Jump to content

Greetings From Connecticut in the USA


JohnVFerrigno

Recommended Posts

Hello everyone! I am brand new to fountain pens. In fact, I don't even own one yet (although I have two coming in the mail the next few days, a Pilot Metropolitan and a Lamy Safari.)

 

I thought I would tell the story of what brought me here. My wife is an amazing woman who means the world to me. She has self esteem issues and over the course of our 17 years together, has often said "I don't know why you love me so much." I decided I would turn that into a year long project: every day, starting last Christmas, I write down a reason I love her. I was going to write it all out in a notebook and on Christmas this year, give it to her, a handwritten journal of 365 reasons I love her.

 

I wanted it to be nice, so I started investigating better pens than the usual disposable ballpoints I use. I never owned a fountain pen before, but thought it would be nice to try that. So I ordered a couple of starter pens and a course book on cursive handwriting (my handwriting is awful at the moment.) My hope is to have a nicely written journal for her on Christmas. (Currently all the entries are just in a file on Evernote, I need to write them all out when my penmanship gets better lol)

 

While looking at fountain pen information, I fell down a rabbit hole and got very interested in them, which lead me here.

 

Looking forward to learning more about fountain pens, ink, and all the other stuff everyone here is into!

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 15
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • JohnVFerrigno

    3

  • Bisquitlips

    1

  • LizEF

    1

  • 1nkulus

    1

What a wonderful story, John! :)  Welcome to FPN!  In case you haven't discovered yet, you won't want just any notebook - some don't work well with fountain pen ink. :)  But you've come to the right place for that.  Best wishes on completing your project.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

PAKMAN

minibanner.gif                                    Vanness-world-final.png.c1b120b90855ce70a8fd70dd342ebc00.png

                         My Favorite Pen Restorer                                             My Favorite Pen Store

                                                                                                                                Vanness Pens - Selling Online!

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hello and welcome to FPN.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

Taught man that which he knew not (96/3-5)

Snailmail3.png Snail Mail 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

large.FPNWelcome.png.691f2612d13f7c0621a0c62585df6f4c.png

...............................................................

We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What a great reason to get your first pens! Welcome John - your wife's a very lucky lady :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

large.InkySeas.jpg.9e55d2f1eb4ae5d24f29c5b9459aa60d.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 hours ago, LizEF said:

What a wonderful story, John! :)  Welcome to FPN!  In case you haven't discovered yet, you won't want just any notebook - some don't work well with fountain pen ink. :)  But you've come to the right place for that.  Best wishes on completing your project.

Yes, I had to look into a different journal. But thanks for the heads up!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That's some darn fine husbanding you're doing there!

Welcome to the forums, and howdy from Texas. 

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done"  Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

"It is impossible to design something that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious." - Groucho Marx

Link to comment
Share on other sites

HELLO FROM PHIPPSBURG, MAINE

Favorite fountain pen, these days, is Sailor 911.

i welcome conversation.

Kind regards.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

welcome.gif

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."  - Selwyn Duke    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 5/21/2022 at 1:02 PM, eclectic2316 said:

HELLO FROM PHIPPSBURG, MAINE

Favorite fountain pen, these days, is Sailor 911.

i welcome conversation.

Kind regards.

What is it about that pen that puts it above the rest for you?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

You have successfully entered a rabbit hole, who knows what it'll yield and where it'll lead.

Enjoy the fascinating journey and feel free to ask/share...  thumbup.gif

 

W2FPN.gif

Engineer :

Someone who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33501
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26627
    5. jar
      jar
      26101
  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More
  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...