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Hello from Southern California! I've been lurking around the forums here for a little while and taking in all the knowledge and resources from the wonderful fountain pen and ink reviews! Thanks so much, I've made several ink purchases based off some of the reviews. Thought it was time I made my own account.

 

I only just recently started getting into fountain pens. That was when I made my first purchase on Jetpens in November of last year. The purchase included a Pilot MR, a Pilot Petit1 and three Platinum Preppies. After that I couldn't stop. Since then I've purchased some more starter pens: a Lamy Safari, a TWSBI ECO stub, a Pilot Cavalier, a Noodler's Konrad with a flex nib, two Jinhaos with fude nibs, a Faber-Castell Loom which will be arriving later today and two Sailors--a Lecoule Power Stone which I lost a few days ago :doh: (I will buy a new one soon) and I am expecting a Pro Gear Slim--the four seasons one in metallic sky blue to come later in the mail today! I'm really excited about that, it looks SO DARN BEAUTIFUL they all do. Inks too, I have purchased several inks and a butt ton of ink samples from GouletPens. I will have a total of 55 ink samples and 13 ink bottles in my collection as soon as my orders come in the mail. I am completely broke after discovering Jetpens and Gouletpens. *sigh*

 

One of the main reasons I got into Pen Hell is from following http://eecks.tumblr.com/ she's an artist who uses fountain pens for most of her illustrations, and I thought I would also try using them as well for the same purposes. I'm really excited about this new hobby, and I wish the LA pen show could have been a little later in the year because I just missed it, but then again I am broke so it's not like I could have bought the pens I want. Oh well. Next year.

 

 

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Hello and welcome from Indiana!

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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Welcome! Some of us see it as a heaven for fountain pens. :)

 

Good collection you have there and thanks for the tip on the website, will visit later this week.

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

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

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Welcome !

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Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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welcome!


I usually greet the newbies with a warning about the contagion to accumulate MORE...already got you!



Lots of knowledgeable enablers here!

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Wow, that artwork is amazing... Ha. Pen hell. ;)

Greetings and welcome!

 

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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 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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Welcome gluestik... I'm right there with ya

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


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Greetings and a warm welcome !

Retired, twice. Time to do more things, writing being one.

 

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