{"id":27,"date":"2005-01-13T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/13\/im-thinking-of-getting-a-new-fountain-pen-for-my-pocket\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T22:10:04","slug":"im-thinking-of-getting-a-new-fountain-pen-for-my-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/13\/im-thinking-of-getting-a-new-fountain-pen-for-my-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m thinking of getting a new fountain pen for my pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like carrying a bunch of pens in my pocket (never know when you&#8217;ll need to write something!), including one or more fountain pens for general day use.  The current combination is a nice transparent Pelikan that WeatherGirl got me, along with a nice little leather case, and a Rotring Core, which WeatherGirl considers (with some reason) the ugliest fountain pen we own.  The Pelikan is really nice, but has a fairly broad medium nib (which makes it tough for editing fine print) and the nice leather case (which is necessary for protecting the pen) slows down access if you just want to scribble something.  The Rotring Core may not be beautiful, but it&#8217;s held up really well in my pocket without a case, and it has a nice fine nib which makes it very useful for editing.<\/p>\n<p>The Rotring Core is, however, getting rather beat up after several years, and the cap doesn&#8217;t click on so well any more.  And it embarrasses WeatherGirl.  So maybe a replacement is in order.  I liked the way the Rotring held up under difficult conditions, so I thought I&#8217;d see if they had a less frightening looking fountain pen that might work.  A quick hunt suggests that the Rotring Newton might be the way to go.  It&#8217;s a metal body, so it will hopefully hold up in my pocket (hopefully the cap stays snapped on well!), and WeatherGirl is much less likely to find it hideous.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldlux.com\">World Lux<\/a> (whose site and attitude generally give me the heeby jeebies) seems to have them in a fine and extra-fine nib at a reasonable price.  I&#8217;ll have to do some more looking later.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like carrying a bunch of pens in my pocket (never know when you&#8217;ll need to write something!), including one or more fountain pens for general day use. The current combination is a nice transparent Pelikan that WeatherGirl got me, along with a nice little leather case, and a Rotring Core, which WeatherGirl considers (with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/13\/im-thinking-of-getting-a-new-fountain-pen-for-my-pocket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking of getting a new fountain pen for my pocket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":421,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/02\/leather-pen-and-paper\/","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":0},"title":"Leather (Pen and paper)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"2 Jan 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Leather (Pen and paper), originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. More fun with my new macro :-). (Having this wonderful lens definitely changes the way I see certain things!) These are both gifts from my wonderful wife, although both from years past. On the left is a great little leather\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":706,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/with-joy-shall-ye-draw-water\/","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":1},"title":"With joy shall ye draw water","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"20 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a detail of an old public water fountain set in the wall of a \"great house\" here in Colchester. Apparently something like 9 houses were destroyed to make room for this monster, so perhaps the fountain was an attempt to assuage some guilt? 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