ADVICE NEEDED -STUCK ON TWO PENS-

[Arkanabar]

Like Bo Bo, I recommend ensuring you really do know your tastes before you start buying expensive pens.  I started knowing that most disposable writing instruments were just a touch too narrow for my comfort, and sought what girth I could get on my limited budget.

I suggest starting with a cheap pen, like a Jinhao X750, 599, 51A, or 992, a Wing Sung 3008, or a Pilot Metropolitan, or a Platinum Plaisir or Prefonte, or a -- in truth, it hardly matters, as long as the pen appeals -- and a bottle of workhorse ink (Pilot Blue-Black, Waterman, Parker, Sheaffer, etc) or two, or three.  Write exclusively with this one cheap pen for at least two or three months, long enough to know everything you like about it, and everything you wish you could change.  Pay attention to things like weight, girth, length, balance, filling system, materials (especially section), and how they affect your enjoyment of the pen.

The main reason I suggest multiple inks is because a pen that works poorly may have its misbehavior greatly mitigated by using a different ink.

Then get another pen, more like what you wish you could change your pen into.  Make this new pen your only pen for a few months, long enough to know everything you like about it, and everything you wish you could change.  Rinse and repeat until there's nothing you'd change, and then get others like it but nicer and perhaps more costly.

[Bo Bo Olson]

 

I hadn't thought about cheap pens, in they 'came in' after I fell into the Vintage trap here on the com.

 

Do buy 90g/24 pound laser paper as a minimum. In paper is the dance floor your nib and ink dance on.