Fountain Pens Are Actually Fascinating | National Geographic
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- There are only about six people worldwide who do what Richard Binder does. With great pride and skill he repairs fountain pens inside and out and brings them back to pristine working condition. He's been honing his craft and repairing fountain pens professionally for about 15 years in his home in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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why isn't there ohh at least an hr or more of this. nib meister isn't "common" anymore but I'd love to see full length what this man does
"It's a deeply personal instrument." - Couldn't agree with that more. I'm someone who loves minimalism, so naturally, my favourite pen is the LAMY 2000. Fountain pens are also really sustainable too! Many fountain pens are built to last a lifetime, (take a LAMY 2000 or Pilot Custom 823 for example), you can always keep filling them up, and not having to throw any plastic away if you use a converter. I'd highly recommend just buying one, you'll get addicted!
I just bought the Lamy 2000 in San Francisco a week ago. It has a medium nib and I love it.
Fountain pens strike me as far more fafy than minimalist in the modern era.
@@Chance57 That could be true, but when writing for long periods of time, they're just fun! I meant minimalism as in just the style and look, check it out! :)
Richard Binder is a real professional in all senses of the word.
Absolutely right - more young people are using fountain pens. I bought very cheaply an old green marble Mabie Todd Swan pen that was dirty and dried up - cleaned it up, installled a new sac and now works beautifully and I gave it to my daughter who treasures and uses it. Beware though, fountain pens are addictive.
Many thousands of dollars in, I strongly agree with you
Mabie todd fountain pens are absolutely stunning, I love my blue/black swan, it has a full flex nib!
As a young person (and probably only one at my school to have fountain pens), my generation should look into them. Works of art that need no pressure to write. I’ve only really used Sheaffer and CROSS fountain pens (you can’t exactly get a job/money when you’re fourteen) but I’m still doing my part educating the masses. Some call them calligraphy pens (and they’re technically correct).
True..
@@tacticalfall4505 If they're technically correct , cant you also call a ballpoint a calligraphy pen and it would be technically correct?
I write using fountain pens, and even collect the best (though it's an expensive hobby); but it gives me immense satisfaction while writing. I feel that these pens have a mind of their own! Finding the right pen may take long but upon hitting the right one, one will certainly fall in love with life all over again!
Sounds Harry Potter.
There's lots of great cheap pens... platinum preppy, twsbi eco, lamy safari, pilot metropolitan, wingsung 3008, jinhao etc
Yup, the right wand
Richard is a great guy. He has worked on several pens for me over the years.
He just tuned 3 of my Sailors this weekend. By far, one of the best experiences.
That man customised the nib on one of my pens. He truely is a master at his game. :)
I love fountain pens! I was raise in Europe where the schools I attended handwriting meant something. I noticed that nice handwriting is a trained skill. Some are just naturally better at it then others. Setting up a fountain pen correctly no matter what make is the most important thing to know and do. Either you know it or you have someone like RB to set it up for you professionally. I love the feel when the pen and your hands are one in soul and feel. You can write with artful emotion other than just words gliding effortlessly and the feed back from the pen just puts a smile on your face. Those would be my personal favorite pens. I'm glad people like Richards exist. It is sad there are fewer today that enjoy writing vs. text messaging.
I 've met Richard in a couple of pen shows and he's a great person; extremely talented and always in to share his knowledge about pens!
I love fountain pens. You grow quite attached over time. Rather than other pens, which you use up and throw away, a fountain pen can last you a lifetime. It becomes quite personal.
When he lowers his glasses you know shit is getting real
is here a full video of this. I wish this was longer.
Exactly why , once you get into fountain pens you are hooked for life. There’s always something new to learn. There’s the traditional and the new evolving functional genre.
I love fountain pens and as he says, they are unique in one's hand, help you create and present your thoughts in an artistic way!
I've been collecting fountain pens since Sept 2018 but originally used one at school in the 1980s. I have about 75 at last count. Its a rewarding hobby that has a practical side as well as being creative with writing. Its fountain pen day today too!
nice,i am wondering why there is still no documentary about fountain pen
especially for the growing of fountain pen community
This man has all my respect may he live long
I use love using Fountain Pens in Primary school but then everyone seemed to had switched to ballpoint and I did too. However this video had made me go buy a fountain pen tomorrow.
+ThePumpkinEye Did you buy a fountain pen again?
