Encore_ss No, fountain pens write more smoothly and require no pressure to write, leading to less hand fatigue over hours of writing. Fountain pens can use the thousands of ink colours without being limited. The liquid ink stands out more on paper, and some have special properties like being waterproof, fade proof or fraud proof such as archival ink. Fountain pens can also give line variation through flex or stub nibs that allow of calligraphy to be done or for sketches such as Manga or even architectural designs, or just simple drawings. Seems to me that fountain pens are very different and not “pointless”. (The guy removed his comment but I’m keeping mine up in case anyone else had the same assumption)
I got my first fountain pen a while ago and it was a medium tipped fountain pen, which didn't work as well for my handwriting but it has cool design so I decided to clean it and store it. I've been watching your videos and this tutorial is so helpful!
Thank you for this! I accidentally stored two of my fountain pens when we decided to repaint my craft room (thought I'd lost them!) and when I unboxed them, the ink in the converters had evaporated and/or dried to the sides of the converter. Flushing the iroshizuku ink was as quick as shown but the Monteverde Noir ink took forever! I was really surprised at how clean the parts looked yet ink was still staining the water! I just checked my "clean" convertor that had the Noir ink in it. I'd left it to dry overnight, but when I moved the piston, more watery blue ink is still in there!! lol
I love fountain and dip pens! I recently (a couple weeks before the apocalypse started) bought a metal tipped quill that I intend to write my personal copy of the book I’m writing
Oh my God, I didn't even realize this is probably the reason why I never liked writing with fountain pens! I immediately got to work, taking out my old pens to do some cleaning. Let's hope this makes the difference for me! 🤞🏻
THANK YOU for this!! I bought a LAMY Safari from a bookstore a jillion years ago and wasn't even sure how to begin. Now it's clean and I got a converter and new stuff coming from y'all in a couple weeks.
This is very concise and helpful. The demo is simple yet complete, with different methods depending on the variation of fountain pens... all in one quick video. Thanks and kudos! ☺🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Feed of Lamy Safari/Al-Star can actually be removed. It's just very difficult to be removed and you have to apply a lot of force and grip to pull the feed out. If you are determined to do that, remove the nib before pulling the feed out and make sure you look properly before you insert the feed back in. Ideally, don't pull the feed out that often because the friction might make the fitting between the feed and pen body looser. I usually flush my fountain pen or sometime I will put my pen in an ultrasonic cleaner to push out stubborn ink inside the feed.
Wait... YOU TAKE PROPER CARE OF Your fountain pen?!!! Oh and btw I try to take care and cherish my one fountain pen that I chose from a jetpens video. Thanks, it was great! (Oh and this was helpful!)
Thank you. I’ve had my fountain pen for only a few days but it was already starting to get scratchy. I think it was due to the poor quality of my paper. But after cleaning it it runs smooth again.
I always clean my Fountain pens, even the cheaper ones with the catrige because i abslutely love them and wan't to keep it for long time and anyway you've show what happen when whe don't clean hour Fountain Pens the righting is not nice, thank you sop much for this great video, i plan to bought an expensive Fountain Pen because know i do lots of practice with these budget price and i know i will take care of very perfectely with you great tutorials wo are clear like crystal.
This video illustrates why I prefer to own cartridge/converter pens: They are much easier to maintain than lever-fill or piston type pens. It takes much less time to clean them, and the cleaning is more thorough.
Thank you! Thank you for this easy explanation on how to clean my fountain pens!! Did what you said and now they write smoothly!! I thought I had to throw them away but not yet...not yet.
Lamy pens have a removable pen nib. You can slide it of and even replace the nib. Put a small coin behing the writing part of the nib and pull the pen in the other direction. Be careful tough not to damage the pen or nib. Be careful with using tap water. Somtimes water from tap is very hard, containing chalk. You dont want this in the pen. Use distilled water instead. For pens beond salavage, mugged up with dried ink; use warm or even hot water.
