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Hey all,

New to the forum... I used to use a fountain pen in high school (Parker Vector ca. 1990-1994) but then the Pilot v5 extra fine roller ball got me (Pilot sent me a couple of cases worth and they lasted me nearly 15 years....) but the FP bug bit me hard in the last year.... cleaning out my attic i found my old Vector (and an old cartridge that still worked!)

You can also blame Bullet Journaling and the Goulet Pen Co. for re-sparking my obsession...

I started journaling and then found then pen, and then wanted to see what was going on in the FP world, so i found Goulet, and Goulet lead me to Noodler's!

Oddly enough, Nathan lives the next town over from me, it is my goal to some day shake his ink-stained hands...

I don't have anything "vintage" (unless you count an early 90's Parker) or anything expensive, i've got 3 toddlers and a wife to feed.... a Homo Sapiens is not in the budget just yet (though i WANT one....)

i've got (in no particular order)

Parker Vector
Chrome Cross
Pilot MR Retro Pop, Green
TWISBI Eco, Lime demonstrator
JinHao 950 Ceramic "Dragon"
Noodler's Ahab Clear (Flex and fine nibs)
Noodler's Ahab Flex Maximilian Emerald
Noodler's Charlie (came with my 4.5oz BSB)

I fully support Noodler's and feed my pens with:
Bulletproof Black
Hunter Green
Baystate Blue

Ok, charlie gets the BSB, the Black was the first ink i bought, so i've been refilling cartridges with it, and i just went through about 5 samples of Noodler's greens from Goulet before settling on the Hunter, which is the most expensive of the greens, oops....

I also enjoy Sewing, Knitting, Ham Radio, collecting and shooting firearms/cartridge reloading, electronics/vintage (8-bit) computer building/programming, and long walks on the beach. Working as a professional photographer pays the bills...

John OB.

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

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Greetings and welcome!

 

:W2FPN:

...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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Hello John and welcome to FPN! Congratulations on finding your way back to the fountain pen world. Enjoy your stay!

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Welcome !

 

My cartridge reloading was limited to common handgun cartridges, including 70,000 .45 ACP. I wore out some LEE dies. One would expect that saving 75% of the cost would save money. It did not. I just poured through a lot more metal ! You should have no trouble understanding that the empty ink cartridges can be refilled with bottle ink, using a syringe.

 

In the old days, of 35mm film being used in computer telescan (medical), 350 to 400 feet of Pan-X was used. I salvaged the remains of the 500 foot rolls for my 35mm cassettes. I miss those days. Now, my skills are of no value, since digital photography and being armed with the Type-2 phaser.

 

You have a good variety of fountain pens to pass to your children.

 

Write with joy.

Edited by Sasha Royale

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

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Greetings from Pittsburgh! :W2FPN:

I lived in the Bay State for 4 years, up in Framingham, before my husband got a job back here in the Pittsburgh area. My first "good" pen was a 2003 era Vector (replacing a couple of Parker Reflex cartridge pens), and my most recent acquisition was a NOS 1993 Vector (still in the blister pack, complete with the original included cartridge. I have better, and more expensive pens now, but I'm still a complete sucker for Vectors, although I put twist converters in them now so I can use bottled ink.

As for Nathan Tardif, I got to meet him two years ago fall at the Commonwealth Pen Show (he did not look at all like I expected -- I was expecting someone a lot older looking, but that voice from his YouTube videos is unmistakable!); I didn't get a chance to go last fall, but that's one of the pen show he actually has a table at. When I went, the line to get his LE inks stretched across the room and wrapped around a bit at both ends.

I generally suggest that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good overview of a lot of topics and don't do what I did when I started, which was to read the Parker Forum in its entirety! All 175 pages of threads (it's bigger now than it was 5 years ago). And to have a look at the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum.

But be warned -- we are all shameless enablers here. Five years ago I had never heard of Parker 51s. Now I have seven, plus a 51 Special, a 21, and a 41. And I have a bunch of colors of Vacumatics (even when I swore up down and sideways I didn't like what they looked liked... :headsmack:). Add in the 45s, a couple of 61s, a couple of vintage button fillers... even a 1926 Lucky Curve Duofold ringtop (although that one needs some TLC to get working -- but for $12 US it was worth it -- plus the woman in the store threw in the Montblanc hard case it was in :thumbup:). And that's *just* the Parker pens.... I may even have finally converted the husband -- he used my restored 51 Vac with the EF nib and didn't mind it. I said, "Well, you know I have that black 51 Aero with an EF nib that I got you at my second pen show...." B)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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"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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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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One would expect that saving 75% of the cost would save money.

 

You should have no trouble understanding that the empty ink cartridges can be refilled with bottle ink, using a syringe.

In the old days, of 35mm film being used in computer telescan (medical), 350 to 400 feet of Pan-X was used. I salvaged the remains of the 500 foot rolls for my 35mm

 

Ahhh yes, you don't save money, but you shoot more....

 

I used to reload 35mm also, i'd buy tri-x in bulk... what was great about that was you weren't limited to 24 or 36 exposure rolls....

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

 

From 1980 up to mid-2004, when firearm ownership laws changed dramatically in South Africa, I had already loaded approximately 30, 000 .45 ACP cartridges. The new licensing requirements made a misery of gun ownership. After shooting weekends for +/- 24 years, I had to get

(a) a competency license from an accredited training facility, to certify that I understood the gun ownership law,

(B) competency license from an accredited shooting range that I knew how to operate my handgun

© a set of about 20 forms had to be filled in for the Police (designated firearm officer), including an explanation why I needed a handgun,

(d) my wife had to be interviewed to ensure that she didn't have a problem with me owning a handgun,

(e) two of my neighbours had to be interviewed to ensure that they don't have any objection to me owning a handgun,

(f) followed by a person-to-person interview at the Police station, with the designated firearms officer, just to go through the documentation (and pay for each application/license required and the competency license),

(g) followed by a visit to my house by the Police to inspect and ensure that my handgun was locked in a safe, which had to be bolted to the wall with Rawl plugs, and that I had no more than the maximum allowed cartridges (something like 250).

(h) if all the above was in order, then the designated Police firearms officer would send off the document pack to the Central Firearm Register department in Pretoria, and if you're lucky,

(i) 9 to 14 months later you received an SMS to say that you could collect your license at the Police station.

 

And just when you thought it was all over - you were informed that you had to vector into the equation that both competency license and each individual gun license has to be renewed every 5 years. Aaaaaargh!

 

Needless to say, I lost interest in reloading and recreation target shooting, sold all my handguns (except two) plus reloading kit.

 

In its place, I have a Nikon D4 and Pro lenses (14 - 24mm; 24 - 70mm; 70 - 200; 85mm prime and Zeiss Planar 50mm) - which now give me a lot more pleasure than having to deal with the above issues.

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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!


- Winston Churchill



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Greetings and a warm welcome !

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

 

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