I’ve never owned or used a fountain pen before, but I saw that these are less than $6 a piece and refill cartridges look pretty cheap too.

Are these worth buying for a first timer or are they an invitation to a souring experience for a noob?

  • Dr Jekell@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Saw that my local pen shop started carrying PP pens.

    So bowing to peer pressure I brought a black EF along with some other goodies.

    I say that EF nib for me does not write nicely on fountain pen friendly paper, it tends to slide around on the paper ending up making a scribble instead of words.

    Not sure if this is down to the amount of pressure I put on the pen or if the pen I got is an outlier.

    Might have to go back and get another with a fine nib.

    • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldOPM
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for the feedback. I bought a fine nib version since I made the post and I have been using it on a regular graph composition notebook and I see that it bleeds through and has a lot of ghosting. I have no reference for how a fountain pen could write so I guess its alright as far as feel goes. I did order a notebook made by Midori from Amazon. It will be my first experience with a higher quality paper with the Preppy.