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Hello,

 

I'm AJ from Upstate New York. I really started diving into the fountain pen game about two months ago. I was enthusiastic about nice writing pens in high school and college. I had heard about fountain pens, but incorrectly thought the tech was old and impractical. Two months ago I was browsing the pen section in Walgreens as I do whenever I am in a big-box store and stumbled upon a $3.49 Zebra fountain pen. Picked it up, brought it home and it barely wrote unless dipped in water. I was excited though and went online and started researching good entry level pens. Three days later I had a highlighter yellow Lamy Safari in my hands and fell in love. I have since gotten some good paper and an assortment of inks and dusted off my cursive handwriting skills. My collection now includes:

 

Lamy Safari

Lamy 2000

Pilot Custom 74 Soft Medium

Pilot Parallel 1.5mm

Kaweco Classic Sport

Noodler's Ahab

Vintage Wahl-Eversharp Skyline with Greg Minuskin flex nib

Wahl-Eversharp Skyline Technik

 

I am very excited to learn and continue to enjoy these amazing instruments!

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..."diving into the fountain pen game...." :lticaptd: :lticaptd:

You are probably the first person ever to refer to this serious sport of loving, enjoying fountain pens as a game. In any case, you have certainly jumped in with both feet on the inexpensive end of the first quarter! I am betting you are going to enjoy what some of us might consider a passion even more in the coming innings once you start reading some tips from the playbooks of others along the way. :W2FPN:

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Hi! Welcome to FPN. :W2FPN:

I'm really glad you've joined us.


Enjoy!


Best wishes from Japan,

VirtuThe3rd

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Welcome !

 

Relax your grip. Extend your fingers. Cradle the fountain pen on your middle finger

and the web of the hand. Steady the pen with your thumb and forefinger. Notice

how easily the ink flows at slightest contact. Don't you wish pens wrote this easily

in school ?

 

The nibs for your LAMY Safari can be changed in twenty seconds. Try all five.

 

Write with joy.

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Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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