DrSbaitso
January 18th, 2015, 01:19 PM
Hello all,
I am a PhD student from Uppsala, who is also an analog romantic. I like stereo audio (and long for a vinyl player), photography (though mostly digital, for cost reasons), mechanical watches, and writing on paper.
I suppose it started back in junior high with a couple of sheaffer school/student pens, followed by sheaffer no nonsense - all long gone. Until fairly recently I've been a mechanical pencil-typ person, (rotring, staedtler, pentel), with a couple of ball-point pens (rotring, caran d'ache), but the last couple of years I've been drawn back to fountain pens. It started with Lamy Safari growing on me, followed by a Vista and a 2000 for home use. I just recently bought two more Safaris, though one turned out to be a fake (!).
I really like the Lamy 2000, but I also quite like the Safari. I may be sacrilege in this forum, but I quite enjoy the simplicity of the cartridges, and having found the Montverde replacements I don't feel too limited regarding ink. I have a converter as well, but I'll be using that mainly on my home-Safari.
Feel free to ask any questions you may have! I absolutely love geeking it up, and I really enjoy passionate and specific reviews, which is part of what brought me here. The other part is that fake Safari. I want to find reputable dealers - there are no good brick and mortar stores where I live, and the webshops leave a lot to be desired too.
I am a PhD student from Uppsala, who is also an analog romantic. I like stereo audio (and long for a vinyl player), photography (though mostly digital, for cost reasons), mechanical watches, and writing on paper.
I suppose it started back in junior high with a couple of sheaffer school/student pens, followed by sheaffer no nonsense - all long gone. Until fairly recently I've been a mechanical pencil-typ person, (rotring, staedtler, pentel), with a couple of ball-point pens (rotring, caran d'ache), but the last couple of years I've been drawn back to fountain pens. It started with Lamy Safari growing on me, followed by a Vista and a 2000 for home use. I just recently bought two more Safaris, though one turned out to be a fake (!).
I really like the Lamy 2000, but I also quite like the Safari. I may be sacrilege in this forum, but I quite enjoy the simplicity of the cartridges, and having found the Montverde replacements I don't feel too limited regarding ink. I have a converter as well, but I'll be using that mainly on my home-Safari.
Feel free to ask any questions you may have! I absolutely love geeking it up, and I really enjoy passionate and specific reviews, which is part of what brought me here. The other part is that fake Safari. I want to find reputable dealers - there are no good brick and mortar stores where I live, and the webshops leave a lot to be desired too.