Posts Tagged ‘Waterman’

The wonder of the Hero 616

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

I just found a terrific blog post about the Hero 616 fountain pen and thought I should share it with you.

I got ten of these pens a few months ago because I only had a couple of pens and wanted some more to use with more obscure and interesting inks.  (A person doesn’t want one of their only two good pens full of an ink like Private Reserve Shoreline Gold when a person doesn’t want to be using it every day.)

I’ve found them to be decent writers with many inks (Waterman Florida Blue ink particular) but not as nice to use as a better pen.  While the Hero 616s look a lot like the Parker 51, it doesn’t write as nicely as one.  The 51 lays a much wetter, nicer line.

Still, if you’re on a budget or want to introduce fountain pens to someone who may or may not like them, it’s hard to go wrong when you can get ten for under twenty bucks including shipping.

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The simple matter of ink

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Having relatively recently acquired a passion for fountain pens, I have had to begin subscribing to the habit of reinking.  Somehow, it’s become one of my favourite aspects of fountain pens.

One of the big advantages of fountain pens is the ability to use any ink in any pen… and there are so many different inks to use.  Right now, I have pens inked with blue, black, red, green, brown and gold ink.  Who knew writing could be so fun?

Atop that, though, is the contemplative, even therapeutic process of filling the pen.  Somehow, it’s a relaxing respite from the chaos of the everyday things we all have to do.  Even better, when a person decides to change the colour of ink in a pen, one must first rinse out the dregs of the prior ink.  Even this is somehow a relaxing process.

So today, Waterman Florida Blue in a Lamy Al-Star (my first fountain pen), and Diamine Saddle Brown in a Lamy Safari.  Both of these inks are ones I find myself using frequently.  (Who knew I’d like brown ink?)

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