Even with the Shaeffer bottle with the little section near the top of the bottle, or the Montblanc bottle with the end of the bottle filling section, I often do not have enough depth of the ink to effectively bury the nib to fill the pen.
I have managed to mostly avoid trouble like this by keeping two bottles of the same ink. And when one bottle runs down, I use the other one. And when they BOTH run down, I pour one into the other. Or I use some sort of device.
A Visconti traveling ink pot is one. Or using a syringe of some sort to fill and inject directly into the converter. There are others, of course. But I want to keep it simple, so that my students are not put off by any complexity.
I know that filling pens has been done for many decades. And I can’t believe that everyone has always had this much trouble. So my question is, how do others fill their pens when the ink level is too low?
Paper is an whole ‘nother concern. Trying to find some consistently “good enough” paper that they can get at a typical office supplies store. But one thing attatime.
Thanks!
Saul
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