Spreading inky love
Oct. 23rd, 2012 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiThis morning one of my new bakery employees, M, expressed curiosity in my fountain pens. It seems that she had experimented with calligraphy and dip pens in her teen years (which were not in her distant past, I note) and thought that fountain pens sounded cool.
Like any good fountain pen user, I was more than happy tostart corrupting her help her gain some fountain pen experience. When it was time for her break I lent her the Serwex piston-filler I use at work and the charcoal Safari I keep in my purse and told her to try them out. At the end of her break she came back and told me she had enjoyed using them, which I found gratifying. I happen to have multiples of the Serwex (a result of my hunt-for-decent-cheap-pens phase), and I don't like it enough to need more than one (it's a little thin for my grip, though for the jotting I do at work it's not a strain) so I offered her one, if she was interested.
She accepted, so tomorrow I'll take it to work. I'm still going back and forth on whether I should ink it myself, or bring her a vial of ink to go with it. I'm leaning towards inking it myself; it holds a fair amount and by the time she gets it empty she will know if she wants to continue using it. (And then I can give her a vial, and a link to Goulet Pens.) Having sorted through my collection I've also decided to bring her a Platinum Preppy and a cartridge or two, because it has a wider body and will show a contrast to the Serwex.
I selfishly hope that she ends up liking them, because then I will have another person to discuss pens and ink with! But if she doesn't, she doesn't. That's life.
Like any good fountain pen user, I was more than happy to
She accepted, so tomorrow I'll take it to work. I'm still going back and forth on whether I should ink it myself, or bring her a vial of ink to go with it. I'm leaning towards inking it myself; it holds a fair amount and by the time she gets it empty she will know if she wants to continue using it. (And then I can give her a vial, and a link to Goulet Pens.) Having sorted through my collection I've also decided to bring her a Platinum Preppy and a cartridge or two, because it has a wider body and will show a contrast to the Serwex.
I selfishly hope that she ends up liking them, because then I will have another person to discuss pens and ink with! But if she doesn't, she doesn't. That's life.
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Date: 2012-10-24 02:44 am (UTC)If you ever want to get into sealing wax, let me know! I can probably scare up an extra stick to get you started.
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Date: 2012-10-24 10:51 am (UTC)I'll keep the sealing wax in mind. Right now I don't feel the love, but then I have no ideas for clever seals, either.