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Hey y'all!

 

I just recently got into the world of fountain pens and I found out that there's an entire network of people who have an addiction that I slowly am contracting! I started off with a Parker Sonnet that I got from Pen Chalet (a present from my wife, really), and have slowly started building my collection from there!

 

How do y'all get started with your collections?

 

-Charles

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Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego. I used a single fountain pen, a MB149, with a single bottle of ink, MB Irish Green, for 30 years. Then I found this site....!

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Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell. I started by filling inkwells and changing blotters at dad's office and later getting hand-me-down fountain pens.

 

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

 

When I went to High School, 1972, we were "forced" to write with fountain pens. The only pen available from our tiny local gift shop, was a "Tropen Scholar" (German made). Absolutely beautiful thing with a green ink window, which I still own today. It disappeared from 1977 to 2000, when I found it in my late father's toolbox in the garage. Cleaned it, inked it, and it wrote like the day I bought it.

 

From about 1990 I slowly started to "collect" fountain pens - always thinking back (and missing) of my school Tropen. At first it was a Mont Blanc here and there - with years in-between. Then things picked up speed in 2000, when I started to travel to Europe once a year on vacation. Today I have a collection of 80 pens. My plan it to reduce the collection to only 10 that I enjoy most.

 

Enjoy your new hobby.

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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Hey y'all!

 

I just recently got into the world of fountain pens and I found out that there's an entire network of people who have an addiction that I slowly am contracting! I started off with a Parker Sonnet that I got from Pen Chalet (a present from my wife, really), and have slowly started building my collection from there!

 

How do y'all get started with your collections?

 

-Charles

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sorry for the previous empty post: to answer your question, I started when I bought a Sailor 1911 in 1999; I was always curious about fountain pen and it just hit me that I really wanted one. Then I moved from Montreal, Canada, to Paris where I found that there were a lot of investment professionals using fountain pens in France and throughout Europe. Then I bought my second one, a beautiful Waterman Carene. I moved to London where my Sailor 1911 unfortunately was stolen (left on the desk, janitor took it!!!). I now have a Lamy Joy, and a TWSBI Vac 700R which I both use for drawing, mainly; and the Waterman Carene and a beautiful ST Dupont. Except for the Lamy Joy (1.1 mm stub nib) all the other ones have fine nibs. I use also dip pens for drawing.

Continue building your collection!

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Welcome aboard, from Charleston, SC. A few years ago I occasionally noticed others in my profession writing with a fountain pen, and I was curious ( I was even more curious as to why they seemed to have multiple pens, using different ones on different days, but we all know how that comes about). When queried, they always told me they did a good bit of writing daily, and they enjoyed using fountain pens more than BPs. Eventually, I took the bait and tried it with a Waterman I picked up at a local stationer's store. It was a cartridge pen, and while I enjoyed using it, I found replacing the cartridges tiresome at first, and set it aside. A few years later, I tried it again, still liked it, and got past the cartridge thing when I learned here how to refill cartridges on this forum. I've purchased a few pens since then, inherited a few, and regularly work on improving my handwriting (I enjoy doing this with a FP much more than I ever would with a BP, and which I think I use as an excuse to justify the hobby).

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Welcome, Charles !

 

You have a nice wife. The Sonnet is a nice pen. Soooooooooo, what else do you have ?

(fountain pens, that is . Not wives.)

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

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Charles, 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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Welcome, Charles !

 

You have a nice wife. The Sonnet is a nice pen. Soooooooooo, what else do you have ?

(fountain pens, that is . Not wives.)

I have a couple Jinhao's, and a Rohrer and Klingner Glass Dip Pen, but that's about it as far as my collection goes. Slowly am expanding my collection, though.

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Greetings from Pittsburgh!

I got started by always liking writing and drawing; at one point when I was a kid I had what in retrospect was probably a pen/pencil combo -- sadly long gone -- which had belonged to my grandfather; I still have the set of Rapid-o-graphs I wanted as a high school graduation present, although I haven't used them in about 35 years. :blush:

About a decade or so ago, I got a copy of The Artist's Way, which is a creativity course. One of the things you do is keep what's called a morning pages journal -- first thing you do when you get up in the morning is to write 3 pages of stream of consciousness, where whatever comes into your head goes down on the page. To get myself in the habit (after discovering that writing three pages in an 8-1/2 x 11 spiral notebook took way too long :huh:) I decided to get myself a nice journal and a nice pen -- and for me that meant a fountain pen. So I bought a cheap Parker cartridge pen -- I think it was a Reflex. After a while the rubberized grip disintegrated. So I bought another one, and the same thing happened. And then Staples didn't carry them any more. So I looked at Parker's website and saw that there was an old time stationer's in Downtown (they actually have a pen counter!) and ended up buying a Parker Vector. About 5-1/2 years ago I accidentally left the pen and the current journal volume in CT at my brother-in-law's and didn't get them back for a month. Tried writing the entries with a BP and that just wasn't the same. Ended up buying a Parker Urban set at Office Max (but never really liked it, and had issues with Parker over repairs). So I went looking online for another Vector, and in the process found Goulet Pens and discovered there was more to ink than blue and black (Purple! You can get ink that's PURPLE! :wub: ) and also found my way here -- joined so I could actually see the scans in the ink reviews initially. Stayed for the camaraderie, the kindness and abundance of knowledge, the enabling.... 5-1/2 years ago I had never heard of Parker 51s -- now I have nine or ten of them at current count, and almost as many Vacumatics.... and easily as many Vectors; I started out going "I can't imagine paying more than $25 for a pen..." and then this spring I bought *two* Pelikan M405s (including the M405 Anthracite, which I had been drooling over ever since the M800 size came out a few years ago -- I knew that that would be too big an heavy a pen for me, but I said "Oh, if they EVER come out with a Stresemann in the M400 size...." and then they did...). My husband despairs, and keeps asking me when I'm going to start SELLING any of my pens, and I say, "Um, eventually..." (he also tells people I *used* to collect pens but I REALLY collect ink :rolleyes:).

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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