Do you write Posted or Unposted?

[Chrissy]

I only post Kaweco Sport pens plus one Montblanc Boheme. Nothing else

[Manalto]

I've become so acutely aware of the imbalance of most posted pens that I rarely post anymore. However, I don't like the insecurity of a cap without a home. So I didn't know how to answer the survey question, preferring the security of posted and preferring the balance of not.

[Sasha Royale]

Writing "unposted" is a habit of safety, with me. I have many vintage pens, such as 1920's Parker Duofold Senior, Junior, & Lady/s. Ninety years is a lot of time to develop faults in the material. There will be failure-splits of the cap, in due time, without my jamming a pen barrel into the cap. Of course, there is little concern with a metal pen cap, or modern ABS plastic, but not posting is a habit that protects my vintage pens.

 

Beware of lending ! My supervisor borrowed my Jinhao x750. He posted the cap, and seated the posted cap, with a sharp strike with the heel of his hand. The Jinhao was unharmed, but I will NEVER leave my Duofold or Esterbrook on the desk.

[Manalto]

 

Beware of lending ! My supervisor borrowed my Jinhao x750. He posted the cap, and seated the posted cap, with a sharp strike with the heel of his hand.

Neanderthal!

[ItsMeDave]

I never post and don't buy pens that can't be comfortably used without posting.

[pajaro]

Neanderthal!

Who?

[Manalto]

Supervisor! (of course)

[Manalto]

Duplicate post (now I'm the Neanderthal, slamming away at the keyboard)

Edited March 18, 2017 by Manalto

[Polanova]

Posted pens look silly, analogous to wearing sun-glasses on the top of ones head

(exception -aren`t there always?- is my new Aurora RA3)

 

PS: New Thread idea: Do you post your BIC`s (think we didn`t have that one yet)

Edited March 18, 2017 by Polanova

[Lexus77]

Posted pens look silly, analogous to wearing sun-glasses on the top of ones head

 

You have just made my list of mortal enemies.

 

No, just kidding, of course/

[Chrissy]

Posted pens look silly, analogous to wearing sun-glasses on the top of ones head

(exception -aren`t there always?- is my new Aurora RA3)

 

PS: New Thread idea: Do you post your BIC`s (think we didn`t have that one yet)

 

I'm going for a +1 on this. With not that many exceptions. I already have plenty of mortal enemies on here so a few extra won't make much difference.

[TSherbs]

 

I'm going for a +1 on this. With not that many exceptions. I already have plenty of mortal enemies on here so a few extra won't make much difference.

ha

 

no enemy here

 

I prefer the posting because I don't like the clutter of a loose cap on a writing surface, the clip often keeps the pen from rolling (my desk is not level), and I have large hands, and so I often prefer the extra length (most pen barrels end on the meat of my hand, especially since I like to hold the pen as far from the nib as I can comfortably get away with). I also don't have vintage pens, so I am not worried about about scratching a barrel; this has not ever happened for me. Because of various issues with my hand, writing actually gives me some pain, and posting a pen usually reduces this pain for the reasons that I have listed above. I agree that it is not always the prettiest combination, and not most elegant. Nor am I

[Flippy]

I usually don't post on my expensive, fragile pens, and I always post on my less expensive pens.

[cellmatrix]

It really depends on the pen

[TheSingingEmma]

I prefer unposted, because I was taught to in primary school and now I'm used to the lightness.

[PaulS]

would agree with the comment that it's mostly pen dependant .............. standard length pens look disproportionate in length when writing posted.

Can't recall where I saw it now, but somewhere someone said you should post for the simple reason that if you drop the thing hopefully the posted end will be weightier and hit the deck rather than the nib.

Conversely, I've seen some horrendous constriction damage to the rear ends of barrels, where they've obviously been posted over many a long year - the sort of damage that you're never going to polish out.

Edited March 24, 2017 by PaulS

[Astronymus]

would agree with the comment that it's mostly pen dependant .............. standard length pens look disproportionate in length when writing posted.

Can't recall where I saw it now, but somewhere someone said you should post for the simple reason that if you drop the thing hopefully the posted end will be weightier and hit the deck rather than the nib.

Conversely, I've seen some horrendous constriction damage to the rear ends of barrels, where they've obviously been posted over many a long year - the sort of damage that you're never going to polish out.

 

That's not how gravity works.

 

Which ends hit the deck is dependent on the rotation rate the pen will have falling out of your hand. Posted or unposted. Same as the toast and the jam.

That in mind the nib will have to take the weight of the barrel AND the cap when it dives nose first...

[FOUR X FOUR]

Always unposted

[PaulS]

unfortunately, sod's law - for me- will probably dictate that however I drop/rotate the pen, it will end up nose-diving nib first.

 

I've just finger-balanced a g.f. Waterman's - whilst posted - and the distribution of weight to length is biased toward the posted end. Probably very academic, but might this not suggest that if we dropped it from the top of the Leaning Tower, then by the time it reached the ground the weightier end might have positioned itself downward - that's assuming we didn't impart any spin

[praxim]

No. As astron said, weight is not the determinant. I could say that air drag also matters, so you could think of that slim stylish nib as it dives gracefully into the tiles . However, if you are accidentally dropping a pen then it is unlikely you will have any control of rotational forces and in the fall distance that will be the most important fact.