My Callous is Coming Back

[countrydirt]

I have not had a callous/bump on the bottom knuckle of my middle finger of my right hand since about 7th grade. That was when I started printing and using mechanical pencils. Later I moved on to computers. I have been using a Lamy Safari and Al Star for the past two weeks and focusing on my penmanship in my daytimer and journaling. I just noticed tonight that the little bump of a callous is coming back to my middle finger! I am so proud.

[penspouse]

Mine is so permanent it will never leave, even though m writing is much more limited than when I was in school (back in the dark ages). That is the problem with a death grip. I wish I could get rid of the grip so I could write longer.

[WendyNC]

It's not just the death grip that causes it, although that makes it happen more quickly and perhaps creates a heavier callus. I've been working diligently on keeping my grip loose and on resting the pens off the knuckle, closer to the fingertip, but mine is starting to come back anyway despite all the softening goo I put on my hands everyday. I think it's just an avocational hazard.

[Daosus]

Mine's not a callus. It's a permanent bump in my finger. Doesn't go away even if I don't write. That's what you get from an education in the Soviet Union

[ismellarat]

I have always had a callous there. Well, it is not really a callous, but a bump. When I am writing for long periods of time, it is hard and a giant bump, but when I am not writing it is a soft, fleshy area surrounded by hard bone.

[kuragari389]

I've got one of those on the first joint of my ring finger and I believe it's permanent now because it won't go away no matter what I do! I don't mind it most of the time. I kinda look at it as the mark of an artist :3

[susibilia]

Haha, I have callouses all over my hand. There is, of course, the big one on my nuckle where I rest my pen. It's gotten better now that I've been using fountain pens, but theres no way it's going away

 

But I have a ton of callouses on my left hand from violin - the tips of my finger are all hard. I guess I just have a ton of callouses everywhere

[Paddler]

I wrote with BPs and mechanical pencils for nearly 50 years and had a large writer's callus on my middle finger, right hand. In the three years I have been using fountain pens and writing my old cursive hand, the callus has disappeared. Gone! I write more now than I ever had before, sometimes hours per day.

 

There is no more callus and no more hand cramps! My whole arm up to my shoulder used to ache and keep me awake nights. That affliction is no more. The inventor of the ball point pen should get a dope slap. Wait! I had a banana cream pie here a minute ago. Here it is! Point the sorry twit out! I'm gonna get satisfaction.

 

Paddler

 

[Anne-Sophie]

Mine never left either, didn't have time, since I have now been collecting for a decade.

 

User since 5th grade.

 

 

Fountain pen user id, I call it.

 

 

Dear Paddler,

 

I won't waste a perfectly good pie on the inventor of the ballpoint, especially the ugly thin yellow Bic, curse of my early childhood as they were mandatory.

 

 

I have only one ballpoint, it is a Lamy Safari that I got when I treated myself to a blue set that included RB (rarely used), yummy MP and ultra yummy M nib FP.

I loved the FP so much I got the same with a B nib....

 

It was a decade ago the start of my FP collecting and the ballpoint refill is still writes despite being used every month.