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Hello all! My name is Allie and I am relatively new to the fountain pen world and quickly becoming an addict. I had a fountain pen when I was a child, but when the cartridges ran out, so did my fun. I have rediscovered them now and am venturing into different filling systems and bottled inks. I look forward to learning about this hobby from those who have more experience than me.

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Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego. I'm glad you are here!

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Welcome!

You will find a lot of very knowledgeable enablers here! So much to learn and to teach!

 

Beware the contagion to accumulate MORE pens, ink, and paper!! Addictive indeed!

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Hi Allie,

 

That's a great tidbit, you having a fountain pen when you were young. I find fountain pens to be such a rewarding hobby, not least because they lead to other healthy and fruitful things like writing and sketching and journaling.

 

This is a great group... I bet you're going to be really glad you started using fountain pens again and found your way here.

 

High regards,

Brad

"A knifeless man is a lifeless man." -- Faroe Islands proverb

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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!


- Winston Churchill



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Greetings and a warm welcome !

Retired, twice. Time to do more things, writing being one.

 

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Welcome, Allie !

 

Sooooooooooooooo, which fountain pens do you have ?

Which one is your daily writer ?

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Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

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Welcome to our warm nook of the internet, where you can share this beautiful hobby with good and friendly people. Or as we say in low Saxon: Mooi a'j dr bint! (Good you're here.)

Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

Please visit my store A&D Penworx.

Brands we carry: Benu Pen, Conklin, Kaweco, Monteverde, TWSBI - Diamine, J Herbin, KWZ- Clairefontaine, Field Notes, Rhodia, Whitelines

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Greetings and welcome!

 

:W2FPN:

...The history, culture and sophistication; the rich, aesthetic beauty; the indulgent, ritualistic sensations of unscrewing the cap and filling from a bottle of ink; the ambient scratch of the ink-stained nib on fine paper; A noble instrument, descendant from a line of ever-refined tools, and the luster of writing,
with a charge from over several millennia of continuing the art of recording man's life.

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Thanks for all the welcomes (took me a while to figure out I have to check for replies! I am a little new to this...).

 

And addictive indeed! On my recent trip to the US I visited two different fountain pen shops and ended up with a TWSBI 580 AL and two gorgeous bottles of ink. I can almost call it a collection now. B)

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