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What Makes A Pen "boring" Or "boring Looking?"


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Boring looking pens can be interesting to write with. Interesting looking pens can be boring to write with. Interesting writers can use boring pens. Boring writers can use interesting pens.

 

What does interesting or boring mean? That really is up to you to decide. If interesting to you means that when you pick the pen up, it starts easily, writes cleanly, doesn't skip and has a uniform line width then that might be boring to others... if when you pick the pen up the feed empties the pen straight onto the paper immediately then that certainly isnt boring, nor is it likely to be good.

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What makes a pen boring? Certainly it will be different for each one of us.

 

I find something interesting about each one of my pens. It is something different with each one. Some it is the nib, others color, texture or material.

 

None are particularly expensive. (~$100 or less)

 

One that is getting a lot of use lately is a gray Esterbrook J. It arrived fitted with a 9461 manifold fine, but I have a Venus fine installed currently. It is also the first sac replacement I have done myself. Maybe that has something to do with it.

 

As for inks, I can understand why some blues and blacks don't get a lot of love here. Using ballpoints most of my life, those were the colors I used most. When I have other choices/options now, i mostly use those. Blue Blacks, blues, greens, various reds, orange, event purple/violets and turquoise. Sure I have a couple of blacks (Blackstone Black Cashmere and Noodler's Black) Neither gets a lot of use. Not sure why. Is black boring? Naw. Just I like others better.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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