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[inktastic.adventures]

Happy to be here! I got my first FP at 19 (a Parker 51 (?)) and although I took a break from them for a while, I’ve always enjoyed a nice pen. Found my way back to fountain pens though. Some of my favourites: Pilot 74, my vintage Pelikan M200 and my vintage azure Parker Vacumatic from the 40s. 
My favourite nib is my chem stacked nib by Jose Munuera! 

Here to learn and share, 

🖖🏼 
 

[PAKMAN]

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

[inkstainedruth]

@inktastic.adventures Greetings from Pittsburgh!  

Your first FP was a Parker 51?  WOW!  I'm so jealous!  (Mine was a Parker Reflex, followed by another one -- both since donated to a "Pick a Prize" raffle), followed by a Parker Vector....  When the Vector (and the journal I was using at the time) got left at my in-laws' place in Connecticut one January, and I didn't get them back for about a month, I started looking for a replacement and in the process found my way here.  And it's been a slippery slope ever since.  

I'm a complete sucker for 51s (both the Aerometrics and the earlier 51 Vacs) but my two most expensive pens are a couple of Pelikan M405s (from the one time I had a major discretionary budget a few years ago, after buying an older M400 from off eBay for a special occasion -- my husband was freaking out over the price of that one, a 1990s era M400 Brown Tortoise, because I'd NEVER paid that much for a pen before that, but I told him that it was still cheaper than a NEW M400 -- and they'd discontinued that color; of course a few years later Pelikan made a liar out of me by reissuing the Brown Tortoise, and of course when the M405 Stresemann came out he found out what I meant about the price of the older Brown Tortoise....  ).  I have coaxed him over to the Dark Side, slightly -- gave him a used Pilot Vanishing Point I found in an antiques & collectibles store for a third of the price of a new one at the time, and then he wanted me to get him a Lamy Safari (which he promptly LOST ) and recently he borrowed one of my Pilot Decimos to sign some paperwork and decided he liked that even better than the Vanishing Point.

I generally suggest that new folks here click on the "New Content" button when they log in, to get a good range of topics (you can adjust how much/often the site refreshes).  And to check out the Ink Reviews (I'm convinced we live in the Golden Age of ink, with companies popping up all over the globe).  But I also warn them they've found themselves in a den of enablers, who will happily help them spend their discretionary budgets on pens, inks, paper, desk accessories, repair tools, storage, pen shows and ephemera....

Have fun here and remember that the only dumb questions are the ones that don't get asked.  I'm constantly amazed at the depth and breadth of knowledge of the people on FPN (not JUST pen related, at that) and humbled by the generosity of this community with the sharing of that knowledge.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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[OCArt]

[inktastic.adventures]

57 minutes ago, OCArt said:

Thank you 😊 

[inktastic.adventures]

Hi Ruth! 😆 I love that! The golden age of ink! I think you’re right! I have enough ink to be embalmed in it when my time is up here lol

and wow! A vintage Pelikan tortoise! 😍 I’d love to add one of those to my collection someday. Tho at the moment I’m eyeing a vintage Waterman 52. 
thanks for the warm welcome. This community is indeed very welcoming. Both here online and in person. I’m always humbled by it 😊

[inktastic.adventures]

2 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

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

Thank you very much 😊

[Wahl]

[Zookie]

Welcome from upstate NY, the land of liquid Sunshine and the Twilight Zone😀

[inkstainedruth]

16 hours ago, inktastic.adventures said:

Hi Ruth! 😆 I love that! The golden age of ink! I think you’re right! I have enough ink to be embalmed in it when my time is up here lol

and wow! A vintage Pelikan tortoise! 😍 I’d love to add one of those to my collection someday. Tho at the moment I’m eyeing a vintage Waterman 52. 
thanks for the warm welcome. This community is indeed very welcoming. Both here online and in person. I’m always humbled by it 😊

Well, it's not actually vintage (it's from the 1990s).  I do have one that I think is older (a smaller green one M120 from the 1950s or 1960s), and a striated green 400 that might also be from the mid-1950s (both have black caps and black piston knobs on them).

Hmmm.  Just realized I haven't used either of those for a long time. 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[kestrel]

Welcome to the friendliest and most enabling forum on the web from a former western New Yorker (I could drive 10 miles north from where I grew up and, on a clear day, see Ontario on the other side of Lake Erie).  Enjoy the information, the atmosphere, and the very friendly people here.

[inktastic.adventures]

On 5/7/2025 at 8:22 AM, Zookie said:

Welcome from upstate NY, the land of liquid Sunshine and the Twilight Zone😀

Thanks kindly 😊

[inktastic.adventures]

On 5/7/2025 at 7:22 PM, kestrel said:

Welcome to the friendliest and most enabling forum on the web from a former western New Yorker (I could drive 10 miles north from where I grew up and, on a clear day, see Ontario on the other side of Lake Erie).  Enjoy the information, the atmosphere, and the very friendly people here.

Thanks so much! Yes this community has been amazing n 

[A Smug Dill]

Welcome to FPN!

 

On 5/7/2025 at 12:54 PM, inktastic.adventures said:

My favourite nib is my chem stacked nib by Jose Munuera! 

 

That looks amazing.

 

On 5/7/2025 at 3:27 PM, inktastic.adventures said:

I have enough ink to be embalmed in it when my time is up here lol

 

What a thought! Especially with inks that change colour depending on the substrate, and/or over time, being all the rage…

[SashK]

Welcome to FPN! 

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Welcome from Yorkshire UK