ALL PHOTOS COME FROM INTERNET.
As usual, I always interested
in classic and vintage subjects!
I found an new interesting subject:
Fountain Pen, as I surfed on
Internet for a new notebook~
I love to fill the notebook with diary,
drawing, daily schedules, stamps,
maps about some interesting stores,
tickets of somewhere, ...
anyway, I'm always crazy about stationeries...
And, today I want to share some inexpensive fountain pens that I had tried/used and
I think their C/P (capability/price) value!!!!
First, Pilot Preppy, TWD 75 (~USD 2.3)
for younger people, were born after 1893 ^^",
most of them do not have any experience of
using fountain pens, and a barely good and
beautiful one is too expensive to let us buy it!
(compared to ball-point pen, pencil, ...).
So, Preppy, a product of Platinum, is an alternative.
We can spend a bit of money and let us know that is Fountain Pen good for me?
As showed in the above figure, we can find there are many colors we can choose!
In my experience, it doesn't make any difference (compared to ball-point pens).
So, just try it~ :P You have nothing to lose~ just $2.3!
It's Pilot's product!
this nib of this series is EF (Extra Fine).
Note that, comparing to nib size (EF, Fine, Bold) of the Western manufactories (Lamy, Waterman, Pelikan, ...), Pilot's nib is thinner about 1 time than western size, i.e., Lamy's EF nib is equal to Pilot's F nib.
This results form the structure of the Chinese-word is more complex than a, b, c, ..., so a thinner nib is necessary to get a good Chinese-word.
By the way, the price of this pen is ~ 220 TWD
(~6.67 USD).
Then, what I'll introduce is widely used in ..... '60s~'70s in Taiwan, MINKA Fountain Pen.
Here are two hints is above sentence.
First, "widely used", it means this pen was
very cheap in the time, and fortunately, it's
still inexpensive nowadays!
and the price is 450TWD for a set,
each set include 3 pens.
It means the price of one pen is 150 TWD (~$4.45).
For now, nibs of these pens I introduced are made of steel.
I have to say that these pens are good enough
They have following advantages:
1. low cost,
2. not conspicuous,
And if you fall in rabid enthusiasm of the stationery as I do......
Maybe, we would like to try some............
special products :P
okokok~
This is the main reason I come here today.
The material of the nib is 14k gold,
and the size of the nib is 極細 (EF).
Honestly, I did not like the shape, modeling in the beginning.....
It looks so.... old-school ^^"
However, after test-writing for a while,
damn~ it's so smooth as I writing on the paper,
and the controlling ability of ink flow-down is great!
By using it, I can take care both Chinese- and
English- word.
and there are still some interesting subjects
in my office and dorm, like: inks, bookmarks, ...
So, next time I would like to share some inks
which I bought recently. >///////////<
