LeFonque
One of the Regulars
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- Melbourne Australia
For me it is a Namiki red fine nib. I carry three Pelikan with me in my work bag.
I’m not a collector either but I have a Waterman (Harley Davidson edition) that was a graduation gift from a professor, a set of Schaefer calligraphy pens that was a gift from a church member, and a Noodler’s Ahab which I bought. I’ll try to remember to take pictures later.
The Waterman doesn’t flow well enough, and the others sometimes leak and get my fingers messy. But I still use them because I greatly prefer the artistic way they lay down ink. Heck, when I was a kid I used to take my pencils and scrape them on a brick or concrete or whatever to file a nice flat calligraphy profile into the pencil tip!!!
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Ink on my fingers was typical on me too!
That also would've made a nice high school pen
That is a lovely nib, (Too good for school though.)
Edward - I especially like the Parker 51 vacuumatic filling version with the pump mechanism. The later aerometric version with the bladder is nice too, I still have my father's Parker 51 "Special" which I'll occasionally ink up. The hooded nibs used by the 51 family make it next to impossible for the nib to dry out in ordinary usage & they seem to be able to digest practically any ink.
I hope that you make good use of your Parker 51 fountain pens.
I’m not a collector either but I have a Waterman (Harley Davidson edition) that was a graduation gift from a professor,
That also would've made a nice high school pen
I realised the other day, or rather my wife realised for me how awful my handwriting is so I set myself the goal of improving it. I thought a good start would be getting a fountain pen, I hadn't used one since my school days many many years ago. After much googling I decided to get a couple of Chinese pens from EBay. I absolutely love them and so cheap. You can get clones of most well known and respected makes for next to nothing. A new fountain pen all the way from Shanghai to my front door for £1.12 . It looks wonderful and it writes beautifully. I know it doesn't have the same pedigree as an original but for the price you can't go wrong.