Fountain Pen's Companion
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Fountain Pen's Companion offers space to hold discussions on repairing/restoring pens, sharing shading inks, interesting pen bodies, and discussing the sale/trade of pens.
Fountain Pen's Companion
2w ago
Nice! I’m not sure how this works either but I guess the best way is to share our public links to our ink collections from FCP and arrange to ship any swaps or meet up if in the area. Here’s my link:
fountainpencompanion.com NibNoob ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
2w ago
I’m willing to do a trade to Canada. I sometimes fly to Canada. So post maybe from Canada or US. Le me know what your interested in ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
3w ago
Hey, I’d love to! I’m not sure how this works on this forum as I am new ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
3w ago
When you get closer to doing this, if you want someone to bounce ideas off of, I’d be happy to give feedback ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
3w ago
That’s something that’s coming (eventually). It’s a bit bigger though, as I haven’t yet thought it through fully. It’s a feature that not everyone will be using so it would need to be done in a way that doesn’t get in the way, i.e. if you don’t care you can just continue entering nibs the way it’s being done right now ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
3w ago
I love the work that you’ve done on Fountain Pen Companion (so much so that I did become a pateron).
I’ve recently started buying “extra” nibs, some custom ground. It would be nice to have a way to track “extra” or “spare” nibs, and be able to associate them with a particular pen.
So, like “my pens” and “my inks” you would have “my nibs” and those nibs could be “attached” to a pen, almost like currently inked pairs a pen in my collection with an ink in my collection. Maybe a currently nibbed? (lol)
I could see fields such as “type” i.e. Bock / JoWo / Schmidt etc., “grind” i.e. Architect, Stub ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
1M ago
I’m so glad you asked this because I was annoyed with the clutter too ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
1M ago
Inked: 4-5
Daily carry: 2-3
Used in a day: 2-3
I write and journal regularly, usually bouncing between 2 pens. A third or fourth comes into play if I’m editing or proofreading — I keep a designated red ink pen inked — and a ‘fun’ pen with a bolder nib or ink when I feel like accenting something. I also keep a pocket pen at the ready ..read more
Fountain Pen's Companion
1M ago
Hey,
you can disable this (and other) columns completely. See the screenshot below ..read more