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People who don't post
I never post. I take the cap off and hold it in my left hand, or I put it on the table.
To my sensibilities a pen with the cap stuck on the back doesn't look good, and in most cases doesn't feel good either. I suppose if I was writing while sitting in a tree or riding a horse I'd think differently, but under normal circumstances I just can't bring myself to do it. :)
Are there any other people here who don't post?
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Depends on the pen. Some, like the Kaweco Sport, demand to be posted. Others, it is optional, in which case I am more than likely to post (unless it would damage the finish of the barrel or upset the balance of the pen), and some I never post (for the same reasons, essentially).
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I almost never post. It feels unwieldy and requires additional messing around with the cap. I just hold the cap in my left hand. I might post a Kaweco Sport or Stipula Passaporto for extended writing but otherwise not.
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I don't post my Pilot Decimo, does that count? :)
But seriously folks... I post the cap when I feel it is required for comfortable use. So any Sheaffer pens for example that I own have to be posted (because they're made for little people), whereas my custom made pens don't because they are made for my hands.
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Originally Posted by
Ole Juul
I never post. I take the cap off and hold it in my left hand, or I put it on the table.
To my sensibilities a pen with the cap stuck on the back doesn't look good, and in most cases doesn't feel good either. I suppose if I was writing while sitting in a tree or riding a horse I'd think differently, but under normal circumstances I just can't bring myself to do it. :)
Are there any other people here who don't post?
You just posted! Nice post.
It depends entirely on the pen. Is it short? Will it allow a post (forget posting a big Balance)? Does its length eliminate the need to be posted?
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100% pen-dependent. I do and I don't.
In other news...
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I almost never post. Only exception is my Pelikan M205.
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I only post when the pen I'm using is a short or pocket version that is specifically designed to be posted: i.e. Kaweco Sport or Montblanc Bohème & Mozart. Even then I often write a few notes with them without posting their caps. :)
I've seen and read about far too many damaged barrels to post "normal length" pens. :(
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Hi,
no, I usually don't post.
I've tried it on a Pelikan M250 or Lamy 2000 or on some of my most used pens - vintage Swans.
It feels worse... small Swan eyedroppers (3xxx series with light ebonite caps) tolerate it.
The only pen that benefits is the Wyvern 404.
Best
Jens
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I was all ready with my "Because they only come on here to buy and sell pens"...
I don't post. I try to post - the #3776 actually feels slightly better to me if posted - but I forget to do it. Even the Kaweco Sport doesn't get posted. I may have been compelled to post the Pilot Petite, iirc, but then that thing is seriously titchy. No great anti-posting sentiment, simply never developed the habit. My mum always used to post as a matter of course, so every time I showed her a new pen it got posted. Which lead to an interesting piston filler incident once - a drawback to its design that I would never have discovered.
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unless threaded to post, mostly won't.
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I have to say I prefer if the pen can post because then I don't lose the lid down the cushions. It's not convenient to hold the lid while drawing for a while which is why it erks me that my favourite fp does not post (twsbi vac700r with custom xxxf nib).
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I don't post. Several reasons:
- small hands, so posted pens are unbalanced for me,
- don't like to have a clip lurking up there to rub against my hand if the pen or cap rotates,
- don't like to scratch the barrel.
I occasionally have posted Parker 51s. Which isn't rational, but I suspect the streamlining lets me pretend the pen isn't really posted.
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Depends on the pen and situation of use.
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When I came over to the FP world I was a ham fisted barbarian and my preference was heavy and posted pens. Some time later, as I learned to use a lighter touch, I changed over to lighter pens. And now I never post my pens... even the light ones.
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carlos.q
When I came over to the FP world I was a ham fisted barbarian and my preference was heavy and posted pens. Some time later, as I learned to use a lighter touch....
I keep trying to learn that lesson. <sigh!>
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Yes and no. depending on the pen I use.
On my dip pens I never post:crazy_pilot:
If a pen is not balance and smaller in size or heavy and bulky I choose to post or non post.
If you are writing for longer period or writing many pages the balance of the pen and the weight matters.
That is where this habit of posting comes I guess if you like light weights pens probably you don't want to post the pen..the person wholike to post could be a person who like a weighty pen.
I have some pilot parallel pens and they are very light. I am very unconfotable with that pen as that pen cannot post. I hve seen so many people who do calligraphy has adapted a weight Spongy ring to balance the pen.
