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Pen Log

A pen and ink log. A catalog of your collection. Enjoy the fountain pen hobby.
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Hari Sivaramakrishnan
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. -
Mark Twain
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Fountain Pens are special writing instruments. Rather than being just an object that colors paper with your hand strokes, fountain pens provide a smooth, luxurious and exquisite writing experience.
With a history that goes back almost 200 years, fountain pens have been (and continue to this day) to be the tool of choice of some of humanity's most prolific authors.
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Fountain pen
A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use. The pen draws ink from the reservoir through a feed to the nib and deposits the ink on paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. Filling the reservoir with ink may be achieved manually, via the use of an eyedropper or syringe, or via an internal filling mechanism that creates suction or a vacuum to transfer ink directly through the nib into the reservoir. Some pens employ removable reservoirs in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges.
en.wikipedia.org
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👉 New to fountain pens?
Resources
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has several handy resources to get you started.



Keep a Log

The fountain pen ecosystem is so rich with colors and pen options that enthusiasts have (or will soon!) a small collection of pens and inks.
As an enthusiast myself, I find a special pleasure in draining, cleaning and re-inking a pen with a new color. I've tried different pen manufacturers, nib size and ink combos.
The experiences are sufficiently different that I've found it helpful to keep a log of my pen and ink pairings, making a note of my experiences along the way.

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Log book
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Like several of you, I see the intrinsic irony in tracking a pen log digitally as opposed to physically. 😄
Having it as a Coda doc makes it easy to share with all of you. And yes, for the curious, I also keep a log in a physical notebook.
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