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Montblanc Pen and Writing
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Thursday
Apr 2013
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Imagine a time you needed a pen. Let’s say, it was a Mont Blanc fountain pen, any of them. Why would you need it? When you want your handwritten correspondence to have a distinguished look, and sometimes a digital medium is just insufficient. Note-taking, writing, it’s a lost art form in these modern times. What used to be a laborious but rewarding process has supposedly been sped up and made more efficient using keyboards, tablets, voice-recognition software, the list goes on. Let me posit a question… what’s your solution when lightning strikes, and your technological construct is cut short? Batteries only last for so long.
You can go with a regular old pen from a box of 100, or you can make every word and pen stroke count with a unique Montblanc Pen. One of, if not THE premium brand available at Executive Essentials (an authorized Mont Blanc Fountain Pen dealer), you would be hard-pressed to find anything to match the experience of writing with the best in the business. Once you feel how smooth and easy the ink flows from pen to paper, it’s hard to imagine even typing again. Believe me; it was tough to get back to this keyboard. With such choices inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, Johannes Brahms, and even Princess Grace de Monaco, you can’t help but feel something special connecting you to the creative power of those luminaries, especially in the Montblanc Special Edition Pens.
Pen Place carries Montblanc Limited Edition Pens as well, offering not only a tactile feeling of writing unmatched in any other pen, but a look you can’t skin onto a tablet or smart phone, but only while supplies last. There are many times in your life that you get what you give, and a Mont Blanc fountain pen gives plenty, Limited Edition or not. Your distinct handwriting, your distinct look, heck a distinguished look, and all because of a pen you went the extra mile to own something that isn’t just worth a thousand words, but will elegantly write that many as well, if not many more.
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Abraham Lincoln’s gold pen/pencil donated to Illinois Springfield museum
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Apr 2013
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Abraham Lincoln’s 14-karat-gold reversible pen and pencil often used during his White House tenure will be donated Friday March 15 th to the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield Illinois.
The pen/pencil will be placed in a public display inside the museum after the donation, along with a letter from Robert Lincoln, Lincoln’s son, detailing his desire to play billiards.
“Lincoln lived in that generation in which he died with both a goose quill pen on his desk and a 14-karat-gold reversible pen and pencil,” said James Cornelius, the library’s curator. “That is how far he came as an individual and that is how far the country came in a generation.”
Margaret Tillinghast Porter Davis, from Massachusetts, will donate the items. Her great grandparents, who knew the Lincolns, originally gave her the items. The pen/pencil is the first sold gold item donated to the library.
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Drawing Pens – The perfect drawing pens
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Apr 2013
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Have you ever looked at a perfect hand-inked drawing and wondered, how are the lines so clean?
To some extent, you must have steady hands — like a surgeon or a pianist. And you can always modify things digitally, with programs like Photoshop and GIMP. But the first and most basic component is always the quality of the instrument you hold in your hand. Just as you wouldn’t use an Xacto knife to perform surgery, you wouldn’t use a ballpoint pen to ink a pencil sketch. Instead, artists use drawing pens with archival (meaning waterproof and fade-resistant) ink because they produce consistent, fluid, and graceful lines that stay put on the paper.
Graphic drawing pens are also highly recommended by academics and writers of all kinds: researchers in the field, journalists, Asian language students, and Youth Group pastors alike find the precision and quality of drawing pens to be quite useful. Although they’re made to satisfy the rigorous demands of professional artists, they require no special care or maintenance.
Continue reading for ideas on how drawing pens can be used for notes, journaling, outlining sketches, and illustrations — plus product recommendations tailored to each use case.
WHAT ARE DRAWING PENS USED FOR?
Taking Notes:
Drawing pens give you that extra bit of oomph to get through class, particularly if that class has anything to do with Asian Kanji characters. The thinner tip sizes, like 0.05 mm, 0.1 mm, and 0.2 mm, typically won’t bleed or feather. Japanese and Chinese students regularly write characters with ten strokes or more, and the most complex Kanji character tops out at a whopping twenty-nine strokes. There are more strokes in this single character than there are letters in the English alphabet! Appropriately, this Kanji means “depression” or “gloom” in Japanese… emotions you can hopefully avoid with the help of a smudge-proof, no-bleed drawing pen.
