For me getting inky fingers from using a fountain pen is embarrassing. I do not mistreat, or ever drop my pens. I keep them nib up in my pocket. So when I uncap and get a little drop of ink on my fingers, I feel that the pen has done what it wasn't supposed to do: what Parker and Waterman apparently solved in the late 1800s. My Pelikan m400 is very ink free, but my Aurora 88 will sometimes leak a bit, and sometimes my Vacumatic will too. I see pictures of people with fingers covered in ink. How do you guys feel about this topic? Will you, like me, sell a pen that gets your fingers inky sometimes?
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