Your Fountain Pen Toolkit

After using fountain pens for a while, you begin to put together quite a collection of bits and pieces which add to the clutter of your desk drawers, but are utterly indispensable. And if you haven't got any of these yet, then you should seriously reconsider your position. I wouldn't have any of the fun with my …

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Edison Collier in Burnished Gold

By this stage of my hunt for the perfect fountain pen, I was building up a picture of what I liked to write with... the Cross twins had poor nibs, but were a nice size; the Platinum 3776 Century was highly attractive to me—black and gold, understated elegance, and a beautiful nib, that was just …

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Platinum 3776 Century, Music Nib

So, convinced by my experiences of the Cross twins' dry nibs, I set out to find a pen that would give me a smoother, inkier page; and sure as hens can lay baby chickens, you get that from the Platinum 3776 Century with the solid 14K gold music nib. I Did Some Reading... This time …

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