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Coming late to the conversation. Had other things occupying my mind last few days. I am a friend of Wandering Man. You don't indicate your location and Texas is a big state BUT if you are anywhere near Houston you MUST go to Dromgoole's in Rice Village. It is the pen store of your dreams! Depending on your preferences Pelikan and Pilot make some really "nice" pens that span the economic spectrum from about $125 up to "WOW, that much?"

Pat Barnes a.k.a. billz

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Coming late to the conversation. Had other things occupying my mind last few days. I am a friend of Wandering Man. You don't indicate your location and Texas is a big state BUT if you are anywhere near Houston you MUST go to Dromgoole's in Rice Village. It is the pen store of your dreams! Depending on your preferences Pelikan and Pilot make some really "nice" pens that span the economic spectrum from about $125 up to "WOW, that much?"

 

 

Hi BiilZ! I'm in the DFW metroplex, Keller to be exact. I may need to take a trip to Houston just for Dromgoole's. It was recommended to me on another thread as a place to have my Dad's Montblanc 149 fixed up, and it might actually be the closest real pen store to me. I've been perusing pens online and, unfortunately, I do tend to fall in love with the ones that are "WOW, that much?"

 

I'm hoping that once I cross some threshold here at FPN that I'll be able to put my location and a real picture in my profile. Guess I'm still on probation.

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You've got Paradise Pens in Dallas.

 

My son lives in Keller. He is a pastor at White's Chapel UMC in Southlake.

 

I've recently got him interested in fountain pens. He finds writing out his sermons by hand to be better than using his laptop.

Never argue with drunks or crazy people.
 

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You've got Paradise Pens in Dallas.

 

My son lives in Keller. He is a pastor at White's Chapel UMC in Southlake.

 

I've recently got him interested in fountain pens. He finds writing out his sermons by hand to be better than using his laptop.

 

True about Paradise Pens. I thought there was one closer to me than the Galleria, but the store I thought was at Northeast Mall seems to have disappeared. I bought my Parker 5th Technology pen there. Once I started journaling, I discovered what a terrible pen that is. I think I get more pages out of one fill of the converter in my Lamy Safari than I ever did out of a refill of that Parker, plus the line would get thicker and thicker the more I wrote. I'm very happy to have moved to fountain pens!

 

I drive by that church regularly. Beautiful building.

 

There's something almost meditative about writing by hand, she says as she types. :)

 

Edit: Hubby informs me the store where we bought our Parkers was indeed in the Galleria.

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Hello again, and thank you everyone for the warm welcomes!

 

My husband, along with my new journaling practice, are to blame for my budding fountain pen addiction. I don't know exactly what got hubby started, but after starting with a Nemosine Fission and an eye dropper pen from Noodler's, he landed on a Sailor 1911 Large black luster special edition as his current favorite pen - not that his collection is very extensive, yet. This got me to finally give my Dad's old Montblanc 149 a good cleaning, throw out the bottle of 40 year old ink, and try it with some nice, fresh Noodler's Heart of Darkness. Well, that got me going.

 

After researching pens - and this site was very helpful, thank you - I decided to try a Lamy Safari (EF) as a daily writer. The Montblanc is very nice but way too big for me to write with for long stretches. I love the Safari, but now I'm thinking I need a "nice" pen, too. I can see where this is going. :)

 

I also decided that hubby needs a nicer pen so I have a Pelikan Souverän M800 in black and green on its way for his retirement gift. Nah, I'm not that good a wife. I just want to have brownie points for when I pick out MY next pen!

 

Thank you all for this wonderful community!

 

Greetings from Pittsburgh! :W2FPN:

You're lucky. I haven't quite pushed my husband (aka Mr. BIC Fine Point) over the edge -- although he admitted that a late MkII Parker 51 I had was "not too bad", other than it being too broad a line. I picked up a Pilot Vanishing Point in an antiques store last spring (for about the third of the price of a brand new one). It's got a fine point, and it's a bit too large and heavy for me, so he'll get it. If he doesn't like the F nib in that pen, that will give me the excuse to buy a Decimo, and I'll get one with an EF nib and swap out the nib assemblies. :eureka:

I generally suggest that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good overview of a variety of topics. And to have a look at the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Hello and welcome from Australia Deb.

Words flowing from the soul and conveyed to paper, require the touch of a fountain pens soft carress.Distinct and individual like a lovers touch.

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