Greetings all:

I am brand new to the use, and world, of fountain pens. I found this forum a few days ago, signed up and here I am.

I got a DuPont Orpheus for Christmas. It is a beautiful pen and it is rather heavy...something I like. It has a large diameter so it fits into my hand well and it glides across the paper with almost no effort. I am amazed at how well it writes. It is blue in color with chrome accents. For my first pen I think its a good one. I use the Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue bottled ink in it.

My youngest (7) son liked how the pen looked so much I took him to the store that sold me the DuPont and got him a Rotring Core pen and some PR Dakota Red cartridges. I liked how that wrote so I went back to the store again and bought one for myself. I got the PR Black Cherry cartridges. I haven't installed them in the pen just yet.

I am amazed at how easy writing is with a FP. I thought my MontBlanc Meisterstick (sp?) was easy to write with...its a BP.....but my FP is waaaaay easier. From what I have seen here and other places on the web using a fountain pen can become addicting.....which leads to owning several of them. I can see how that could happen. I own two already

I am hoping that I can learn about fountains so that I can begin a small collection. New or used, it really doesn't matter. I think it would be an interesting hobby. I live in Atlanta and I saw where there is a pen show coming to town in March. I already have the dates in my PDA.

Something I hope to gain from my owning a FP (or several) is the ability to write notes and letters to clients, friends and family. Handwritten notes are all but non-exsistent in todays society of e-mail and word processors. I'm not that old (40) and I see how much I use e-mail to communicate. I want to write more in 2006 and I know that my pens and this forum will help.

I'm rambling....it 12:18am est here in Atlanta so I guess I should hit the rack. Thanks for reading and I look forward to learning much from this community.

Bob
Atlanta, GA

Welcome Bob!!!!

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Welcome!

Hi Bob... and welcome to FPN

Thanks for the intro. Like you, I am not that old either (well, we're actually the same age ) and I also use email a lot, but I want to use my pens more this year.

In the beginning, I bought fountain pens mostly for the purpose of amassing a collection (a hodge-podge collection, for that matter ), then I began to focus my collecting and started to use my pens more for personal communication and work (since I now have an office job). I also recently (within the last year or so) discovered the wonderful world of fountain pen inks (which can be almost as addictive as pen-collecting) and bought a book on improving my handwriting. It never ends!

Hope you enjoy browsing through the forums!

Hello Bob and welcome to the FPN. Rest assured that you are absolutely correct, FPN will "help" you develop a small collection (which will in a short time turn into a medium collection and then larger . . . and larger . . . and larger . . . )

See you around the boards!

Hi Bob.

Welcome.

I'll echo what Maja and Southpaw have said, FPN will plant the seeds of a collection, or at least put you in the company of a bunch of other enablers with the same addiction

I started with my first fountain last February and now have 7 (albeit only one 'expensive' one).

Enjoy your time in the forum, and enjoy the learning process.

French

Thanks to all for the warm welcome. I am really looking forward tot he pen show here in atlanta in March. I hope to gain some good knowledge from FPN so that when I go to the show I can buy a pen and actually know something about it

I'll see you all on the boards.

welcome Bob,
I to am new here and for many of the same reasons you are. I have found this is a wonderful place to be.
These folks always post something (almost daily) that I have to have :doh:

Now they have me sucked into moleskines, and journals, and papers etc.

you are about to be taken to the dark side

enjoy