Friday, April 23, 2010

Ink Nouveau #24: Fountain Pen 101

I've gotten several requests to do a video for the fountain pen novice. So, finally, here it is - Fountain Pen 101.

***To clarify from the video, Pelikan pens DO accept Standard Short International cartridges as well as their own proprietary cartridges.***

Link to YouTube for full-screen and iPhones.

Posted by Brian Goulet at 10:09 PM
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8 comments:

  1. Excellent! I just bought a fountain pen and converter and was wondering how I would get the ink into the converter once the cartridge that came with it finally ran out of ink.

    Thanks.
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  2. I greatly prefer the converter. I use my fountain pens (almost all of them are Watermans) all the time and I've gotten accustomed to even making sure that I take a bottle of ink on travel (surface rather than air travel) with me. The cost and relative lack of ink choices when using cartridges make them less attractive to me.
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  3. Great video! I'm looking forward to the more advanced lessons. ;) I use the converter as well. However, I take a bottle or two of ink with me even when travelling by plane. I make sure that the lid is on tightly, then I put the bottles in one zip-loc bag and then put that inside another zip-loc bag. I've never had a problem with leakage.
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  4. "...That's just part of the sign of a good fountain pen afficionado, is someone who gets ink on their hands all the time." Truer words have never been spoken. Though, whenever I'm refilling something with Noodler's red-black (an absolutely beautiful color, but it looks like blood whenever it gets on your skin) I get some funny looks.
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  5. I'm glad the video is so helpful!! I certainly plan to do more...FP 102, 103...give me some input what you'd like to see and I'll be sure to include that in more Fountain Pen basics videos.
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  6. I'd like to see a video with commentary of different people and their process of finding the right pen for them. with the thousands of choices i could use some help.

    is there a way to choose a pen online? it is not natural for me to buy something i haven't experienced yet. any pointers?
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  7. I greatly prefer the converter. I use my fountain pens (almost all of them are Watermans) all the time and I've gotten accustomed to even making sure that I take a bottle of ink on travel (surface rather than air travel) with me. The cost and relative lack of ink choices when using cartridges make them less attractive to me.
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  8. Excellent! I just bought a fountain pen and converter and was wondering how I would get the ink into the converter once the cartridge that came with it finally ran out of ink.

    Thanks.
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