Carrying Fountain Pens In Hot Climates?

[dornblaser]

Hi,

 

For a gent to carry a pen in their shirt pocket, the length of the pen from the top of the clip to the end of the barrel should be slightly less that the depth of the pocket; and the pen should be low mass (not metal) so that the fit of the shirt is not skewed. Consider pens such as the Sheaffer Tuck-a-Way, a Parker Newhaven Slimfold, or Pilot's long-caps or their Prera.

 

 

I think that shirt pockets have gotten less deep over the decades? I think that pen should be able to carry perfectly straight up. This is why I carry Pelikan M400's in my shirt pocket. Larger pens, such as Pelican M600 and larger, are resigned to desk use or jacket interior pockets.

[Arkanabar]

 

I think that shirt pockets have gotten less deep over the decades? I think that pen should be able to carry perfectly straight up. This is why I carry Pelikan M400's in my shirt pocket. Larger pens, such as Pelican M600 and larger, are resigned to desk use or jacket interior pockets.

Some more so than others. I have shirt pockets which are clearly only meant as styling details, rather than as a place for a pen; I'm not sure even a Fisher Bullet wouldn't poke out the top.

[FOUR X FOUR]

Yesterday, while in Puerto Rico, I carried a Mont Blanc 145 in my Tee-Shirt pocket and a Kaweco ALSport in my cargo shorts. It was a warm day but it was overcast. So, no real direct sun. The pens faired well. And, they sure did write nicely at the end of the day

[Sandy1]

 

I think that shirt pockets have gotten less deep over the decades? I think that pen should be able to carry perfectly straight up. This is why I carry Pelikan M400's in my shirt pocket. Larger pens, such as Pelican M600 and larger, are resigned to desk use or jacket interior pockets.

 

 

Hi,

 

Perhaps a gent could have a tailor/seamstress replace a shallow pocket with one of sufficient depth to accommodate their chosen pen?

 

Bye,

S1

[dcwaites]

A long time ago, in a previous century (a previous millennium, actually) I used to carry a Sterling Silver Ciselle Parker 75 to the tropical Marine station I used to work on. The only consequence, which really only applied to that pen, was some tarnish to the silver from the marine atmosphere.

 

Otherwise, I have never had any problems with any FPs in the Tropics.

[Arkanabar]

 

 

Hi,

 

Perhaps a gent could have a tailor/seamstress replace a shallow pocket with one of sufficient depth to accommodate their chosen pen?

 

Bye,

S1

Indeed one could, but tbh, the shirts I have that are so afflicted are too cheap to warrant such attention. And they're made of patterned fabric.

[Sandy1]

Indeed one could, but tbh, the shirts I have that are so afflicted are too cheap to warrant such attention. And they're made of patterned fabric.

 

 

Hi,

 

All the more reason to get a Tuckie!

 

​What one does't spend on bespoke garments can be diverted to fund acquisition of exquisite pens, though in the case of the Pink Pelikan, cost of the necessary lingerie, shoes etc can eclipse that of the pen. https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/297144-received-my-new-pelikan-m600-pink/?p=3456872

 

(But that's OK)

 

Bye,

S1

Edited April 29, 2016 by Sandy1

[Bo Bo Olson]

I think 30 Degrees is 88 not..... Been wrong for years it is only 86 degrees . After years in Germany I learned to think 30 degrees as hot, like the sweating panting Germans. All this time I'd been thinking it was 88 which is close to 90.....I didn't realize how cool and comfortable 30 degrees actually was . I was sweating and fanning my self out of ignorance. ...On a cool summer day.

 

There is a physiological border that has to do with the number 30 which is hot in Germany and a very cool summer day in the States.

In the States 90 F starts being hot....32,2222.....oddly to the Germans 32 is not considered all that much hotter than 30....When It Is! It is 90 degrees the beginning of HOT.

 

36 being blood temperature was easy to remember.

40 degrees I did have down as 104 Texas fry eggs on the sidewalk hot.....

 

 

I still think in pounds, inches, feet and miles.....and if one is 6 foot, the body measures and is easy, Thumb crease to nail end...1", a hand is 4, a span of a hand 9, an El...from elbow to finger tip 18, tip of nose to finger tip is 36, turn the head away and it is a cloth yard or a meter, finger tip to finger tip is six feet or a fathom.***

While working at Ikea in Germany and not having my measuring band with me, if some one asked how long or wide a piece of furniture was, I had my body measuring it.....to looks, in metric is not natural and one can't just El, span and thumb a width, in five seconds...one has to walk over to the wall and grab a meter band.

 

***SBM..Standard Body Measurement....does not work in Metric at all!!! Those poor metric folks always got to have a ruler stuck in the back pocket ...and they do not even consider being able to measure using body parts or they would not have been asking me all the time.

23 CM a span is harder to keep in the mind and add than 9" ...I never ever seen any one, use his hand to measure in Germany.

 

That's what happens to the world when an intellectual aristocracy are put in charge of things in 1793...having never worked...wished logic instead of seeing logic at work. You must remember the Hate of the English played just as big a role as hate of Trade folks by the French intellectuals in developing the meter. .

Edited April 29, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson

[northstar]

Last summer we managed 56C here in Iraq, soooooo is it safe to have the pen in my shirt pocket?

 

Any one with solidified LL refills for the Parker pencils you can send them to me and I can bring them back to their liquid status

[praxim]

Bo Bo, surely your discussion of personal measurement standards reeks of speciesism! If one can sensibly abandon the awkward and angular human form then you will find the perfect general measure in comfortably furry form (no hard edges). The well known Tail Standard is easily used for both vertical and horizontal measures, auto-adaptively shifting to either. Better, it also adapts smoothly to curved measures. Try that with your pointy elbow. When not in use, which may be quite often, the Tail Standard device is self-cleaning and folds away so neatly one often can not even see it.

 

I rest my case, as does the local Tail Standard device.

[Ghost Plane]

Last summer we managed 56C here in Iraq, soooooo is it safe to have the pen in my shirt pocket?

 

Any one with solidified LL refills for the Parker pencils you can send them to me and I can bring them back to their liquid status

 

THAT is hot. And here was me thinking yesterday's 96F signaled the start of spring...