{"id":750,"date":"2018-10-07T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=750"},"modified":"2018-10-07T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T01:17:42","slug":"random-musings-about-fountain-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Random Musings About Fountain Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently purchased three moderately priced fountain pens from the Goulet<\/a> website. Each of them was under $30. Here are my reviews:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I filled the Lamy All Black Safari<\/strong> with Colorverse Anti-matter ink. From the Goulet website, \u201cThe LAMY Safari is a workhorse pen, known throughout the fountain pen community for its ruggedness, reliability, and no-nonsense functionality. The triangular grip makes it great for those starting out who have no idea how to hold a fountain pen, but it’s used and loved by fountain pen lovers of all levels of experience.\u201d Overall, I tend to disagree. This pen looks sleek, but that is where the appeal ends for me. The medium nib wrote sloppy and uneven, it felt more like a ballpoint. I was frustrated after penning just a few lines. It is light weight (too light) and feels like a pen the waitress at Denny\u2019s handed me to sign for the bill. The packaging is just a little better than a Bic pen you can buy at Walgreens. In my opinion, it is an inadequate fountain pen experience.<\/p>\n

I filled the Nemosine Singularity<\/strong> with Diamine Onyx Black ink. The Nemosine packaging is quite nice for a pen at this price. I have seen lessor packaging with significantly more expensive pens. Per the Goulet website, the \u201cNemosine Singularity fountain pen features a clear translucent demonstrator resin body and cap with black trim. It has a lightweight plastic body and grip, a threaded screw cap which pushes to post, and a silver iridium-tipped German made #6 steel nib.\u201d I purchased this one with the extra-fine nib. I tend to prefer a medium nib; however, I\u2019ve become a little frustrated with absorption and bleed-through on cheap paper (especially at work where they buy the cheapest paper imaginable). The extra-fine nib will certainly help me overcome this frustration. The pen writes very smooth. It is lightweight and stylish. I generally lean toward demonstrator pens, but this one genuinely provided a nice fountain pen experience.<\/p>\n

I filled the Monteverde Monza<\/strong> with Monteverde Moonstone ink. From the Goulet website, \u201cThis Monteverde Monza fountain pen features a translucent clear resin body with chrome accents and a #5 steel nib. Best of all, this pen comes with three different nibs \u2013 fine, medium, and omniflex \u2013 each with their own nib unit, grip, and converter for ease of swapping.\u201d I used the flex nib to start, because I had never used a flex and I was curious. It wrote smooth, but I didn\u2019t get the line variations I had expected. Perhaps I just need more practice. The multiple tips are definitely an appeal if you want to try different things and don\u2019t want to maintain multiple pens. Of course, I already have multiple pens and that is part of the fun. All that said, I wasn\u2019t very impressed with the Monza or the omniflex nib.<\/p>\n

All three of these pens are decent entry-level fountain pens. Of the three, I would definitely recommend the Nemosine Singularity. It is sleek and stylish. It is also comparable to the Pilot Heritage 92 but at a fraction of the price. If you are willing to go without a gold nib, then you can\u2019t go wrong.<\/p>\n\n

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I recently purchased three moderately priced fountain pens from the Goulet website. Each of them was under $30. Here are my reviews: I filled the Lamy All Black Safari with Colorverse Anti-matter ink. From the Goulet website, \u201cThe LAMY Safari is a workhorse pen, known throughout the fountain pen community for its ruggedness, reliability, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fountain-pens","category-musings","category-writery-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}