Are There Any People In Your Life Under 21 Years Old Who Use/love Fountain Pens?

[rafapa]

My two children are full time fp users. The youngest: Kaküno & Metropolitan. The eldest likes thin pens: Lamy CP1, Cross Century II but also Lamy Studio,

Pilot Custom 74, Kaweco Sport, and a few more.

[Buzz_130]

All of my kids are under 21 and use fountain pens. In fact, they call the other writing devices "ink sticks."

 

Buzz

[A7XavengedA7X]

I'm twenty, will be 21 on New Year's Day, and I absolutely love fountain pens.

[bbycrts]

Ooo ooo me! I'm under 21!

And you're a crazy pen nut.

[ScienceChick]

About 15 of my students, ages 14 to 18, are full-time FP users.

[WaskiSquirrel]

You'll see fountain pens floating around the high school where I teach. In fact, two of my freshman students started turning fountain pens on lathes last year. One of them is selling these pens at fairs, craft shows, and the like.

[jkingrph]

Nope. I only have one son who just turned 39. I gave him a Montblanc 146 when he graduated law school 13 years ago, along with a couple of others over the years. I honestly do not know if he uses them as he lives and works in another state. The one and only grandson is only 4 so he is a bit young. The only niece and two nephews are about 4 states away and have no idea there either.

[Moynihan]

I graduated from college recently and started using fountain pens almost a year ago, and reading between the lines on FPN, I *think* this makes me one of the younger people on this forum. I'm curious to know if your kids, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, etc. also use and hopefully love fountain pens. Alternatively, are there any other people here who are in their twenties or teens?

No.

[Abi_30]

I have been a fan of fountain pens for quite some time

[deepak23]

My younger son, aged 11. Uses a couple of Sheaffer NNs, a couple of Vectors, a Jinhao and a Hero

Edited November 27, 2015 by deepak23

[Teacher Man]

When I was in school, our classes were more or less evenly split between Pelikan and Lamy users, with some Geha sprinkled in, as I recall. Now that I teach, Pelikan seems to have disappeared more or less, Geha is gone, and about a third to half of my students use Lamy pens, while the rest use ballpens or similar. The pen users almost always have the better handwriting.

[ppdiaporama]

My daughter .... 11 ... she has a Faber Castell School pen and as of this week, a Sheaffer Viewpoint Calligraphy 1.0mm (that's the really really cheap one, that writes pretty well).

 

She takes them to school and rotates which of her classmates gets to use the one that she's not using.

 

She also carries a double sided eraser stick

[sidthecat]

The youngish lady at the grocery store noticed the numbering on a tag and said it was nice handwriting. This prompted me to show her the Moore ringtop I was wearing. She and the bagger thought it was cool.

[Piper 987]

In my immediate family, to all of whom I gave a fountain pen for Christmas 2014, only my youngest daughter took to it. But the rest are still young and I have hope.

[AndyKeir]

My (then) 15 year-old granddaughter discovered dip pens and leather bound books for herself around 18 months ago.

She now does all her school work with a fountain pen.

I gave a dozen or more family members a Jinhao X450 and some ink for Christmas and by all accounts quite a few are using them. We'll see how many stick with it!

[Invictus Maneo]

My 19 year old son just started to use them. I ordered him a Cross Star Wars BP for Christmas and Goldspot threw in a Jinhao 599 and an ink sample with the package. He started using it and loves writing with it. I gave him a Lamy Alstar also. Come to think of it, he has a birthday coming up.......

Edited January 18, 2016 by Invictus Maneo

[Old_Inkyhand]

I started using fountain pens on a daily basis when I went to high school. I was surprised, because FPs are quite common among the students in my school (and teachers as well). About 30% of them use FPs instead of BPs, and I guess that another 5% use both of them. It isn't typical.

[Recoil Rob]

My 15-year-old nephew, although I suspect that is more a function of his interest in calligraphy rather than fountain pens.

[DonLeone]

I question everything, think grown-ups are boring and smelly and I think fart jokes are hilarious. I have a mental age of 8 and I use FPs, does that count?

 

Coworker gave her kids fountain pens. Don't know which,.. super cheap ones. I shall enquire soon. They use cartridges though, with cheap, possibly bad nibs. I stoically expect the worst. Not that carts are bad but there's something about filling from an inkwell and the juvenile contemplation about whether it can squirt <8]

[erpe]

Things are slightly different here (Netherlands). My son (7) and all his classmates as well as the entire elementary school is using fountain pens. They start with a pencil and when they can control the writing pressure so the point doesn't break and still get lead on the paper, they are ready for The Pen which is at the moment a Lamy ABC. I also have some Pelikano's, KaWeCo Sports and a few old Parkers waiting.

In these topics I always like to throw in my BP observation ;-) In the school as well as almost everywhere else, I don't see many people using ballpoints anymore. Most non-FP user seem to have switched to rollerballs or gellpens. How is that in other area's?