Ever Stabbed Yourself With A Fountain Pen?

I have. A few days after I'd gotten my Waterman Hemisphere Moonlight, I was playing around with it, writing on different things. I reached over to get a piece of paper off the computer desk (note, I wasn't properly sitting at the desk, I was sort of reclining and writing on things held in my lap). I'm not really sure what happened, but I lost my grip on what I was reaching for and it fell, so I reached with my left hand which was holding the pen at the moment and somehow, the pen flipped out of my hand. I snatched at it with both hands and ended up driving the nib into my right palm with my left hand. And it went pretty deep.

Those nibs are surprisingly sharp. I was afraid, due to similar posts on other web sites, that I'd given myself a blue dot tattoo, because the wound had blue ink and a lot of blood.

Well, there was no permanent blue mark, as I feared. It finished healing sometime in the last several days, and there isn't a mark other than possibly a scar.

Anyone else done anything similar?

Yep. Careless handling of a fountain pen-the accidental DIY tattoo.

Pilot VP with a fine nib... Went to close it, put it down for something, picked it back up and went to click it. Had a blue mark in the middle of my thumb for a few months after the skin closed up.

This is how you get your own smiley....

Glad you are ok!

Ive never stabbed myself or anyone yet lol, I bet with as crowded as DC was it happens a few times there to people though lmao,... I wish I had seen that

Man I wish you had a video...

Yes, I did. And I was afraid that it would get infected. But it looks like the mold killers in the ink still did their job

No stabbings for me so far.

Never stabbed myself yet...but would like to stab certain people with it though...

There's plenty of people I think about stabbing with my fountain pens..... broad nibs only for extra damage

Glad you're healed up. Did you do much damage to the nib?

Amazingly, as far as I can tell, the nib is fine. Actually it's medium, ;-) but it looks as good as new. I am, however, trying to locate a fine nib for my pen.

Actually, now that you mention it, I did forget a detail. When I realized what I'd done, I yanked my hands apart and the pen went nib-first into the hardwood floor. I'm surprised it wasn't damaged.

More times then I want to count

I haven't had the pleasure, yet. However, I am glad to hear you are doing well.