Naming the Top 5 Best Starter Fountain Pens…? It's a little like naming a favourite sibling or parent! Putting a number, and thus a value onto an object and experience as lovely and personal as fountain pen writing feels… wrong somehow.
Or at least it had until I heard from a dear friend, Dave, who I’ve known for at least half my life. Dave saw some of my previous fountain pen reviews and perhaps his curiosity was sparked because he asked me for a recommendation for a good starter fountain pen.
This, of course, became the inspiration for the current video. And let me tell you, I do not take the responsibility of recommending a starter fountain pen very lightly at all! A starter fountain pen is that make or break pen that could mean either a lifelong passion with endless hours of enjoyment or another object in the junk drawer, another few dollars wasted. How often has one of us received an official-looking fountain pen inside a serious-looking box as a graduation present or some other occasion meant to mark another step taken on the road to adulthood, and because it wasn’t a set of car keys or vacation was left thoroughly underwhelmed!
Any budding enthusiasm for the sensory experience of writing things down is often stunted on such occasions!
Hopefully that is where I can be of some help. Keeping in mind the following criteria: budget, charm, availability and the fact that no two fountain pen enthusiasts are the same, we’ve spent untold hours testing pens, narrowing the list, arguing for one fountain pen’s merits while deriding another’s. And because no two fountain pen enthusiasts are exactly the same, we’ve also included similar, alternative starter fountain pens should my rhapsodizing on a certain pen leave you cold.
In the end we arrived at a top 5 we are happy with. We’ve been as thorough as possible, taking all known factors into consideration, while also remaining true to the fountain pens we are most passionate about. A few may surprise you.
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Contents
0:00 Beginning
1:41 #5 - a pen for a gentle introduction with maximum peace of mind
6:57 #4 - a pen for those who want to engage a bit of child-like wonder and sparkling creativity in their writing
11:17 #3 a pen for the adventurous travellers and tinkerers among you
14:54 #2 a flat-out cool pen for those who enjoy a bit of style to go with their substance!
17:10 #1 a pen I return to again and again and again.
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AMAZON USA list: [ Ссылка ]
AMAZON UK list: [ Ссылка ]
** While Amazon is convenient, Please also look for these fantastic fountain pen outlets (and resources). They would certainly benefit from more business during these times than Amazon. I've personally bought from these stores and the difference is you're dealing with people who know and love fountain pens. It's a big difference:
andersonpens.com
gouletpens.com
goldspot.com
vanness1938.com
In the UK:
andys-pens.co.uk (no relation to Andy from the videos!)
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