Are You A User Or A Collector?

[hawkmp4]

I will never buy a pen that I am not comfortable with using. If I come into ownership of a pen that has sentimental value, that's different, but I will not purchase a pen that I won't use. That's how I know my hobby has become an issue.

Edited June 20, 2010 by hawkmp4

[liapuyat]

I count myself as a "user", although I have accumulated a number of pens. It was in trying a number of pens and having different experiences with them that taught me more about my personal taste. I won't buy a pen that's too pretty or too precious to use.

[georges zaslavsky]

a bit of the both

[Malcy]

A user, accumulator and collector (only in the sense that I have a collection of more than one FP, all different).

 

In fact I have been an FP user since the 1960s but a mono-user for most of that time. It's only recently after finding this forum that I have accumulated a wide variety of FPs and this valuable experience has allowed me to find what I like in a fountain pen.

 

So I'm starting to be more picky, looking for broad nibbed larger pens. My existing collection will no doubt be slowly transformed in this respect but I doubt that it will ever be the sort of collection where I collect all the variants of a particular model or make. The focus is on collection of pens that I enjoy using.