►►► Use the [CC] button in the control bar to enable the captions. ◀◀◀ Pilot fountain pen manufacturing. Translations by Kevin Moore. Original video at • 【日本科学技术】钢笔的制作流程【Japan ...
Thanks for such an interesting and enjoyable video. The amount of detail and care they take at each stage is amazing and I never realised how much of it was done by hand not just machine alone
This is an older video so a lot of the processes shown are completely automated now. There's definitely not a person individually putting metal bands on the caps anymore, or an inspector polishing each and every nib by hand.
There was no single inventor of fountain pen. Many people contributed gradual improvements. Feed was probably the most difficult part to perfect. Discussion on who invented the fountain pen is as meaningless as discussion on who invented the wheel.
Interesting opinion. I find them a total crap. Maybe the most expensive are any use, but it's pointless, expensive pens are only for snobs. Cheap ones are a total disaster. Why is that , that if I buy one nib is a total crap? Scratchy AF and I had to replace it with some other brand to use it at all.
@@IR-xy3ij I actually purchased mine from Japan because I'm the opposite. I don't like the colorful translucent ones available in North America. Makes them look cheap and too playful for me.
Theresa A, the fountain pen was not invented by Waterman, as most people believe. It was invented by a Romanian guy, whose name was Petrache Poenaru - check wikipedia for this fact. He received a patent for his invention from the French government on 25th of May 1827, while Waterman's patent is dated 1884. Although now Poenaru is virtually unknown and Waterman became an international brand.
And I find Waterman the best ones. I use Waterman Expert, an excellent pen!! Brilliant quality. I used Pilot, totally cheap, scratchy pen and for small hands. It was Pilot 78G, don't recommend it for anyone. i had to replace the nib for some other brand. LOL
@@Soulrider2012 Sometimes Wikipedia provides reference links from which is presenting the information. In the above case, there is a link to the scanned patent received by Petrache Poenaru in May 1827: www.fountainpen.it/images/a/ae/Patent-FR-Poenaru.pdf
Oh wow...How the heck did I miss that?? Thanks for answering my (silly) question, Stephen...and many thanks to "kpschoedel" for adding the English captions to this great video :)
@GirlGeek etc. The captions are found as a list sync'd to the film, by clicking the square symbol with a dark bar through it, an inch under the number of hits, and slightly to the left of said hits total. See it?
Can someone explain to me why the material of the nib matters (like steel vs gold), when the part that touches the pen anyway is that ball point material that’s made of something else entirely?
That ball is made of very hard material, that it will not wear too fast. But anyway I don't recommend these pens at all. Scratchy a lot, very slim , like for tiny small hands. I bought Pilot 78G, a total disaster, I had to replace nib for another brand. It shouldn't be like that.
Wow, I didn't know that fountain pens are an American invention, although it looks like the English caption mistakenly said this pen was invented in 1880, not 1884. :/ Either way, though--pretty interesting to watch this :)
@Dovebar27: Fountain pens are NOT a American invention, just as much as the aeroplane, loghtbulb and computer aren't American inventions, they are all European, with the pen being from the ancient world.
I find Pilot fountain pens a total shit. Scratchy a lot. I'll never buy it ever again. They are poor quality. I had to buy some other brand nibs to make any use of it. Waterman is my pen of choice.
