“An absolutely beautiful ink,” Bernal said in a telephone interview. Long overshadowed by its ballpoint, gel and felt-tip rivals, the regal fountain pen, which has an internal reservoir for ...

Hi/Low: Fountain Pens The pen may be mightier than the sword ... and a much stronger seal in the cover of the ink reservoir: when the lid is on and screwed down, it feels like you’d have ...

Consider a fountain pen. These writing instruments are pretty neat, and to get the ink flowing, they use four components: One, the reservoir, which is simply the cylinder that stores ink in the ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

Consider a fountain pen. Y: These writing instruments are pretty neat, and to get the ink flowing, they use four components: One, the reservoir, which is simply the cylinder that stores ink in ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- The first practical fountain pen was invented in 1884 by Lewis Waterman. Although pens with self-contained ink reservoirs had existed for more than a hundred years before his ...

A fountain pen is like a tie these days ... experience to another level by ensuring that the ink flows in an unbroken stream from reservoir to nib to paper without the slightest pressure from ...

A mechanical, not unpleasant buzz ran underneath the constant talk of vermilion ink and vintage Watermans. The sound came from grinding, as craftspeople shaped fountain pen nibs for customers.