I have been buying cheap Chinese fountain pens for a couple months now. They are really cheap and a lot of fun. I don't think I paid over $4.50 for any single pen and most were around $2.00. "Serious" fountain pen people will say they are crap (and some of them aren't very good), but they are still really fun! Most of the hoard: Another shot: Some pretty ones (but not really good writers). Two Baoer 3023 (one black and one silver) and a Jinhao X750 (super heavy and impressive looking, but doesn't write very well) Some that I actually use: Jinhao 588, two Hero 616, Hero 329 (I like this one a lot), Hero 926, Baoer 388. The Hero 616s are the cheapest (a little under $1.00 each) but they are some of the best writers. Go figure.
Your pens are rad. I have the one that's red with the little window to see the ink cartridge through. It is strapped to my Alpha Notebook, which is the one I take with me everywhere whose function is to let me record important shit. Can we see some samples of how they all write? Do they all write? Also... Spoiler: /MY/ pens, let me show them to you! These ones are for writing, linework, and highlighting. BEHOLD, MY GEL PENS. These are for making every hand-written document I produce explode with color. Sometimes glittery color. These are my old-timey dip pens, tips, and inks. I've had this box since I was like... 14 or so, I guess? ...the pens and tips have been collected over all that time. I almost never actually write with these (I'm a lefty, they're very simply not good for people like me because... try writing by pushing the tip of one of these things the WRONG WAY. The result is a lot of splattering and dotted lines). The inks were purchased relatively recently, because even though these pens see very little use, this case and its contents are a sort of... like a symbolic object on an almost spiritual level? It's very important that I maintain a travellers writing box -- THIS box -- because of Reasons.
Rigs, that one all red pens with the window for ink level is the exact pen many of my classmates had. I on the other hand hated fountain pens because left handed, but i did used to have a very pretty glass quill which was a PITA to write with.
*fistbump of lefty solidarity* I have to ask though.... how the fuck do those glass wand things work????
Ahh that would explain it. Lamy was The Thing for our school, who knows why. The one I had had a nib with spiral grooves that the ink went in when you dipped it, which were a PITA to clean out. You had to hold it fairly vertical to the page for it to write well.
So a friend of mine bought an art supply store near my office (It's Wet Paint, for MN Kintsugijin) and I have received some Soros Bux. The result:
