At What Age

[asaha]

9?

[TemurAmir]

12

[BT-7274]

12 as well, though the pen was a Hero 329 filled with inkjet ink.

 

The irony though, is that said Hero 329 is still working just fine today after a quick flush last summer. The inkjet ink never really dried out, even after 5 years of dormancy.

[ZachWasniak]

9 or 10.

[irrigger]

Probably 7 or 8

[Stylo]

Probably in second grade.

[mirosc]

At 5 or 6 I had my own, but I played with my Dad's fountain pen before that.

[bcbg]

Around 10 - Lamy Safari.

[fphilipp]

Age 6, a Pelikano which was given to me by an aunt.

[tonydent84]

8 or 9 years old -- a Parker Vector that I made my mother buy me. That same day I also bought some Pilot Varsity's (same store). I always saw fountain pens in movies and on cartoons and when I saw they really sold them in stores, I was so happy my mother knew she was going to get them for me lol. The Vector leaked in my school bag at school and got everywhere in the classroom. My teacher at the time snapped out on me and said, "What kind of dope brings a fountain pen to school?" Felt embarrassed as hell, threw my Vector out, used my Varsity's only at home, and never thought to get a fountain pen again for a long time after that, till I was in my early 20's. Now when I take them anywhere, I still get the anxiety of them leaking, but I'm much more careful with them.

[Colourfingers]

9 3/4. I went to a different primary school when we moved and used them there. I'd only ever used pencils before. I had an Osmiroid in which I used blue ink cartridges. I was devastated when my pencil case got stolen in secondary school. I cried for two hours because by then my pens were very important to me. Like they were my friends. My Mum took me out to buy another one which I've had ever since. I'm 38 now and still love writing with fountain pens although I don't get to write as much ad I'd like to.

[Jim St387]

12, $2 Schaefer plastic with a cartridge, that was back in the 60's.

[impossiblebird]

I was 11 when I started using FPs on a daily basis: the Platignum school cartridge pen that was given to each of us when we started high school (in 1972), and the Parker 45 which was a present from my grandparents a few weeks earlier ... though there was some previous occasional use of my mother's Parker Victory. I still have the Parker 45, but the Victory was stolen, along with my bag, from a bookshop when I was an undergraduate.

Edited March 6, 2013 by impossiblebird

[mgm1988]

I think I was 9 or perhaps 10; certainly it was while I was still in primary school.

[rockspyder]

12 also, writing with FP's ever since, now 46.

[Stratman351]

Six or seven. Pretty sure it was a Sheaffer cartridge pen. Catholic school, where penmanship trumped every subject other than religion.

[G P M P]

7-8 as regards trying them, 9 regarding one of the "mine" (that I still have and use ).

[flyingfox]

I was in first grade when I "borrowed" my Mom's Mont Blanc for the first time... but it was a one-time incident. I was 15 or 16 when I got my first fountain pen, a cheap, no-name cartridge pen that I loved so much...

[hari317]

8. 4th standard.

[jchch1950]

7or 8.