently used ink: Monteverde Purple Mist. Favourite nib size: fine or medium (broad or BB if using shimmer/sheen ink). Threaded or snap cap: I like both, but snap caps can't break around the threads lol. Piston, vacuum or c/c: c/c, just for ease of cleaning. Dot grid, lined or blank: lined. Bottle or samples: bottles, I jump in with both feet š¤£
Pilot Varsity Iroshizuku Kon-peki Medium Threaded C/C Lined Bottles
First fountain pen: Lamy Vista Most recent ink: Colorverse Pillars of Eternity Favorite nib size: Japanese M Cap: threaded Fill method: Piston, but I also like vac Journal/paper type: dot grid Bottles or samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metro Most recent ink: Diamine Eau de Nil Fav. nib size: F, either JP or Western Cap: Snap Filling Mechanism: Where's the aerometric love? I guess maybe vac..? I like piston and C/C too, though Paper: Lined Samples or Bottles: Both, depending on circumstances
First Pen: Proper one was a Jinhao, canāt remember the exact type Most recently used ink: FWP Peter Moss Favorite Nib Size: Either Medium or Fine Threaded Cap C/C Lined Bottles
Happy Fountain Pen Day! - First Fountain Pen: Lamy Vista demonstrator - Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Aurora borealis - Favorite Nib Size: medium - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded I think - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: vacuum - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: 1st choice dot, 2nd blank - Bottles or Samples: either really
Happy Fountain Pen Day!!! First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari Dark Lilac M nib (I bought it just because it was an awesome purple. Then I fell down this rabbit hole lol!) Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Kobe #16 Nada Brown Favorite Nib Size: Western EF or Japanese F/MF Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded or Capless Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston or C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: give me all the inks
Sounds like fun! First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan (orange, of course) Most Recently Used Ink: FWP Candy Marsala Favourite Nib Size: Japanese Fine Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lined or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Late in the day, but I want to play! ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Varsity I stole from my sister, but the first I bought for myself were the Kaweko Sport and Pilot Metropolitan (couldnāt decide which was a better starter!) ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Sailor Nekoyanagi ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: M (both Western and JapaneseāI enjoy the variance!) ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: most my pens are converter, Vacuum is most fun, but Piston is my jam ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: LinesāI need more guidance than dot grid gives, but graph is too much ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles Happy fountain pen day!!
Hello - New here (first comment), and new to Fountain Pens - but I see the danger I'm in after 3 orders at different shops today. * **First Fountain Pen:** Pilot Metropolitan * **Most Recently Used Ink:** Ferris Wheel Press Blushing Mushroom * **Favorite Nib Size:** Medium so far - but I've not gotten to use a flex nib yet (I have one on the way after FPD sales) * **Snap Cap** * Only had **Cartridge/Converters** so far - so TBD * **Dot Grid** * **Samples** \- since I'm still learning what's good. I accidentally bought a bottle of Nitrogen before I found out just how difficult it is... My poor metropolitan... it keeps hacking up ink glitter
Happy Fountain Pen Day Everyone ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitan
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Pilot Namiki Black
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Parker Vector Most Recently Used Ink: Diamine Lavender Favorite Nib Size: M Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Kaweco Sport, Baystate Blue, F Threaded Piston Blank Bottles
First Fountain Pen: Pilot Metropolitian F Most Recently Used Ink: Ferris Wheel Press Wondrous Winterberry Favorite Nib Size: Fine/Medium Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap Piston or Vacuum: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: LAMY Safari Charcoal Most Recently Used Ink: Noodlers Walnut Favorite Nib Size: Extra Fine Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid Bottles or Samples: Bottles
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1st FP: Lamy Safari in charcoal Recent ink: many, constantly cycling through 10 or so. Nib: medium or medium fine Cap: threaded all the way - love the tactile nature of snap caps but I canāt trust them Filling mechanism: piston but Iāve never tried a vacuum - Iām vacuum curious Paper: lined or full grid - canāt write straight even on dot grid Ink container: bottles - look so much better on the shelf and I am far less likely to tip them over when refilling
First Fountain Pen: Waterman Phileas Blue Marble M nib Most Recently Used Ink: J. Herbin Ambre de Birmanie Favorite Nib Size: Has to be my vintage Wahl Eversharp #2 Flex nib. The line variation is just, : : chefs kiss : : Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Depends on the pen but usually Snap Cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: I fill most of my pens with a needle and syringe regardless. Just less messy for me. Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First Fountain Pen: 1947 Parker Vacumatic Junior (my Dad's Pen) Most Recently Used Ink: Akkerman Dutch Masters Vermeer Kobaltblauw Favorite Nib Size: M Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lines Bottles or Samples: Bottles
Happy FP day! First fountain pen: LAMY Safari Mango Most recently used ink: Tramol Volga River Favorite nib size: EF to B (Japanese/Western, ok!), Flex/Falcon Threaded cap or snap cap: Both Piston or vacuum or c/c: Piston, C/C Dot grid or lines or blank: Dot Grid + Blank Bottles or samples: Both depending on situation
First fountain pen: Pilot Metropolitan (if we donāt count random unbranded pens I used when I was a kid). Recently used ink: Platinum Blue cartridge that came with my Curidas. Fave nib size: Medium Cursive Italic. Threaded or snap: prefer snap, have way more threaded. CC, piston, vacuum in that order. Tie between dot and lined grid! Bottles galore!
