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Hello fellow fountain pen enthusiasts!

I have been lurking for a while, reading all your excellent and interesting posts to learn about fountain pens and decided to join and say hello.

 

I have always just used any old pen tbh but lately got into lamy safari fountain pens and was blown away by the loveliness of them! I bought a Matt black one, then a shiny one for OH, then got a pink one for waterproof ink and wash drawing, and just found a lovely petrol one which I treated myself to too.

I love the retro-ish design and the feel of it. The quality too as these days there are so many things you buy that just drop to bits! Not to mention all the cool colours. Note to self: I must not buy any more! *Google's 'lamy special edition 2019'* lol!

Anyway I just wanted to stop buy to say hi and thank you to the fountain pen community for this forum and it's advice.

Needless to say I am now interested in inks and after much deliberation, have bought a bottle of Noodler's bulletproof ink to draw with (so I can do urban sketching and watercolours). So far so good, a little nib creap but nothing to worry about as I read a few horror stories. Also the ink dries fast on moleskine sketchbooks so perfect for my purposes.

I am looking forward to hearing about everyone's pen stories and think this forum is great, so friendly and helpful. I watch the Goulet pen videos on YouTube too and would like to give a pilot preppy a go to put an o ring and silicone grease to convert it but the USA postage is high and I'm a bit reluctant to buy pens off eBay as I've heard there are a lot of fakes around. No matter, I've enough to be getting on with for now.

All the best from lamyliz :)

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Hello Lamyliz. Greetings from northern California and a warm welcome to FPN. Glad you've joined us; it's great to have you here.

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