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Hi,

 

I am Volker, just turned 49 years young, always been fond of fountain pens (my handwriting sucks to the point that I am very often unable to decipher my own scribblings, writing with a fountain pen does a good deal in circujmventing this, as it makes my writing magically become readable to almos everyone).

 

I live just some Kilometers from the beautiful and bustling city of Málaga in southern Spain, at an equal distance from the excellent brick and mortar pen store "Sanatorio Estilográfico M. Gandoy" and the location of the great guys from fpnibs.com, to great danger and more often than not damage to my wallet/PayPal/Credit card.

 

I am fond of affordable pens. Now, this can have different meanings, but also as a fountain pen advocate (I always carry a couple of Pilot V-Pens around to get others hooked onto my drug of choice) I hardly own a pen more expensive than 100€, most are in the range well below 50 €. I´ll rather buy half a dozen chinese pens for a tenner, and only have two of them be good writers and discard the rest than get the sure shot at a 150€ Pelikan. Of course, I avidly collect Lamy's yearly Al-Star and Safari special editions, own quite some TWSBIs and uncountable Wing Sungs and Lanbitous, along with many affordable supermarket pens.

 

I also recently got into inks. Last inventory has turned up around 30 bottles of ink, more than enough to last me well through retirement. I use my pens daily, for notes at work, journaling (one Rhodia A4 Webbie every 4-6 months, give or take a few) and everywhere there is something to write on paper.

 

I am glad and thankful for this place on the internets, and I´ve been hanging around in the Facebook gruop for some time before I decided to join here. Thanks for all the information collected throughout the years that can be found here, it has helped me many times, and I hope that I can contribute a useful grain of sand once in a while.

 

Cheers,,

 

Volker

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hola y bienvenido mi hermano hispano, un honor contar con vuestra presencia.

 

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