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Hi, I'm Steve Gunnell.

 

Back in the 60's and 70's my mum used to buy a lot of my school stationary from the public transport auctions. As a result I ended up in with a bunch of fountain pens. I was young, I knew nothing about caring for fountain pens and they were never consistent enough writers to be usable at school.

I came back to fountain pens and dip pens in the 80s with Sheaffer and Rotring calligraphy pens an a couple of Tombow fountain pens but I have no real talent for calligraphy and the all metal Tombows are kind of annoying to write with.

Perth only had one fountain pen shop that concentrated on high end pens. I have seen them turn away students by telling them "you need to spend at least $200 on a fountain pen" so there was not much to interest me.

And so things stood in the late naughties when I was visiting Adelaide with my wife and was window shopping at Pencraft when I saw a Noodler's Ahab in the window. A non-metal fountain pen at a reasonable price! So I went in and bought it. And there were inks! With interesting colours! So I came away with a bottle of Private Reserve Plum as well.

So now I have a small collection of fountain pens. Mostly cheapies with a few better ones like my Pilot VP, the Platinum modern Maki-E and a Sailor 1911. I generally keep 3-4 inked up in a pen roll which I use mostly to take meeting notes at work.

 

Current pen roll is:

Rotring Calligraph, 1.1mm stub with an Edelstein Adevnturine cartridge.

Jinhao x750, medium nib, with Pilot Chiku-Rin.

Domain Lion 305, fine? nib with Platinum Forrest Black.

Platinum Preppy, 0.3mm nib with Platinum red cartridge.

J Herbin, ink rollerball with Visconti black cartridge.

Plus highlighter, pencil and a couple of ballpoints.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

Steveg

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

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Welcome!

 

I am fortunate to have pen shops in my area and the Washington DC Super Show every August, but I think I can understand your feeling of isolation. FPN should help. Also, do not forget that you can get extraordinary pens via the internet. One way is through the Marketplace here, where pen prices are generally fair. The other place is are internet stores, which I recommend. I bet you can get marvelous Japanese relatively quickly where you are. Their postal system is great. You can also check out Ebay, but that is a lot more risky and I recommend you do not purchase pens from there until you have a pretty good understanding of what you want and what fair prices are.

 

I'm not sure if you are looking to acquire more pens, but just saying...

 

Welcome again -

 

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Jinhao 9019 "EF" nib running Birmingham Railroad Spike

Pelikan M1000 "F" nib running Birmingham Sugar Kelp

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Welcome to FPN! Good people and great info here, enjoy your stay!

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Thank you everyone for your welcome.

 

The internet is indeed a wonderful thing for mail orders. Plus I visit specialist pen stores on my infrequent journeys to the Eastern States. Also thinks have improved here, T Sharp and Co have softened their hard line stance as old staff have retired or moved on. And local stationary shops carry the cheaper Pilot, Platinum and Lamy fountain pens.

I also buy more inks than I can possibly use ... *sigh*

 

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Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell. One of my favorite bladesmiths is from Albany.

 

 

 

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

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Hi, I'm Steve Gunnell.

 

Back in the 60's and 70's my mum used to buy a lot of my school stationary from the public transport auctions. As a result I ended up in with a bunch of fountain pens. I was young, I knew nothing about caring for fountain pens and they were never consistent enough writers to be usable at school.

I came back to fountain pens and dip pens in the 80s with Sheaffer and Rotring calligraphy pens an a couple of Tombow fountain pens but I have no real talent for calligraphy and the all metal Tombows are kind of annoying to write with.

Perth only had one fountain pen shop that concentrated on high end pens. I have seen them turn away students by telling them "you need to spend at least $200 on a fountain pen" so there was not much to interest me.

And so things stood in the late naughties when I was visiting Adelaide with my wife and was window shopping at Pencraft when I saw a Noodler's Ahab in the window. A non-metal fountain pen at a reasonable price! So I went in and bought it. And there were inks! With interesting colours! So I came away with a bottle of Private Reserve Plum as well.

So now I have a small collection of fountain pens. Mostly cheapies with a few better ones like my Pilot VP, the Platinum modern Maki-E and a Sailor 1911. I generally keep 3-4 inked up in a pen roll which I use mostly to take meeting notes at work.

 

Current pen roll is:

Rotring Calligraph, 1.1mm stub with an Edelstein Adevnturine cartridge.

Jinhao x750, medium nib, with Pilot Chiku-Rin.

Domain Lion 305, fine? nib with Platinum Forrest Black.

Platinum Preppy, 0.3mm nib with Platinum red cartridge.

J Herbin, ink rollerball with Visconti black cartridge.

Plus highlighter, pencil and a couple of ballpoints.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

Steveg

 

Perth (and the west coast of Australia as a whole) is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Lovely city, lovely areas all around, and warm, welcoming people. Visited six, long times in the early 2000s and think of it as my now-lost second home. Would so love to take a leisurely drive down to Albany this weekend. The sea coast and Indian Ocean blue sky still haunt me (and are welcome to).

 

You are so welcome here!

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Welcome! You will find lots of great information here and many suggestions to expand your collection.

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Hello and welcome to FPN! Love Perth! Spent about 2 weeks there in the early 1980's, more time in Freemantle than Perth, actually. Got familiar with the words to Waltzing Matilda at one of the pubs near the docks. Everyone was so friendly and gracious. Reminded me of the US in the 1950's, in terms of people's friendliness and helpfulness. Got invited to total stranger's homes for dinner, etc. I loved it. Would like to come back to visit one day! Enjoy your fountain pens! Make good use of the internet and international ordering!

Best regards,

Phil

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Very belated Hi and :W2FPN:

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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