I know so many people don't like to post their mont blanc and many more expensive pens as they want to baby the pens.
I know "Grand Mia", The Pen enthusiastic , Stephan... he never post his pen.:(
some people do it for a practical reason and some do it for babying the pens I guess.
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Empty_of_Clouds
I don't post my Pilot Decimo, does that count? :)
But seriously folks... I post the cap when I feel it is required for comfortable use. So any Sheaffer pens for example that I own have to be posted (because they're made for little people), whereas my custom made pens don't because they are made for my hands.
The Decimo was one of my first thoughts too.:thumb:
But for "regular" pens, I suppose I could say "depends on the pen", but that's not the whole story. To me, posting the cap on a pen just seems the natural thing to do. Putting it down on the table, getting absorbed in what I'm writing, and then hunting around for it because I've absent mindedly shoved it to the side or put something on top of it? Nope. Holding it in my other hand? Awkward and unnatural for me. Expensive pen where there's a worry about scratching the beautiful finish? Wouldn't buy it, if it's going to be that much of a problem. Delicate vintage pen where again there's a worry about damaging it? Okay, if it's interesting enough otherwise I might not post, but I won't use it that much, either.
If I have a pen where the cap will not stay firmly posted, or where posting throws off the balance, that pen will get used seldom or never after I realize the problem. Case in point, I just took out my Eversharp Symphony after a bit of a hiatus. It has a nice nib, but I'd forgotten that the cap will not stay firmly posted. You can post it, but the cap has a tendency to work itself off during use. Obviously I'm not going to jam it on there so hard that I damage the pen. My solution? I'm just using this at home to write in my journal. When it's empty, I'll clean it out and ink something else. For Eversharps, my two Skylines also have nice nibs, and the caps will stay posted.
Of course, what seems natural and right to me may not seem that way to someone else. Your pens, your rules. But I'll continue to post.
Except for my Decimo.
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I do not post. I want to avoid scratching the pen barrel or putting a split in the cap lip.
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I used to post my pens, but I've been cured of that.
I have a Waterman Expert that posts nicely, but it unbalances the pen during writing. But that wasn't enough to stop me from posting. I got a Cross ATX that posts and is still balanced, and it won't scratch the barrel. So my posting habit was encouraged. My Twsbi Eco posted just fine, and was still balanced reasonably well. No cure there.
My habits for attempting neatness, even while filling, led me to use syringes to fill converter pens. Like, for example, my Jinhao x750, which I posted, of course. The inkcident happened when filling the Jinhao with a sample of Noodler's Ink Liberty's Elysium. When you fill with a syringe, you're not dipping the nib into the ink, so it doesn't get wet and doesn't flow right away. The ink has to flow through the feed, and exchange air. This can be slow, and I didn't really know about priming by gently goosing the converter to push ink into the feed. Instead, my solution was to set the pen nib down in a pen cup and let gravity assist.
Assist it did. Gravity assisted most of the ink into the cap. The Jinhao x750 has an opaque metal cap, so I had no idea as to how amazingly effective gravity had been in this case. When I uncap a pen, the cap is in my left hand, angled down, and I flip the pen around and insert. Posted!
I tried to write. Yay! The ink is flowing. I rather liked the color. Let's write some pangrams... Why is my hand all wet? Where is this coming from? How? What?!?
There was ink slowly working its way into the crook of my hand from around the cap. I'd had my coffee already, so I didn't pull the cap off right there at my desk. I got over to a sink and discovered that at least two-thirds of the ink in the converter had taken up residence in the cap. I poured the ink out and began flushing the thing, lamenting the lost volume of Blue.
That, more than anything else, cured me of posting my pens. I began to notice small droplets of ink that migrated from the nib of my other pens, just regular nib creep or a careless bounce. Yep... no more posting for me.
I suppose I'll have to make an exception if I get a Kaweco Sport. But I'm now firmly, generally, in the no-posting camp. Ink belongs in the reservoir, on the paper, and only occasionally on my fingers. It doesn't belong on the pen barrel.
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Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm really glad to find out that I'm not abnormal, at least not in that way. :)
Actually I'm kind of surprised that so many people don't post, considering what I see in pictures on line. Goulet Pens, for example, seem to only show pictures with pens posted, which irritates me because I don't get to see the pen in its stylistic beauty.
