Your First And Why?

[Tasmith]

 

that's our trade

 

btw, to save the world from the biggest mistake ever ... french fries are not from France.

 

2 possible root-causes for this cruel mistake:

- the patatoes are frenched during preparing

- somebody was not good at reading maps during a trip to BE in WWII

 

the french tend not to double-fry their fries ... resulting in sloppy fries.

 

to complete my utterly off topic post, I'll give you the real recipe; please take your FP and note it in your cooking books

 

- thou shalt cut the patatoes in fries

- thou shalt wash the patatoes in water and dry them (e.g. with a salad spinner or a tea towel)

- thou shalt fry the fries at 140 dgr Celcius or 285 dgr Fahrenheit till thou see some coloration

- thou shalt let those fries cool down

- thou shalt fry those fries again at 180 dgr Celcius or 360 dgr Fahrenheit till the fries are crispy

- thou shalt eat those fries, and find the strenght to operate your fountain pen.

 

Thank you Friar of Fries.

[inkeverywhere]

My first was a black Parker 25, some 40 years ago, give of take a year or two. I still own that pen today, sometimes inking it but not very often. Why, that I can't answer, I have been a pen nut for a long, long time but mainly drawn to ballpoints and the odd rollerball.

 

My second, a year or so later was a Lamy CP, in fact a fountain pen, ballpoint and rollerball all engraved with my name. That pen never gets used, I find it far too skinny nowadays, looking back I can't believe I used such a slim set of pens.

 

I took a hiatus from fountain pens for a while but then the bug really bit hard, now owning something like 80 or 90 fountain pens. Todays pens make the old Parker 25 seem positively ancient.

 

 

Greg

Edited January 5, 2018 by inkeverywhere

[sub_bluesy]

My first fountain pen was an interesting, if not depressing, story. I had been contemplating a fountain pen for a few years prior. I have several automatic watches and a fountain pen was a fascinating extension of that but I had not pulled the trigger on one. The day finally came when I was attending a funeral for a family friend and I noticed the priest conducting the service signed the guest book with a fountain pen! He was very busy that day and I did not know him very well so I didn’t pry about the pen. He was not very old and I estimate in his 30’s but was very nice and accommodating. He made a real effort to keep everyone happy and made a very positive impression on me! A very nice person! I couldn’t ID the pen either at the time but it was a nice classic design in black/charcoal with silver trim. That ignited my interest in fountain pens again and I went back to feverish research that very night determined to make a selection finally. My limit was $100 as seemed completely crazy at the time. I picked a Monteverde Invincia deluxe in carbon fiber with rose gold trim and a 1.1mm stub nib that I ordered from Goulet pens. It’s a great pen and I still have it in my collection years later. I probably would never part with it honestly! That was about four years ago and today I’m scratching at the door of 100 pens! Never would have thought the passion would have gone that far at the time but that’s how it all started for me!