I started in 2005 and have a small collection of fountain pens. My current favorite is the Namiki/Pilot Custom 823 amber demonstrator. It is piston filled with a large ink chamber. The prior favorite was a wine red Conway Stewart Appellation by Kevin Cheng. It had great balance and wrote wonderfully, but was limited by the cartridge converter ink capacity. Some other notables are the Waterman Sterling Edson and Conway Stewart Sterling Duro. There are some other nice pens in the collection, but I have bought and sold enough that I cannot remember what's current.
I have not gotten into the vintage flex nibs. But, one year at the Chicago pen show, I had the Nakaya nibmeister make me a Nakaya Briar pen w/clip and a medium stub elastic flex nib. It wrote really well and flexed wonderfully. For my Cataneo Italic writing, I am currently using Rotring Art Pens. For more on that style, check here: http://jp29.org/itintro.htm For inexpensive pens, the Hero 616 can be had in packs. I think I got a 10 pack many years ago for less than $50. They do vary in quality somewhat, but are hard to beat at the price. The vacuum fill sack also holds a decent quantity of ink. I have some Parker 51 also and the Hero 616 compares quite favorably given the price difference. Though I am not currently as active with fountain pens as I once was, the Fountain Pen Network is a great resource. http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/ Tim On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Ray Varella <rayvarella...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll admit to having a few fountain pens here. > I've owned them for nearly 3 decades. > Parker, Waterman and Pelikan. > If you care to spring for the gold nibs, they are supposed to be more > flexible. > I'm not sure if it's a myth or nor but folklore used to say that you > shouldn't let other people use your fountain pen because the nib breaks in > to your own writing style. > It sounds like an awful good reason to prevent some hamfisted philistine > from scratching away with your prized scribing tool but I seriously doubt > the pen has a memory. > > For anyone wanting to try making their own quill pen, if you're ever in > Vallejo CA, I'll be happy to give you a macaw feather or two. > If you're shopping for feathers, I would suggest wing feathers over tail > feathers. > Wing feathers take much higher loads than tailfeathers and the shaft is > thicker and heavier as a result. > Unless of course, you are a gold nibbed aficionado, then for sure you'll > want the improved flexibility of a tailfeathered quill. > Just don't let anyone use it after it conforms to your writing style. > > Ray > Vallejo CA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
