Started 25th July 2025 | Last Updated 4th September 2025
These are the fountain pens I have and I use in rotation. Pens on top in this list are on top for a reason; I enjoy writing or doodling with them more than I do with others which are lower in the list. I’ve also noticed that this keeps changing a bit. Not much but it does change as I discover more nuances and aspects of my handwriting and these fountain pens.
- Pilot Cavalier <M>
- WOW 1A Ebonite Fountain Pen <F>
- Beena V’Sign Lincoln <F>
- Pentel Stylo JM11 Plastic Fountain Pen <0.4 to 0.7>
- Luoshi 738 A <F> (How slim and tiny it is, with a cute tiny converter too! Special!)
- Beena V’Sign Neo – Maroon <F>
- Beena V’Sign Neo – Blue <F>
- Beena V’Sign Antic – Maroon <F>
- Platinum Desk Pen <EF>
- Sailor Fude de Mannen (55 degrees)
- Sailor Fude de Mannen (40 degrees)
- Hero 565 <M/B>
- Sailor 1911 Junior <FM>
- Sailor Desk Pen <EF>
- Kaco Mellow <EF>
- Wing Sung 601 <F>
- Hero H277 Fude
- Stabilo beCrazy <M>
- Kaco Edge <M>
- Pilot Kakuno <F>
- Hero 329 <F>
- Camlin Elegante <M>
- Beena V’Sign Fiorella <F>
- Jinhao Dadao 9019 <M>
- Jinhao X159 <F>
- Jinhao 80 <F>
- Kanwrite Desire <F>
- Jinhao 86 <F>
- Kaco Sky <EF>
There are some more which I’ll add when I use them.
Papers and Inks too play quite a role in our experiences of fountain pens. I’ll comment as I go along.
29th July 2025
I want skinny fit fountain pens and the market is filled with skinny fit jeans.
31st July 2025
This is the Kakimori Frost Fountain Pen. Found this lovely image here. Look at the grip section. Quite long and fairly slim. Looking at the dimension figures on the web, I can tell it is just ideal for my kind of grip for handwriting. Beautiful pen!
That said I would still prefer a pen that has a straight grip section without any bump at the end or any curved slope-like shape.
4th August 2025
Liken every writing session to a game of pro-tennis. Which racquet will you step out with on the court?
6th August 2025
How to assess and choose a fountain pen?
More than anything else, the way a fountain pen moves with your finger and hand to produce letters, and the joy it offers the writer, that must determine your choice of fountain pens.
During my school days, I wrote quite a lot with Reynolds 045 ball pen. It had a very thin grip section. And it wrote fabulously for many of us those days. As I restarted using fountain pens, it took me some time to realize why I love writing with pens with thin, straight-line grip sections.
7th August 2025
As I am noticing the pens for their grip section designs more keenly, I can better appreciate the designs of Lamy fountain pens now. But it may take some time for me get hold of one of these. Haven’t reached that point yet to spend so much. But in my sight surely now.
8th August 2025
I feel, till I held the Pilot Cavalier and wrote the first few letters with it, I didn’t quite know what a ‘good’ fountain pen is or can be.
Sailor Profit Junior 1911, in comparison, feels just okay. Or not even that!
I have large hands but the dimensions of Pilot Cavalier feel just right.
9th August 2025
Pilot Cavalier is almost a straight body. Very little tapering in the barrel section and in the grip section. Over all, slim profile. In your fingers, you can spin it deftly like a wand.
I look at posts selling old fountain pens from decades or many many years back and so many such lovely slim bodies.
Obesity and easy plastic has meant that fountain pen bodies have also gotten inflated, mostly for no good reason except that they can called ‘new’ and ‘in with the times’ and such.
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