Another niche that drawing pens appeal to is the bible study set. Ink quality is very important when you’re working on a long-term project, especially when that long-term project has thin pages. Since most personal bibles are made to stay open at a certain page, like textbooks, fade-resistant archival ink is a must. That way, you don’t have to worry about losing your work.
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Staedtler Pigment Liner Marker Pens
These black ink pens have skinny, but durable metal tips and can be left uncapped for up to 18 hours without drying up. The set of 4 houses the pens in a portable plastic case that keeps everything neat and safe. Toss it in your backpack with a Maruman Mnemosyne Notebook for full coverage in all your classes — from drawing electron diagrams in Chemistry and writing integral equations in Calculus, to drawing precise Kanji characters in Japanese and doodling political cartoons for History.
Sakura Pigma Micron Drawing Pens
Pigma Microns are renowned in the drawing world for crisp, fluid, and even lines. The 005 (0.2 mm) and 01 (0.25 mm) size pens are ideal for writing quick notes, underlining phrases, and outlining passages in bibles and textbooks. Pick a non-black color if you want to be especially safe with avoiding bleed-through and see-through to the other side of the page. Brown is useful for writing low-key notes, while orange is great for emphasizing discussion points.
Journaling:
Drawing pens with medium-to-big tip sizes are excellent for journal writing, particularly if you’re on the road. If you’re looking to document a lengthy bike trip down the coast, or to jot down quick notes and impressions of a music festival, it might be worth it to invest in archival quality drawing pens. Since drawing pens are waterproof, they’re ideal for outdoors adventures. However, keep in mind that most drawing pens are not immune to the effects of changing air pressure, and may leak on airplane flights. If you want to be absolutely sure your pen won’t leak or break while traveling by air, a Fisher Space Pen is your best bet.
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Ohto Graphic Liner Needle Point Drawing Pens
As noted above, these pens are ideal for heavy-handed writers, or writers in a bit of a rush. The 0.3 mm and 0.5 mm size Graphic Liners are best for writing, but pick up the whole set if you’re planning on drawing sketches of the local flora and fauna. The archival ink is waterproof and feels incredibly smooth, particularly on creamy archival-quality papers (like those in the Rhodia Webnotebook).
Uni Pin Pens – Pigment Ink
At less than $2, these Uni Pin Pens are great for budget-conscious travelers. With black and red ink available, you can color-code your entries to make time-sensitive reminders stand out. In case the information on the body of the pen wears off, the windowed cap allows you to see the tip size and color. The cap also feels extremely secure, which is a great feature for nervous travelers. For writing, try the 0.28 mm pen.
Outlines & Inking Sketches:
When you’re inking a pencil sketch, smudge-proof ink is an absolute necessity. After meticulously outlining your illustration in three different line widths, the last thing you want is to have the ink smudge while you’re erasing the pencil lines underneath. Although most drawing pens are relatively smudge-proof, your results may vary depending on: the quality of the eraser, how much pressure you’re applying, etc. Erase with caution! For some instant inspiration, check out the insanely detailed doodlings of Ester Wilson (featured in this month’s Artist Highlight).
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Pilot Drawing Pens
Available in three colors and six sizes, Pilot Drawing Pens create sharp and clean lines when combined with smooth paper. They feel very similar to the Uni Pin Pens mentioned above, except with retro styling and way more options. The lines that emerge are on the light side, lending the pens a smooth and almost springy feel. The cap requires some force to post, but feels very secure once you get it on there.
Marvy LePen Technical Drawing Pens
With a 0.03 mm pen for eyelashes and fingernails, and a brush pen for dramatic lines, these pristine drawing pens provide a great range of permanent and no-bleed ink for your simple line drawings. Combine them with the colorful Marvy 4300 Lepen Marker Pens to make patterns, mandalas, architectural drawings, or even user interface designs.
