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Hello all - 

 

I'm an American currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland. I decided to start writing more, which led me to rediscover a barely-used Lamy CP1 that I had sitting in a drawer. That led to me going down the FP rabbit hole and here I am. After dusting off the cobwebs and getting a new converter and ink, I'm absolutely loving writing with it. 

 

I'm also into collecting watches and pipes, so I can already tell what this is going to turn into 😁

 

Cheers!

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Welcome to the forum, @steerpike. It's especially nice to meet other fountain pen users in Europe so we can share info on good sources for pens, ink, stationery, etc.

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"Steerpike"?  Isn't that one of the characters in the Gormanghast series?  Interesting screen name.... :huh:

Anyway, greetings from Pittsburgh!  :W2FPN: I don't have a CP1 but love my Safaris and al-Stars (once I got used to the triangular section, that is).  My real rabbit hole, though is vintage pens -- that one I dived head first into....  Without a second glance OR a second thought.... :blush:

I generally suggest that new people click on the "View New Content" button when they log in, to get a good range of a variety of topics (you can adjust how much/often it refreshes -- and I do also recommend NOT doing the "Past 365 days" option).  And to check out the pinned Index to the Ink Reviews forum (even though some of the old reviews had the images lost in the great Photobucket hijack a few years ago :().  But I also warn people that we are all evil enablers, who will happily help them spend their discretionary budget on pens, ink, paper, desk accessories, repair tools, storage, ephemera, and pen shows.

Have fun, enjoy the site (I'm constantly amazed by the wealth of knowledge here and even more so by the generosity of the pen community) and remember that the only dumb questions are the ones that don't get asked -- even if someone has asked the same question recently (the search function is a little wonky at times).

So, what kind of writing are you doing?  There are people on here who are writers and artists, people who are trying to improve their penmanship, and amateur (and professional) calligraphers amongst the members of this community.

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

"Steerpike"?  Isn't that one of the characters in the Gormanghast series?  Interesting screen name.... :huh:

 

Indeed it is! Good catch. I happen to be reading Titus Groan at the moment. My screen names tend to be from whatever I'm reading at the time of registration. 🙂

 

Thanks for the forum wisdom. I'll definitely be exploring more in the coming days.

 

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

So, what kind of writing are you doing?

Journaling and the odd attempt at poetry and fiction. Even if the content isn't particularly good or interesting, the act is a pleasure in and of itself.

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Using fountain pens got me back into writing poetry (which I hadn't really done much of since college -- I minored in Creative Writing and actually had one poem published in a small press magazine; didn't know they'd accepted any of the stuff I sent them till I got my -- one -- contributor copy, which is currently lost somewhere in my house).  A few years ago someone posted a link for the NaPoWriMo website (National Poetry Writing Month -- which at this point is more like GLOBAL Poetry Writing Month), and I've been doing that for the past 6 or 7 years.  I find that writing first drafts on paper with a pen doesn't make me freeze up the way I would keyboarding.  I've also tried my hand at fiction (I tried to do NaNoWriMo once, and the first few days went well -- even with a pen show that weekend) but then, well, the rest of November happened...; and I'm not disciplined enough (my mother wrote various flavors of genre fiction -- but she did stuff mostly on a typewriter, and then -- much later -- on an early word processor).

I read the Gormanghast books DECADES ago (I think I was in middle school or high school).  Liked the first book, wasn't that enamored with the character changes -- which sort of seemed to come out of left field -- in the second.  And the third book?  Just weird (well, apparently the author was going insane, literally).  I keep thinking that someday I should TRY reading them again -- and then talk myself out of it.... :blush:

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20 hours ago, steerpike said:

Hello all - 

 

I'm an American currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland. I decided to start writing more, which led me to rediscover a barely-used Lamy CP1 that I had sitting in a drawer. That led to me going down the FP rabbit hole and here I am. After dusting off the cobwebs and getting a new converter and ink, I'm absolutely loving writing with it. 

 

I'm also into collecting watches and pipes, so I can already tell what this is going to turn into 😁

 

Cheers!

Welcome to the FPN.

Edinburgh is the pearl of the UK, enjoy it.

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Hi and welcome to the world of fountain pens

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11 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

Hi and welcome to the world of fountain pens

 

Thanks, Mark. I've never been to Yorkshire, but you have some of the best cricketers in the world on your county side. 

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And welcome from Durham, even closer to Edinburgh! And we also have some of the best cricketers in the world. You are on the brink of the rabbit hole and there is no way back - just let yourself fall in. And there are side rabbit holes involving ink, paper, notebook variants - you name it. Good luck.

 

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On 7/18/2022 at 7:51 AM, steerpike said:

 

Thanks, Mark. I've never been to Yorkshire, but you have some of the best cricketers in the world on your county side. 

Not a big cricket fan so would not know much about that

Mark from the Latin Marcus follower of mars, the god of war.

 

Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred. 
 

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