At What Age

[superfreeka]

19

[jar]

Probably about six or so.

[Silvermink]

28!

[wastelanded]

Same, about age 6.

[usk15]

5...or 6...

[David G.]

Same as the OP, 19.

[NewFPU]

I came late to the game at age 39

 

 

 

 

Myste

[sargetalon]

Slow to catch on. Figured it out at age 29.

[pajaro]

10. Used dip pens from 6 to 10.

[pelman]

7 or 8.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

53 or 54. If I ever even saw one before, except in pictures, it must have slipped my mind.

[AShrewdLawn]

23. It was just a few months ago, actually.

[Antaresia]

I was 21, it was a set I got for my birthday. I promptly forgot about it for about decade, and now I'm here. I think they're Sheaffer No Nonsense, they still work great and the one I had inked came out the box writing almost perfect. No nonsense indeed.

[NedC]

Grade 2, so about seven—a clear plastic Sheaffer school pen with a chrome cap and washable blue ink. The washable blue was deemed a necessity because of the white shirts of our school uniforms.

[bogiesan]

My first enocunter was totally negative.

My father had a lettering set (German-made, precision, green stencils with technical drawing pens in holders) with inks that, to an untrained 8 year-old, looked exactly like th inks in the drawer with his fountain pens. I had watched him fill his Sheaffer fountain pens with his bottls of Skrip ink so it was a simple deduction for me to fill his Sheaffers with the Indias and lacquers in the lettering set.

 

Then, forty years later, I found my wife's old Sheaffer school pens and old No Nonsense italic pens. That was about five years ago.

[MadAmos]

Most likely around 8-9 years old it would have been 3rd grade in Texas 1967 or so.

[PaFitch]

I bought my own Esterbrook in high school (early 60's). Don't remember writing with a fountain pen before that (just pencils).

[PaperDarts]

First authorized use: 8 years old, in school. Previous unauthorized use: 4 to 5 years old, whenever dip or fountain pens were left unguarded by my two aunts who were teachers.

[inkstainedruth]

I seem to remember having some sort of cartridge pen briefly when I was a kid. So probably somewhere around 8 or 10, maybe a little older (but by middle school I had switched over to primarily using Flair pens for writing; Rapidographs in college for drawing). Got back into FPs in my late 40s, with a pen to do journaling with. Then, in the past year, I've just gone (in my husband's opinion) completely wacko (I now have to sit down and actually count in my head as to how many pens I have when people ask me... :embarrassed_smile:).

Ruth Morrisson

[madzaxmax]

I think I was 10 years old when I started using them regularly in school.

 

Otherwise, I had been fiddling with my Dad's pen when I was even younger.