Another old newcomer!

[rogerb]

Hello

 

I have just dug-out my 2 Sheaffer FPs as I have some writing to do....Christmas cards and Thank Yous to people who wrote and sent condolence cards following the recent death of my wife of 33 years.

 

I have ordered some good paper (Lalo white) and ink (Aurora Black) from The Writing Desk (what nice people!) and hope to collect it at the end of this week when I return to UK(from Spain), briefly, for my youngest daughter's wedding.

 

I am at present unable to upload pics for some reason, but I am trying to identify one of my Sheaffers, a slim model with a 'textured' chromium body and gold clip, which was a gift to my wife about 10-15 years ago.

 

My gold-plated Targa was sent to me FOC by Sheaffer UK to replace my wife's, which I'd sent for a service and had been lost in the post...... a week or so later, the missing pen arrived, but Sheaffer told me just to keep the replacement (then selling for about 100 pounds!!).

 

Although I have always been a 'black-on-white' penman, I rather fancy trying something more adventurous...after reading this forum

Perhaps some festive Red/Green on my Christmas cards...any suggestions regarding nice clear colours, please?

 

Thanks

Roger

 

[HyperCamper]

Hi Roger and welcome to FPN! Hope you have fun here!

[Hoarder68]

Welcome aboard. I am a black on white man all the way. I will use dark blue as an alternative.

[PAKMAN]

Welcome Roger. Sorry for your loss. Please join right in and enjoy the fellowship here!

[CD7]

Hopefully you'll be using those Sheaffers to write about grandkids soon!

[artaddict]

Another black 0n white writer here!

[Ghost Plane]

Hi and welcome. Try some Private Reserve Sherwood Forest for the green ink and Noodler's Red for, yep, you guessed it.

[rogerb]

Thanks for the kind words and the advice.

 

I already have enough grandchildren to be going on with...... one will be 4 on Christmas Day.

 

Any guesses on the Sheaffer model?..... it's 13cm x about 1.1cm, tapering to the ends and with a pattern which I can only describe as 'irregular diamonds' in the very shiny plating (chromium, I assume). The section is black and it has a small, 14k, semi-hooded nib.

(as I said, can't upload pics at present)

[penburg]

Welcome, and condolences.

 

I have used mainly black and blue/black the past year, but am branching out into blue and brown. Blue and brown separately, that is, not mixed.

 

Not sure what Sheaffer you have. When you are able to upload, post a new topic in the Sheaffer forum, and someone there will be able to help. I certainly enjoy my TM desk and Balance II, smoothest nibs around.

 

 

[RayMan]

Welcome Roger! I like Diamine Woodland Green.

[Shangas]

Hey Roger, Nice to meet you.

 

You got grandchildren, eh? Great! Introduce them to fountain pens. Grandpas are wonderful creatures which possess mystical and interesting contraptions never before-seen by the eyes of youth. They will doubtless find your fountain pens fascinating and pretty toys. Let them play with them (with supervision, of course) and perhaps when they're old enough, buy them a few.

 

I never had a grandpa, so I missed out on all that. Be happy that your grandkids have a grandpa & vice-versa. Kids are fun. My sole remaining grandparent is my paternal grandmother. Wonderful old whisp of a woman aged 93. She's a delight and she adores children...

[fatehbajwa]

Welcome to FPN.

[Aslan]

Roger, sorry to hear of your loss... and rejoice in the hearing of your grandchildren.

 

Grandfathers. God's special gift to grandchildren. I have a few "gold plated" memories of my maternal grandfather that have served to shape much of who I am today: first is his unwavering faith. What an example! and somewhere not too far down the list... his penmanship, not his writing, his penmanship. Every letter was a work of art, every word a picture and every sentence a gallery. Written lovingly with, what else, a fountain pen.

 

As a small child there was something magical about watching him write. Shangas (earlier post) has it right about grandpas. I share this simply as an encouragement to you.

 

Welcome to FPN. I would say "jump in" and enjoy the fellowship and sharing, but you seem to have already done that.

 

John

[Shangas]

You mean the "Grandpas are wonderful creatures which possess mystical and interesting contraptions never before-seen by the eyes of youth. They will doubtless find your fountain pens fascinating and pretty toys."? Thanks!

[rogerb]

Thanks again..... my late wife, Bobbie, said she wasn't ready to be a Granny/Grandma, so our 4yo grandson used to call her "Bobs", and he calls me "Rodge".... I like that

[Shangas]

Awwww...I think there's something special about being called "Grandpa". My uncle, a wonderful old man aged 73 has three grandchildren, two boys and a girl. They all call him grandpa and I think he really loves it.