Earlier this week, I bought a Schneider Wavy fountain pen and filled it with Diamine Registrar's blue black iron gall ink. Today, it stopped working. After two letters, it just wouldn't write anymore. I thought, maybe this cheap pen isn't equipped to handle iron gall ink and it just dried up. After a brief investigation, the root cause was found in an entirely different place: the converter had ran out. I had written so much over the last couple days that the ink was just empty. No flow issues, no drying out, no hard starts.

Anyway, I bought this pen because it writes a touch broader than the Online Slope fountain pen. I believe they're both sold with medium nibs but the Schneider Wavy nib is a touch broader, it seems. And for the price I was willing to find out the hard way whether or not it would cope with iron gall ink. Turns out: yes, yes it does. It works very well.

The fountain pens from TWSBI and Lamy I tried don't seem to like this kind of ink, but the cheap ones from Online and Schneider have no problem whatsoever.

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