Fountain Pen Forums around the world

[carlos.q]

After the big FPN meltdown a few months back I started searching for other FP forums around the world (and thus arrived at FPG). :) I also found that some countries have their own fountain pen forums. How many are there? Who knows?

Following is a list of the FP forums I have found:

www.penbbs.com (China)
http://forum.styloplume.net/ (France)
http://forum.fountainpen.it/ (Italy)
http://www.forumopiorach.net/ (Poland)
http://sgfountainpens.com/ (Singapore)
http://estilograficas.mforos.com/ (Spain)

I also found a russian pen forum but I seem to have lost the link.

Do you know of any other fountain pen forums from around the world?

[Marsilius]

Two that are pretty well known here as well:

http://fountainpenboard.com/forum

http://thefountainpencommunity.activeboard.com

Best wishes!

[hari317]

pentrace.

[Flounder]

http://www.gangbiwang.com/ (China)

Part of the fun of running a wee blog is seeing the occasional exotic referrer in the stats. I was tickled pink when flounders mindthots got a mention on Estilograficas for a Lamy post ("the blog of a madman"). :amen: made my day!

[jde]

There's also FPN-Philipines:
http://fpn-p.org/index.php

There's more, no doubt, esp. in Japan. The ones I used to know about are gone, but there must be new ones. Definitely a lot of pen action over at various blogs like http://broomfield.livedoor.biz
Sometimes "collectors" forums have pen info too.

Not all conversation is in forums like this one. There's still Yahoo groups goin' on, for example.

It's fun what you can find when you hunt around. I like talking with folks in other countries, not just the English speakin' ones. :)

[drgoretex]

I tried to join the one in France (Forum.styloplume.net), but attempts were ignored, so gave up.

Ken

[carlos.q]

Another Polish pen forum:

http://www.piorawieczneforum.pl/ (Poland)

And I finally found the russian forum:

http://elitepen.ru/forum/ (Russia)

[Mags]

I tried to join the one in France (Forum.styloplume.net), but attempts were ignored, so gave up.

Ken

I was looking for a french forum. Thank you for.posting the name. I was.lucky and registered in about 5 minutes

Mags sent from my blackberry playbook using tapatalks

[carlos.q]

Found a fountain pen forum in Germany:
http://www.penexchange.de/forum_neu/

[carlos.q]

Two more pen forums from Spain:
Relojes para todos - Foro de plumas: http://www.relojesparatodos.com/vb/forums/108-Foro-de-Plumas
Foro de relojes - Grafopasión. http://www.foroderelojes.es/forumdisplay.php?f=35*

[carlos.q]

Two more pen forums:

http://www.community-fountainpen.de/smf/ (Germany)
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f221/ (Netherlands: watch forum that includes both FP and non-FP) **


** Thanks to cwent2 for this address

[carlos.q]

And another italian forum:

http://www.pennamania.it/forum/ (Italy)

Up to now, besides the international forums, the following countries have their own pen forums:

Spain (4)
China (2)
Germany (2)
Italy (2)
Poland (2)
France (1)
Netherlands (1)
Philippines (1)
Russia (1)
Singapore (1)

So... armed with Google translator you can find a whole lot of pen information out there. :typing:

[carlos.q]

Since tomorrow is Halloween I'll post the address to a "ghost" FP forum:
http://fountainpen.forums-free.com/portal.html?sid=e713644b70b3d1245e2836dd6cf5d85b
Only one post in 2013 and has a "recent announcement" from.... 2009. :shocked:

[85AKbN]

i've found a few foreign blogs with great pics. run them through google translate and you're set. :)

[carlos.q]

Found another Polish forum:
http://piorawieczne.fora.pl/

[carlos.q]

Can't find http://forum.styloplume.net/

BUT there is this other french forum: http://www.stylo-plume.org/

[amk]

Badger & Blade has a pen forum.

Stylo-plume.net transferred over to stylo-plume.org about a year ago I think - the same way pentrace went to newpentrace.net, just ported all the content to a new URL. It's not a terribly busy forum but for those into French pens (which I am), it has some interesting threads.

[carlos.q]

Just found this one in China:

http://pennote.idv.tw/phpbb/index.php