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Hi my name is christopher and i am kind of new to the whole fountain pen world. a friend of mine who uses fountain pens told me to make an account here. i currently own a cross aventura and a parker im chrome chiselled. my hobbies other than fountain pens are rc racing, playing video games and studying. i am also 13 years old and go to highschool. im currently in 9th grade and i have a very high gpa score (upper 90's). my my story of how i got into fountain pens was when i was in 7th grade. my science teacher made us write so many notes. i would get so many cramps on my hands and she was very strict. she would punish us if we didn't write the notes. so i basically had to suffer in science class every day. then one day i thought i need something that will help me write without putting so much pressure on the pen. so i have tried so many different pens. iv tried out ball points, roller balls etc. and i never got what i wanted so i went on google and searched up best pen for fast and continuous writing and it recommended me to use a fountain pen. i at the time have never heard of a fountain pen and i wanted to try it out. i of coarse am very privileged and as a natural instinct i wanted the best fountain pen and it leaded me to mont blanc pens and i thought that yes these pens are pretty expensive but they are the best. so i thought i shouldn't get that and try something cheap and disposable. so i found a pilot varsity. it was cheap and disposable so i asked my dad to get me one and he said that i shouldn't use fountain pens because i wont like them. i of coarse believed him to a certain point but i have never tried one so he went ahead and got me a pilot varsity. that was the moment i fell in love with fountain pens. i new that that was what i needed to pass the 8th grade with out breaking my fingers with that continuous writing. so i loved the pen but then i went on to 8th grade and i had an ela teacher who uses fountain pens at home. she was a really nice teacher and noticed that i write with fountain pens so she wanted to speak to me after class. she asked me" are you new to pens" and i replied yeah i am. so she said well there is a whole new world of fountain pens that i think you have yet to discover and she said that i should get something a little more than my pilot varsity. i of coarse went home and looked up fountain pens and i went on staples and found a beautiful fountain pen . that was the cross aventura. this pen i got it in white and it was on sale for $25. i used this pen for some time but then i was getting problems on the pen. i was getting ink on the section out of no were and then is started to leak on the barrel and then in ela class it leaked so much i had to go to the bathroom to clean my self. i even had to put the pen in a plastic bag and no longer use it untill it was fixed. the teacher told me that i need to clean my pen thoroughly. i didn't believe her and i thought i had to throw it away and she said no and to follow her directions. i pretty much had not ther choice but to follow her directions. and it worked i was in shock that my pen came back to life again. i thanked my teacher for telling me this and then a couple of days later disaster happened. i dropped my pen standing up and the pen fell on the nib. the nib was so pushed back in that it wont even write. and if it did it would either make random ink blots or scratch the paper so much that at some point i think that the pen ripped a paper i was testing it on. i never used that pen again. i had to suffer with a bic pen untill my next fountain pen with wasnt untill 3 weeks that my dad came along and picked up a parker pen that belonged to someone else that no longer wanted it. i of coarse took it because of how despitly i needed a fountain pen. i then found out that i needed ink and a ink converter. i got the converter from amazon and the ink from staples. i got the parker quink in black. i liked the pen and i use that pen as my primary pen today as i have nothing else. after acouple of months of using it i still have yet to finish my ink bottle. i have a 57ml ink bottle and it lasted me a very long time. i am currently still using my ink bottle today and i am also half full. i also want to ask you guys how should i fill up my pen. should i just tilt it to get the rest of the ink or should i just buy another one. i honestly dont want to tilt it and want to avoid doing that at all costs. yep thats pretty much it and also if any of you guys wonder about the rc racing and one of you guys are interested about what cars i have. i have a traxxas summit and an hpi baja 5sc(stock and used mostly for off roading or drag racing). thank you guys for reading my story of how i got into fountain pens and i hope i didnt bore you to death with so much to read. thank you also guys for my birthday i asked my dad to get me a namiki falcon II from the fountain pen hospital and he said yes. im so excited for the new gift.

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Hi! Welcome to FPN! Glad to have another young person getting interested in fountain pens!

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Hey! I'm also 13 years old. Except for the fact that I am rising 8th grade.

Welcome to FPN! :W2FPN:

I am glad that you joined us today!

Please feel free to ask us anything about fountain pens and inks.

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Hello and welcome. I'm glad you joined us. Please make yourself right at home and don't hesitate to share your questions and opinions. I hope you enjoy your time with us.

 

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Welcome to FPN and you young people should be in bed it's late.

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Hi Christopher and welcome to FPN. Nice to have another youngster here on the forum.

 

First a little bit of criticism: I think you wrote your message on a smartphone. You use no capitals, and no spacing. A capital for a new sentence, and in English, a capital for the person "I", and every now and then a new paragraph greatly help reading.

 

About filling. Indeed you can tilt the bottle for a bit. If that does not help you can pull the converter out of the pen, fill it directly in the bottle and then place the converter in the pen again. Also some people get hold of smaller bottles that fill easier. You could ask your science teacher for an old testtube to use for the ink. But you get the idea, I think

 

Enjoy your pens. And congrats on such a nice teacher. Cherish her!!!

 

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