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Hello everyone

 

It's a beautiful saturday morning here in the Steel City 👍

 

I'm the wrong side of 60 years old and still have a love for pens that started when I was at school!

I can't say that i'm an avid collector as I only have around thirty or forty, I also have the obligatory caligraphy sets and a a few propelling pencils..

 

I quite enjoy stripping the fountain pens and washing out old thickened dried ink, It seems to take forever to flush every bit out!, I'm a bit hamfisted to strip them completely so they go in to a glass of warm water to reactivate the ink!

 

I'll get around to taking some pics of them soon although i'm no David Bailley, In fact i'm pretty useless with a camera and manage to make new stuff look really beat up and full of wabi-sabi!!

 

I'll shut up now before my droning on puts everyone to sleep 😊

 

 

Cheers, John 🙂

 

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Greetings John, like you I am the wrong side of 60, but you are also on the wrong side of the Pennines! I'm in Durham, where (amazingly) it is also sunny. Still pretty chilly but let's be thankful for the light after a long winter.

 

What kind of pens do you go for? I like Parker 75s and Sonnets but have no experience of calligraphy. Might try that in retirement...

 

Peter

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Hello John and welcome from another sunny spot, a little further south in the Cotswolds. :)

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Happy to see a new member :smile: For cleaning pens, have you ever seen ultrasonic cleansers? They can be a bit expensive last time I checked, but if you want squeaky clean pen, they're great. Maybe another member in your area could lend you one for a day?

Always looking for new ways to downsize my collection.

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On 4/24/2021 at 6:28 PM, PeterR-C said:

Greetings John, like you I am the wrong side of 60, but you are also on the wrong side of the Pennines! I'm in Durham, where (amazingly) it is also sunny. Still pretty chilly but let's be thankful for the light after a long winter.

 

What kind of pens do you go for? I like Parker 75s and Sonnets but have no experience of calligraphy. Might try that in retirement...

 

Peter

 

 

Many thanks for the warm welcomes everyone 👍

 

Hi Peter

 

My personal preference is for Parker and Sheaffer, No models in particular as I don't have many of each really, I've never handled most of their range of pens!

 

This was a set that I took along with me to a first aid course, It was the 51 with the gold cap and a ballpoint with a gold cap, I lent the ballpoint to a fella that also attended, I left early, He kept the ballpoint but swore blind he'd given it back 🥵🥵 

I just put the other fountain pen in to fill the space!

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Cheers, John 👍

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Hello and welcome to you from just around the corner in Manchester, well nearer to Bolton really but that's nowt ta shaarrt abaarrt  :W2FPN:

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On 4/26/2021 at 5:56 PM, johnbaz said:

I lent the ballpoint to a fella that also attended, I left early, He kept the ballpoint but swore blind he'd given it back 

Oh, many of us have been there! When someone asks if they can borrow a pen from me, I say usually yes...because I learned the hard way to routinely carry a cheap ballpoint I don't mind donating.

 

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Glad you are with us!

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Sorry to hear about your lost ballpoint. Like Gcliburn, I carry a cheap ballpoint for precisely this kind of occasion. Your other pen looks like a Parker 45, is that the variant they call the arrow?

Anyway, enjoy your time here.

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Hello and welcome from not-so-sunny Washington state! It's good to see another new member. (I just joined today, so I'm even newer than you.) 

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On 4/24/2021 at 10:42 AM, johnbaz said:

I quite enjoy stripping the fountain pens and washing out old thickened dried ink, It seems to take forever to flush every bit out!, I'm a bit hamfisted to strip them completely so they go in to a glass of warm water to reactivate the ink!

Hello from Wiltshire! Have you tried the J Herbin Cleaning Solution for Fountain Pens? I’m having great results with it, especially bringing old, clogged pens back to life.

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