Using and caring for your fountain pen

Never use acrylic ink or black india ink. Shit says its for fountain pens on the bottle but it is not. It will clog your shit up.

Thanks to all of you, I've noted suggestions and tips down.

>Avoid the Noodler's brand AT ALL COSTS.

Do you mean the Chinese brands? They are selling fountain pens at a tantalising price.

>UG student
what's a ug student?

Any fedora recommendations from any of you fine gentlemen in this thread?

i'm not a fucking faggot, i wear a top hat not a fedora.

Ha, a fellow fountain pen lover. If you are looking for good, affordable fountain pens try the Lamy pens, the Safaris and the AL-Stars (which are basically Safaris but with an aluminium barrel) are what could be considered the VW Beetles in the fountain pen world - ubiquitous, ultra reliable, indestructible. They have a cult following among fountain pen enthusiasts, pretty everybody has at least one in their collection. KAWECOs are also good but they have reputation for being finicky with their ink. A secret tip among aficionados are the German Diplomat brand pens, and I can fully endorse that. From the small Traveller pen over the full size, mid range (pricewise) Esteem series to the Excellence high end series you get outstandign quaity for your money. The Faber-Castell LOOMs or the Pelikan Stola III are also excellent pens. My recommendations would be the Esteem or the Stola III. I own both and really like them. If you want to go further down the rabbit hole go visit us at fountainpennnetwork.com. There you may also find out how to fix the skipping problem your pen has (search for baby bottom nib)

>your cheap as fuck pen writes like shit for a reason
Many high-end pens way up in the three figures have the same problem. The problem is an incorrectly ground nib (baby bottom tip) but it can be easily fixed in a minute or two.

it's an american brand. they have some AMAZING inks, but the problem they're not safe in every pen. so it's best to just avoid them all together and not risk it.
But one of their safe inks happens to be their best: Apache Sunset, it is one of the best orange inks you and buy (save for Sailor Jentle Apricot or Caran Dache Saffron, but that ink is discontinued so getting a bottle is almost impossible and veryyy pricey.)

this post makes it seem like "bad" pens can occur at all price ranges. while that's true in some cases it is not the norm. For every 100 pens over $200 there's maybe 3 that aren't perfect out of the box.
Most of the time the "issues" people have with higher end pens are just that the pen doesn't work for how they write.