I don't have small hands, although they're somewhat thin. Even then, I don't post a Kaweco Sport. It fits between my fingers and I don't need it to lean on the back of my hand, especially as it's light. I see too that others consider markings on the pen body from posting. Sanity prevails. :)
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I'm with silverlifter. The only pen I post with is the Kaweco Sport and non-fountain pens. As to why I don't post - it's mainly a balance issue with pens but also I don't want to scratch the barrel.
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Ole Juul
Goulet Pens, for example, seem to only show pictures with pens posted, which irritates me because I don't get to see the pen in its stylistic beauty. ...
Goulet Pens typically show that as the first picture of the pen. If you click on the gallery below the pic, you'll find they typically show it 1) posted, 2) capped, 3) uncapped beside pen, 4) Filling system detail 5,6,...) various detail shots, followed by various beauty shots.
You're right that the thumbnails in the search results all have posted pens.
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Pen length and balance is an issue for me.
I never liked writing with anything that didn't seem balanced in my hand. It didn't matter if it was a dip pen that felt too long or a stubby pencil that felt too short. Call it 'Goldilocks Syndrome if you like, but a pen or pencil has to be 'just right' for me. The dinky pens I have, a Conway Stewart 36 and a Boot Chatsworth, feel too short unposted, and are used posted. Most other pens fall in to an acceptable range posted or unposted. While I tend to prefer posting, that I've begun using unposted pens more frequently. That is due in no small measure to having some pens that just don't post well. It's annoying to have a cap fall off in the middle of writing a word.
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I don´t like to scratch the pen body, so, I don´t post.
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I hate posting. Never do it.
Well, almost never. I once tried one of Susan Wirth’s pens and she insisted that i post the cap.
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If it's postable and not back-heavy, I post.
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Surely you post the Kaweco Sport ja?
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I always post. I am 6'2" with long fingers and thumb and unposted pens are too short. I suspect the need for posting may have a lot to do with hand size.
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Roe D Hym
I always post. I am 6'2" with long fingers and thumb and unposted pens are too short. I suspect the need for posting may have a lot to do with hand size.
Don't look at me; mine are little. 😜
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picautomaton
Surely you post the Kaweco Sport ja?
No.
They're so light that they don't need hand support. I have two in regular use. I don't have fat fingers but my hands are certainly not small. I tend to adapt my grip to different pens.
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I remember when I used to walk two miles to school everyday, in the snow, in the dark, when all the other kids were afraid to post their pens. But I did...some of them. And I still do.
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I don't post. Just find the additional torque unnecessary like many of the other folks. If it was a smaller pen I might consider it.... but I don't buy smaller pens.
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I used to post but I tend not to now.
It might have been thepens I was using but I think it was when I inherited my dad's silver waterman and you could see the line where the cap rubbed a nice ring into the body. Now I'm the kindo f person who's books look like they are new from the bookstore even after I've read them a dozen times. I don't dog ear pages or write in margins and I like my pens looking brand new as much as possible so no cap posting unless it's absolutely required.
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Roe D Hym
I always post. I am 6'2" with long fingers and thumb and unposted pens are too short. I suspect the need for posting may have a lot to do with hand size.
I’m pretty big, too, with even bigger hands & feet. I still don’t like it.
It always feels like the cap is going to work itself off or it makes the pen backheavy.
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Depends on the pen and the day and even the time of day. I used to write with my Parker 45 un-posted. Did that for years. Now, when I write mostly with a Parker 51, sometimes I post and sometimes I don't. No fear of leaving a ring from the cap. It just depends on how my hand feels. Yes, the 51 is just great when posted. Just as great when un-posted.
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I post 95 percent of my caps. I think it usually feels better and then I don’t have to worry about where the cap is.
If the cap is heavy and really makes the pen feel back heavy then I won’t.
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Normally, I don't post my pens. A few of my pens are on the short side and, for my hand, benefit from posting. But generally I prefer not to post.
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I've spent the last week alternating between posting and not posting the same (a variety) pens. With some, like the Conway Stewart 36 which barely reaches the web between my thumb and palm unposted, that are short to start are not comfortable to use unposted. My Conway Stewart 479 and other 'full size' pens are useable unposted, but the balance doesn't feel right.
My conclusion -- opinion if you will -- from my brief experiment is that posting or not posting is subjective not only for the individual, as is evident from this discussion, but for the pen as well. But we knew that already, didn't we?