Comic & Manga Illustrations:
With comic and manga illustration, you generally want thin lines for facial detail, a thick brush tip for filling dark, shadowed areas, and a few sizes in between for everything else. Brush pens like the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen can create lines of many varying sizes and are renowned for their versatility, but do not mix well with markers or watercolors. Only use them if you’re planning to color your artwork digitally, or you’re not coloring your artwork at all.
If you want to throw markers (like Copic Markers) or a watercolor wash over the line drawing, you definitely want a pen with waterproof ink. All archival inks are waterproof, but not all waterproof inks are archival. Even if the ink is waterproof, give it some time to dry before applying the color layer!
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Mangaka Outline Pens
These pens have an excellent selection of colors, with black, gray, light blue, sepia, and violet inks available. They’re great for lettering comics and drawing sound effects in manga. The light blue and gray pens can also be used to draw guidelines, which can then be made invisible when the drawings are digitized.
Deleter Neopiko Line 2 Pens
These Line 2 pens use professional grade archival pigment ink that stays clean and dark against most erasers and markers. With ten different line widths and a brush tip to boot, there’s a pen for every occasion. Use them on Deleter Comic Papers, which are printed with various measurements and markings in non-repro blue, or add a bright layer of color to your illustrations with Copic Sketch Markers.
DRAWING PEN INKS | Pigment Inks & Archival Inks
Pigment Ink:
For the most part, pens use either dye-based ink or pigment ink. Dye-based inks dissolve completely in water, but pigment inks do not. Pigment inks become water-resistant and fade-resistant when dry, which makes them ideal for professional use. In addition, while dye-based inks will start to fade noticeably after 6-12 weeks of direct sun exposure, pigmented inks only fade noticeably after 6-12 months of the same treatment. Drawing pens tend to use pigment ink, while fineliner pens tend to use dye-based ink.
Archival Ink:
Archival inks are manufactured specifically to resist fading, and are usually non-toxic and acid-free (or “pH-neutral”). Archival pigment inks tend to be more expensive than other inks, but are probably the best, most enduring inks that you can use for creative projects. When it comes to comic/manga artists and animators, archival ink pens are the industry standard. If you’re serious about journaling, invest in something like the Rhodia Webnotebook, which has the archival-quality paper to match.
DRAWING PEN TIPS | Felt & Metal Tips
Felt tip (also known as “fibre tip”) pens have a nice and fluid feel, and the larger tip sizes are ideal for writers that like bold lines. They’re also useful for smoothing out shaky or spidery handwriting. Sakura Pigma Micron Drawing Pens are felt tip drawing pens at their best — they’re crisp, dark, and great for carefully inking sketches. However, since felt tip pens are porous, they can get crushed by a hurried hand bearing down with too much pressure.
Heavy writers should try a drawing pen with a metal tip, like the Ohto Graphic Liner Drawing Pen. The archival ink is quite capable of rising to any occasion, and the metal tip can withstand an absent-minded writer. In general, the Ohto Graphic Liners are perfect for accompanying travelers, journalists, grad students, and researchers in the field. Use the 0.05 mm pen for intricate outlines in a map, or data points in a graph. Save the 1.0 mm powerhouse for quickly shading dark areas of a chart, or adding emphasis to a particular topic.
WRAPPING UP
Although graphic drawing pens can be used for taking notes, journaling, outlining sketches, and comic / manga illustration, the line doesn’t stop there. They’re frequently used for greeting cards, wedding invitations, scrapbooking, and all sorts of miscellaneous crafts. Typographic sketches are often outlined with a black drawing pen, then digitized from there. Drawing pens can also be used in conjunction with blendable alcohol-based markers for concept art, fashion sketches, and book illustrations.
There’s very little that a good drawing pen can’t accomplish, given a little patience and a steady hand. Check out all the options in our Drawing Pens Selection Guide, and look out for new comic papers, pens, inks, and nibs in our Comic / Manga Pens section!
