This article focuses on breaking down the issue of why someone would start into this hobby. The main question revolves around what use a person would get out of a fountain pen and brings up a lot of good points that go with various different outlooks on pens.
I would like to focus on another view: what would fountain pens do with you? So yeah, I pulled a cliche and turned the question around, but I did it for a purpose. I wanted to point out that it doesn't just matter what the user will do with fountain pens, but how fountain pens will change your writing habits and will in the end be worth the money.
Fountain pens require less weight to write with than their traditional counter parts (being ball point pens and roller ball pens). This means less strain on your wrists, arms, and fingers. This is one facet of fountain pens that allow a user to write for longer sessions and avoid fatigue that would have otherwise been encountered. Over time this can also lead to faster writing. Since less pressure is placed on the paper, more energy can be exerted into lateral speed (a lessened force from friction also plays a part in this).
Fountain pens also offer a chance to improve your writing. This may seem contradictory to my last statement, but fountain pens allow you the chance to slow down your writing and analyze it. Writing with fountain pens requires a different technique than writing with roller balls or ball point pens (once you learn this technique, you can write faster). This means you will have to re-learn how to write a little bit. This gives you a chance to slow down and analyze your strokes and control them into what you want. The feed and nib also play an important role in this. Slowing down is easy with fountain pens due to their capillary nature. In order to bring ink to the page, a fountain pen uses capillary action from the paper, feed, and reservoir to draw ink onto the page. This system is more controlled and precise than the methods roller ball and ball point pens use. This also allows you to slow down and control your writing without worrying about constantly changing variables such as needed pressure to lay down ink, or making sure the ball in the pen is moving.
To me, these are things that make fountain pens worth it. A chance to learn and slow down and the added benefit of longer writing sessions. Don't forget to check out the article on the Goulet Pens Blog here. If you have other reasons why fountain pens are worth the money, comment below!
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