Hello From Exeter

[ardene]

Hello to everyone,

 

I've been reading various discussions on FPN for about two months now since I rediscovered my pens when note-taking for projects to be completed in a word processor. It's a great pleasure to be among with you all in the FPN fora.

 

I'm a Greek guy living in the south-west of England for some years now.

 

I discovered fountain pens through a fellow young student in elementary school. My first pen was a plastic blue Vector. They were very popular at the time - I refer to the early-mid nineties. Since then I've stuck with pens throughout school, uni, and graduate school. I've cracked the barrel of the said Vector, I've cracked the barrel of two very comfortable plastic Frontiers and I keep going with pens, but now I take better care of them.

 

As you might have guessed, I like Parkers. I have found that they can be neglected but they still manage to deliver ink on paper reliably. The pens I rotate heavily at the moment are a 1993 Vector flighter (date code L) a gift from my father, an old-style chrome metallic Urban which was a bargain in 2011 (no apparent date code), a black old-style IM (date code II T, no dots or anything, so I'm still trying to figure it out) which I got last spring because it sold for more than affordable, and finally a 1929 streamlined Lady Duofold I got last month on ebay to satisfy my curiosity about how these wonderful contraptions behave. The Urban is my carry-at-work pen. The price of the IM was a sign of destiny to eventually get two new pens and put them all down to hard work.

 

Below you can see the Vector and the Duofold sending their regards.

 

[Wahl]

[OCArt]

Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego.

[PAKMAN]

Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

[ThomasB]

Hello and welcome from Baton Rouge, Louisiana...Enjoy your time here

[Chrissy]

Hello and welcome to FPN.

[Drawing61]

Hello. Very glad you are here.

[Henricum_Tropen]

Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

[northstar]

Hello and welcome to FPN.

[akrohn2010]

Welcome to FPN from North Carolina, USA! I enjoy my Parker Vacumatic very much, though haven't looked at many Parker's outside the WW2 era.

 

Enjoy your stay!

[mitto]

Greetings and welcome to FPN.

[adatse]

welcome from New York!

[Ricky2011]

hello I am just down the roard from you in the english riveria.

[ardene]

hello I am just down the roard from you in the english riveria.

 

Hello Ricky!

[jar]

[Stompie]

Hello from Portsea land, otherwise known as Portsmouth.

 

My first attempt at writing in Italic was with an old Parker I ground to an Italic nib. I still have it!

[Pen Nut]

Hello and welcome to you