I have a Parker Vector Metallic fountain pen and I always use the recommended Parker Quink ink. Never knew that fountain pens need cleaning. At times , it feels like the pen skips a little bit. I'll definitely try cleaning it.
i have a lot of fountain pens , but since a couple of years I am using only two of them , the ink dried in the pen so better using only the ones who are once at least per week in use , regards
I have a collection of fountain pens and flush them out regularly. I didn't know about the old cartridge and syringe hack. I will try that next time. Thanks.
Just getting into fountain pens, after making many rollerball pens. Thank you for a very user-friendly guide to cleaning! I just bought a medium-nibbed pen to try the size out, but like the fine size better. The seller doesn't offer replacement assemblies, but says the nib can be replaced. I've shied away from fountain pens because of this kind of thing, but am ready to take it on now, thanks to tutorials like yours.
i'm always too imaptient and never wait long enough for the pen to be dry before putting in the ink cartridge, so the first times I frite the ink is kinda watery 😅😅
This was insightful. Ilk try to clean one of my cheap aliexpress pens like this, I like how it wrote, but since I left it unused for a month the ink became too thick I guess.
I glanced at my own pen after you said "every four to eight weeks" knowing it hasn't been taken apart once except to fill since it was bought new close to a decade ago. I guess I have something to do now.
If you can take apart the converter use soapy water, if not don't cause it might hurt the seal's grease. I also blow into my fountain pens cartridge sidento blow water out of the nib to fry it faster and force stuff out.
I have a rose gold detailed one. Should I be worried about a patina or rust? Also should ya clean it when ya change inks? I had black in it previously and want to put in blue.
It depends on the material of your pen, for example brass and copper fountain pens will darken and develop a unique pattern of patina. And yes, we recommend cleaning it when changing inks! This ensures that inks won't mix within the pen, which prevents muddy colors and the possibility of inks reacting to each other poorly.
I have a few old Parker 51 Specials (c. 1955 with aerometric fillers - these pens don't disassemble without much effort) that have been sitting for who knows how long with gunked ink in them. I squeezed clear water thru filler (and got some of ink out), soaked in clear water for 24 hours, squeezed water thru filler again and a little more ink came out. Still, the sac is totally black, and if I soak in water (30+ hours now) and squeeze sac, a little more ink comes out. I'm going to try the Monteverde Flush, but is there any other/better way to clean an aerometric filler Parker 51 Special?
Ok I had had issues with my fountain pens not writing properly as if there is not enough ink. They are all piston filled. I will try this cleaning method before throwing in the towel.
5:03: "Some pens, like the Lamy Safari, do not have removable feeds". That's incorrect though. I remove the feed from my Lamy Safari every time I go to clean it out, and it comes out just fine. Slides back in with no issues either. My suggestion is to remove the nib first, then remove the feed afterwards (carefully though, it's fairly thin). It helps to make sure that the pen is dry before trying this. When putting it back in, remember to use the same orientation of the feed with respect to the section as when you pulled it out (flat side up) - unlike with most other pens, there's only one way that the feed and the section fit together. Usually removing the feed is only tough the first time around, so you'll need to be patient when trying it for the first time. I also recommend using a rubber grip the first time around. I remember using the rubber from an old table tennis bat that I no longer used - it worked like a charm.
*Help me please:* I have a Parker Fountain pen, I've use warm water to soak my pen, and still ink won't flow, I believe it's the feed part from the converter may be blocked, Is there a way of unblocking it _(like a blocked kitchen drain pipe)_ I want to avoid poking a piece of wire down the feed from the converter end?
