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Hi im Martin, and am ( by profession) a free lance costume designer, however my other passion which has turned from a hobby in to a bit of a second income over lockdown, is collecting and restoring fountain pens. As i suffer from poor health and have had to shield for most of the past year, and the entertainment industry in the UK is practically non existent  at the moment, I needed to find other means of putting a crust on the table. My main means of doing this is computer generated models used in CGI and 3d art, another side hobby that proved to be a good way to make money, however the fountain pens also proved to be at the least a self sustaining side line and a good way of passing the time away from the computer over the past months. I love all old pens but have an especially weakness for Parker 51s, lady Schaeffer's and anything Wahl Eversharp! 

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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Welcome to the forum; glad you clarified in the UK as my folks retired to Suffolk just outside of Norfolk but in Virginia in the US.

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Hello Martin and Welcome to FPN!! So glad to have you as a member!!

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Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the fountain pen universe from a pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information for you to discover here. Write On!

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Hi,

 

welcome here.

I read Wahl nibs can be wunderful...

 

Best wishes

Jens

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20 hours ago, Schaumburg_Swan said:

Hi,

 

welcome here.

I read Wahl nibs can be wunderful...

 

Best wishes

Jens

I love a wahl, but have to say some are lovely ( skyline nibs especially always seem to be very smooth) but some wahl nibs can be like writing with a sharp stick. I think its because they made nibs for all sorts of uses in offices where stiff nibs were needed for carbon copies and the like. I get the feeling that the skyline range were never really intended for that market. 

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23 hours ago, OCArt said:

Hello and welcome to this friendly corner of the fountain pen universe from a pen user in San Diego. There is such a wealth of information for you to discover here. Write On!

Haha yes that was in my mind, used to work on ships and did a dry dock in Norfolk, as with the US we too are next door to Suffolk. 

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Welcome from Missouri! Glad you are with us!

 

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Hello from Cambridge :) (also the one in England!)

 

I have a hobbyist interest in costume design, started out as LARP costume making then I got curious and ended up learning how to draft my own patterns. And now I have far more fabric than I'll ever use! 

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Hello and welcome to you from a very wet Manchester ( yep also in England ie Non EU !) so Norfolk eh, two memories of that area. One was a really relaxing boating holiday which I was dreading but really enjoyed the other was a visit to the Lotus factory when a good friend of mine was picking up his new Espirit......oh and its flat and has or had poor roads linking it to the motorway network. Anyway enjoy your time on here, clever bunch and a ton of pen knowledge.

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On 1/20/2021 at 1:06 PM, Pen Nut said:

Hello and welcome to you from a very wet Manchester ( yep also in England ie Non EU !) so Norfolk eh, two memories of that area. One was a really relaxing boating holiday which I was dreading but really enjoyed the other was a visit to the Lotus factory when a good friend of mine was picking up his new Espirit......oh and its flat and has or had poor roads linking it to the motorway network. Anyway enjoy your time on here, clever bunch and a ton of pen knowledge.

Haha Flat you say.... Norwich is not flat, not mountainous but pretty damn hilly. The county does have a big chunk of the fens and the broads in it tho which are absolutly flat as a pancake.  The nice thing about this part of the world are the atrocious road links to the rest of the world, keeps the rif raff out ( though sadly not the pandemic).

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Hi! That’s wonderful that you found a side gig in a hobby. I have thought about trying my hand at restoration but I’m not very handy. I have been cataloguing a private collection (my pay might be one of the pens) and we found a Wahl and several Lady Sheaffers. ☺️

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