I have misplaced my Vanishing Point but I think I’ll survive. I almost never need the quick access of a retractable fountain pen. I use fountain pens for planned, deliberate writing.

@jack Yikes. What other fountain pens do you use?

@jack That's still a bummer. I'm the inverse. If I could only have one fountain pen, it would be the Vanishing Point.

@douglane Interesting. I would go for the Lamy 2000 if I could only have one. And it plus a Vanishing Point if I could have two.

@hjertnes Mostly a TWSBI Diamond 580 and for special occasions a Pelikan M400. I do have a Lamy 2000 with a fine nib but being left-handed makes that one a challenge.

@kulturnation I loved the pen. May get another some day. I bought it as an "always carry" and found that I didn't really need one.

@kulturnation I bet that was a good day! :)

@hjertnes Yeah, the Lamy 2000 is a masterpiece for sure. I find I don’t use mine much, but I’m not sure I could ever part with it. It’s just such a cool object.

@jack Oh? The only pen I struggle with as a lefty is the Lamy Safari

@kulturnation I do, but my main problem with most Lamy pens is that the left and right handed version of their molded grips doesn’t work for me.

@hjertnes Depends on the paper, but I find the fine nib to be a little scratchy. Not bad, but just enough to keep my from grabbing it by default. Maybe it just needs a tweak.

@jack I prefer medium and broad nibs :)

@kulturnation i don't get why Pilot don't make a lefty version of it

@kulturnation I don't use lefty nibs. But it seems like there are more lefty's that struggle with that clip. I don't have a problem with it, for a change. It is the kind of design that is a problem for many

@kulturnation As a lefty, I didn't have a problem with the clip. I worried that it would be terrible but it was fine for me.

@kulturnation I haven't found any. The closest would be German companies

@kulturnation I use fountain pens if I write on paper. I never "got" the pencil and type writer thing :)

@kulturnation I did for some strange reason think that Pelikan was Swedish.

@kulturnation I know it very well :)

@kulturnation It was where my addiction started, and Brad was nice enough to mention the ink smudge when I started it :)

@kulturnation they can be distracting to the people around you 🙃

@kulturnation there is one thing I hate about the VP: how hard it is to fill it when you reach a under half full ink bottle

@kulturnation the place where the ink is sucked in is higher than normal; it probably would, but I'd rather have a nice ink well that solved this problem

@kulturnation Same here. I'm suddenly using pencils all day. An open notebook and a pencil is the fastest combination I've found for "capture it right now".

@kulturnation well, it's German.

@kulturnation I think Pelikan has too much of the old man aesthetics

@kulturnation You buy a MB for the same reason you buy a Rolex. I love my Lamy 2K for the same reason I love Leica M's quality and my favorite style of German design

@kulturnation And the MB Meisterstruck or what's it's called looks very presidential

@kulturnation The nib is fixed, unless you get Lamy to sell you a replacement. You can unscrew it. I prefer broads; pun intended.

@hjertnes I received a Meisterstruck rollerball 20 years ago as a gift and I still use it. It's broken and kind of a mess but still one of my favorites to hold and write with. Plus as 50+ year old fella, I like how they look!

@jack I hope to have the cash to buy the fountain pen version by the time I'm 40