every 4 to 8 weeks.. my very first fountain pen, laughing in the distance, really, in my experience, if you don't use ink that is too strongly pigmented, or has big pigments, your fountain pen should survive quite well for a couple months at least even if you don't use it every day for reference, aforementioned first fountain pen (a Schneider pen with an A nib, i got it around 17 years ago) lay around unused and uncleaned for at least five years until i gave it a good soak around march last year. the last ink i used in it before that was cheapo prussian blue cartridges from the dollar store of course, if your fountain pen is a pricier model, or you change inks often, OR you use something like glitter inks, most of which have glitter particles that are big enough to get stuck in the feed, you'll probably want to clean your pen more regularly but if you do it regularly enough and neither the ink or pen are stubborn, a rinse should suffice in my experience
You can click the circular information button in the top right corner of the video, or go here: www.jetpens.com/blog/how-to-clean-a-fountain-pen/pt/259#Removability
@@JetPens I have received a pen as a gift and I can't find it in the list. How do I know if the nib is removable? On the box and on the pen itself, it says Cerruti 1881 (I'm assuming 1881 is founding year of Cerruti)
For some advanced fountain pen cleaning techniques, check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/0QovvQqpraY/v-deo.html
I never knew I had to clean my fountain pen! I noticed today that it was writing less than optimally. Thank you for the helpful tips!
Sameee 😭 I almost throw my kakuno away until I watch this video.. thank goodness
It's the perfect time to clean your fountain pens! Hope everyone is safe and healthy.
Hello
nice
That's great
Nice video keep it up 10/10
why does my pen stop writing at some parts? I would really appreciate if you can tell me!
i watched the whole video, i don’t even have a fountain pen
Buy one, use it, and clean it. You have your orders. 😉
future preparation :)
Encore_ss No, fountain pens write more smoothly and require no pressure to write, leading to less hand fatigue over hours of writing. Fountain pens can use the thousands of ink colours without being limited. The liquid ink stands out more on paper, and some have special properties like being waterproof, fade proof or fraud proof such as archival ink. Fountain pens can also give line variation through flex or stub nibs that allow of calligraphy to be done or for sketches such as Manga or even architectural designs, or just simple drawings. Seems to me that fountain pens are very different and not “pointless”.
(The guy removed his comment but I’m keeping mine up in case anyone else had the same assumption)
than get one 😉
you should try one...
I got my first fountain pen a while ago and it was a medium tipped fountain pen, which didn't work as well for my handwriting but it has cool design so I decided to clean it and store it. I've been watching your videos and this tutorial is so helpful!
Thank you for this! I accidentally stored two of my fountain pens when we decided to repaint my craft room (thought I'd lost them!) and when I unboxed them, the ink in the converters had evaporated and/or dried to the sides of the converter. Flushing the iroshizuku ink was as quick as shown but the Monteverde Noir ink took forever! I was really surprised at how clean the parts looked yet ink was still staining the water!
I just checked my "clean" convertor that had the Noir ink in it. I'd left it to dry overnight, but when I moved the piston, more watery blue ink is still in there!! lol
I can feel how annoyed you were :)
I still have a Papermate fountain pen my grandmother gave to me for school 50 years ago ......... still working perfectly.
Amazing that's really old😂
I love fountain and dip pens! I recently (a couple weeks before the apocalypse started) bought a metal tipped quill that I intend to write my personal copy of the book I’m writing
Let me know how it goes! I'm so excited for you!🥰
I use those little glass yoghurt containers to clean my pens!
That’s literally the perfect use for those!
Me too! I thought i was alone!!
why glass and not plastic?
great idea!
I’ve literally cleaned 30 pens this month. 😁
A pen a day keeps the doctor away
@@allisonn2499 hahaha
U have that many FOUNTAIN PENS!?! as i might have 90+ gel pens😳 but only 3 fountain pens😕
@@tahairakhan5669 U have that many GEL PENS? 🤣 actually my Rapidograph collection is the biggest those need even MORE cleaning than fountain pens 🤣
@@geckonia ooh , actually I've been collecting since 2 years, so...it's an obsession 😂
Oh my God, I didn't even realize this is probably the reason why I never liked writing with fountain pens! I immediately got to work, taking out my old pens to do some cleaning. Let's hope this makes the difference for me! 🤞🏻
THANK YOU for this!! I bought a LAMY Safari from a bookstore a jillion years ago and wasn't even sure how to begin. Now it's clean and I got a converter and new stuff coming from y'all in a couple weeks.
