Happy to introduce myself after finally starting to post

[flaviocu]

Dear Forum

After lurking for a few years (correlating with the level of obsession with fountain pens), I finally felt inclined to post on a thread. So it's only polite to introduce myself:


I'm male and 34
I'm from switzerland, working in IT
I got a beautiful mont blanc 12 years ago as a present, and enjoyed writing with it almost every day since


After two years I got fed up with my ugly handwriting and started learning italic using "Write Now" (Around 2008). It showed some results.. After that long time just a user of fountain pens, short from a buying spree in chinese fountain pens (a bit disappointed).

But now, I'm back. I'm currently working through "Italic Handwriting" by Fred Eager, bought a few pens (vintage and new) and plan on learning copperplate later.

I'll be a regular reader and an occasional poster. I wish you and your families great xmas!

[Jeph]

:welcome:

[85AKbN]

welcome aboard fpg.

[lisantica]

Welcome!

[cwent2]

:welcome:to the forum

[TMac]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

[Tracy Lee]

Welcome, and the best to you and yours as well. Glad you joined us.

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[cedargirl]

Hi there. Welcome and Season's greetings.

Persistence always pays off.

[piscov]

Welcome here Flavio! Merry Christmas

[writingrav]

Welcome to the madness. Indulge!

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[ddustinn]

Welcome! We're glad to have you here.

[jacksterp]

Nice to "meet" you and good luck in your various penmanship endeavors.

[VertOlive]

Welcome and Merry Christmas to you! Thanks for including the titles of your penmanship books!

[flaviocu]

Thanks all for the warm welcome!


Welcome and Merry Christmas to you! Thanks for including the titles of your penmanship books!

Oh, I love books - my shelf is stacked already, probabely more than I'll ever be able to work trough ;)

Currently I'm working with:

Fred Eagers "The Italic way to beautiful handwriting" - I try write one to two pages daily, currently I'm on chapter 6 - What I love about this book is that everything is laid out step by step, including excercises instead of just throwing complete alphabets at you; this seems to be one of the better books to learn to understand calligraphy
Reynolds "Italic calligraphy & handwriting" - mainly to get inspiration for ornamented letters
Winters "Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy: A step-by-step Manual" - I plan on learning copperplate after learning some italic
Andreas Lux "Neue Wege zur Kalligraphie" - A German book to learn italic, I like Fred Eager's better, but it has great examples of italic variants and chapters about calligraphic page design
Denise Lach "Schriftspiele" - Examples of beautiful calligraphy - just for inspiration

At the moment I concentrate on only working with fountain pens (flex or italic) in order to learn a "everyday" handwriting. I never imagined having so much fun writing, it's almost a bit like meditating. Writing with the flex pen on the other hand is very rythmic and I start to get into the flow. So it's a great hobby to relax after work.

What are your goals when writing?

[Tony Rex]

What are your goals when writing?

To justify myself for more pens, what else? :)

Nice compilation of titles there mate! I'm too broke to buy books, but your list could be handy someday. I simply download freebies at iampeth For now.

Oh and :welcome: :)

[caribbean_skye]

Welcome, welcome. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

[hamag]

:welcome:

[Jon Szanto]

Hello Flaviocu,

Welcome to the Fountain Pen Geeks forums! Smaller than the largest pen fora, larger than some, you'll find a comfortable community of pen-centric people here, with a growing body of posts, reviews, and group knowledge. Mostly, you'll find people who are enthusiastic about fountain pens, and fountain pen people.

Join in!


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Regards,
Jon

[KrazyIvan]

:welcome: to the Dark Side. http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/vader.gif

[heath]

:welcome:

[SheldonDuvall]

I am happy to have an op[portunity to introduce myself! You can watch a videos to introducing it correctly!