To post or not to post...

[rattybad1]

I always post. Pen weight and size don't matter to me because my hands are big, and pens feel incomplete without a cap posted; plus I don't like having a cap lying on my desk.

[Mary P]

Except for my Tuckaway I almost never post the cap. Most of my pens feel better balanced without their caps posted. Besides, to save wear and tear on my arthritic hands I don't want to add to any pen's weight.

[Kelly G]

double post, sorry about that.

Edited January 15, 2007 by Kelly G

[Kelly G]

I post my pens with two exceptions:

1. posting will permanently damage the finish - Urushi lacquer, for example.

2. posting makes the pen length or weight uncomfortable - Danitrio Densho, for example.

 

Other than that, I post. I don't mind buffing the pen if it becomes marked up a bit and it begins to bother me. I don't post all that firmly either as I've learned to not wave a fountain pen around while talking - for other reasons than the posted cap!

[bernardo]

I post my pens with two exceptions:

1. posting will permanently damage the finish - Urushi lacquer, for example.

2. posting makes the pen length or weight uncomfortable - Danitrio Densho, for example.

 

Other than that, I post. I don't mind buffing the pen if it becomes marked up a bit and it begins to bother me. I don't post all that firmly either as I've learned to not wave a fountain pen around while talking - for other reasons than the posted cap!

I see it in reverse order:

 

I don't post, except when

 

1. Posting adds balance to the pen, and

2. It will not damage the barrel's surface.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Except for my Tuckaway I almost never post the cap. Most of my pens feel better balanced without their caps posted. Besides, to save wear and tear on my arthritic hands I don't want to add to any pen's weight.

Yeah, the arthritis angle is starting to become a factor for me, too. It's why I'm preferring to use fountain pens with a thicker section these days. Ordinary wood cased pencils are starting to become a bit of trouble to use because of their thinness, although I do like them.

 

But I was not liking to post due to the balance and weight thing even forty years ago when arthritis and other ailments of a certain age were nowhere in my thoughts.

[Col]

I post my pens with two exceptions:

1. posting will permanently damage the finish - Urushi lacquer, for example.

Or any kind of Parker Flighter, where capping the pen will instantly scratch the brushed steel finish. That can't be buffed out without further damage, either. YMMV.

 

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Col

[Arkanabar]

When my collection was merely a pair of modern Pels (400 & 200), I posted. I use a Safari at work, and post so I don't lose the cap.

 

But now I have a couple vintage pens with metal caps, and now I nearly always keep the cap in my off hand as I write, except for the Safari at work.

[Blacksheep95]

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.

 

There are only two that I always post, my Sheaffer Imperial because it just doesn't feel right not posted. It was also a wedding gift from my wife and will never leave my possession, so cosmetic concerns are a non-issue; and my parker Rialto because it was designed to be posted.

 

 

:blink:

[JRodriguez]

I've never posted any pen other than a Parker Vector, and I don't know why I posted that ... I've just never liked posting pens, and with more expensive pens I suppose I worry about scratching up the body.

[josh1990]

I almost always post my pens.

 

Even my rather heafty Cross Townsend is always posted. If I dont post, it almost finds feels like something isnt` right. I guess because that cap is laying there on my desk.

[Judybug]

I don't post at all now

 

I used to...but I had a change of habit for some reason.

Me too, Kissing. I used to post all the time and now I never post. I'm not sure how this happened. I think it may be because I acquired a few pens that have heavy caps, making them uncomfortable to write with when posting. Remembering which pens to post and which ones not to post got to be a hassle so I just quit posting all together. . . . I guess that's how it happened.

 

Judybug

[O'Hare]

About the only pen I might post while writing is a Sheaffer Balance. Otherwise, most pens are too long for my small hands and feel top-heavy. If I post a small pen, the lip of the cap is irritating so I'm a non-poster.

[marklavar]

I never post. The only pens I have ever posted have been cheap rollerballs. I generally buy large and expensive fountain pens, so posting is either difficult or undesirable.