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Sep 8, 2017
I have many of the pens others have mentioned and they are all fine writing instruments. But a good portion of what makes a pen 'magical' is how it fits in ones hand. It's a personal thing I suppose. For my hand, The Churchman's Prescriptor by Italix writes as if it were part of my hand, as if it were a sixth finger. I have a very relaxed grip centered at approximately one and a half inches from the tip of the nib. The Churchman's Prescriptor has a unique feature which is the gold-plated metal band that functions as a stop for the screw-on cap. For me, it also functions as part of the grip: my two fingers lie below the ring and I place my thumb above it. It is hard to explain, but this provides me with much more control over pen. The pen itself is already well balanced in my hand when not posted and with this unique grip I am able to glide an extra-fine nib over the page as smoothly as I can write with my medium point Montblanc. I have Twsbi's and Pelikans with extra-fine nibs which are polished just as smoothly as the one J P Ford ground for my Churchman's Prescriptor, but a major difference is how the pen that holds the nib lends itself to be held in my hand. Now if the feed of The Churchman's Prescriptor were not up to the task then what I've been describing probably would not be possible. But in short, the expertly ground nib, the balance and profile of the pen and the superb flow characteristics of the feed and nib section all work together to provide for a transcendent writing experience that literally amazes me every I put pen to paper.
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