Need Help In Choosing My First Serious Fountain Pen

November 25, 2013

No there are not too many to choose from. This is too early for you to buy so expensive pen, because you don't know exactly what you want. You need to be way more accurate in your preferences. Which filling system? What size, weight? Post capping option or not? Flexible or stiff, italic or medium? Threaded or a snap on cap? Disassemblable?

I can understand your mindset though, i have very similar thoughts about an ultimate pen. I'm not too interested of collecting, i just want one incredible pen and that's all. At this point i would suggest you look for Aurora Optima, they are around 500 $. Colorful and interesting look with maybe the best piston system you can get, but they are round shaped. Omas Paragon has some edges in the shape and Monteverde Regatta is somewhat interesting with magnet cap and all. Check them and continue your search by saving lot of photos of favourites to your computer. Gather information of users experiences.

You could also think of buying a mid priced pen as a template, then send it to a maki-e master or some goldsmith for further decoration. But again you must know what you want from them and show some plan.

Upon reading this I would have to agree. I hadn't thought about it from that perspective. this makes perfect sense...

but back to the perspective on perspective I still remember talking to my colleague, a fellow university professor about Fountain Pens and I said there's a full price range. You can find some cheap ones at about $20. She looked at me wide eyed and said "You call $20 cheap? For a PEN?" In a BIC world, I could see her point... her ball point.

ANYWAY, this is terrific advice!

skyppere