+Der Meister (BMW Z4 Lover) yes
+ThePumpkinEye Excellent, what did you get?
+Der Meister (BMW Z4 Lover) Parker Vector Black Medium Nib Fountain Pen!
+ThePumpkinEye Nice! The Vector is a good sturdy pen, good choice. :)
Still a better love story than twilight
I'm having a blast with mt inexpensive Sheaffer fountain pens. I imagine a fountain pen purist laughing at me for my eight dollar pens but I wouldn't have gotten started on this road to fountain pens if it weren't for my first refillable fountain pen. It makes handwriting so much more enjoyable over a ball point pen or felt pen.
Please Make a documentary on this Nat Geo!
Would watch an entire documentary on this.
I absolutely love writing and everything about stationary, especially Pens.
I love using a fountain pen again after many years, as it makes you stop and think about how and what you write - words are important.
I just got into the fountain pen hobby. And everything he said was correct. All of my 12 fountain pens have a unique characteristic, all to their own. Love this hobby.
I like to type on my smartphone but for my grocery list and for the feelings of my heart to express , i write and with a fountain pen , yes. Theres nothing like filling ink in a pen and start to write .Its a very personal experience. I stopped writing after school and came back after 15 years with lot of passion for it now.
Great video of one of the world's masters. I would love to see more of the how and what is done to bring pens back to life, or reshape nibs to perform differently.
This also has me thinking, who will pick up the baton when the current set of masters retire?
are we going to see more of this guy? Please tell me this isn't it
He was a giant in the pen world but he seems to be slowly closing down his shop, here is his website though -www.richardspens.com/ - He has so much awesome information on the reference pages!
digitalblasphemy1100 Agreed! We need to see more of Mr Binder.
He basically retired!
very interesting. now i see why my dad adores fountain pens.
I like my fountain pens, but I draw with them more than write! Am glad there are people who work on preserving old ways of life.
When I was growing up in Shanghai China back in the 80s, there were still many street stalls that fixed fountain pens. (Along with stands that fix umbrellas and bicycles).
I so wish I could write like Mr Binder. Regrettably, a tremor I developed in my writing hand has turned my formerly reasonably elegant handwriting into scrawl.
I want a longer version!
This was very inspiring i own a fountain pen people forget that handwriting is still an art
It is a shame that Richard Binders shop is no longer open
What?!? I was just about to look him up..what happened? Is he ok?
@@AtilioEscobar after a bit of googling, it looks like he's fine, just stepping back from the business/retail aspect of the hobby. A few blogs did note that he was still a avid collector though.
There are others who do what he did. Google "nibmeisters."
Where can I buy one from him? :)
+dmeadville does it work? Seems to be not working for me.
Whoa a comment I made from a year ago lol
+GoHerping I had no idea you had an interest in fountain pens
GoHerping and another year
eyyyyy herping
yes people collect them i love the monte blanc fountin pens
craftsmanship. nice
*Fascinating!* I have eight gorgeous fountain pens and I learn something new every single day by peeling the layers and getting deeper and deeper.
What a great video! Fountain pens are wonderful :-)
The most best video to ever be published.
Indeed, it's not that peculiar. My daughter fell in love with fountain pens 25 years ago and uses them almost exclusively. I've been using them for over 60 years. (Am I that old???) I enjoy writing with them so much I sometimes find myself looking for an excuse to write.
As an engineer, I've been a student of FP repair for a very long time. I enjoy purchasing estate-sale pens on eBay, pens that have been abused, beat up, left in a drawer or box for 40 years with the ink dried solid inside, and restoring them to excellent working condition. I do it for fun. I suppose I could do it for money but am not interested in starting yet another business at my age. I know a number of people just like myself who have been repairing their own pens for a long time.
It's fun to fix FP's, it's fun to write with them. I have a pen right now I'm about to fix. It's a brand new pen, very pretty, great writer, but after about a quarter page of writing it stops. It has a breathing problem. There are several things that might be wrong. Soon it will be fixed.
that's just beautiful
Repairing pens since 2000... so that's 15 years. Pen15 club anyone?
Came for the pens, stayed for that cat.
Genuinely my dream job.
I bought a LAMY pen a few years back, still have it cuz I know I paid $$ for it. Its not something I use for everything but I can depend on me having an actual pen in my house if I need one. I love how I can just refill the ink and know I will never lose them like I lose all my other cheaper pens.
