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In a similar vein, you can find the fountain pen. It's not quite the cost advantage, but a 20$ lamy pen and a 12$ bottle of ink will last you a long, long time.
by Vexs 11y ago
In a similar vein, you can find the fountain pen. It's not quite the cost advantage, but a 20$ lamy pen and a 12$ bottle of ink will last you a long, long time. It will also feel better too, ballpoints particularly need an offensive amount of force to write with, whereas fountain pens just glide across the paper.
Funny how old stuff is kinda having a revitalization, especially with stuff like mechanical keyboards. I wonder what the next oldnew tech will be.
- feld 11y agoI need to try this... thanks!
- willmacdonald 11y agoInteresting what you say about the friction/glide of pens. At primary school (UK) I was taught to write with a 'proper' fountain pen. Ink was in little plastic cartridges. We were forbidden from writing with ballpoint pens. (Calculators were also forbidden in maths.) The reasoning was that fountain pens have more friction. I think it was related to how hard against the paper you pressed. You could hear the scratch of the pen on the paper. This allowed the pen to flow easily in some directions, and with more friction in the 'wrong' direction.
- feld 11y agoThis might explain why some people (myself included) have such terrible handwriting. In the US we're taught on pencils or ball point pens.
- DanBC 11y ago> I wonder what the next oldnew tech will be. Analogue, chemical, film process. When someone works out how to make it in reasonable quantities I think we'll see people using analogue cameras and chemical film.