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Hi from Melbourne,

 

My name is Gary. I'm a 49 y.o. physicist and engineer living in Melbourne and started getting interested in fountain pens around a year ago. The interest was triggered by a confluence of a podcaster mentioning his preference for fountain pens, and a quest for the colour of a particular cheap gel pen I knew would be gone once that pen was used up. The quest luckily didn't take too long before I discovered the exact colour in Rohrer & Klingner Solferino. I dabble in trying to improve my handwriting and my colour tastes have widened from the magenta.

I have benefited from the helpful information from members of this site so it was finally time to join and hopefully contribute to some of the discussions here.

 

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GaryWelcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego. I'm glad you are here Gary!

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Gary, Hello and welcome to FPN.

Please visit my store A&D Penworx.

Brands we carry: Benu Pen, Conklin, Kaweco, Monteverde, TWSBI - Diamine, J Herbin, KWZ- Clairefontaine, Field Notes, Rhodia, Whitelines

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Hi from Melbourne,

 

My name is Gary. I'm a 49 y.o. physicist and engineer living in Melbourne and started getting interested in fountain pens around a year ago.

 

 

So, is there a pen club or group in Melbourne? I have a friend who will be landing in Melbourne and will be living in the McKinnon area.

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

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Greetings! A physicist/engineer with a fountain pen is somehow a poetic image, namely a Lamy Safari/Al-Star or a Pilot M90. Something unique and modern.... Sorry you said physicist and engineer and that came out. :D

 

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...The history, culture and sophistication; the rich, aesthetic beauty; the indulgent, ritualistic sensations of unscrewing the cap and filling from a bottle of ink; the ambient scratch of the ink-stained nib on fine paper; A noble instrument, descendant from a line of ever-refined tools, and the luster of writing,
with a charge from over several millennia of continuing the art of recording man's life.

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Welcome !

 

Which fountain pen have you chosen for your bottle of magenta ink ?

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Hello, Gary, and welcome to the Fountain Pen Network. Glad you have joined us. You, having joined us, make us better. This is now your place as much as it is ours. Please don't be shy. Ask all the questions you have and don't hesitate to state your opinions. I hope you enjoy your time here.



-David (Estie).


No matter how much you push the envelope, it will still be stationery. -Anon.

A backward poet writes inverse. -Anon.

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Welcome to our warm nook of the internet, where you can share this beautiful hobby with good and friendly people. Or as we say in low Saxon: Mooi a'j dr bint! (Good you're here.)

Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde.

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Hi everyone and thanks for the warm welcome.

@Shangas, thanks, I'll post a message in the Melbourne group.

@Arkamas, I don't have any Lamys. The M90 appeals to me, but maybe a Conid bulkfiller would fit me better ;)

@Sasha_Royale, I was going to say I don't have anything inked with the R&K Solferino and most recent was a Sailor long-short with what I think is an EEF nib. As I was writing this though, I just loaded up a 3.8mm Pilot Parallel with it :D I feel I should wear sunglasses when I look at the page.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

Taught man that which he knew not (96/3-5)

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Hello Gazzar and welcome from a fellow science nerd living in the Vic. Central Highlands.

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