Do Fountain Pens really help you learn?

Depending on your slant or I suppose your age, and if you're reading this then you're probably a little bit bias as you'll clearly be a lover of the fountain pen, but humour me for a while as we pose the questions, Do Fountain Pens Help you Learn?

Some say...

It helps to develop fine motor skills and encourages a more relaxed and fluent hand writing style. It is also possible to write much faster with a fountain pen because it needs less pressure than a pencil or a ballpoint pen. However it takes a long time to learn it and if teachers try to hurry the process it can become a big frustration for a child. 

So if using a fountain pen encourages better handwriting in general, what does that mean?

I suppose it does help if you can read your own handwriting...

More thoughts on this soon...

Imperial Matte Black Sailor...

Colours: Matt satinised black resin with Titainium Ion plated nib and accents
Materials: Resin
Special features: Completely black pen
Filling system: Converter & Cartridge type
Nib availability: Available with F,M and B nib grades
Fountain Pen Dimensions: Length Capped - 129mm, Weight - 21.6gms  

An elegant new edition to our Sailor Pens range is the Imperial Matte Black, if this pen was a superhero it would be Batman... It comes in its all black sleek apparell and rhuthenium trim making it one of the most distinctive pens that Sailor has made, even the nib has a sleek black ion plated finish, and it looks fantastic, as you can see above!

As with most Sailors it comes with their standard cartridge/ converter design meaning you you fill from a bottle or use cartridges, and as per usual, you get 2 cartridges and the converter supplied, aren't they nice to us...

It also comes in a rather swanky carbofine presentation box, and a bottle of Sailor Black Ink.

Our verdict, one of the best Sailor pens around!

All our Competion Entries

  As you've probably seen over the last couple of weeks we've been running another of our competitions and this time the prize was a Sailor Professional Gear Slim with a choice of Nib and Trim Colour.

The Winner has been announced and that lucky person was Tim Verpooten! With the entry below, but I thought I'd also catalogue all the other brilliant entries we had so you can see the calibre of our contestants!

Try out all the Conway Stewart Nibs

We've just got in our latest accessory to help you find your perfect pen!

The Conway Stewart nib set, which has all 8 varieties ready and waiting to be tried and tested by your good selves to help you determine which nib suits you best. Thought I'd add in some close up shots of each of the nibs, so you can see the relative size of each of them.

Italic Medium

Fine

2 x Bold

Bold

Extra Fine

Italic Broad

Italic Fine

Medium

Notebooks that come to life!

If you haven't seen these brilliant new notebooks then you're in for a treat! 

Aninotes Animated Notebooks as you might imagine, are more than your average paper notebook. Coming in 8 different designs they all possess perfect imaginative flair that makes writing in them a novelty everytime.

It's surprising that no-one has come up with this idea before, incorporating a flip book style animation and making it practical!

We had a little go a bring them to life...

You have a choice of...click here to see them all...

Swan Vintage Lever Filler Fountain Pen

Swan Vintage Lever Filler Fountain Pen

Next in our little series of Vintage Pens is this 1950's Swan Lever Filler.

Lovely vintage mabie and todd Swan "Self Filler" Fountain Pen in Grey
the nib is marked swan 14ct - which of course is super flexible.

National Security Vintage Pen

• Make: National Security
• Model: Button Filler
• Origin: UK
• Dates from (approx): 1930's
• Filling Type: Button Filler
• Nib: 14ct gold, Broad. Good Flex.

What Should I Get Him?

Only introduced this year, the Alchemix Range from Caran D'Ache, it's a brilliant little range with some excellent colours, including Carbon Fibre - if there's one sure way of making something look cool, it's ensuring you can see the carbon fibre weave pattern.



If you're a fan of Onoto then you'll have been waiting an age (since the 1950's) for them to bring back the plunger filler, with a massive ink capacity of 3ml, and available in the coveted demonstrator design it's an extraordinary piece of craftsmanship.  


You're probably sick of us harping on about the Visconti Homo Sapiens, but it really is that good!

Hitting the right note with a new Ink Set from Diamine

In the spirit of Christmas, Diamine have very recently (just last week in fact) brought out a brilliant new set of inks, all inspired by some of the worlds most loved classical composers. 

 
Comprising of 10 varieties, this set of inks unlike the usual Diamine Range, come complete in a suitability themed royal blue gift box with a gold foil treble cleft inlay on the inside and the Diamine logo printed on the outside. 



So what colours do you get inside? And who are they named after?

Charcoal Grey

Orange/ Red

Rich Deep Green

Subtle grey/ violet

Deep Red with brown undertones

Dark Rich Blue

Maroon

Deep, mid green

Ochre with hints of black/ green

Warm, mid brown

 Take a closer look at the range here!