another hooded nib ebay special, and an old Parker Duofold Jr. I really like to use fountain pens, even though I have to write more slowly with them. I’ll go in and out of using one of my ...

Joseph Gillott, an English inventor, developed a machine in 1831 to produce steel pen nibs which could be inserted ... by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an ...

The cartridge uses gravity to force ink down the reservoir. A fountain pen uses a nib in the place of a ball. The nib sits on top of a collector, which itself is connected to a feed. The feed take ...

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade ... this realm and the interplay between different pens, nibs, papers, and inks emerges. Each choice is personal.