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Fountain pen on the go? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/fountainpens

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Three solutions I have tried:

dirt cheap Chinese pens, at the time the quality control was too terrible and I had to write on carbon paper often enough that I gave up
pocket pens, too annoying to get out of a pocket in my opinion, some people tolerate this, they end up being better as regular clipped pens to me
retractable fountain pens, the Chinese Vanishing Point clones work great and aren't very expensive, I've had one for a while, wrote a lot (15-20 refills), no issues apart from the paint peeling off, I have not tested the brass for lead