this is a fountain pen it's a Schaefer fountain pen
this is a fountain pen this is allow me it's a pelican
this is a pelican fountain pen two
Laramie fountain pen
another Lamy fountain pen
I've written with a fountain pen from beginning of my legal studies and legal career which occurred
around about 2010 or thereabouts in this video I'm going to explain why and how I came to write for
the fountain pen and why I write with a fountain pen to this day all of these are found in pens
the silver Schaefer pen that I showed you is the fountain pen that I use to pass the fe1 exams to
gain entry to the Law Society this pen sparked a lot of fountain pens and I passed one or used
one in my daily life ever since about the pen in the dealers in Liffey Valley Shopping Center and
I had a specific reason for doing so the exams that I faced were the first exams I was going to
sit in well over 20 years since I graduated from UCD with my Commerce degree in 1980.
I had done some research on facing the Effie wounds which are the entrance exams
to become eligible to enter into a solicitor's apprenticeship and be accepted into the Law
Society to do the professional practice courses and become then an apprentice solicitor someplace
most law students sitting these exams sit him in groups of two or three and
eventually after a number of settings pass out eight exams and become Apprentice solicitors
however I did not have this time in my hands as I was a mature student in my early 40s
I had been involved in a Celtic Tiger Property development in Longford and had lost everything
when the market crashed from 2008 onwards I was undertaking all eight fe1 exams in one sitting
that's something that's pretty unusual I was confident I could give myself a great
chance of passing by my application to my studies and the proprietary course I was
doing in Griffiths College in Dublin but one problem that reared his head was the mental
and physical requirements of setting such tough exams eight of them in a short period of time
time management for each individual exam would be critical but the actual physical task of writing
the required five answers for each paper on 36 minutes flat would also present a problem
so I researched the most efficient way to write and I discovered that it was to use a fountain pen
because when you're using a fountain pen you let your hand or arm Glide across the paper
there's no pressing down there's no need for downward pressure
the avoidance of this need press down on the paper for eight exams Each of
which was three hours long was bound to be beneficial in my attempt to pass them
this may seem like a minor trivial problem to face but when you're facing eight exams with extremely
tight time restrictions and a great deal of writing to be done the chances of physical fatigue
were high and apparel that I could attempt to counter by a little research beforehand
and that is how I care about to buy this fountain pen thankfully it worked I passed all eight exams
at the one sitting and now as you know I'm a practicing solicitor but I've retained my love
of fountain pens since then and I use fountain pen every day in my practice I have a nice collection
of pelicans I also have some other pens there as well as I said the Schaefer and I like the lamies
as well because I like the way that they're designed especially the grip I have three
different types of ulami you have a medium nib I have a fine nib and I have a broad nib and I have
mediums then in most of the other pens but that's how I came to Rifle the fountain pen I discovered
as I said the most efficient way to write was actually the fastest and most effective way would
be to use a fountain pen simply because it did away with the need for downward pressure on the
paper and if you're doing eight exams tough tough exams three hours each five questions per exam
over a week or I think it's 10 days or something then you need every little Edge you can get
so there you go I still love fountain pens and I still write with my fountain pen to this day
the different nibs on the fountain pens will give you a different thickness of of writing so this is
my generally I use this one every day this is a Lamy as you can see this is a broad nib so it's
gone right fairly thick it's gone right fairly taken it's gonna have a broad flow of ink foreign
pen from Germany as well lami's from Germany too this has a medium nib and therefore the flow of
ink is going to be smaller with this one is that going to be as full and therefore it's not going
to be as thick this is appropriate sometimes as well for particular forms and so on whereas I use
the big ticker one the broad nib for the likes of signatures and stuff and where I might want
to finish a letter with a bit of a flourish or something like that then I've got two fine or
have a fine one as well I think this one is fine this is alarming as well and they'll have a medium
blamy also then this is the original chafer pen that I used this is the one I bought in leafy
Valley in 2010 of their boats this is the one with which I passed the fe1 exams and started my legal
career and this is one that I have a great degree of fondness for as I say about in leafy Valley and
I think one of the jewelry shops there um and I hadn't written with a fountain pen for many many
years since I was in Primary School actually and that's not uh to there yesterday so there you go