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Guide To Choosing A Fountain Pen
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Friday
Apr 2013
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The first fountain pen to appear in written record was built in 953 BC for a Moroccan Caliph, who demanded only that his pen should: 1) Never stain his hands or clothes, and 2) Successfully deliver ink from reservoir to nib.
Add about 500,000 choices to that list, and you should have a pretty good idea of what the industry looks like now. The breadth of choice is truly phenomenal — everything from the shape of the nib to the shade of ink can be tweaked to suit the writer’s preferences. There’s a fountain pen out there for every conceivable purpose, from filling out DMV paperwork to signing birthday cards.
The idea of wielding a fountain pen is intriguing, yet also kind of intimidating. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, want a basic rundown on fountain pen options, or simply feel a bit befuddled, carry on reading!
Important Fountain Pen Characteristics
When embarking on a quest for the perfect fountain pen, you should probably take a moment to ask yourself three fundamental questions:
What am I going to use this fountain pen for?
Different types of fountain pens have different specialties. Are you looking for a fast note-taking pen, or a showy pen to display on your desk? Examine your writing habits to get a sense of what you need.
What is my handwriting style?
Those with neat and small handwriting usually prefer fine nibs for precision, while fast writers favor wetter, broader nibs that can keep up. Heavy-handed writers might want an iridium-tipped nib, which is more durable and tends to reduce wear and tear. In general, fountain pens should complement your writing style.
What characteristics should my fountain pen have to satisfy the requirements stated above?
Although there are a ton of characteristics that can be used to differentiate fountain pens, nib size and filling mechanism are two of the most important ones.
Nib size is crucial for most writers, since it has a direct and tangible effect on the way the pen writes. Unfortunately, nib sizes are not standardized across the industry, so manufacturers and brands will often define the grades differently. For an example, Japanese nibs tend to run finer than American or European nibs. In fact, a medium nib from Japan is often the same size as a fine nib from Germany!
View all: Extra Fine Nibs / Fine Nibs / Medium Nibs / Broad Nibs
The filling mechanism of the pen determines which types of ink refills it can use. The main filling methods are cartridge, converter, cartridge-converter, and piston. Cartridge refills are disposable, portable, and convenient to use. Converters use suction to fill the fountain pen with ink from a bottle, and usually have to be acquired and installed separately. Installation instructions can be found in our How to Use a Fountain Pen Converter article. Most modern fountain pens are versatile cartridge-converter types, meaning that they can use ink cartridges as well as converters for bottled ink. Piston fillers have the largest ink capacity of the options listed. You can simply twist the end of the pen to draw ink from a bottle and into the reservoir of the pen.
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If You Want a Fountain Pen For…
TAKING NOTES:
The fountain pen has to be fast and reliable, producing notes that remain legible under the intense scrutiny of a squinty late-night study session. A simple extra fine or fine nib is perfect for the job, especially considering that fine pens leave less ink on the page, reducing the drying time as well as the potential for tragic incidences of smudging. The light and inexpensive notebooks commonly used by students can’t handle much ink before they bleed through to the other side, so fine pens are also a good fit in that respect.
WE RECOMMEND:
Lamy Safari Fountain Pen – Extra Fine Nib
The Safari is a low-key fan favorite that gets the job done. It’s popular among students for its solid construction (ABS plastic that can take a beating in your backpack), excellent ink flow, and affordability. This cartridge-converter pen can be refilled by 18 different ink cartridge colors, but once you’ve exhausted them all, you can always opt to install a converter instead.
Pilot Vanishing Point Fountain Pen – Fine Nib
The Vanishing Point (VP) is a low-maintenance pen that writes with a smooth and constant flow. It has a retractable nib, which operates just like the click mechanism of a ballpoint pen, preventing the nib from leaking or drying out. However, it is a bit on the small side and holds a limited amount of ink, so if you’re looking to spearhead a novella-writing club, you might want to opt for a Lamy 2000 instead.
