Fountain Pens Are Actually Fascinating | National Geographic

people who think fountain pen
maintenance and repair and customizing
our boring simply haven’t played with it
enough fountain pens are like people
everyone has a unique personality
a new appearing pens professionally
since 2000 in terms of the number of
people who do everything that I do there
may be half a dozen in the world some of
the most interesting technology the past
two centuries has gone in development of
fountain pencil
and in addition to that fountain pen is
really personal accessories Dunn’s
personal accessory you can have but it
also expresses you through your
handwriting in a way that no other
instrument can the world seems to think
that handwriting is a lost art but more
and more people seem to be turning away
from the isolation the the
computerization of the internet and
computers and phones and so forth they
want something a little more personal a
little more deep in their lives
and fountain pens are one way to achieve
that
a fountain-pen is really a controlled
leak the control comes in in the design
of the parts that keep it from leaking
when it’s not supposed to
you can do a thing on pens day after day
and then suddenly hit a pen that doesn’t
do what you expected to do you have to
develop new techniques you have to
branch out there’s always something to
learn I never go a day without learning
something new about fountain pens and
how to work on them