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[HMA Kieran]

 

Fountain pen - (n) a pen with a reservoir or cartridge from which ink flows continuously to the nib

 

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | Date: 2008

 

hk

 

 

[dogpoet]

Thanks for straightening me on that one, guys. My mistake.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thanks for straightening me on that one, guys. My mistake.

 

No prob. You have to forfeit all your fountain pens to me, though. :ltcapd:

 

[dogpoet]

Hmmm. Where did I put that Rotring Core?

[Sailor Kenshin]

You have one of those, too?

[dogpoet]

I do, but I only mentioned that as a joke, as I was told they're not popular.

[Sailor Kenshin]

What color?

 

I LOVE the nib, and the way it writes, and the 'look' of my Core. I just can't stand the grip.

 

BTW, mine's orange and gray.

[dogpoet]

White and black (that is, mostly white with a black grip, insets in the barrel around the spare cartridge, and black rubbery bits on the cap) with red writing printed on it (apparently by a Matrix fan who plays a lot of Warhammer 40,000?), that is starting to wear off now. I like the nib myself, but don't have a problem with the grip. I'm also taken with the writing (medium verging on not quite fine? It's certainly a lot finer than either of the either of the inexpensive Parkers I own, but both seem wetter, though the Core is far from scratchy) though it has an annoying tendency to stop up, or stick, or whatever the proper the term is. I'd thought that rinsing it out thoroughly and retiring it for nine months or so had cured that, but nope, it's started again after I dragged it out of retirment to take to work after the cheaper and worst of my two Parkers (I thought it was a Jotter, but apparently it isn't: thin plastic body, the same as the roller balls and a tendency to dig into the thumb when held for a long time, which is why I finally decided the hell with it, and gave the Core another go).

For a pen that cost me a tenner (I think) from a mail order company that sells clothing, it isn't bad at all. If it wasn't for the tendency to clog (or whatever the term is) it'd be the best of the four pens I owned pre joining this forum (the fourth is an Inoxcrom who's name I don't recall: nice nib, nice fat rubber grip, but it's short enough to become irksome after writing for a while with my huge paws and the other one I had -the first fountain pen I bought after a long while using rollerballs, gel pens, felt tips, disposable "fountain pens" and anything else that had blacker ink than a biro's charcoal grey trail, and the same model, in purple plastic and rubber rather than green- seized up completely after I'd been using it a while. Hopefully this one won't if I remember to rinse it out occasionally, but nothing I did freed the other after it came out on strike so I eventually gave up on it and (cover your eyes at the back) slammed it nib first first into a brick wall a couple of times and threw it into the Lyme. Hopefully this one won't go the same way as this and the Core are joint second faves after a Parker Frontier*, with the other, vile Parker as a very firm and definite fourth. I'm not touching that one again. It's the sort of pen I can remember using at school when I was forced to use a fountain pen a long time ago, and probably was responsible for putting a lot of kids of ever touching another fountain pen again. I decided, after the Core developed its mannerisms and I could get one cheaply in a double pack with a very nice propelling pencil, that one of these would be an ideal work pen as nobody would ever pinch the (bleep), but gave up in disgust after using it a while when it started to maim the pad of my thumb. That's gone into retirement permanently now, having escaped the brick wall/Lyme river routine as it isn't really worth the effort or the bile.

This was a very long post. I apologise for that.

 

*(not ranking the Pilot Birdie I've acquired since I started posting here until I've been using it for a while longer)

Edited August 28, 2008 by dogpoet

[Sailor Kenshin]

Awww. C'mon, I'll buy you a beer.

[Titivillus]

Hello and welcome to FPN. Kick off your shoes and have a stroll around the grounds. There is lots of good information as well as people willing to share information. Heck you might even pick up a pen or two at the Marketplace.

 

 

Once again welcome.

 

Kurt

[dogpoet]

Thanks, Kurt.