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Hello from Texas, where it's so incredibly hot I was afraid I was going to melt today, especially when I had to go to the post office to mail my checks and some paperwork (filled out with my beloved Pilot Vanishing Point Decimo, of course! :) )

 

I've liked pens since I was a kid, and a few years ago I ordered a Sailor Clear Candy fine nib with a goofy cow print on a whim from JetPens when I had to order more mechanical pencil lead, and I was hooked. Then, two years later (a year and a half ago, actually) I got my Vanishing Point as a gift from my dad when I graduated college. I still just have the two- adulting is expensive, ahaha- but I'm looking forward to getting a few more and learning more about them!

 

Nice to meet you all!

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Greetings from Pittsburgh! :W2FPN:

I generally suggest that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good overview of a range of topics. And to check out the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum. But you should know that we are all shameless enablers, and will happily help you spend your disposable income on pens, inks, paper, tools, sealing wax, etc. B)

I keep looking longingly at Decimos. I bought a used Vanishing Point a year or so ago, but it's too heavy a pen for me. So, I gave it to my husband -- but he would rather have an EF nib. And the color I want isn't easily available here in the US, and at the moment the ones on eBay in the color I want aren't EFs (I want to be able to swap the nib units out). :angry:

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Urami Welcome Aboard Put your feet up relax and enjoy your time here

 

The Namiki VP pens are a practical and fun to use. I prefer the older faceted

version. Which ink{s} do you use with your pens?

 

 

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Baka-na Baka-na Baka-na onna-no urami bushi

If irrc..from movie Kill Bill.........

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Greetings from Pittsburgh! :W2FPN:

I generally suggest that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good overview of a range of topics. And to check out the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum. But you should know that we are all shameless enablers, and will happily help you spend your disposable income on pens, inks, paper, tools, sealing wax, etc. B)

I keep looking longingly at Decimos. I bought a used Vanishing Point a year or so ago, but it's too heavy a pen for me. So, I gave it to my husband -- but he would rather have an EF nib. And the color I want isn't easily available here in the US, and at the moment the ones on eBay in the color I want aren't EFs (I want to be able to swap the nib units out). :angry:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Yeah, the nibs on the VP's are a little touchy because of the retraction mechanism. What color were you interested in? I have the Champagne F.

 

And heh, yeah, I don't really need more pens, but I probably will buy more pens. I get bored and go online. :lol:

 

 

 

Urami Welcome Aboard Put your feet up relax and enjoy your time here

 

The Namiki VP pens are a practical and fun to use. I prefer the older faceted

version. Which ink{s} do you use with your pens?

 

 

Fred

 

Baka-na Baka-na Baka-na onna-no urami bushi

If irrc..from movie Kill Bill.........

 

I've been using the Iroshizuku ink lately, which I like a lot, but before that I used Noodler's Air Corp Blue Black, which I like, but takes a little longer to dry. If you're writing quickly that can become a problem.

 

As to where the username came from, it's actually sort of an inside joke with a very good Japanese friend of mine- it actually does mean "grudge" but it's kind of a... sarcastic, I guess, for lack of a better way to put it, commentary on how frustrating I found it trying to learn how to write kanji. But yeah, it was also in Kill Bill!

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Urami, welcome to the club! Looks like you have a great sense of humour, continue to write on!

 

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Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego.

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Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

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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Hello and welcome from Indiana!

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Welcome !

 

I look forward to seeing photographs of your "goofy cow" pen.

 

Do not fear ! I have it on good authority that humans do not melt, until the temperature reaches 1270º F. More likely one would first burst into flames. :lticaptd: (We fat guys begin to "sizzle" at 240º.)

Remember to protect your fountain pen from the heat. Write with joy.

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Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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welcome to FPN and enjoy refreshing times with us to compensate with your hot environment! ;)

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Yeah, the nibs on the VP's are a little touchy because of the retraction mechanism. What color were you interested in? I have the Champagne F.

 

And heh, yeah, I don't really need more pens, but I probably will buy more pens. I get bored and go online. :lol:

Funny, that's my *least* favorite color -- although someone on the Live Chat at Goulet Pens said it was their best seller of any of the Decimo colors! Well, everyone likes something different. You couldn't pay me enough to get some of the colors of Parker 51s either, and while some people go "OOOH! AHHH!" over the Golden Web Vacumatics I just look at them and say "Ick!" -- but you'd have to pry my 51 Plum Demi and my Red Shadow Wave Vac out of my cold dead fingers! B)

For a Decimo, I would really like the dark grey, or maybe the dark blue, but Pilot won't sell those colors in the US for some stupid marketing reason (I contacted Pilot-USA a couple of weeks ago to ask). I may have to break down and get the the light blue, if one with an EF nib doesn't come up soon in the grey on eBay.... Originally I thought about the purple, but decided it reminded me too much of the color of my Platinum Plaisir, which was one of the first pens I bought (turns out the pen is a very dry writer so I have to be careful about what ink to use in it -- plus, I have one with the colored nib, and after a year or so the coating started to peel and flake off the steel. :angry:

And nobody *needs* more than one pen. Except of course to soothing the burning aching hole in your soul for a OB nib, or a gold filigree overlay ringtop, or a pen to write the Great American Novel with (much as I love my Parker Vectors, they're just a little skinny for long writing sessions). And (as I said to my sister-in-law's husband several Christmases ago) -- flushing pens between fills of different color inks is a PITA so of COURSE I have to have more than one.... And then of course there's the grail pen. Everyone eventually comes up with a grail pen.... Fortunately for me, my grail pen isn't more the cost of my car. It isn't even more than the cost of the school taxes.... Although it's good that the first mortgage on the house is paid off -- because it WOULD be a bit more than that.... :rolleyes:

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