Jetpens should get an award or something for being a channel whose videos get less number of dislikes.
This is very concise and helpful. The demo is simple yet complete, with different methods depending on the variation of fountain pens... all in one quick video. Thanks and kudos! ☺🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thank you. I just purchased a vintage Esterbrook pen with unknown prior history today & want to make sure it's nice & clean before I use it.
Feed of Lamy Safari/Al-Star can actually be removed. It's just very difficult to be removed and you have to apply a lot of force and grip to pull the feed out. If you are determined to do that, remove the nib before pulling the feed out and make sure you look properly before you insert the feed back in.
Ideally, don't pull the feed out that often because the friction might make the fitting between the feed and pen body looser. I usually flush my fountain pen or sometime I will put my pen in an ultrasonic cleaner to push out stubborn ink inside the feed.
Wait... YOU TAKE PROPER CARE OF Your fountain pen?!!!
Oh and btw I try to take care and cherish my one fountain pen that I chose from a jetpens video. Thanks, it was great! (Oh and this was helpful!)
I found my fountain pens from school in the 1960s!! I will try this method and hope it works. The nibs are removable, so here's hoping!
Didnt work!!
Let them soak in warm water with a splash of ammonia and washing up liquid. Let it soak for weeks if necessary. Eventually it should work.
Thank you so much! I am now able to use my fountain pen again after cleaning as instructed.
Thank you. I’ve had my fountain pen for only a few days but it was already starting to get scratchy. I think it was due to the poor quality of my paper. But after cleaning it it runs smooth again.
5:20~ Cleaning the inner cap. It's my first time seeing it. Thanks for your demonstration. 이 장면은 처음 봤습니다. 잘 봤습니다.
I always clean my Fountain pens, even the cheaper ones with the catrige because i abslutely love them and wan't to keep it for long time and anyway you've show what happen when whe don't clean hour Fountain Pens the righting is not nice, thank you sop much for this great video, i plan to bought an expensive Fountain Pen because know i do lots of practice with these budget price and i know i will take care of very perfectely with you great tutorials wo are clear like crystal.
I have the exact same fountain pen as in the video, even down to same color. I recommend the Pilot Elabo.
This video illustrates why I prefer to own cartridge/converter pens: They are much easier to maintain than lever-fill or piston type pens. It takes much less time to clean them, and the cleaning is more thorough.
Thank you! Thank you for this easy explanation on how to clean my fountain pens!! Did what you said and now they write smoothly!! I thought I had to throw them away but not yet...not yet.
An additional thing they failed to mention: COVER YOUR WORK SURFACE WITH A DARK TOWEL BEFORE DOING ANY OF THIS.
Why?
@@snkfrk10probably becaude the ink can stain
I just got 2 as a gift. So, this helps me out a lot, thank you!
Great video. Not too fast. I feel confident that I can clean my fountain pens.
I never cleaned my Safari in school exept when I changed the ink color (like once a year) and it always wrote perfectly.
Lamy pens have a removable pen nib. You can slide it of and even replace the nib. Put a small coin behing the writing part of the nib and pull the pen in the other direction. Be careful tough not to damage the pen or nib.
Be careful with using tap water. Somtimes water from tap is very hard, containing chalk. You dont want this in the pen. Use distilled water instead.
For pens beond salavage, mugged up with dried ink; use warm or even hot water.
I have a Parker Vector Metallic fountain pen and I always use the recommended Parker Quink ink. Never knew that fountain pens need cleaning. At times , it feels like the pen skips a little bit. I'll definitely try cleaning it.
i have a lot of fountain pens , but since a couple of years I am using only two of them , the ink dried in the pen so better using only the ones who are once at least per week in use , regards
Thank you, it worked like a charm. I actually thought my pen was done because I hadn't used it in awhile. Your advice fixed it just like new...
this is pretty helpful since im using a lamary fountain pen and I'm about to use a new ink
This video is so useful. I just apply the techniques on my pen and it works so well! Thank you for the video
The DIY bulb syringe is an excellent idea - thanks!
