Hello my fellow pen-lovers,

I´m a middle-aged Swedish Family Doctor with a big family, wife Annika and five children and a dog. As you can understand I have not much time, or money, to spend on pens. I´m therefore more a user than a collector.

I use a Pelikan M75 Go and a Platinum PGB-3000 for occasional notes. When I sign documents at work I use a Parker Frontier with italic nib. For personal notes and letters I use a Pelikan M200 with a Richard Binder cursive italic 0.9 mm.

My favourite inks are J.Herbin "Terre de Feu" and Noodler´s Zhivago.

(I have never had any major problems with my pens or the inks I have used.)

Welcome to FPN, Lennart!!
havent I seen your name on the other fountain forum?
Please explore all the different forums on FPN, and make yourself at home.
-Sid

Welcome from Texas! I'd love to visit your beautiful country someday--

We just did a thread on electronic vs. written medical records that you might find interesting.

Welcome to FPN. I am a user of FP's mostly but I have collected a few the last year. I do use them all so none of them just sit.

Welcome from snowy SW Kansas! My doc uses fp's also - he uses a variety, including a Waterman Carene and a couple of Namiki VP's - he finds those handy but low in ink capacity. A long story, but my wife talked him into a custom style cast for her broken ankle last year by promising him one of my vintage pens - I can't remember which one he selected out of a choice of a half dozen. I think it was a Sheaffer Balance.

Have fun with the group!

Hi, Lennart! Welcome to FPN. Hope you have fun here.

Welcome from a fellow user-newbie.

It's more of a set of pens than a collection...............

Thank you all for a warm welcome!
This network/community seems to inhabit kind and friendly people, and at the same time covering all aspects of "Instrumented Writing"

Welcome from Stockholm of the Midwest, and the home of the American Swedish Institute!

The American Swedish Institute is located in Minneapolis, and technically I live on the "wrong" side of the river, but that's a minor detail according to the members I know.

I hope you do get a chance to come and visit the Twin Cities, and take in ASI. They have classes, fun programs, wood carving classes, language lessons, entertainers brought from Sweden and a good museum. You betcha!

I haven't checked on the fountain pen usage at ASI as I'm not actually a member. I just enjoy the parties.

Glad you're here!

Hello from another father of five. I'm new to the forum also and I don't have many pens. I love them, but I agonize over the price of them. I'm currently going back and forth over whether or not to spend $55 on a Faber-Castell Ambition. But in the end I probably will. We're happy your here.

Jason

To Elizabeth:
Thanks for the information about the American Swedish Institute. I have only been to USA once. It was May 2004 when I attended a conference on hypertension. See the photo to the left. I have also been considering applying for membership in the Vasa Order of America.

Vasa Order of America

I´m not playing any instrument myself, but I happen to be interested in the late cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and I´m the happy owner of a signed concert program from Lincoln Center 1968:

Signed Concert Program

To Jason:
Thanks for your greeting . When I order pens or ink I have them delivered to my office in order not to stir up my wife...

Lennart