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Comment by khazhoux | Hacker News Reader

As a long-time Lamy Safari fan, I have a hard time believing people really put these fat, front-heavy pens to use. Anyone here actually use these as more than just decoration or gifts that get tucked into a drawer and forgotten?

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I used to use fountain pens but then discovered the Pigma Micron PN pens: https://www.jetpens.com/Sakura-Pigma-Micron-PN-Pens/ct/4069, which are not too expensive, write very nicely, and can be easily lost, given out, and so forth.

Interesting. I use Pigma Microns for line drawing, but never used them for writing. They are lovely!

I use the Pilot 100th Anniversary Meiji-Maru to write letters to my family. I think it's around the same level of fatness and even more decorative.

As far as being heavy, well, neither has anything on a brass Kaweco.

What do you mean by "fat, front-heavy pens"? I'm genuinely curious. The article doesn't have a ton of close-up photos and none of them would seem to match that description.

The pens they do show have a profile that reminds me a bit of the Montegrappa Elmo, which I have and love:

https://www.montegrappa.com/en/cluster/fattoperte/myfirstmon...

Their general shape doesn't look that far off from, say, a Pilot Metropolitan? Most of the pictures look fairly typical sizing except for maybe the very first picture.

I have a Pelikan M800 which gets used quite a bit. I don't know if that's "fat" to you, but it's definitely on the big side. I love it, the weight feels great and the balance it just right.

I have a dozen or so other pens, all of which are "thinner", but that's the one I use the most.

I think they are often reserved for signing documents and not for general use.

I like fountain pens for drawing with. They all have their character. If it fits well in the hand, the ink flows well, and the nib has some variance, then I would put any chubby pen in the rotation.

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