mahatma
03-10-2009, 11:20 AM
OK, this is probably one of the stranger posts in even this general discussion area but it might be of some value. I've been fielding some calls recently that indicate I'll be doing something new within the next few months. It's good. I think I've largely accomplished what I set out to do with the change I made some months back and as long as I move forward in a way that is consistent with my belief system I think everything will be fine.
So, this evening I started searching around for some of the things I put away. Pens are one of those things. I'm left handed and tend to be ham-fisted with my writing utensils but also take a certain pride in writing with a simple, clear, easily understood style. Compatible writing utensils are a must. I actually tend to look a bit askew at those who force the rest of the world to suffer less than appropriate penmanship. Signatures are one thing but if someone is writing me a note I want to clearly understand it. Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji are already bad enough. I don't want to take on hieroglyphics.
My primary writing utensils are fountain pens with left handed nubs. Most right handers don't understand that lefties suffer terribly under a normal ball point pen. We pressure the pen in the wrong way so getting ink to flow consistently is a challenge and then most common pens use ink that take much to long to dry so lefties smear their work. Appropriate fountain pen ink and nubs solve these problems. You don't have to go high end either. Of course, little is more stylish than a nice fountain pen but fountain pens can cost as much as used cars. One of the better day to day fountain pens is the cheap as heck Pelikano Junior. Awesome, bright colors and most people will return it to you if you leave it somewhere because it works like crap for righties. I personally do not trust fountain pen ink for signatures. You can get permanent fountain ink but it's pricey. For signatures that don't look like they would have been written more appropriately in crayon I use the Fisher Bullet Space Pen. It uses pressurized cartridges that allow the ink to flow consistently from any angle. Great stuff.
Lefties - check them out.
So, this evening I started searching around for some of the things I put away. Pens are one of those things. I'm left handed and tend to be ham-fisted with my writing utensils but also take a certain pride in writing with a simple, clear, easily understood style. Compatible writing utensils are a must. I actually tend to look a bit askew at those who force the rest of the world to suffer less than appropriate penmanship. Signatures are one thing but if someone is writing me a note I want to clearly understand it. Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji are already bad enough. I don't want to take on hieroglyphics.
My primary writing utensils are fountain pens with left handed nubs. Most right handers don't understand that lefties suffer terribly under a normal ball point pen. We pressure the pen in the wrong way so getting ink to flow consistently is a challenge and then most common pens use ink that take much to long to dry so lefties smear their work. Appropriate fountain pen ink and nubs solve these problems. You don't have to go high end either. Of course, little is more stylish than a nice fountain pen but fountain pens can cost as much as used cars. One of the better day to day fountain pens is the cheap as heck Pelikano Junior. Awesome, bright colors and most people will return it to you if you leave it somewhere because it works like crap for righties. I personally do not trust fountain pen ink for signatures. You can get permanent fountain ink but it's pricey. For signatures that don't look like they would have been written more appropriately in crayon I use the Fisher Bullet Space Pen. It uses pressurized cartridges that allow the ink to flow consistently from any angle. Great stuff.
Lefties - check them out.