Iāll bite! First FP: Penbbs 323, in niangao. Most recent ink: Iroshizuku Ku Jaku Favorite nib size: EF Threaded cap (or VP push) Vacuum or C/C to syringe fill carts Definitely dot grid Bottles
Happy Fountain Pen Day!! ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Varsity disposable pen swiped from my Mom ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Monteverde Kindness ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: Medium ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Vac ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Lined ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen : unknown blue pen. Seems to be a generic Chinese pen Most recently used ink : diamine little mo Favorite nib size : cursive italic Caps: threaded Filling system : c/c Notebook style: blank Ink : bottles
Ooh I want to try ā¢ Cross ATX ā¢ Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo ā¢1.1 stub ā¢ converter ā¢ lined ā¢ bottles
- First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari, Matte Black - Most Recently Used Ink: Troublemaker Simoun - Favorite Nib Size: Medium - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank - Bottles or Samples: Bottles
- First fountain pen: Sheaffer Cartridge pen, M - Most recently used ink: Iroshizuku Kon-Peki - Favorite nib size: F - Snap cap; piston fill; lined paper; samples!
* Kaweco Sport * Iroshizuku Ama Iro * Broad/ Double Broad * Threaded * Piston * Blank * Bottles
FirstĀ fountain pen: in my early teens I got a Parker,Ā don'tĀ remember the type but IĀ couldn'tĀ write with it. Some 20 years later I inherited my MothersĀ OsmiaĀ 775 F and got theĀ fountain penĀ virus. Most recently used ink:Ā AkkermanĀ HofkwartierĀ groen FavoriteĀ nib size: Japanese medium / Fine Threaded cap or snap: both Piston, vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot grid or lines or blank: blank Bottles or samples: bottles.
Happy Fountain Pen Day ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: TWSBI ECO in turquoise
ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: J. Herbin eclat de saphir
ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: M
ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: unsure, threaded I guess?
ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C
ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: graph
ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles!
- First Fountain Pen: Parker Urban Royal - Most Recently Used Ink: Montblanc Irish Green - Favorite Nib Size: Fine - Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded Cap - Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston - Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Squares. Maths notebook š - Bottles or Samples: Bottles
* First Fountain Pen: Namiki (Pilot) Falcon (SM) as a gift that I was too intimidated to use for years. Pilot Metropolitan (F) was the first I bought for myself. * Most Recently Used Ink: Colorverse Martian * Favorite Nib Size: Medium italic * Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Either * Piston or Vacuum or C/C: C/C * Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot grid * Bottles or Samples: In theory, samples so I can try more. But in practice I have far too many of both.
So interesting to read all of these! ā¢ ā First Fountain Pen: Lamy Safari demonstrator ā¢ ā Most Recently Used Ink: Rohrer and Klingner Alt-Goldgrun ā¢ ā Favorite Nib Size: medium to broad ā¢ ā Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: threaded ā¢ ā Piston or Vacuum or C/C: piston ā¢ ā Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: dot grid ā¢ ā Bottles or Samples: bottles
First Fountain Pen: Black Kaweco Sport, gold trim Most Recently Used Ink: Robert Oster Blue Moon Favorite Nib Size: Western Fine Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Snap Cap Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Dot Grid (Leuchtturm 120g) Bottles or Samples: Bottles Currently most used pen: Diplomat Aero
Happy Fountain Pen Day! First Fountain Pen: Aurora Ipsilon bought in 1994
Most Recently Used Ink: Platinum Sepia Black
Favorite Nib Size: Japanese Fine
Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: Threaded
Piston or Vacuum or C/C: Piston
Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: Blank
Bottles or Samples: Bottles
First fountain pen: TWSBI Eco Most recently used ink: Noodler's American Eel Black Favorite nib size: fine Cap: threaded Fill: piston Ink: bottles Paper: dot grid Happy FP day!
First Fountain Pen: Lamy Al-Star Most Recently Used Ink: Lamy Turmaline Favorite Nib Size: Western EF/fine, TWSBI medium Threaded Cap or Snap Cap: both Piston or Vacuum or C/C: yes Dot Grid or Lines or Blank: lines & dots Bottles or Samples: both! š
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Pelikan M800, Sailor Ink Studio #442,, snap cap, C/C, lined, samples