Are There Any People In Your Life Under 21 Years Old Who Use/love Fountain Pens?

[haruka337]

My eldest is 15 and uses a Platinum Preppy converted to an eyedropper.

 

My 13 year old gave back a Pilot Kukano because he was too tempted to flick ink from it while at school. :/

[R531]

I'm 17 and use fountain pens for pretty much everything. I use a TWSBI Eco EF with Iroshizuku Kon Peki in school(Noodlers Black for exams), and at home I have a broad Pelikan M400, a medium Lamy 2000 and a couple of Kawecos. You're not the only one !

[bioluminescentsquid]

I'm 17 and well, you guessed it - I use FPs. Of my classmates, I know three others who use FPs regularly - they use (respectively) a Sheaffer 100, a Sheaffer Prelude, and Heroes. Of the three, only one (the Prelude-girl) is a recent FP convert.

 

I have been using them since I was 7, and just recently (half a year ago) graduated from Pelikanos and preppies to a Conklin 2NL. However, I still derive guilty pleasure from using a Kuru-toga or... a ballpoint for lesser papers.

 

As for handwriting, mine is still abysmal - My past Chemistry teacher remarked, upon seeing my work turned in for another class, that she was reminded by my handwriting why she doesn't "miss me." In fact, my handwriting with pencils and ballpoints is slightly more legible that my handwriting with FP's. Well, this still doesn't curb my zeal for them.

Edited January 19, 2016 by bioluminescentsquid

[maus930]

Unfortunately NO

[scully012]

21 year old here, I use them every day in college, got started about 2 years ago. Though the first time I used a fountain pen was a Sheaffer italic of some sort when I was 10.

[Sasha Royale]

I don't keep company with children, especially other people's. I donated several of my fountain pens, some ink, and solicited paper remnants to adults in my community, who shepherd Heritage Girls. I showed them how to make simple envelopes for "remnant" stationery. They used a variety of pens, including several of my fountain pens, to write to soldiers overseas.

[FayeV]

My 10 year old has been writing with fountain pens since she was 8 years old. She would bring them to school and inspired her classmates get their own. She is welcome to use any of my fountain pens, except for one, but I think she is happiest using her own Neon Coral Lamy Safari. She'll be getting a Pilot Metro Retro Pop in purple for her birthday in March.

[william2001]

Yup... me!

 

I'm turing 15 this year in April, and I use fountain pens for pretty much every single piece of writing that I need to write.

 

William S. Park

[richila]

I gave my best friend's 16 year old daughter a fountain pen and her own bottle of ink for Christmas. She is using her fountain pen to take notes and do drawings for her science class.

[KingSlayerKat]

I'm 21.

 

I've been using them since I was 16, but at that time I really couldn't afford it, and ended up having to revert back to crummy ball point pens after I ran out of ink and lost my first pen. Wasn't even going to try and convince my mom to buy me a pen worth more than $0.50 plus ink lol

 

Now I can support my FP needs and use them exclusively.

[Gudi]

I gifted my stepson a Lamy Vista in 2013 and it's his EDC pen since then. He's 17 now.

[inkeverywhere]

I am 56 and know only one other person who uses FP's, my brother who is two years younger than myself. Apart from seeing him use his I believe it must be a good thirty years since I actually saw another person using a FP live. I was working at a court house at the time and the user actually filled the FP prior to it being used.

 

I read some where recently here in Australia one in one hundred and fifty of the population still use a FP, where they are hiding I don't know. The article went onto say in the USA it is estimated FP usage was at one in twenty.

 

 

 

Greg

[corgicoupe]

At my age, I'm glad to see my 54 year old daughter enjoying the Pelikan 200 Cognac and the Sheaffer Triumph that I gave her last year. And my 30+ year old granddaughter (by marriage) is using the Sheaffer Sovereign I gave her. And finally, my wife always uses the Pelikan 400 I gave her when she got her second PhD, but she is over 50 too. I guess that's normal for a guy over 70.