Respect
Richard Binder is amazing!
saw this a while back, spent ages trying to find it again! awesome vid!
very cool. thanks
literally learned nothing about fountain pens and that's honestly impressive
I prefer a fountain pen since it feels a lot like a pencil when writing.
And iv'e used pencils all my life and struggled to keep my handwriting neat with the frictionless-ness of a ball point pen.
Arrrrrrggggg i came for more that a 5min blurb on fountain pens!!!!
interesting video..i would like to try using a fountain pen..
I'm a college student and I use two Pilot Vanishing Point to write everyday. And I've been using fountain pens since I was 11. You can't mimic the weight, feel and line fountain pens gives imo.
Excellent.
really interesting video.
Good Video, good topic. Thanks
0:56 sir ur handwriting I don’t have words to explain! I need a fountain pen write now
Good job please keep making
This is why I sometimes hate technology. It makes old methods 'boring' according to those who don't use them. In reality, the old ones are the best and the new generation sees them as boring because they haven't tried them yet
dmeadville Won't they be ignored by the majority? Technology is slowly driving this to extinction because of the rising popularity of computer text. It's sad to see (sometimes unnecessary) advancements in the way we live ruining old stuff
dmeadville Thanks for reassuring me a little. Compared to what I've heard in the past, I see people now and they're becoming more(this term may be inaccurate) mechanical as in only caring about stuff that concerns them and interacting less
Amazing
This is so amazing!
this is nice
I miss making fountain pens..
Just bought a Noodler's ahab and I'm also restoring a very old Sheaffer!
Pelikan rules! Richard has done amazing nib work for me.
I have 2 coming I can't wait to use them
O my god , respect you.
Does anyone know what the title of the music track was?
What a great video!
Where can we watch the full version of this?
Hi, Which month's and years issue is this National Geographic magazine ? And can someone tell me the National Geographic magazines months and years issue which have articles about Fountain pens ? Thanks.
0:22 ginger kitty
Fantastic handwriting! For someone like me it’s like alien🤔
Some of those digital techniques were developed by people that love to write. I started collecting pens at age 13, but, of course, I wanted more. I'll never give up on my pens, but, I still love what the digital techniques enable us to do.
You and I are opening new chapters in the use of FOUNTAIN PEN.
TRUE OH MY GOD
haaa same here I m little crazy for fountain pens Nd also repair it
nice
Очень толковые книги по вопросу чернильных ручек написаны уважаемым Ричардом. Рекомендую!
That vacumatic tho
Six people? Um...there's more than that. It's may not be the biggest growing business in the world, but there's more than six nibmeister/restorers out there.
Only about 6 people can do all the repairs that Richard Binder does. There are nibmeisters then there are nibmasters.
Prashanth Panicker I see your point... after re-reading the introduction above I may have misinterpreted what they were saying.
I finally got around to watching this video, very entertaining. Richard himself states in the video that only six people in the world offers the services he does, so I definitely misread it and that sounds about right considering everything he can do.
What I wonder about and I don't know if there are some good stats about is: Is the number of fountainpen users INcreasing or DEcreasing in recent years? There could be arguments for both.
Yes, I think so
I mean there's a lot more than just six fountain pen repairmen, but then again that was 2015. Fountain pens have been coming back recently.
Yes, repairmen. But not many as unique and in tune with the finer craft of pens.
0:23 is still probably in the process in repairing fountain pens
So......... You didn't give any scientific reasons as to fountain pens are fascinating
Well, "most personal accessory you can have" is a bit much, my DE razors are much higher on the list, as is my iron necklace for instance, I do like my FP`s quite a bit, but "the most personal accessory"? No.
And yes I said IRON necklace, I would actually LOVE to have an iron fountain pen as well, not for writing obviously, that would be horrible, but drawing with a heavy pen is something I like, and I think the aesthetic is cool, especially when it`s something normally made from lighter more modern materials.
Excuse sir, may I more Richard Binder, please?
Nothing equals like writing with a fountain pen
I would love to be his apprentice.
I have in the moment 5 fountain pens and I am waiting for a bottle of ink of Parker....
That was very interesting but show more cat please
i can probably get pictures of his two cats if you want, this guy's my grandfather
I like my fountain pen.
"Fountain Pens Are Actually Fascinating"
well you bet natgeo 😎
Woohoo NH!
Not once does he talk about different nibs or grinds.
Maybe it's just me, but the music masked some of what he said. But then I'm not a fan of background music when someone has something to say.