South Georgia Says Hello!

[fruitcake67]

Hello FPN,

 

Greetings! I am a physician in rural Georgia with a terrible addiction to fountain pens. Back in late Feb, I ran across the Pen Addict Podcast. I was hooked quickly and all of my days of hunting for pens and paper at Wal-Mart and Office Max came pouring back into my mind. My first purchase was a Lamy Safari Gray with M nib. Now I have several Safaris, two studios with gold nibs, one 2000, a couple of Pilot C74s, a 912, several Preras, two falcons, Visconti Rembrandt and Van Gough, over 25 bottles of ink, notebooks notebooks and more notebooks, and a lovely desk display from The Dude at Modern Goods. I also have a new field notes problem for which I should seek help. I check multiple blogs each day and started over at episode 1 of the PA and now I am at 154. I think Brian Goulet owes me a few loyalty rewards or something, but with no local shops, I am forced to the web to stalk my prey. I love this community and love to know pen freaks are everywhere....although I am pretty sure I am the only one in my small town of just of 2700 people.

[swanjun]

Greetings from North Florida! Quite the FP wasteland here, too. Jacksonville doesn't even have a store anymore.

[northstar]

Hello and welcome to FPN.

[Gump]

Welcome aboard, I hail from the CSRA part of Georgia myself and spent quite a few years roaming the back roads of the more southern parts of the State before I relocated. Can't recall ever spotting a FP in the wild down there, but at the time the bug hadn't stricken me.

[PAKMAN]

Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

[fruitcake67]

Welcome aboard, I hail from the CSRA part of Georgia myself and spent quite a few years roaming the back roads of the more southern parts of the State before I relocated. Can't recall ever spotting a FP in the wild down there, but at the time the bug hadn't stricken me.

 

Yeah I assume by CSRA your mean the Augusta area.....I spent 5 years there, and it was nice but happy to be a bit closer to Savannah and the coast.

[notVirtuThe3rd]

Hi! Welcome to FPN.

I'm really glad you've joined us.

Enjoy!

Best wishes from Japan,

VirtuThe3rd

[vorpal]

Waves from North Georgia!

 

We're way up in the mountains...no fountain pens around here, alas. Well, except mine. My favorites include a red Falcon; a Frankenpen for copperplate (Ahab + titanium Comic G); a hideously expensive Mottishaw Spencerian grind Pelikan; and a $5 Bookworm that writes so smoothly I can barely tell it's touching paper.

 

Stop up if you ever find yourself around Helen.

[ThomasB]

Hello and welcome from Baton Rouge, Louisiana...Enjoy your time here

[RareInk]

Welcome to FPN and ... great pens. Those Visconti's are nice! Which Van Gogh did you get?

[steelblue]

Greetings from Suwanee GA north of you. Surprising to me how many Georgians share our addiction! We'd love to hear more about the Visconti's - I keep almost pulling the trigger on a Van Gogh from Goulet but my preference for Japanese fine nibs rules at the moment.

[fruitcake67]

Welcome to FPN and ... great pens. Those Visconti's are nice! Which Van Gogh did you get?

Starry Night......amazing

[fruitcake67]

Greetings from Suwanee GA north of you. Surprising to me how many Georgians share our addiction! We'd love to hear more about the Visconti's - I keep almost pulling the trigger on a Van Gogh from Goulet but my preference for Japanese fine nibs rules at the moment.

Both of pens are wonderful but the Van Gough is an F nib but let me assure you its more of a B....so it is on it's way to Masuyama for some work...along with my way too wet Lamy 2000.

[Sasha Royale]

Welcome !

 

I would use one of the bulletproof inks for field notes. I shudder, when I think of the things that can be spilled on notes.

 

Instead of "loyalty points", Brian Goulet gives Tootsie Roll Pops. Grape is my favorite.

[Wahl]