Jump to content

New Pittsburgh Pen Nut!

Spelled78

By Spelled78
in Introductions

 Share

Recommended Posts

Spelled78 New

Spelled78

Posted
Posted

How Yinz Doing?!?!

 

Im not sure if Im really excited or scared to have stumbled upon this new hobby! I tend to have the type of personality that when I find a new interest it becomes all consuming. Thus far my wife hasnt walked out, and my kids are still happy to see me when I come home from work. I guess I still have some control left!

 

I am excited to have found FPN. If for no other reason than to funnel my pen energy into this site, rather than scrolling through eBay listings, and retailer sites, trying my best not to click on Buy Now.

 

Truth is Im actually so new to this that I dont really know what Im doing. I just know that I really enjoy pens with a nib, calligraphy (in Hebrew as well as English), and this new world - that in such a short time has helped me realize that I like a lot of different colors that I never knew existed.

 

I look forward to connecting to new people, learning as much as I can about this hobby, contributing is some meaningful way, and hopefully establishing some lasting relationships.

 

If youre still reading this - thank you & you are awesome! I will close with a simple request. If you are from Pittsburgh or happen to know about anything related to the hobby in this area, please share.

 

Thx - Shani

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 17
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Ron Z

    3

  • Chrissy

    1

  • mitto

    1

  • akrohn2010

    1

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Ron Z Museum Piece

Ron Z

Posted
Posted

The Steel City Pen Club (Pittsburgh) meets the third Wednesday of the month at 7 PM at the Panera in Bakery Square. You're more than welcome to join us!

spacer.png
Visit Main Street Pens
A full service pen shop providing professional, thoughtful vintage pen repair...

Please use email, not a PM for repair and pen purchase inquiries.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
OCArt Donor Pen

OCArt

Posted
Posted

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

...............................................................

We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Link to comment
Share on other sites
PAKMAN Ancient Artifact

PAKMAN

Posted
Posted

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

PAKMAN

minibanner.gif                                    Vanness-world-final.png.c1b120b90855ce70a8fd70dd342ebc00.png

                         My Favorite Pen Restorer                                             My Favorite Pen Store

                                                                                                                                Vanness Pens - Selling Online!

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
northstar Donor Pen

northstar

Posted
Posted

Hello and welcome to FPN.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

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

Snailmail3.png Snail Mail 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Henricum_Tropen Collectors Item

Henricum_Tropen

Posted
Posted

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!


- Winston Churchill



Link to comment
Share on other sites
akrohn2010 Extremely Rare

akrohn2010

Posted
Posted

Welcome to FPN from North Carolina! Nothing like the dopamine rush of a new hobby. ;)

 

Enjoy your stay.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I found out long ago.

~C.S. Lewis

--------------

Current Rotation:

Edison Menlo <m italic>, Lamy 2000 <EF>, Wing Sung 601 <F>

Pilot VP <F>, Pilot Metropolitan <F>, Pilot Penmanship <EF>

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ron Z Museum Piece

Ron Z

Posted
Posted

Confirmed: The pen club in Pittsburgh will be meeting on June 20th.

spacer.png
Visit Main Street Pens
A full service pen shop providing professional, thoughtful vintage pen repair...

Please use email, not a PM for repair and pen purchase inquiries.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
DaveT Vintage

DaveT

Posted
Posted

Shani, 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

Link to comment
Share on other sites
inkstainedruth Ancient Artifact

inkstainedruth

Posted
Posted

Greetings from another Pittsburgher (by inclination -- by birth I'm a native New Yorker). :W2FPN:

Ron beat me to the punch about SCN (I wasn't on here for most of last week trying to get an art project done for this past weekend, which sadly didn't involve using FPs).

I generally recommend that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good range of a lot of different topics (you can adjust the "flow" on the sidebar on the main page). Don't do what I did when I started here -- which was to read the Parker Forum. ALL of it (six years ago it was 175 PAGES of threads -- it's bigger now...). And to have a look at the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum (we make fun of Ron because he uses Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue; and when he gets wild and crazy he uses Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black...).

But you should know that we are all shameless enablers here, who will happily help you spend your discretionary funds on pens, inks, paper, repair tools, ephemera, sealing wax, pen shows, etc.

So -- what pens and inks do you have so far?

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."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Ron Z Museum Piece

Ron Z

Posted
Posted

 

 

(we make fun of Ron because he uses Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue; and when he gets wild and crazy he uses Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black...).

 

They're much nicer than that. They just give me a stare of bland boredom, and then politely go back to their ink samples. I do have some Sheaffer red, a bottle of Sheaffer Kings Gold and a bottle of Levenger Fireball.... somewhere.

spacer.png
Visit Main Street Pens
A full service pen shop providing professional, thoughtful vintage pen repair...

Please use email, not a PM for repair and pen purchase inquiries.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
Bisquitlips Collectors Item

Bisquitlips

Posted
Posted
Welcome from Missouri! Really glad you are with us!

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."  - Selwyn Duke    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33584
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26772
    5. jar
      jar
      26105

  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      Links to web pages or articles about Chinese typesetting, signwriting, etc.

      By Shanghai Knife Dude · Posted

      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o

  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More

  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...