I have a collection of fountain pens and flush them out regularly. I didn't know about the old cartridge and syringe hack. I will try that next time. Thanks.
Just getting into fountain pens, after making many rollerball pens. Thank you for a very user-friendly guide to cleaning! I just bought a medium-nibbed pen to try the size out, but like the fine size better. The seller doesn't offer replacement assemblies, but says the nib can be replaced. I've shied away from fountain pens because of this kind of thing, but am ready to take it on now, thanks to tutorials like yours.
The basic one really helped me clean my ordinary fountain pen!
Thanks!❤
So informative and so much to know about fountain pens. I really loved the video, much like I love my fountain pen. All the best.
We're glad you enjoyed the video!
This was so needed.
Thankyou so much for this
And also can you please make a video on how to clean roller ball pen (pilot v7) grip tube
Excellent information. Pentastic indeed!
i'm always too imaptient and never wait long enough for the pen to be dry before putting in the ink cartridge, so the first times I frite the ink is kinda watery 😅😅
Please make a video on Pierrecardin fountain pen 🖋
Wonderful tips! Well done video…. thanks!
Very useful information. Thanks✌🏻
This was insightful. Ilk try to clean one of my cheap aliexpress pens like this, I like how it wrote, but since I left it unused for a month the ink became too thick I guess.
I glanced at my own pen after you said "every four to eight weeks" knowing it hasn't been taken apart once except to fill since it was bought new close to a decade ago. I guess I have something to do now.
If you can take apart the converter use soapy water, if not don't cause it might hurt the seal's grease.
I also blow into my fountain pens cartridge sidento blow water out of the nib to fry it faster and force stuff out.
Isn't it great that Oui yogurt has cute little glass cups for crafts!
How long does the nib section have to be in water?
I have a rose gold detailed one. Should I be worried about a patina or rust?
Also should ya clean it when ya change inks? I had black in it previously and want to put in blue.
It depends on the material of your pen, for example brass and copper fountain pens will darken and develop a unique pattern of patina. And yes, we recommend cleaning it when changing inks! This ensures that inks won't mix within the pen, which prevents muddy colors and the possibility of inks reacting to each other poorly.
This was so satisfying
I have waited a bit longer than is helpful to my collection of refillable ink pens.
Super helpful video! Thank you.
Thanks for posting and sharing.
I just hold the nib under the tap for a bit and wait for water to run clean
I use the color of Tombow Olno white. The part where we held the pen became yellow. How can I clean it?
Oh thanks
But will it not be bad for a fabercastell fountain pens??
Can we clean pens like Pierre Cardin pentonic
Excellent video
Really valuable information 👏👏👏
I'm a newbie to the fountain pen world. What do you do if you want to change inks?
Sorry. You explain that. I asked before watching the whole video, which was stupid of me.
Thank you for the great video.
How did you pull the nib and feed out of the collar?
This is awesome! Thank you for the guide.
do these tips work with eye droppers as well?
Thank you ❤❤
Very good video. Thanks.
Thanks for this tutorial
How is he keeping his hands clean??
Lmao
I have a few old Parker 51 Specials (c. 1955 with aerometric fillers - these pens don't disassemble without much effort) that have been sitting for who knows how long with gunked ink in them. I squeezed clear water thru filler (and got some of ink out), soaked in clear water for 24 hours, squeezed water thru filler again and a little more ink came out. Still, the sac is totally black, and if I soak in water (30+ hours now) and squeeze sac, a little more ink comes out. I'm going to try the Monteverde Flush, but is there any other/better way to clean an aerometric filler Parker 51 Special?
