"Jimmy" writes:

What do you like every day as a cheap, good fountain pen that doesn't need
to be insured, or carried around in cottonwool by a team of hired guards?

I carry around my MontBlanc all day long, and I don't worry too much, but
I am careful with it. ;-)

Although, I guess, it would depend on what you do every day. I for one
use dip pens as my "daily writers" when it comes to writing letters or
anything else that I actually want to take some time to do. For jotting
notes, I'd say that have a decent dip pen at the ready on your desk is
just fine.

If you go about the country during your day, you might not want to go
with a dip pen and a portable ink well. ;-) In that case, I've always
found the Waterman and Shaeffer college budget pens to work really well.
Shaeffer writes a little dryer if your tastes tend towards that direction,
and the Watermans write really wet. I don't like either particularly well
for myself, but my Wife uses a Waterman Phileas or some such quite
happily.

Aaron

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