What bugs me the most about fountain pens…..
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We’ve all been there. I know I have, many times!
Comment below on what your thoughts are.
Thank you for watching, liking and scribbling.
@fountainpeninsanity3344 Ай бұрын
Thanks for the video! Here are a few more: 1. Pens that leak ink into the cap or onto the grip section 2. Stained pens 3. Caps that won’t go on right, that are loose or misaligned 4. Corroded hardware 5. Loose trim rings 6. Broken sacs 7. Clips that get bent out of place 8. Hard to grip or turn piston knobs 9. Patterns that don’t line up between the cap and the body of the pen 10. Pens that need priming every time I start writing
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
YES and yes! They all drive me nuts!
@NagisaShiota11 Ай бұрын
My biggest annoyance with fountain pens is just trying to find the right paper. If I'm writing in my journal or something like that then of course I have nice paper, but if I need to write on anything that is not my own paper it's just not going to go well
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
We all understand! Some nibs/inks do not work well with papers. The struggle is real!
@shutupandcrochet Ай бұрын
I hate when I miss a limited edition pen and I can't get it even on the secondary market. I'm looking at you, Esterbrook Candy 😂
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
That bugs me a lot! I hope you find one, soon.
@ringobiker1 Ай бұрын
7.Very difficult to find spare parts and restorers for F.P. Vintage.
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I haven’t explored the vintage FPs yet, I can see parts being difficult to find.
@namingisdifficult408 Ай бұрын
I’m very new to the world of fountain pens so mine is my inability to fill my pen without getting ink on my hand.
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I’m not new to fountain pens, 98% of the time my hands look like they’ve been trashed. It’s very common to get inked all over your hands, for me is.
@FranM6179 Ай бұрын
When I can’t get a converter/pen filled from a bottle when there is plenty of ink and no good reason why it won’t fill and I have to end up getting a syringe after making a huge mess! 😂
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I also have/use the Ink Miser.
@Homer1e2 Ай бұрын
Nice video!
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
Thank you 💜
@619to253 Ай бұрын
Why is there such a price difference in #6 jowo nib pens. You spend a lot of money for a pen and you have to use micro mesh on the first fill. Rachelle in Seattle
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I don’t know why some are more (when they’re not a special grind/stack nib), gold/silver nibs we understand or the larger nibs. The nib should be perfect out of the box.
@HistoricGentleman Ай бұрын
Price gouging, there is no reason (besides precious metal pen bodies) that any custom pen should be more than 75$ if it comes with a jowo or bock steel nib. Realistically acrylic pen blanks are 3-8$ and the nib is 6-8 wholesale, lets just leave a tiny bit of wiggle room and call it $20 in materials, the rest is labor and profit, and in reality if they are well trained it would take an hour max to make, even less time if it’s a company using CNC machines
@annemarievandevordt4101 Ай бұрын
I do not like hard starters and dirty cap leakers. The place of ink is not meant to be inside the cap. Nibs with always ink on it are horrible too. And pens that aren’t clean even after 100 flushings or ultrasone sessions are not good for my mood.
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I agree with all! I have a couple of pens, that are very hard to get clean (it’s regular ink!).
@varadharajannadarajah Ай бұрын
💯
@jppenandink Ай бұрын
Blocked feeds are my annoyance 😑
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
Yes! Makes me want to scream, why! Of course I know why!
@Neko-KittyLovesFountainPens Ай бұрын
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Hi Jane, I can relate to this list, especially number 1. ARGHHHHH!!! I just got my first Esterbrook pen today. It took a while to get it even though I ordered it within an hour of its release ~ the BunGuBox Kachofugetsu Flower (like you, I find it hard to pass up anything BunGuBox!!). Let me tell you what a DISAPPOINTMENT it was. This nib is scratchier than H€LL! 😠 I have no fewer than 100 JoWo nibbed pens in my stash, and this is the first one that is awful, truly awful. I am so annoyed because it is one of those laser engraved jobs with the Japanese character for "flower" on the nib, so I don't want to just swap it out with a spare nib I might have somewhere. I was thinking about ordering it from BunGuBox and getting the Kodachi grind to see what that is all about, but I ended up ordering it from Esterbrook because I wasn't sure if I would like an Etsie. Anyway, enough of my grumbling. Hope you are having a great day!! Hugs!!!!!
@fountainpensinksmore3290 Ай бұрын
I’m so sorry Neko-kitty, nothing is worst then a bad nib, IMO! It makes the whole pen. I don’t know if you’re able visit a pen show. If you can they can work wonders with the nib, maybe contact Esterbrook see what they suggest. Hopefully something works out.
@Neko-KittyLovesFountainPens Ай бұрын
@@fountainpensinksmore3290 Will do! 😉