A Beginners’ Guide to Fountain Pens: An Introduction and Guide to Inexpensive Chinese Fountain Pens

Book excerpt: This book covers everything that anyone new to fountain pens needs to know about how to choose, use, maintain and enjoy these pens. Everything that you need to know about - from the parts of a pen, nibs, filling systems, inks and paper is included in this book, which will provide you with a detailed, step-by-step guide to using these beautiful and functional pens. Photographs and diagrams are included throughout this book to help you to learn which pens and nibs to choose, along with how to avoid making mistakes. This book concentrates on the low-cost, Chinese made pens, which are ideally suited to beginners to the fountain pen hobby, but the advice applies to all fountain pens. The second part of this book provides a detailed summary of the readily available, popular (and affordable) Chinese made fountain pens. This part of the book gives an overview of particular, commonly encountered pen manufacturers and their popular models.