Jonathan
February 6th, 2013, 09:22 PM
Hi folks,
I'm an FP user from way back; the first FP I bought was a Sheaffer cartridge pen, advertised in those days as the "People's Pen." Actually, my mom bought it for me, same day she got me my Star Trek lunchbox. (I'm too vain to name the year, but I'll date myself pretty definitively when I tell you that it was a metal lunchbox celebrating the real Star Trek, with Kirk and Spock on the thermos bottle and Spock's ears painted round to make him look a little less like Pan or Satan :-)
I've preferred FPs ever since I was old enough to write, but only realized I'd become a "collector" when I walked out of the Big Apple Pen Show a decade or so ago with a fistful of pens snorkels and skylines.
I tend to pop in and out of the hobby as other interests wax and wane....but have been on a binge the past few months, catching up on forae and podcasts and buying way more pens than I should.
I've become more interested in repair during this dip into the ocean of pendom, and have been buying/fixing bargain lots of junk pens from the big moneysink (er, auction) site. I collect both modern and vintage, but my interests are definitely skewing toward the hard-rubber-and-celluloid era. Loving safety pens lately, and did my first seal replacement and helix repair recently. Also seem to have picked up an interest in desk sets and dip pens, which keep crowding their way onto shelves and desktops throughout the house....
Looking forward to exploring the forum.....cya!
Jonathan
I'm an FP user from way back; the first FP I bought was a Sheaffer cartridge pen, advertised in those days as the "People's Pen." Actually, my mom bought it for me, same day she got me my Star Trek lunchbox. (I'm too vain to name the year, but I'll date myself pretty definitively when I tell you that it was a metal lunchbox celebrating the real Star Trek, with Kirk and Spock on the thermos bottle and Spock's ears painted round to make him look a little less like Pan or Satan :-)
I've preferred FPs ever since I was old enough to write, but only realized I'd become a "collector" when I walked out of the Big Apple Pen Show a decade or so ago with a fistful of pens snorkels and skylines.
I tend to pop in and out of the hobby as other interests wax and wane....but have been on a binge the past few months, catching up on forae and podcasts and buying way more pens than I should.
I've become more interested in repair during this dip into the ocean of pendom, and have been buying/fixing bargain lots of junk pens from the big moneysink (er, auction) site. I collect both modern and vintage, but my interests are definitely skewing toward the hard-rubber-and-celluloid era. Loving safety pens lately, and did my first seal replacement and helix repair recently. Also seem to have picked up an interest in desk sets and dip pens, which keep crowding their way onto shelves and desktops throughout the house....
Looking forward to exploring the forum.....cya!
Jonathan