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Hello from Ohio!

 

I'm a student currently studying at university for Chemistry and Philosophy. I found myself writing a ton, and eventually go bored of all of my writing looking the same. I've always been at least half-conscious of keeping my writing looking nice and neat, but it wasn't until recently that I found myself not only keeping my writing clean, but also varied and stylized.

 

I started experimenting with various pens and colors and such, and discovered fountain pens naturally through this. My first ever was a TWSBI Eco, and I fell in love with them immediately!

 

I actually found this website before I had ever written with a fountain pen, and I'm happy to finally be a member of it.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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Welcome to this friendly little corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego.

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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!


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Welcome, and if you are in Central Ohio occasionally, please consider coming to a Pen Club meeting. The schedule is on a minor social media site.

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Greetings from Pittsburgh! :W2FPN: You just missed the Ohio Pen Show in Columbus, this past weekend. I think there was a meeting of the Central Ohio Pen Club there at the show.

I usually suggest that new people click the "View New Content" button at the top of the page when they log in, to get a good overview of a range of topics (on the main page listing the various sub-fora you can go to the sidebar on the left to control how often you get new stuff shown to you). And to check out the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews Forum.

But you should also know that we are all shameless enablers who will happily help you spend your discretionary funds on pens, inks, paper, repair tools, sealing wax, ephemera... and of course pen shows, where you can geek out with fellow pen people, shop, take workshops, etc.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: There is also a pen club in Pittsburgh, Steel City Nibs (which might be closer for you if you're in Steubenville). We generally meet at the Panera Bread in Bakery Square (across the parking lot from the Pittsburgh Google office). The next meeting is the Wednesday after Thanksgiving (it got pushed back a week because of the holiday).

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

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Hello from Ann Arbor, MI!!!!! :)

If you are at Franciscan U., you ought to look up Brian who is on the Faculty at Franciscan u., who is also a FPN member .

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