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I started collecting hand made fountain pens about 30 years ago but didn't know anything about them. When they started to run out of ink and stop working right, I thought there was something wrong with them and put them away.

I then got in to dip pens and designed my own calligraphy font.

Somehow, Fall of 2018, completely out of left field, I got an email introducing me to Goulet Pens.

Needless to say, this time the bite was hard, deep and still hasn't let go!

My daughter gave me a Conklin Navy Blue Herringbone for Christmas. My Mom recently gave me her early 1950 era Esterbrook "J" to which I've added 4 more of varying colors though mostly "SJ"s. I intend to restore my Mom's, myself.

I just found in the boxes from my old desk, 2 Scheafers and a Lamy mechanical pencil, none of which do I remember getting. I recognized the pencil from the clip long before I saw the name.

As I said, I've been bitten, hard.

Sorry for the long intro.

Glad to be here.

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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the universe from a fountain pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information waiting for you to discover on this site. Write On!

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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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The bite leaves a lingering, inky venom that exerts mind control. Your cerebral cortex becomes enthralled to a remote, god-like entity, whose pen-shaped minions invade your dreams, alluring you with psychedelic colors and the promise of ever-more-perfect and shapely letter forms if you will only spend a little more on nibs, papers, inks, converters, pumps, greases, and tubes of fabulous ebonite, precious resin, lacquer, stone, gold, palladium, and more. The promise remains always just out of reach, however. The duration of the illness is unknown, but most victims never recover, succumbing to relapses sometimes decades after the first infection.

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Welcome from Down Under.

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