@freemo The only pen I use is a Fisher AG7. My daughter loves the Fisher Bullet. She's been using it for 3 years (she's 7). I'm sure a fountain pen is on an even crazier level, but never used one.
@obi an expensive ballpoint is largely all about just being jewelry in a sense. Its some expensive metal, looks nice, and makes you happy to write with as anything of value wold. But in the end the actual ballpoint refill on the inside is likely no better than cheaper pens. So the writing expiernces wont be too different. With that said I can still understand the appreciation of having a nice pen, even a ballpoint.
But for us fountain pen users it is often uch the opposite. All we care about is the nip and the feel on paper and the look of the pen for many isnt important.
I have a 1000$ pen where the body itself is mostly plastic (though it does have solid white gold trimmings and the nib is solid white gold too).
The feeling of a ballpoint is, as the ink would suggest, sticky, its like walking through mollases, the ink in a fountain pen is very different and it glides.
But I also loe flex pens, so many of my nibs flex and can give all sorts of fancy writing you cant do with a standard nib either.
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@obi an expensive ballpoint is largely all about just being jewelry in a sense. Its some expensive metal, looks nice, and makes you happy to write with as anything of value wold. But in the end the actual ballpoint refill on the inside is likely no better than cheaper pens. So the writing expiernces wont be too different. With that said I can still understand the appreciation of having a nice pen, even a ballpoint.
But for us fountain pen users it is often uch the opposite. All we care about is the nip and the feel on paper and the look of the pen for many isnt important.
I have a 1000$ pen where the body itself is mostly plastic (though it does have solid white gold trimmings and the nib is solid white gold too).
The feeling of a ballpoint is, as the ink would suggest, sticky, its like walking through mollases, the ink in a fountain pen is very different and it glides.
But I also loe flex pens, so many of my nibs flex and can give all sorts of fancy writing you cant do with a standard nib either.