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Long term fountain pen user here. I have been frustrated by the fountain pen safety of organiser refills. I have used Smythson (mind numbingly expensive - wonderful paper quality) and cut my own from Basildon Bond writing paper with a home guillotine and a Repesco adjustable hole punch (fine at first but increasingly tedious).
ReplyDeleteRecently I invested in an adjustable pen from Big-i-design and discovered the rabbit hole of different gel, ballpoint, hybrid and rollerball refills, including the joy of dismantling disposable pens and extracting the innards. These inks / nibs sizes are much more forgiving of poor quality refill paper and this has reinvigourated the practicalities and pleasure of planner use and also made me realise the importance (for me) of line density and width when writing in different planner formats. For instance, I use a .38 mm tip ballpoint on my diary pages, but generally a Pilot G2 (gel) refill for notes.
Genuinely interested in the pens people use and recommendations for refills or disposable pens to try out in my Filofax (Personal size). Karl.
My faves are OHTO graphic liner pens - the ones with a 0.3 mm tip. They are a drawing pen. You wouldn't be able to get the refills out though because they don't have one - the ink fills the barrel! JK
DeleteI haver got into Schnieder pens right now. Their ballpoint pens I reckon are better for lower quality paper. The rollerballs are a bit wet and show through on lower quality papers.
DeleteThe ballpoint pen Slider memo XB is the smoothest ballpoint I have ever used. It is practically frictionless. The rollerball One Hybrid C pens are nice but not as smooth, despite a smaller tip the actual line it produces is just as thick as the pen writes a bit wet. Plus I can not use it in work supplied notebooks due to the ink bleeding through or at least show through.
They do many types and models of pens including refillable ones. I can recommend the brand if you can find them.
Schneider are a family owned pen company with their whole design and production capability is in Germany. I am UK based so in some ways I think this is a positive over chinese made or japanese made as it is nearer (miles travelled I guess).
Forgot to mention , the refillable pens in the range can be filled with a variety of ink type refills they supply. So you can personalise a pen style you like. Most pens are not refillable though.
DeleteI have four identical gold Energel pens that hold my Sarasa .3 refills perfectly, and I am very happy. I need no other pen. They're pretty, and a bonus one rarely hears about is that with a .3 tip, you don't get much bleed/ see-through, no matter how crummy your paper is. That's why I can get away with printing my Philofaxy diaries on plain copy paper.
DeleteI also love and collect fountain pens. But I'm way too lazy to cut out and/or print my own paper inserts. That's why I usually use Lamy, Parker or Montblanc ballpoint pens on regular Filofax paper. Gel pens are not my thing.
DeleteI find gel pens to be a darker and bolder line on the page. It is not as wet in my gel pens as some rollerball pens I have used.
ReplyDeleteI use Scheider pens right now but I do like the old Vector ballpens of my youth. I just don't have one any more.
I do have one ballpoint--it was too cool to pass up: Retro 51's Smithsonian collaboration on Amelia Earhart's Vega.
DeleteUndoubtedly it is heretical to be posting this on Philofaxy, but I recently came across a book by Fergus O’Connell: “The Power of Doing Less.” Changed my life, it may change all of your lives too. ‘Nuff said. (2013) Capstone Publishing Ltd. (A Wiley Company), John Wiley and Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, U.K.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the book is heretical - I have a copy and I think there are elements that are consistent with publications by Filofax themselves - e.g. freeform time management by John Adair and the Peter Green book that accompanied the professional system.
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