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Do me a favor, if you spend any time at all writing using a pen, get yourself a fountain pen. They are so much nicer.
@freemo Amazing, I was in a shop the other day as I’m thinking about moving back to a fountain pen, not used one since school, but wasn’t sure which of the dizzying array of options to go with (as you note, most are just very expensive metal with a label). I thought, you could have provided guidance and here you are posting about it. Thoughts for something not too expensive and suggestions on a good ink? Bear in mind, I am looking for something portable for an everyday note taking pen.
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If its just for diagrams and random scribbles you really dont need anything too fancy. 50$ on a twsbi diamond with an EF or F nob shoukd do you good. But of your willing to go up to 300$ you can get a pen with a nocer case than that, even a gold nib. Pilot falcon will be the a good deal nicer, gold nib, stiff enough for scribbles but with just enough flex to see a roi shoukd you want to play with it and get fancy. Its a nice middle road pen that is an all rounder with high quality nib. These are my two favorite non-superflex nibs.
@freemo many thanks for the guidance.
@freemo mostly scribbling. I sign my name less and less these days and when I do it is usually at the motor registry and they force me to use the hideous pen there.
As for fancy writing. Sadly my penmanship is more akin to a spider crawling across the page than actual writing. It is on my very long list of arts to work on, but if I am realistic I will just be scribbling notes.
Price wise... between about $100 and $300 would be a sweet spot. But always happy to save a bit or pay a little more if there is something good which would otherwise be just out of reach.
The only other element is feel in the hand. Years ago I had a pen with a nice feeling nib, but it was a screw top and the screw thread left an unpleasant groove in my fingers after long periods of writing.