DRAWING:
Architectural sketches, technical drawings, nature drawings, and even ambitious doodles are best served by consistent writing instruments that can achieve a high level of detail. In most cases, the thinner the nib, the better. Ink flow is just as critical — too much or too little ink can lead you into mortal peril. When you’ve been faithfully reproducing a scene in photorealistic detail for the past ten hours, a nib with bad ink flow is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Pilot Penmanship Fountain Pen with Ergo Grip – Extra Fine Nib
The needle-point nib is comparable to a 0.3 or 0.4 mm gel ink pen, but produces a remarkably smooth and consistent line. The cartridge-converter filling system allows you to draw in any color, and the Penmanship can also be converted into an eyedropper pen for maximum ink capacity.
JOURNAL WRITING
Journal writing is strictly for pleasure. There are no hard requirements or limitations, so why not let loose? Try a broad nib with line variation for striking and expressive letters that change with your mood. Pair with a few whimsical ink colors — like Indian Orange or Moon Dust Purple — to communicate with visuals as well as words.
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Kaweco Classic Sport Fountain Pen – Broad Nib
The pen is compact, measuring just 4.1 inches when capped, which makes it a good fit for people that keep a travel journal. It’s also light enough to be used as a pocket pen. On occasion the ink flow takes a minute or two to get going, but once it’s warmed up, everything is silky smooth. It takes cartridges in six colors, but can also be converted into an eyedropper pen. Eyedropper conversions basically turn the entire pen barrel into an ink reservoir, greatly increasing capacity. The downside is occasional messiness. Read the tutorial here.
Lamy 2000 Fountain Pen – Broad Nib
This is a serious pen with a serious reputation, and it’s an invaluable asset in the war against writer’s block. The nib tends to be flexy, which provides a nice amount of line variation, and the design of the pen is downright inspiring. It uses a simple piston filling mechanism that can draw ink from any bottle, which opens up hundreds of different color choices.
EVERYDAY USE
Naturally, fine and medium nibs are considered quite versatile, and are the usual choices for daily writers. A retractable nib will definitely last longer, especially since you never have to worry about losing the cap, but a regular nib with a secure cap will also do. Cartridge-converter pens quite versatile, but high-volume writers should consider a piston filler for a much-needed bump in ink capacity.
WE RECOMMEND:
Pilot Prera Fountain Pen – Fine Nib
With a thinner nib than the Lamy Safari, this fountain pen is better suited for margins and newspaper crosswords than most. The cap closes with a secure clicking sound that is both reassuring and vaguely addictive, and the translucent model allows you to easily check how much ink is left in the pen.
Pilot Capless Decimo Fountain Pen – Any Nib Size
A nifty feature of this pen is that the nibs are interchangeable, meaning that you can swap out your fine nib for a broad nib anytime you feel like it. It’s also retractactable, so you don’t have to worry about the cap wandering off and getting into trouble.
SIGNATURES
Convenience and style are of paramount importance when it comes to signatures. Retractable nibs can be a lifesaver when you’re holding onto a coffee mug and laptop case with one hand, and trying to sign important documents with the other. Fast signers should consider a wet nib that can handle the speed of signing without skipping. People that stab forcefully while signing should invest in a stiff nib, while those that have a lighter hand can try a more expressive flexible nib.
WE RECOMMEND:
Platinum Plaisir Fountain Pen – Medium 05 Nib
If you’re an occasional fountain pen user, the Plaisir’s special cap design should be of interest: it prevents ink from drying or evaporating, even with a year of disuse. It’s also quite affordable, and can be refilled with nine colors.
Pilot Vanishing Point Fountain Pen – Broad Nib
It almost seems like the Vanishing Point was made for signatures. The nib is flexible, tends towards the wet side of the spectrum, and “vanishes” back into the pen body when it isn’t needed. Aesthetically speaking, the pen is stylish, professional, and a pretty good conversation starter to boot.
FINAL WORDS
Experimentation is key when it comes to choosing a fountain pen. Many beginners start with a pen that’s well-rounded and affordable, then move onto more specialized models once they realize what they like and dislike about it. Finding the perfect fountain pen is a continual process of refinement, especially since preferences are constantly changing.
What did you learn from your first fountain pen? Share your tips and recommendations in the comments!
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