I love my moleskines. I truly do. But I have one grievance. None of my fabulous fountain pens work well on any of the moleskines.
I have
2 regular Parker Fountain Pens
1 Parker Pen (expensive one, but can’t remember the exact model)
1 Waterman Fountain Pen
On watercolour moleskine, the ink is absorbed in the texture of the pages. On that one, it’s understandable and I am not very bothered.
On sketchbook, the pages are too smooth for the ink to stay properly.
On regular – both plain and ruled moleskine, pages are too thin, so while the fountain pens work, you can see the impression on the back of the page, which sucks because I write on both sides of a page.
Oh yeah, I also have a quill with an ink bottle, but haven’t tried that on moleskines. I really enjoy writing with fountain pens, especially in my journals or anything that I am likely to keep. It just looks better, and my hand-writing is nicer with fountain pens too, so I really miss not being able to use them a lot, especially since now I have officially converted to 100% moleskines for every type of journal I need.
How about you? Have you been able to use fountain pens with your moleskines?
