Jolltax
February 12th, 2014, 06:11 AM
Hi!
Jolltax checks in
My name is Jolltax (not really) and I am very pleased to join and read the forums.
I live in the UK and am in advanced middle age, I have been a fountain pen user my whole life starting from when it was compulsory at school and we used them as weapons, I have always had an irrational hate for ballpoints, felt-tips and other in-elegant writing hingmies. I even soldiered on at University where people thought of me as some kind of bizarre Victorian throwback.
I routinely sport the traditional FP multicoloured fingers and hands, have ink stains on my desk at work and in my office at home and most of my handkerchiefs have inkstains on them too as a result of various "emergencies". I use FP at work and at home. My wife thinks I am bit eccentric.
I have a reasonable variety of cheapish fountain pens I have collected as I have always taken a very utilitarian approach to them as tools (functional not fancy) and bought them on the high street. It is only recently I realised that FP usage had become a 'thing' and starting to take interest in stuff on the internet.
My jumble of pens is as follows (I wil try and post a picture of some of them) :
A few cheapy Chinese ones of highly variable quality and performance, I guess the Jinhao x450s are probably the best of these. I gave out 12 of these to colleagues at work at Xmas, hehe, spread the love.
A Cross FP of some description I was given at work which is also pretty horrible but is a tiny bit flexy (fun!)
Lots of Lamy SAfaris and Al-Stars which I find functional and effective but severely lacking in ink capacity with the converter installed
A Lamy 2000 my most expensive pen which I bought on a recommendation and I don't like very much and rarely use
A Parker corporate gift pen which I largely ignore, nasty
A basic school type steel nibbed Parker with a converter which is actually quite nice to write with
A couple of Noodlers piston fill pens, scratchy things that vomit ink and make a bit of a mess and I have given up with but were cheap
A Pelikan M205 piston filler which I like and writes nicely but is a bit small in the hand
A TWSBI Vac 700 which I bought very recently when I 'came out' as a FP geek which I like very much, loving the 'pop' when you fill it and the whole transparentiness thing ....
Currently experimenting with different colour inks, getting angry about very poor quality paper at work which bleeds and feathers all over the place and lusting after vintage pens I can't afford / justify buying (I am liking the Parker Vacumatic and Sheaffers PFM atm in my dreams).
I am also 'curious' about premium / expensive pens (in my world that means > £50) and why someone would spend a weeks wages on a pen - no intention of being at all judgemental here - I love nice things too - I just haven't quite got my head round it.
I am also a geek in other ways and with other obsessions which I won't go into here as I have a tendency to ramble and this is already too long as an intro.
Anyway whoohoooo .............. O7 <salute>
Jolltax
9801
Jolltax checks in
My name is Jolltax (not really) and I am very pleased to join and read the forums.
I live in the UK and am in advanced middle age, I have been a fountain pen user my whole life starting from when it was compulsory at school and we used them as weapons, I have always had an irrational hate for ballpoints, felt-tips and other in-elegant writing hingmies. I even soldiered on at University where people thought of me as some kind of bizarre Victorian throwback.
I routinely sport the traditional FP multicoloured fingers and hands, have ink stains on my desk at work and in my office at home and most of my handkerchiefs have inkstains on them too as a result of various "emergencies". I use FP at work and at home. My wife thinks I am bit eccentric.
I have a reasonable variety of cheapish fountain pens I have collected as I have always taken a very utilitarian approach to them as tools (functional not fancy) and bought them on the high street. It is only recently I realised that FP usage had become a 'thing' and starting to take interest in stuff on the internet.
My jumble of pens is as follows (I wil try and post a picture of some of them) :
A few cheapy Chinese ones of highly variable quality and performance, I guess the Jinhao x450s are probably the best of these. I gave out 12 of these to colleagues at work at Xmas, hehe, spread the love.
A Cross FP of some description I was given at work which is also pretty horrible but is a tiny bit flexy (fun!)
Lots of Lamy SAfaris and Al-Stars which I find functional and effective but severely lacking in ink capacity with the converter installed
A Lamy 2000 my most expensive pen which I bought on a recommendation and I don't like very much and rarely use
A Parker corporate gift pen which I largely ignore, nasty
A basic school type steel nibbed Parker with a converter which is actually quite nice to write with
A couple of Noodlers piston fill pens, scratchy things that vomit ink and make a bit of a mess and I have given up with but were cheap
A Pelikan M205 piston filler which I like and writes nicely but is a bit small in the hand
A TWSBI Vac 700 which I bought very recently when I 'came out' as a FP geek which I like very much, loving the 'pop' when you fill it and the whole transparentiness thing ....
Currently experimenting with different colour inks, getting angry about very poor quality paper at work which bleeds and feathers all over the place and lusting after vintage pens I can't afford / justify buying (I am liking the Parker Vacumatic and Sheaffers PFM atm in my dreams).
I am also 'curious' about premium / expensive pens (in my world that means > £50) and why someone would spend a weeks wages on a pen - no intention of being at all judgemental here - I love nice things too - I just haven't quite got my head round it.
I am also a geek in other ways and with other obsessions which I won't go into here as I have a tendency to ramble and this is already too long as an intro.
Anyway whoohoooo .............. O7 <salute>
Jolltax
9801