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Originally Posted by 777
WOW - That is some great food for thought... I've always avoided fountain pens for two reasons: - I have very bad handwriting
- Afraid of what an ink spill could do: especially to my shirts, which are custom made
I may consider a fountain pen as a desk pen, but to be honest, I don't really use a pen for anything other than signatures. Since my writing is SOOOoooo bad, I normally get fine point black ink....
So basically I just like to have nice looking pens in my pocket and I am all about ease of use (read: I am lazy as all get-out).
I have a nice display case with about 6 slots free still. 
Thanks again for the information. Definitely good and something to consider! |
No problems. I will let you into a secret. When I was young I had terrible handwriting and used to stutter a great deal. Apart from elecution lessons I was told to write with a fountain pen as it would help with my handwriting..It did.
I have tried ball points time after time but my hand writing looks similar to a crows tracks in the snow who is suffering from acute st vitus dance!
To this day my handwriting is appaling with ball point, it just runs away with me!
I understand your concerns about a fountain pen leaking but in all the years I have written with them (over 37) this has never happened to me, you just have to be careful on aircraft that's all.
A fountain pen would give your signature a magnificent flourish, especially with a stub nib which you would be able to get at that price point easily. One thing, I notice you said you use a fine point. Fine points are much less forgiving of ones handwriting in my experience, seeing as most of your writing is signature then a broader nib is very appropriate for that use, add a stub and even more so! A stub nib by the way is where the end of the nib is flat in profile with slightly rounded sides,( an italic is the same but with straight sides) it gives line variation and that line variation helps give ones handwriting more appeal.
If I still can't convince you
then please at least try a roller ball, it will improve your handwriting over a ball point any day!
Once again, handwriting really improves with a fountain pen!
If I can be of any help just let me know, once one is on track with a good pen one never looks back!