Fountain Pen & Dip nib pen: What would you choose?

Quick question.
What does pops out when you think about the pens that uses ink?
Feather pen? Ink pen?
That's good answer, but in this post I will talk about fountain pen and dip pen - the well known calligraphy practice pen.

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Fountain Pen

Most people might think fountain pen is fancy thing to own and expensive, but the answer is NO.
Yes, there are some really expensive fountain pens but they are not necessary for our work.

The principle of Fountain pen

All you need is flexible nib to do the stroke.

This is how fountain pen works when you are writing.

So, you need a proper power whenever you do under stroke and upper stroke. 

There is two ink container for fountain pen. The cartridge and the converter.
Cartridge is easier to start with as a starter. As they are already filled with ink so whenever you put that in your fountain pen and run out of ink, all you have to do is change the cartridge and keep going on. Therefore, you don't mess up with your supplies.

Converter is more complex than previous one. This is modernized version of traditional bottle-filling system. You simply inter the converter in the same way you do with cartridge. The difference is that you need to screw the knob to draw the ink from the ink bottle through the nib into converter's chamber. It can be hard when you first try to do this. You might can mess up your desk or hand but still, it's fun!!

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You need to apply some pressure to give this effect!

Dip (Nib) Pen

Dip pen allows more choice with using variety of nibs, inks and holders.
You can convert the thing in fountain pen, but some pens is not compatible to use other brands ink or cartridge. So you can experience more variety with dip pen.

There are two main kinds of nibs: Italic nibs and flex nibs.
Italic nibs usually used for Gothic, Italic, and squared styles because it has a blunt edge.
In other wise, flex nibs are rounded with two tines that come to a point and they are able to draw a variety size of lines as they get splits.

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These are the major pens that you can use your calligraphy.
Congrats! You are gathering more and more about the calligraphy information :)
Don't forget, practice makes perfect.

I'll see you soon in next post!