Do you actually use your fountain pen(s)?

[Shangas]

I would be lost without my fountain pens. I do so much writing every day that I just HAVE to have them. I could not do the amount of writing I do in a day with a ballpoint pen. My hand would snap off.

[georges zaslavsky]

I like using my fountain pens, I couldn't imagine myself an instant without using them for writing a letter or taking notes or anything else.

[srmdalt]

This thread just keeps on going! I'd like to chime in, because I've been collecting fountain pens since childhood, when it started with hand-me-downs from my father,who is an avid collector. I have numerous beautiful fountain pens-- mont blank, lamy, parker, waterman, omas, cartier, caran d'ache, etc, all gifts from Dad! I also have many great ball pens. I love the fountain pens, and every once in awhile I ink a few up, thinking I'll use em a bit. But it doesn't happen. My handwriting sucks, and I find the fp's too sloppy, and smudgy. Can't write a list and fold it up and shove it in my pocket without letting it dry a minute. Get ink all over my fingers when writing.

So, for me, basically, don't use 'em. Don't use gel or rollerballs much either, because they are too smooth, and my crappy handwriting gets even crapier with them. So, it's good old ball pens for me, if I absolutely have to write, which I don't very much, since I dictate reports at work.

[KRW]

Got a Pelikan 800 (green stripe) in my pocket right now. I keep a couple bottles of ink at work (duplicate colors).

krw

[Rxq]

Ball point pen are also a lot cheaper have a better price:value ratio.

[awolkoff]

Got a Pelikan 800 (green stripe) in my pocket right now. krw

+1 to the Pel. I use it daily, along with a Sailor 1911. Also find time to rotate others into the mix, most recently a late model Parker 51.

[Johnny J]

I use my Parker fountain pen with a broad oblique nib every day and either my MB fountain pen, starwalker fountain pen or starwalker with the fiber point. The latter is a tie for me with fountain pens.

[kubunggo]

Yes, because nothing beats the elegance of good, old-fashioned penmanship.

[Shangas]

I find it interesting that people consider fountain pens to be "luxury" items. Quality, well-made items, perhaps, but luxury? I wouldn't think so. They seem to forget that not too long ago, a fountain pen was the only ink-based writing instrument available.

[Aaron Weikart]

I use my Parker Sonnet Tartan Fountain($240) every day. It still looks new. These pens are really well made, I am not afraid of using it at all.
The only thing you have to watch out for is other people trying to use it. It seems as if I am the only one that can respect it.

Regards:
-Aaron