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As a fountain pen enthusiast with some beautiful pens that will probably become rare in the future, it makes me somewhat sad that my only son is left-handed.
Hoping not to be culturally-deaf, you have an arabic sounding username, so maybe there is still hope for him if he decides to learn the language
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> My experience getting into double-edge razors It’s called safety razor, if I understood you correctly. Also, it’s quite hard to write with it, I’ll stick to fountain pens.
If you like to write your ransom notes in blood it’s just the thing.
For anyone wanting to know and learn more, there's also the r/fountainpens subreddit with 350k subs (because of course there exists a subreddit for every such niche).
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That isn’t true at all. The nib in my Lamy 2000 is nothing at all like the nib on one of the mass market pens.
Lamy 2000's grind geometry is different, and it's finished in hand though. 2000 is my one of the favorite pens, so I'm deeply familiar with it. Also, Pilot's and Graf von Faber Castell's gold nibs are great and soft. On the other hand Sailor's 21K gold nibs are relatively nails and feels off it that's not your taste. My point is, I'd rather carry a Kaweco or a Lamy with a replaceable steel nib as an EDC, because stee…
That is plainly incorrect.
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I think this kinda misses the point of what lost modern pen enthusiasts are looking for. For one thing, limiting yourself to pre-filled cartridges locks you out of 95%+ of the fancy ink out there, which is sold bottled for use with internal reservoirs.
Some fancier inks also comes in cartridges though. Most of Diamine's collection, Kaweco, Montblanc, Graf von Faber Castell and Waterman comes in international standard cartridges too. Yeah, Waterman is not that "fancy", but being able to carry 8 long cartridges of Serenity/Florida blue with a dependable pen is hard to beat if you are on the go.
They're not (except maybe Diamine occasionally) making shimmer inks, or glitter inks, or color shift inks, or ...
I'm talking mostly about small boutique makers.
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I think hand-writing is gone already, save a few hipsters who like it more for the calm and repetitiveness than because they actually need to write what they are writing. I can write 20x faster with a keyboard and I won't have cramps after a few minutes. And I don't think painful hands are a prerequisite for deep thought.
How would you know?
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Lamy 2000's grind geometry is different, and it's finished in hand though. 2000 is my one of the favorite pens, so I'm deeply familiar with it. Also, Pilot's and Graf von Faber Castell's gold nibs are great and soft. On the other hand Sailor's 21K gold nibs are relatively nails and feels off it that's not your taste. My point is, I'd rather carry a Kaweco or a Lamy with a replaceable steel nib as an EDC, because stee…
Your GP said, and I quote, "The secret sauce of Lamy and Faber Castell is, their lower and higher end pens use the same feeds and nibs". That is plainly incorrect.
In Faber Castell, sans Grip 2011, all pens use the same nib and feed, incl Loom, Ambition, E-Motion, Neo Slim and others. Graf von Faber Castell uses same feeds with Faber Castell pens. Steel GvFC nibs on differ in stamping and maybe have tighter quality control, but interchangeable with standard FC pens. GvFC gold nibs are interchangeable again with pens using the same feeds, except some limited pens with bigger nibs.
Parker also uses the same nibs and very similar feeds inside the family. Waterman and Parker are under the same umbrella and only has cosmetic differences in their nibs and feeds, along almost all the pens.
Faber Castell Grip 2011 uses exactly the same feed and nib with Kaweco Perkeo. Kaweco's other pens, sans Original 250 all use the same nibs and feeds. Only feed housing is different between plastic and metal models, metal models having screw-on feed housings while plastic models have slip on versions.
Some other manufacturers like Franklin Christoph and Esterbrook use Schmidt #6 system with screw on nib units with custom stamping, so their nibs are interchangeable with any Schmidt #6 unit. One of my such pens have a custom grind called dentist (a reverse architect, basically) ground from a bog standard Schmidt #6.
Lamy 2000, Scheaffer Inlaid/Imperial, Parker Duofold, Montblanc are outliers in the pen world with their bespoke nibs and feeds. Nibs and feeds are very optimized over the years, and big manufacturers prefer to build their different pens on the same proven platforms, because these parts are hard, slow and expensive to optimize further when you hit the sweet spot. Also, precision machinery is expensive. So when you optimize, you exploit that platform.
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Some fancier inks also comes in cartridges though. Most of Diamine's collection, Kaweco, Montblanc, Graf von Faber Castell and Waterman comes in international standard cartridges too. Yeah, Waterman is not that "fancy", but being able to carry 8 long cartridges of Serenity/Florida blue with a dependable pen is hard to beat if you are on the go.
None of those I would really class as "fancy". Good ink, yes. Fancy, no. They're not (except maybe Diamine occasionally) making shimmer inks, or glitter inks, or color shift inks, or ... I'm talking mostly about small boutique makers.
For me, a good permanent or IG ink is fancy enough, because I can use them in my lab notebooks and be sure to open and re-read it five years later. For you, a fancy ink brings you joy and has different tricks IIUC, and is equally valid.
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