Ok I had had issues with my fountain pens not writing properly as if there is not enough ink. They are all piston filled. I will try this cleaning method before throwing in the towel.
Just curious, can you tell me the model and make of the pen in 2:17 ? It reminds me of my old clear Lamy!
check out the caption - it's a TWSBI Diamond
If you're wondering about a clear LAMY pen similar to the Safari, the model is called the Vista.
Very useful video thanks
This video helped me ! Thank you so much
Excellent! Thank you.
thank you so much for this
Very useful video.
will the nib eventually rust from the water?
The nib is stainless steel, or gold, which are highly corrosion resistant materials.
@@jisa98 oh I see. thank you for the information ☺️👍
Thanks so much. 🥰
Oh wow..thank u for the info
ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΟΛΥ! THANK YOU!
very useful info. thanks.
excelente video, gracias por toda la información
Please recommend pens for shorthand writing.
5:03: "Some pens, like the Lamy Safari, do not have removable feeds".
That's incorrect though. I remove the feed from my Lamy Safari every time I go to clean it out, and it comes out just fine. Slides back in with no issues either.
My suggestion is to remove the nib first, then remove the feed afterwards (carefully though, it's fairly thin). It helps to make sure that the pen is dry before trying this. When putting it back in, remember to use the same orientation of the feed with respect to the section as when you pulled it out (flat side up) - unlike with most other pens, there's only one way that the feed and the section fit together.
Usually removing the feed is only tough the first time around, so you'll need to be patient when trying it for the first time. I also recommend using a rubber grip the first time around. I remember using the rubber from an old table tennis bat that I no longer used - it worked like a charm.
It's lamy al star not lamy safari
*Help me please:* I have a Parker Fountain pen, I've use warm water to soak my pen, and still ink won't flow, I believe it's the feed part from the converter may be blocked, Is there a way of unblocking it _(like a blocked kitchen drain pipe)_ I want to avoid poking a piece of wire down the feed from the converter end?
my dream channel :)
how many hours should I let the knib dry ?
every 4 to 8 weeks..
my very first fountain pen, laughing in the distance,
really, in my experience, if you don't use ink that is too strongly pigmented, or has big pigments, your fountain pen should survive quite well for a couple months at least even if you don't use it every day
for reference, aforementioned first fountain pen (a Schneider pen with an A nib, i got it around 17 years ago) lay around unused and uncleaned for at least five years until i gave it a good soak around march last year. the last ink i used in it before that was cheapo prussian blue cartridges from the dollar store
of course, if your fountain pen is a pricier model, or you change inks often, OR you use something like glitter inks, most of which have glitter particles that are big enough to get stuck in the feed, you'll probably want to clean your pen more regularly
but if you do it regularly enough and neither the ink or pen are stubborn, a rinse should suffice in my experience
Very clear video, thanks. You mention a list of pens that don't have a removable nib... do you have a link for that?
You can click the circular information button in the top right corner of the video, or go here: www.jetpens.com/blog/how-to-clean-a-fountain-pen/pt/259#Removability
@@JetPens I have received a pen as a gift and I can't find it in the list. How do I know if the nib is removable?
On the box and on the pen itself, it says Cerruti 1881 (I'm assuming 1881 is founding year of Cerruti)
the best for cartredge 4:00 epic!
Hey can I remove the nib of a Parker vector
Wish I could make my own F. Pen Nib.
How do you clean the cap of a clear pilot kakuno?? Mine’s dirty with ink
Thanks alot !!!!! Loved the video!!!!
very good ❤❤
I bought a new Parker beta premier pen.i can't close the pen cap tightly what can I do
it's actually possible to remove a Lamy Feed, you can't twist it though
I'm using my Lamy joy now for 4 years almost everyday at school - and I never cleaned it. It's working perfectly 🤷🏽♂️
In my fountain pen there is a tiny fabric stuck at the end of feed and tip and I'm triying to get it out but not coming, can you say how to remove it?