![]() So one person’s grail pen can be somebody else’s writing nightmare. It has a lot to do with the size of your hand, the way you hold a fountain pen, the pressure you put on the nib while writing, the way you move your hand, and the speed with which you write. On another note – and I was very fortunate to learn this very, very early in my journey of discovery – I also learned that the “perfect” fountain pen is different for everybody. But if it wasn’t for all those other pens, I would have never found it. I consider all the pens I came across on my journey formidable writing instruments, yet in the end there was only one that became my ultimate pen, the one above all others. ![]() ![]() This was the strategy I had worked out to find what I was looking for in a sense I was following my yellow brick road to the wizard of Oz. My quest for the perfect fountain pen ended up taking almost two decades.ĭuring that time I wandered aimlessly through the world of fountain pens because I allowed myself to wonder. My perfect pen – yours might be different It was there and then that I decided that I might have a horrible-looking handwriting, but that I could certainly compensate that with a pen that looked amazing – and felt amazing as I wrote with it. But even more than that, I enjoyed the experience: filling the pen with ink, the smooth writing, the feeling of satisfaction that this type of writing gave me. It was actually a stub nib, meaning a broad, flat one with rounded corners, which made my messy handwriting look more acceptable. The steel nib of the Parker turned out to be a smooth writer. ![]() The broad, flat stub nib of Martin Green’s Parker 21 fountain pen ![]()
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