I thought I'd share my current working pens.
This is a Pixelfed post for further information. TL;DR summary: Wooden barrels with machined brass section adapters and caps.
This is a Pixelfed post for further information. TL;DR summary: Wooden barrels with machined brass section adapters and caps.
Copying the text from Pixelfed below:
zhang.dianli I used my first #FountainPen when I was 9 years old. I switched to using fountain pens for the bulk of my writing in my mid-20s. Today I almost exclusively use fountain pens for everything but the increasingly rare situation of having to write on copying paper. (I also occasionally use #DipPens for actual writing, but not as a rule.)
Coming to #China was like coming into fountain pen heaven for me. Everything was done with fountain pens here, so fountain pens were plentiful, highly varied, and generally cheap to buy, even while being very nice pens: not for decorative use like overpriced Montblancs (which are shockingly bad for actually writing with!), but for actual, day-to-day writing tasks.
Yesterday I got this set of four. They're super-elegant in design. The barrels are 100% wood. The brass adapter at the end of the barrel is machined brass into which the section screws internally and onto which the cap screws externally. The section, too, is made of machined brass and accepts one of the more common feeds into which an internationally common reservoir or cartridge can be fitted. (The feed and reservoir are the only plastic components on the entire pen.) The nib is iridium-tipped but is otherwise likely stainless steel. (I'm not sure what the gold trim is made of, but it doesn't look like actual gold to me.) The final components, the cap and clip, are made of machined brass and stamped, electroplated stainless steel respectively.
The pens have a respectable mass, look good, and cost the equivalent of about 9 US dollars. Not each. Total. After shipping.
I told you. Fountain pen heaven!