They make left-handed nibs, but that doesn't address the fundamental problem that as you write, your hand moves across the paper. If you write with your left hand this means the hand holding the pen smears the freshly-applied and still wet ink.
Ball-point pens (and fine point ones, at that) solve that problem. On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 08:46:58AM -0400, Steven Desjardins wrote: > Don't they make left handed fountain pens? > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:54 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > > > Not if you're left-handed ... > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 06:57:32PM -0700, Rick Womer wrote: > >> Damn! ?I =still= use a fountain pen, every day. ?It does the job better > >> than anything else. > >> > >> Rick > >> > >> --- On Sat, 9/24/11, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I was one of > >> > those kids that used a fountain pen, just because it was > >> > archaic and different.? If decent digital cameras and > >> > processing had been around when I lost darkroom access, > >> > there wouldn't have been 25 year gap in my serious > >> > shooting. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com > >> > sent from i4est > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> > PDML@pdml.net > >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > >> > directly above and follow the directions. > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
