Good Morning from London

January 25, 2006

Good morning everyone

Typical new person here, with a rather poor e-bay habit.

I have always used fountain pens, since being young at school (some 30 odd years ago) and always have an everyday pen to hand. Nowadays its i ridiculously expensive Conway Stewart, a new type, but I also have about a dozen other pens, ranging from older Conways, a marvelous Skyline, to the odd cheapo bought for one reason or another.

I also love to play with ink, I have mixed Penman green with Sheaffer black to get a dark green-black for years now.

People know me by inky fingures and the odd spot on my clothes.

I find using a biro rather like drinking beer from a child's plastic cup.

Greg

January 25, 2006

Welcome, Greg, from a fellow Londoner.

I've always found most greens a little bright, too. There are a couple of dark greens in the Noodler's Ink range you might like to try - Sequoia and Zhivago - both available from my UK webstore.

Have fun here.

Ray

January 25, 2006

I find using a biro rather like drinking beer from a child's plastic cup.

Oh no, it's worse than that!

Welcome, Greg. The number of UK members seems to be growing and from my own experience everyone is made very welcome here (unlike certain other fora that I will not mention).

I agree with your statements about green ink, but luckily between the various brands available there seems to be something for everyone!

Keep away from eBay though. Much better purchases can be made at WES meetings!

Martin

January 25, 2006

Many thanks for the welcome, guys.

A WES meeting sounds a place that's dangerous for the wallet!

What is it?

Greg

January 25, 2006

WES = The Writing Equipment Society.

A quote from the homepage:

"The Writing Equipment Society, established in 1980, has a membership of around 600 of whom 150 are overseas members, and is devoted to the conservation, study and collection of all types of writing equipment and associated material. Our members' interests cover all aspects of writing equipment and include pens, both ancient and modern, pencils of all types and materials, nibs, inkwells, stamp boxes, quill cutters, seals, writing slopes, letter scales, paper knives and ephemera."

The Society holds meetings for its members 3 or 4 times a year plus regional meetings on a more local level. Its main event is the AGM, usually held in November. The next meeting is in Birmingham on 12th February 2006. Details here.

Martin

January 25, 2006

Many thanks, Martin, almost sounds too good to be true!

And, Ray, the Sequoia looks like the stuff. I'd love to see it real life (the zhivago is too subtle for my pc and looked black)

Greg

January 25, 2006

Try this page. It might give you a better comparison than the one I gave you above.

Martin

January 25, 2006

Welcome Greg,

Glad to welcome you. Hope you enjoy the board.

Jim

January 25, 2006

The next meeting is in Birmingham on 12th February 2006. Details here.

You know what Martin, you really should be banned from posting about things like that, you've got me wondering now what birthday money I might have available I've held out on the temptation to join WES ever since we did an article for you from work a few years ago.

Greg, welcome to the forum from someone who is oop north. I hope you'll enjoy yourself here, but be warned, it's the sort of place that feeds an addiction How do you like your new CS? I would love to own one, but unless someone wants to throw a lot of money my way I'll just have to continue to be more than happy with my vintage Conway Stewarts.

January 25, 2006

Welcome aboard Greg!

January 25, 2006

Hello and welcome to FPN Greg! Glad to have you aboard. Sounds like you use a really nice pen every day - care to share a pic or two if it (and some of your others)? Regardless, hope to see you around.