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FOUR X FOUR

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it just occurred to me that today marks the first year of owning fountain pens. Is anyone else at or near the end of their rookie season? Ah what the heck, maybe it's your 10, 20, or 30 year mark?

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Congrats! I bought my first in the late 1990's. Couldn't tell you closer than that. I know what job I was at so it was not earlier than 1997, and 1998 or 1999 are more likely.........

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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I imagine I am getting close to the 25th anniversary of using my first fountain pen (I mostly remember ink everywhere) around 15th of using them almost exclusively. And to think that for almost all of that time I never owned more than two pens and two types of ink.

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Just finished what was likely my sixty-fifth year using fountain pens almost exclusively.

Thanks Jar, now I don't feel quite as old! 😄

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I was 14 or 15, so it's been 43 or 44 years.

Grace and Peace are already yours because God is the Creator of all of life and Jesus Christ the Redeemer of each and every life.

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Congratulations on a year of enjoying the wonderful madness that is FP's... December of 88 or 89 was the start for me, and my first nice pen was a Parker Vector in burgundy.

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My first year here is two days before my birthday this year. Just coincidence.

 

Having said that I will consider myself a complete novice/rookie for at least another year if not two. I'm a bit slow on the uptake I'm afraid. :rolleyes:

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This month marks my eighth year of the return to fountain pens. I had one in college in the 90s but didn't think too much of it at the time.

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I am also close to the one year mark after getting back into it. I used FPs in school many many moons ago, but it was really just a necessity.

Then, after acquiring a position in which I write by hand daily, I wanted to get back into it. Started with one cheap but vintage German Reform pen, now I have 5 good quality users that I cherish.

The Reform, while still writing perfectly well, has been demoted to demonstration/decoy pen for laymen and children.

 

I'm also stockpiling low cost beginner pens (and low cost bottles of ink) to get laymen to join the delight.

 

In fact: I wanted to write a more detailed roundup of my progression soon (A thread about me, what's not to love?)

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It was the summer of '79. A sky blue eyedropper with an ink window. Ink in my fingers. Splatter marks in shirts. Comets in note books. Ink transfusions...

 

36 years on, nothing much has changed...

A lifelong FP user...

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I won't even have my one year anniversary until April 17 when I bought what I thought was my "dream" pen! Amazing how much I have enjoyed dreaming since then. But I don't think any addiction or hobby has been this much fun or as exciting & unlike some of the former I have NEVER heard of anyone going to jail for possession of pen & ink!

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Well, in this year I have a 10th anniversary.... so I decided, to go for my dream pen, and not buy any other pen till I get it. That will be the Montblanc Princesse Grace de Monaco. Admittedly isn't a cheap one, but that's the most beautiful fountain pen I ever seen, not mentioned its royal purple color... I love purple color...

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