One of the great features of the Namiki/Pilot VP/Capless is that it's a push-button, one-handable retractable. Anyone know if you can one hand the twist-top Fermo also? I use the regular VP in meetings, and retract the point when I'm not writing (so the nib doesn't dry out) and I think the clicking might be bothering some. The Fermo would solve that if it is one-handable. Anyone?
Doug
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| QUOTE (HDoug @ Apr 1 2007, 12:54 PM) |
| One of the great features of the Namiki/Pilot VP/Capless is that it's a push-button, one-handable retractable. Anyone know if you can one hand the twist-top Fermo also? I use the regular VP in meetings, and retract the point when I'm not writing (so the nib doesn't dry out) and I think the clicking might be bothering some. The Fermo would solve that if it is one-handable. Anyone? Doug |
I have been writing with my new Fermo for about the past week, and have really enjoyed it. To answer your question, though it is possible to extend the nib with one hand, it certainly isn't easy. When twisting the blind cap to extend the nib, there is quite a bit of resistance, more then I thought there would be actually. I was playing with the pen with one hand in preparation to answer this question when it came up. So while it can be done, it can take a few times to get the nib out, and sometimes the surface of the blind cap twist knob isn't quite sticky enough for fingers to keep a hold on it.
I'd say this is definitely a two-hand pen. Unique and a joy to write with (I won't be selling mine!), but not as simple as the click click VP.
I'm sorry, but how feeble would you have to be to be seriously bothered by the click of a VP retracting? Maybe it was waking some people in your meetings from a deep sleep?
Mind you, if you just want an excuse to buy a Fermo, I should go for it......!
Andy
Mind you, if you just want an excuse to buy a Fermo, I should go for it......!
Andy
| QUOTE (andyr7 @ Apr 1 2007, 09:38 AM) |
| I'm sorry, but how feeble would you have to be to be seriously bothered by the click of a VP retracting? Maybe it was waking some people in your meetings from a deep sleep? Mind you, if you just want an excuse to by a Fermo, I should go for it......! Andy |
LOL! Well, sometimes in meetings someone will start off, "You know, I was just thinking..." and then there's a "click" and that, I notice, unnerves some. And the opposite too. When the CEO says, "You know, I was just thinking..." she looks over at me if she doesn't hear the click!
Doug
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