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Hello everyone! What does one do during lockdown? Get stuck going down YouTube rabbit holes and learning all kinds of new stuff. Oh, and online shop. I have done both of those...a lot! So now I am fountain pen/ink obsessed. So here I am to learn more, get ideas and inspiration. 

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Hello Broomstick and welcome :)

 

You've just found yourself a whole lot of enablers...  Enjoy!

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Greetings Broomstick, good to hear something excellent has come out of your lockdown. You are now just embarking on the ultimate rabbit hole. You name it, someone on the FPN is a world-leading expert! The deeper you dig the more interesting it gets.

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Welcome, glad to have you join us. 
Enablers, yes.  Helpers too. Many wonderful people helping others find the right pen, ink, paper. 

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You came to the right place. :)  Welcome!

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Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. There are so many pens and inks to learn (buy) about and paper/notebooks to experiment with. I am not ready to make any high end purchases yet, and where I live there is very little in the way of fountain pens anyways, one store really with a limited supply, but a lot of LAMYs. 

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LAMY is not the end of the world :) Anyway, it seems that for most of us experimenting happens mainly through online purchases. Good luck and a lot of fun!

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On 4/6/2021 at 10:56 PM, Broomstick said:

Hello everyone! What does one do during lockdown? Get stuck going down YouTube rabbit holes and learning all kinds of new stuff. Oh, and online shop. I have done both of those...a lot! So now I am fountain pen/ink obsessed. So here I am to learn more, get ideas and inspiration. 

Hi Broomstick,

 

Welcome to the FPN :W2FPN:

Lamy is a good place to start, but one pen is never enough....enjoy

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