Quarantining with Fountain Pens. Obviously.

 

The Montegrappa custom fountain pen
I designed online all by myself. Only costs $14,500.
Because who doesn't need a pen that costs more than their car?

The longer quarantine continues, the more obsessed I've become with fountain pens. Fountain pens are ideal for situations where you are stuck in your home for months at a time and do not go outside. There are several reasons for this:

1. Say you are in a customer's conference room and you leave your pen on the table.
2. Your pen could easily fall out of your bag while you are walking across a parking lot.
3. You may set down your pen at a coffee shop and someone nearby buries it under a pile of raw sugar packets and then you can't find it ever again.

Reasons like these. 

Any decent fountain pen has a gold nib for chrissakes. This ain't no bic you can just lose willy nilly.

Also, fountain pens run out of ink so if you like to travel well-equipped, you need to haul around a glass bottle containing an incredibly indelible substance.

I have used my time in quarantine very productively. I now follow a staggering amount of #penporn on Instagram. It's rampant on the Insta. And maybe even more salacious than #weldporn which I also unapologetically enjoy a little too much.

Insta is a hotbed for zealous 
fountain penning

The net-net of all this excitement is that I have located the pen that I will purchase as soon as I engineer a suitable occasion. Because I have finally accepted that I will never purchase a pen that costs 14 grand, I have my sights set on this beauty:

What a beauty.

This is the Montegrappa Miya. OMG.