Hi. New guy here

July 30, 2006

Hi all, I thought I should introduce myself since I never bothered to do so on other message boards.

You may or may not know me as BenS from Pentrace (probably not) but I got tired of the "knock-down drag-out" fights over there and thought I'd give FPN a try (that and the fact that I've been reading FPN for several months now). Not that I'm running away from PT, I just wanted to expand my options.

I have been interested in fountain pens for about seven years now - ever since my mother gave me a 1939 Vacumatic as a birthday gift. My inital reaction was "it is HOW old, and you spent HOW MUCH money?" but as you see, here I am, still writing with fountain pens and thinking things like "If I save up I can get a new pen next month."

I tend to prefer modern pens since I like the way they write, but I have a lot of respect for the historic aspects of vintage pen collecting. My current favorites brands are Pelikan since they usually look nice and have always written well and Conway Stewart because I'm crazy (mine has not worked very well but I want many more). I have a small budget (I'm a grad student) so I have a small collection but I have a wish list that's a mile long. Since my experience is so limited, you probably will not hear much from me but rest assured, I will probably be spending unnatural amounts of time reading all of your posts.

Well, that's all I can think of. If you want to know more (I don't see why you would but...), read my profile or just ask.

Ben

Edited July 30, 2006 by Benjamin McFerret