I just watched the beginning of tonight's episode of CSI:NY, and there was a pretty big fountain pen role. They found a murdered college student and than later find a pen on the ground (as soon as I saw it, I thought that it might be a fountain pen because it was big and expensive looking). In the next scene, they're in the forensic room and lo and behold, it's a Montblanc fountain pen with a nice bold nib (the nib close-up took up the entire screen (you could make out every detail on my HDTV)). The guy even says "we found this fountain pen," or something of that nature.

In the show, the student had inked it with his own blood, which may or may not be possible (I'm no blood or ink expert). This is the first time that I've ever watched a part of CSI, but I turned it off after the fountain pen role, because frankly, I was pretty grossed out. I think the show's too graphic. Still, it's the biggest fountain pen exposure that I've ever seen on TV, and on a prime time show no less.

Edit: The episode is called Some Buried Bones.

I want a screenshot of that closeup!

Alas, I don't have a recorder, so if anyone ever wants to see it, you'll have to wait for a rerun or buy the DVD set when it comes out (although this latter option won't be as good as the HD version on TV unless they release it on Blu-ray or HD-DVD).

I think that the blood would tend to clot and clog the pen. He might have added heparin to his ink to keep it flowing smoothly. Buying a nice red ink would have been more expensive, but much more practical for the student.

Haha!! I, too, love a nice blood-red ink, but I don't think that's the route I'd take...

I love CSI, but didn't realize it was on tonight - I tend to watch it on re-runs since my schedule is so odd... arg... I really would have liked to see this episode. I'll have to keep an eye out so I can catch it again.

There are a lot of nurses in my family and I taught grade school - it's really tough to gross me out. Plus I once considered being a fatal accident investigator... Needless to say, the grossness factor doesn't bother me so much. However, doing that to a fountain pen... Frightful!!!

Mike

It looked like this............................

you'd have to have heparin to get it in the pen to begin with. If he punctured his vein and drew it out that way - but then you'd still need heparin already in the pen reservoir. Don't know how you could get a nib that size into a vein and actually be able to draw the blood though. I recorded the epi but haven't watched it yet. (Medium conflict)

I tried tatooed (sp?) myself yesterday - not intentionally. Was cleaning a cartridge with a syringe and rushing and stabbed my finger with a Sheaffer black ink blob in the syringe. it is too shallow to stay but looks like a large spinter in my finger.

That's a pretty expensive pen for a college student...

that was a neat episode. i dont understand why in the world he filled the pen with blood considering he was using it for taking notes and whatnot. [they showed some notes he took on a notebook written in blood]. he was a rich kid, hence the pricey pen.

i do love a good blood red ink as well, and i mean a true bloody red. the best i found so far is sheaffer skrip red. it dries to an absolutely perfect color that is quite bright/vibrant but very deep at the same time with an outline that is very dark, almost black. it couldnt match dried blood any better.

I'd have to sell alot of my blood to buy that pen.

Well, at least it was some exposure for fountain pens, and an acknowledgement that they still exist and that some people do use them. But, I wonder if the student's being rich affects the perceptions of the pen as only a rich kid's toy?