Review on ✒️ 6-Piece Handmade Glass Dip Pen Crystal Glass Signature Pen Set - Vintage Dip Ink Pen, Ideal for Writing, Drawing, Signatures, Calligraphy, Decoration - Perfect Gift for Presents by Carla Anderson

I've known about glass filled fountain pens for a while but never really got interested in them. I'm comparing several inks and I have to constantly write small passages of text with the same pen on the same paper, just changing the ink. I've used the Pilot Metropolitan as a dip pen, but cleaning and drying the pen block between inks is not a quick process. So I'm looking for something slimmer. What I was looking for was a pen that would write smoothly and hold enough ink to write at least four lines on a 5mm dot grid A4 sheet of paper. I judged each pen, wrote the same text with the same ink and paper until I couldn't write anymore. I tested writing with Diamine Marine ink on 100gsm Clairefontaine parchment paper. This exercise was instructive in many ways. First I had to learn to write with a glass pen. I read what to expect, but I had yet to experience the process to understand it. Even after rubbing the nib against the side of the inkwell to drain the excess ink, I still had a lot of ink on the nib, resulting in a very wet, wide flow for the first dozen letters. Then the line eased and I began draining the ink from the flute closest to the tip and paper. When it ran out, I had to turn the pen in my hand to find more ink. Writing with a pen involves periodically turning and accessing more ink until it runs out. Then dip the pen again and start the process over. After writing with modern fountain pens, this is a tedious way of writing. There must be a good reason to keep writing with this pen. She is. Cleaning is almost trivial. There was a glass of water and a wet paper towel and saucer on the desk. To clean the pen, I dip it in water and twist it clockwise three or four times, and then counterclockwise three or four times. Then I wipe it with a damp paper towel and it's clean. This is much easier than cleaning a modern fountain pen unit. Now let's move on to the handles. If you don't look closely at the product image, you probably won't realize that two of the pens have teardrop tips with straight grooves, while the other four have barrel tips with spiral grooves. Cylindrical tip pens hold more ink and therefore write longer. But each handle has its own carrying capacity; Even with the same pen, some wrote longer than others. All pens were more difficult to start than the modern fountain pen. But once started, most wrote with small problems like skipping until they ran out of available ink. I had a pen that was so stubborn that I ended its exam early. There was also a wide range of spring smoothness for the springs. Some were pretty smooth; others not so much. The clumsy pen was also the roughest writing, it felt like it was stuck to the paper. The anti-aliasing of these nibs is not like the flat metal nib of a fountain pen. These lace tips are tapered with a blunt tip. If you accidentally flatten the pen, it won't write evenly when you rotate it. All pens produced strokes with virtually no change in stroke width. The lettering looked as good as if it had been written with a modern fountain pen with a standard nib. There was no italic or flex effect. There were slight differences in the width of the strokes applied by the pens. Some pen strokes looked as narrow as European Fine or Japanese Medium Fine. Others looked more like the average European width. I'll definitely be using these pens for quick trials of different inks, but I'm having a hard time finding reasons to use them for any other style of writing. I'm glad this article includes six pens so I can find one or two that most closely matches the writing characteristics of the pen I'm looking for.