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Written on 18th July 2025

Once I held this pen and wrote a few lines, my understanding of and choices in fountain pens changed. Decisively. Conclusively.

I bought quite a few fountain pens, even the most expensive ones in my collection, before I picked this one.

What do you notice in all the 3 pens? Do you notice certain similarities?

All 3 pens have almost the same nib size. All 3 pens have similar girth near the end of the grip section. While the 2 Kaco pens have a groove ring near the collar of the grip section where the snap cap fits, Lincoln has nothing. Lincoln takes a screw-on cap and the collar of the grip-section is plain and flat.

I enjoy writing with all the 3 pens but I enjoy writing with Lincoln specially. My hands are large and my fingers quite long but the way I grip my fountain pens, I find a real pleasure in writing with the Lincoln.

Upon writing with Lincoln I discovered that:

• Large hands or large fingers do not necessarily need large grip sections or large fountain pens
• My fascination with large nibs is misplaced
• My fascination with long fountain pens is misplaced
• Handwriting is a matter unique to the anatomy and movements of the particular fingers and hands involved irrespective of the size of the hands or the size of the fountain pens or nibs
• What hinders or aids the movements in handwriting determines the pleasure one gets out of fountain pens
• The grip section plays a very very very big role in determining the gripping of the pen and the moving of your hands to produce a certain kind of handwriting
• The type of plastic used to make the grip section also impacts the grip and the moving of your hands to produce a certain kind of handwriting
• Cheaper plastic may feel better to grip than the so-called high-end plastics. Suitability of plastic to the touch and pressure of the skin and body of the fingers is not determined by the cost of producing plastic or its price in the market or even its look to our eyes.

So Beena V’Sign Lincoln is my favoritest pen at the moment. It has certain unfavorable points too. Like, if you do not use it for a day or two, you might get a slight hard start, in the sense that the first stroke may not render the ink on paper and after that it starts writing. I don’t think the ink in the pen dries out or vaporizes though. If you write very very fast, perhaps some stroke at a bend or turn might render lighter. But that’s that.

Try a Lincoln. You will be surprised.