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| Q: What should I know before buying my first pen? | |
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When ink dries on the surface of the rollerball,
or ballpoint, most users bear down heavily to get it to write
again. The ball can usually withstand this kind of pressure.
The tines of many fountain pens cannot. The tines are very
sensitive to pressure and bearing down on them can create
an unsatisfactory fountain pen experience. Please click here
to read an article that appeared in one of our newsletters
concerning the correlation between writing pressure, smoothness
and satisfaction when writing with a fountain pen: http://www.nibs.com/newsletter/newsletter1.2/LighenUp.html If you are neither able, nor willing, to put up with slight inconveniences such as minor leaks, or having to clean and maintain the instrument in order to keep it functioning well, you should probably stick with a rollerball or ballpoint pen. |
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