Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/15

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Subject: [Leica] 10 Sharpest Lenses
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:15:39 -0400

I got a thicker one than they usually make its a Townsend Medalist.
But as I said its way too heavy.
I like the way it writes though.
http://www.cross.com/townsend-medalist-fountain-pen.aspx

I got it for 40 or 50 bucks. So I'd be loosing money not buying it.
I had no choice.


On 7/15/13 3:23 PM, "Jefffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The chrome Cross pens are too heavy, thin, and slippery for me. My fingers 
> get
> a cramp. My favorite FP is a Visconti Homo sapiens medium.
> 
> Jeffery
> 
> 
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> I've got one fountain pen which after a month I can pick up and it will
>> actually write as its nib hits the paper.. Its a Cross. Silver and heavy. 
>> I
>> got it in a close out.  I put rubber bands on it so it doest slip out of 
>> my
>> hand.  Heavy slippery and real bad balance. I like my light green plastic
>> Waterman better feel wise but when I pick it up I have to hope it will
>> write. And it might if I used it yesterday.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/15/13 8:37 AM, "Jefffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> There was a similar thread on the FPN (Fountain Pen Network) when 
>>> somebody
>>> posted an article of the "10 best pens".
>>> 
>>> http://tinyurl.com/o8ka3ql
>>> 
>>> I wonder how many FP users here agree with these? I tend to think that it
>>> could have been the author's "A list of the only fountain pens I have 
>>> ever
>>> tried".
>>> 
>>> Jeffery
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
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>> Photographer
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>> 
>> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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